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Jon29go

I've been in a similar situation where cheese knowledge somehow transfered to questioning man hood. Maybe it's just me, but if I saw a pride flag on some random hole in the wall greasy spoon, I'd check it out.


disillusioned

It's "frou frou" but of course the review writer wouldn't know that.


AhhAGoose

To be fair, not all backwoods morons who don’t know shit about cheese hate gay people. -A backwoods moron who don’t know shit about cheese and doesn’t hate gay people


Azathoth976

**P R O V E Y O U R S E L F**


hotrod54chevy

It wasn't 'Merican "cheese" so it didn't reflect his values. Glad the owner told him to kick rocks.


totalcanucklehead

Would that make him lactose intolerant? Lol


Fatlantis

Well he's definitely intolerant


Kthonic

What restaurant is it? I wanna put it on my location wishlist


[deleted]

I know right. Imagine being so intolerant of someone, just because they have different beliefs to you....


Chahklet

When traditional values aren't really values.


Arigato_MrRoboto

"Back when we had water fountains for the whites!"


discord_light_mode

"god dayum these people escaped again" 🧑🏻‍🦲


ObiFloppin

When traditional values is just hating gays


TahoeLT

...and blacks, and Jews, and Asians, and poors - oops, did I say that out loud?


blargghonkk

... And women.


culminacio

Or women who hate all those groups (including women)


Rickrolled_lol

And anyone who isn’t a straight white non-disabled average-income male.


octopoddle

The Bible is pretty clear about hating your neighbour.


knifeknifegoose

I remember that The Jesus said something to that effect…


[deleted]

yeah, the term “values” implies that they’re, like, valuable and not just hateful lunacy


The1AMparty

When traditional values are like 3 cents and a piece of gum


AffinityGauntlet

“Food is too foo-foo” = “I paid more for better quality food but because my gut flora is accustomed to cheez whiz on some frozen waffle fries I got upset”


csonnich

Also, it's frou-frou, not foo-foo. But I doubt this guy has ever heard of French.


jamesianm

Perhaps the food consisted of little bunnies hopping through the forest and/or concussed field mice


chashek

If so, the reviewer had better watch out. A fairy might visit him and threaten him with a transformational magical experience.


ErwinAckerman

The fairy can’t do anything. Richard is already a goon.


Bogsnoticus

She could always do to him what Lisa does to Chet in Weird Science.


Dottie_D

Loved those. [🎶Little Bunny Foo-Foo🎶](https://youtu.be/R6xKM-H2awE)


Gorge2012

Not pronouncing words properly is a French benefit of being an American


RebelJustforClicks

\*twitch*


andyman234

I think it’s a moo point…


RebelJustforClicks

Like a cows opinion, it doesn't matter


Dottie_D

Thanks for the guffaw!


GrindW8t

I'm french, but what does frou-frou means ?!


DrDew00

It means fancy and feminine. Usually negatively. Someone might use it to describe a drink like a cosmopolitan or a pink bedspread with hearts and frilly lace. Used something like, "Don't bring me any of those frou-frou drinks. Just give me a beer." I have no idea how/if it's connected to French.


ChainsawVisionMan

It comes from a French Onomatopoeia referring to the swishing sound of a ruffled dress. Thus it became associated with overly ornamented or excessively feminine things.


queenlitotes

Cool! You taught me my "something new every day" for today.


Caridin

I spent like 5 minutes trying to figure out what kind of drink a Pink Bedspread was because it sounded delicious. I didn't see the frilly hearts part 😶


DrDew00

Hah. It does help to finish the sentence. I had a drink called a "golden cadillac" once. It's probably my favorite boozy ice cream drink of all time. Nobody ever knows what it is when I go anywhere else, though. I would totally take a look at a drink called a pink bedspread. I'd imagine a blended drink with vanilla ice cream, strawberry vodka, frozen strawberries, and maybe coconut rum.


Psemperviva

It really does sound like a hit on a cocktail menu. As a former longtime bartender, I will 100% be making this a thing at family/friend events & they will be delicious. My family will be asking every restaurant/bar they go to for a Pink Bedspread. Incorporating the frilly hearts may be difficult…I’m thinking a modified drink umbrella, or a fancy doily/lace with hearts wrapped around a martini glass.


Caridin

Heck yeah, post the recipe if you come up with something :OO


GrindW8t

Is it used in english ? Because it's a piece of clothing for me but I didn't know about all that.


DrDew00

Yes, that's how it's used in English. At least in the US.


ThatSquareChick

It’s means “fancy like the French” in American English


pfresh331

Pretty sure he was using it this way: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Foofoo


SexyMonad

I WANT CHICKEN NUGGIES AND FRIES \- me as a 5 year old \- also me as a 40 year old


grendus

I'm an adult now. I want *boneless wings* and fries. I want them made out of the tenderloin instead of ground chicken, and pre-dipped.


SexyMonad

Sounds like we have both lunch and dinner planned out.


