Ranee Mueller wrote:
> pennyaline > wrote:
>
>> Restaurant food preparation here is abysmal, across the board. I don't
>> know what forces shaped the overall tastes and sensibilities here, but
>> they not only accept terrible flavor, texture and appearance, but herald
>> it as fabulous!
>
> I've heard that the restaurants in Provo are actually quite nice,
> possibly catering to the tastes of the returned missionaries. Any truth
> to that?

Not in my experience. They are bland and awful everywhere, from what
I've tasted in my travels through the state.

RMs return to all parts of Utah (and Idaho, and Oregon, and California,
and Illinois, and to other countries and... they come from and return to
practically everywhere!), not just to Provo. It's possible that Provo
restaurateurs might tweak their restaurants to please the missionary
crowd, but its more likely that they only think they are doing so.

And having listened to RMs describing their experiences "abroad," one
thread is common among them: there is no substitute for the food they
grew up with.

None of the above addresses the Sundance experience, which is something
like an endless crawl of every Starbucks in existence. But when you do
finally get a table at a real restaurant, the food is typically Utahn.