Do not feed me food in baskets
April 19th, 2009I don’t get the obsession with food places these days. Everyone wants to feed me food in a basket. I went to Mo’s Southwest Grill yesterday, they gave me my burrito in a basket.
Last week, I went to Longhorn to have a burger… Guess what? It came in a basket.
Today I went to Panera Bread and I was no so surprisingly served in a basket-like tray. Now to be fair to Panera Bread, their basket is partly a tray, but it is mostly a basket!
But grab a bite to eat at Red Robin and you are going to get yourself the most basket-like basket you ever had. A freakin’ basket.
All of these baskets have wax paper which makes it all that more annoying to eat from. I feel like a second-class citizen whenever I eat from these things. Like I’m not worth a plate or something.
“Hey Joe, just throw that food in a basket. It’s just Len, he doesn’t need a plate.“
It used to be that only fried clamstrips or chicken came in a basket. Now everything winds up in a basket. Why? It all comes down to lazy people and lazy companies that don’t want to buy real plates, nor do they want to clean them.
So to be really clear, here is a Perroots.com list of approved food basket use:
- Fried clams
- Fried chicken
- Fruit baskets
- Easter baskets
- Gift basket (cheese, pepperoni, crackers, etc…)
So are you saying that you don’t like baskets?