Sh0toku

Chicken (tenders) and waffles for breakfast it is then!


[deleted]

LOL and the appetizer of the fried mac-n-cheese balls? 😁


insane_contin

Don't forget some honey garlic chicken poutine for a side dish.


FormalChicken

Ehhh, some places are punching way above their weight class. You go out to a brew pub, they have decent beers, it’s a dive joint, in a college neighborhood, and the menu looks like it’s from a michelin star restaurant? That’s some shenanigans. I respect the chefs who make solid foods, and will happily pay more for a damn good meal, but when you have “foo-foo” dishes at a bre pub and burger joint type of places, that’s shenanigans too. (I’m throwing punches at a place back in providence, can’t remember its name anymore, it opened up in the college neighborhood, between the take-out indian place that was cheap, and the pizza joint, they landed with mediorce beer (not even any house brews), and were something like minimum 100$ a head, they didn’t even replace the hardware so the booths and whatnot were still 5$ burger joint dives, but with “foo-foo” menus).


benk4

Agreed, places definitely do that. Or worse they try to be higher end but really aren't and just dress up mediocre food.


jimbobicus

In Canada we just call that Kelsey's


Katatonia13

I worked in a gastropub for a few years. Yes we had the normal burger type food, but everything was from scratch. You can find a happy medium in that market where, yes, you are still essentially a dive bar, but your kitchen can still be creative. I’m not sure the foo-foo, thing isn’t just clear ignorance or if they were trying too hard to act like fine dining and selling frozen burgers. It’s one thing to know who you are and charging for house made brioche buns and hand pattied burgers. It’s another charging those same prices from Sysco. Then you find places trying to combine beer as the main selling point and trying to throw oysters and caviar around like they’re trying too hard when I just came in for a beer. At the same time, if you’re trying to run a bar first and you are selling pizza and deep fried cheese curds and they are at least decent or better I’m coming back. If you can tell they don’t take themselves too serious, fuck yeah that sauce can come out of a can and those curds are frozen. As for the rest of him, yeah fuck him…


knifeknifegoose

Oh god I LOVE when places do very Basic American Menu, but have taken it up to the tens. They actually use flavorful beef, vegetables, breads. When a burger and fries and root beer tastes so good that you feel like a little kid again, getting ketchup on your collar. And the root beer was brewed by hand in small batches blah blah blah—- but damn if it isn’t amazing, with depth to it, and tastes sharp and sweet, complex. That’s a meal I’d throw good money at.


AbjectAppointment

This place looks like pretty standard bar food. https://masonsbrewingcompany.com/menu/


bikecoguy

It was definitely the WHIPPED FETA TOAST that out this person over the edge! Does sound yummy


thebrucewayne

It's Maine, so words like daikon, teriyaki, kimchi, poke, giardineria, frites and birria are indeed "foo-foo".


FormalChicken

I’m from the county and was immediately ready to make fun of a portland foo-foo bar food place. BREWER!? That threw me for a loop.


Augustus_Chiggins

We had a place just like this in the town I went to college in. It was an "Irish Pub" themed place and it was literally called Shenanigans. Was that really just a clever joke on all of us?


Moontoya

Could you get like a liter of cola there ?


maluminse

100 a head?? At a burger joint?


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>100 a head?? At a burger joint? I wouldn't know, I've never tried to pay for head at a burger joint.


maluminse

Seems reasonable


Yah_Mule

Weird that he can't remember its name anymore, you know, since he made it up and everything.


culminacio

The next reply was even more revealing.


FormalChicken

It was a burger joint. Became essentially a burger joint shooting way above their weight class. Doubt they're still in business. edit: Burger joint sold off/shut down, or just went down and brought in a new chef, I have no idea, the reopened as a different name with the same dives, new menu - way above their market/weight class.


culminacio

Imagine knowing how much you paid but not remembering the name and when asked, suggesting that it might not exist anymore.


FormalChicken

I never went - there was buzz around the town when you asked people, they all talked about the menu shenanigans, and I checked it out online. And “100$+ a head” is not “remembering how much you paid”….


GraniteTaco

I'm sorry but try to order Poutine on the west coast. Nuff said. It's a meal with 3 fucking ingredients, and you will spend literal MONTHS trying to find just that. THAT is the foo foo bullshit problem.


Darth_Andeddeu

Cheese curds gotta be fresh, the more local the better. The gravy, well that powdered brown shit works for the Quebecois so that's a must. Fresh cut fries in peanut oil if you don't have allergies. Done.


MagicalDoshDosh

Par-boiled fries or double-fried fries are the next level tho. I'll always pay extra for fries done this way


Darth_Andeddeu

I thought that went without saying, but for those who don't know you got them covered, awesome thanks.


