Topic: What, in your opinion, does a good, informative, entertaining restaurant review consist of?
Anonymous A started this discussion 11 years ago #39,406
Pure information? Detail? Wit? Snarkiness? What?
Green joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 39 minutes later[^] [v] #524,384
A score out of 10.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 8 minutes later, 47 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #524,385
Green replied with this 11 years ago, 8 minutes later, 56 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #524,386
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #524,387
@previous (Green)
Would you please, right here in this thread, do a review of Tesco value liver pate, and Tesco value cider to accompany it? Please?!?!?!?
Would you please, right here in this thread, do a review of Tesco value liver pate, and Tesco value cider to accompany it? Please?!?!?!?
Green replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #524,388
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #524,390
Green replied with this 11 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #524,392
Tesco Value Liver and Bacon Speading Pate Review
Whilst shopping in Tesco I noticed a peculiar looking sausage thing on the bottom shelf. It was Tesco Value Pate. It was 54p. It bewildered me as Tesco's regular pate was 60p and was 175g compared to the value pate at 150g.
I bought some and spread it on my toasted crumpets. Instantly I could feel the difference as it spread more smoothly than the regular brand. Now for a taste test. I took a bite and my tastebuds were filled with flavour previously unknown to man. It tasted a lot better than more expensive brands and had a subtle hint of anus.
You can not go wrong at this price so I give it the score 8/10.
Whilst shopping in Tesco I noticed a peculiar looking sausage thing on the bottom shelf. It was Tesco Value Pate. It was 54p. It bewildered me as Tesco's regular pate was 60p and was 175g compared to the value pate at 150g.
I bought some and spread it on my toasted crumpets. Instantly I could feel the difference as it spread more smoothly than the regular brand. Now for a taste test. I took a bite and my tastebuds were filled with flavour previously unknown to man. It tasted a lot better than more expensive brands and had a subtle hint of anus.
You can not go wrong at this price so I give it the score 8/10.
Green double-posted this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #524,393
And here is the Tesco Value Cider review
https://minichan.org/topic/9891
https://minichan.org/topic/9891
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #524,395
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Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 4 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #524,425
Disclaimers to inform the readers if the author is a fraud or drunk.
Metæ joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 hour later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #524,438
Haranguing on American cuisine with wild exaggerations, tired cliches, and stereotypes.
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@524,576 (E)
Make sure to drive home the point that Americans are picky eaters who think white bread, boiled chicken, and boring casseroles are the epitome of fine dining.
Make sure to drive home the point that Americans are picky eaters who think white bread, boiled chicken, and boring casseroles are the epitome of fine dining.
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 8 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #524,792
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 2 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #524,809
@OP
So you are still at square one on The Miller Guide?
Restaurant reviews are all subjective. Just make it funny. Use your schtick! Four BBSes have been created for you because people like it. Just pile on the schtick.
So you are still at square one on The Miller Guide?
Restaurant reviews are all subjective. Just make it funny. Use your schtick! Four BBSes have been created for you because people like it. Just pile on the schtick.
Metæ replied with this 11 years ago, 21 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #524,977
@524,576 (E)
> Can you give me an example, please?
This one's from a food blog I used to follow avidly, by a very talented author but his blog expired one day and he was never heard from again :/
Something like this -- take one meal you had in Cincinnati, and use it to illustrate all of American cuisine and food culture.
> Can you give me an example, please?
This one's from a food blog I used to follow avidly, by a very talented author but his blog expired one day and he was never heard from again :/
But I still believe that, as a people, Americans just do not like good, fresh, properly-prepared, varied food.
When I lived in Cincinnati, a girl invited me to eat dinner at her parents’ house. Her parents were rural Midwesterners, and I was anxious to meet them and see how they lived. They were very nice, friendly people, the real salt of the earth. Too bad their food was not. I was served an unseasoned chicken breast that had been cooked so long that I think a plank of wood would have been juicer. Accompanying this foul fowl were green beans — from a can — without any seasoning. She had simply put them in boiling water and served them. There were mashed potatoes which were, you guessed it, unseasoned. It was the blandest meal I had ever eaten. I said nothing of course, but I could not help but pity these people who ate like that every day. Does that make me a food snob, or an arrogant elitist? No! They could have learned how to make food taste good. The dinner could have been a hundred times better with some fresh ingredients, less cooking time, and a little salt and pepper.
When I lived in Cincinnati, a girl invited me to eat dinner at her parents’ house. Her parents were rural Midwesterners, and I was anxious to meet them and see how they lived. They were very nice, friendly people, the real salt of the earth. Too bad their food was not. I was served an unseasoned chicken breast that had been cooked so long that I think a plank of wood would have been juicer. Accompanying this foul fowl were green beans — from a can — without any seasoning. She had simply put them in boiling water and served them. There were mashed potatoes which were, you guessed it, unseasoned. It was the blandest meal I had ever eaten. I said nothing of course, but I could not help but pity these people who ate like that every day. Does that make me a food snob, or an arrogant elitist? No! They could have learned how to make food taste good. The dinner could have been a hundred times better with some fresh ingredients, less cooking time, and a little salt and pepper.
Something like this -- take one meal you had in Cincinnati, and use it to illustrate all of American cuisine and food culture.
squeegee joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 2 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #524,996
@previous (Metæ)
lol. sounds like the dinner you serve when you don't want someone to come back. i'm really a pretty good cook, but my parents think i'm terrible. when they come over it's balogne sandwich and cheetos time -served on paper plates "so i don't have to mess with dishes."
they don't ask to come to dinner often, and that means i get to invite them over and they make excuses not to come, which suits me just fine :)
then when they leave i grill myself some salmon or something.
lol. sounds like the dinner you serve when you don't want someone to come back. i'm really a pretty good cook, but my parents think i'm terrible. when they come over it's balogne sandwich and cheetos time -served on paper plates "so i don't have to mess with dishes."
they don't ask to come to dinner often, and that means i get to invite them over and they make excuses not to come, which suits me just fine :)
then when they leave i grill myself some salmon or something.
(Edited 6 minutes later.)