On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 14:39:30 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 8/15/2020 10:00 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2020-08-15 9:41 a.m., jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 8/14/2020 10:02 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>
>>>> We're probably starting to tie our shoelaces together over what a
>>>> high-end
>>> Don't get me started on a la carte.* Once upon a time I won a $100
>>> gift certificate for Ruth's Chris Steak House. (Sorry, $10 is waaaay
>>> too much for a baked potato, I don't care what you "load it" with.
>>> Ditto $11 for shoestring fries to go with the ridiculously priced
>>> petite filet.)* As to Sheldon's ill-informed notion of "packets" of
>>> salad dressing, of course not.
>>>
>>
>> I never did appreciate the concept. Sure, it is nice to have your choice
>> of sides sometimes rather than having the kitchen send out a formulated
>> meal that might have things you don't like. The problem is the way they
>> nickel and dime you, and there needs to be a similar way of saying that
>> involving super inflation.** I have been in a couple places where they
>> do that.* You order a steak and pay as much or more for that steak than
>> you would for a steak anywhere else, but then the potato, and vegetable
>> sides add up to almost as much as the steak. No thanks.
>>
>>
>IIRC it was a $50 steak I could have bought (even Prime grade) for $20
>and I'd never pay that much for potato sides or salads or dessert. No
>salad dressing in "packets", that's for sure.
>
>Jill

Packet dressing is exactly the same as bottled dressing, either from
the same dressing companies. Only it takes longer to get all the
dressing out of plastic bottles, unless like me you use a knife to
sllce the plastic bottle in half and use a rubber spatula to scrape
out the last dregs, I do that with plastic mustard bottles too... I
get enough for two or three more sandwiches. Mustard is thick so
won't run down when the plastic squeeze bottle is turned upside down
like ketchup does. Glass jars once had wide mouths so it was easy to
scrape out the last bit but now most all containers are plastic
bottles with narrow necks.