"Bobo Bonobo®" > wrote in message
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On Mar 27, 10:56 am, "<RJ>" > wrote:
> It's a common scene in food commercials.
> Bucolic scene, filtered sunlight, the ristorante
> serving "food to die for" usually in Tuscany.
>
> I know we have that setting in hundreds of
> places in the U.S. , but if you go into town
> for a meal, chances are your choice will be
> between a McDonalds, or the local "deep fryer" diner.
>
> Is superb Euro-cuisine a myth ?
> If so, how do they keep it that way ?
>
> What does the Italian, or Frenchman pay
> for dinner in a restaurant ? ( I'm not talking gourmet )
>
> If you want to go a step above McDonalds, Arby's etc,

There isn't much worse than Arby's.

Hey! My cat likes Arby's!!

> you get a "chain restaurant".... Olive Garden, TGIF,
> Applebees, etc. etc.

Where do YOU live? I'll remind myself not to visit that backwater.
We have plenty of nice, reasonably priced, independently owned
restaurants here in St. Louis.


Oh, small town. Do you mean that you have Applebee's, Friday's and
the like, but no decent restaurants?

--Bryan

I live in a really small place. Just because it's a small town and all the
restaurants are family owned does not mean they're good. They serve slop
too. There's no competition, they can serve whatever the hell they want and
still make a go of it.

Ms P