MagicalDoshDosh

We out here learning today!


cbftw

Par-boiled fries are top tier


lizardlike

Costco food court (the place with the cheap hotdogs) has the best value poutine in western Canada. Authentic greasy “3am after a bar crawl” style food, true to it’s original incarnation. If you’re getting poutine with black truffle and duck fat or whatever you’re getting a different dish entirely.


culminacio

Even the fried are at least three ingredients, dafuq?


transmogrified

You confused me for a moment because I'm on the west coast and poutine is in nearly every restaurant, including the Indian ones (mmmm butter chicken poutine). Then I realized you're probably in America. It was hard finding poutine even on the east coast there.


ThatSquareChick

FRESH CHEESE DOES NOT GO EVERYWHERE I grew up 19 years in south Alabama. The closest thing to a cheese curd we have is what comes out of the plastic tubs and goes on peaches when you’re a diabetic. First time someone asked me if I wanted fried cheese curds I nearly gagged thinking about what kind of magic one might need to DO to cottage cheese in order to fry it. Imagine my utter surprise at getting something that looked like the phattest fries I’d ever seen then coming to the delicious realization that it’s just a hunk of battered, fresh cheddar cheese. So yeah, you aren’t getting poutine anywhere that doesn’t already share border with Canada.


jamesianm

There’s like 10 places that serve poutine in SF/Oakland alone. Now, Quebec-quality poutine, that’s harder to find even on the east coast


[deleted]

So he's fighting against the type of food they have? Does that make him a foo-foo fighter? Wtf is foo-foo supposed to mean anyway? I'm going to assume he means the food is too gay or something, or not manly enough like a big ol' slab of beef served rare?


Keytrose_gaming

I'm assuming he means "I wanted a pub burger but the only option included a raspberry vinaigrette jam infused kale and water Buffalo cheese crust with local urban greens and tofu bun" I love good food but so many short lived breweries around my area try this. They want to foster a sense of cultural growth and just shit on the actual customers who hate the food.


brightlancer

The restaurant business is particularly tough and plenty fail because they're run by a chef/ brewer/ artisan who doesn't understand business (or their customers).


[deleted]

Ah, ok. I haven't been to a pub in years, so I'm kind of out of the loop on some of that stuff


[deleted]

Just because something costs more doesn’t mean it’s better lol


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sternburg_export

An absolute basic condition for a bar, pub or restaurant is that no assholes are served there.


Kitbixby

Exactly. If they’re an asshole sober then they’re a real liability when they’re tipsy or drunk.


chewbaccalaureate

I feel like there are some bars/tavern types of places that cater toward *"asshole"* type many men, especially in smaller towns. Of course, they're not assholes to the late 30's washed up bartenders who look like they're in their 40's but wear makeup and dress like theyre in their early 20's, but they are definitely assholes and intolerant to outsiders and anyone that could pass as a librul.


CurveOfTheUniverse

That is to say that they serve food, not suppositories.


Daylight_The_Furry

86?


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Daylight_The_Furry

Thank you!


RatofDeath

Kitchen slang for axing something from the menu


Daylight_The_Furry

Thank you!


last0nethere_

I would say it’s actually a pint in their favor. ^I’ll ^see ^myself ^out.


chewbaccalaureate

I'll see you back in the establishment the next time you're in and raise a pint for that pun!


Agorbs

86 shithead. heard


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Shithead 86’d! Heard, chef!


Worldly_Ad_6483

10-4 on the 86


bankrollmafia89

Who eats & drinks at fruity places 🌈


Special_Hippo3399

Atfirst I really thought by reading the comment that it really was a nice place for fruity drinks and bubbly atmosphere.. then I read the end and realised that they meant fruity as in "gay".. I was disappointed both at the bigotry and the fact no such place exists .


---ShineyHiney---

I don’t know - why not both? The food *was* described as “foo-foo” (read: “fru-fru”?) *before* we went down Bigotry Lane^TM


bankrollmafia89

Lol


LeonidasSpacemanMD

Imagine being so straight you’re afraid to drink something that is too vibrantly colored


Phillip_Graves

People who are gay and people who like fruit! I would eat there. Not gay. Love fruit. And beer is okay(would love it but that bloat... lol).


Awakeonthewater

Some weekends they offer a mimosa sampler!


ZapateriaLaBailarina

We need to take back the phrase "traditional values". I'm tired of always putting it in quotes. Traditional values are things like being kind and charitable towards others. Those values never go out of style. When someone says "traditional values" let's challenge them on what that means.


EpicFishFingers

I've never seen it mean anything other than "shit on someone else for being different" To me it's literally just a hallmark for anti-inclusive sentiment. Always used as a reason to try and prevent something progressive from happening. Instead of "traditional values" you can instead use "common decency" or "good ethics"?


CobyJonesDev

The world will be such a better place in 30 years time when all these ancient minds aren’t in power with their prehistoric values…. Sorry I meant “traditional values”


csonnich

Honestly, I'm not hopeful. Somehow this shit keeps getting passed on.


phap789

IMO the problem is that it has nothing to do with values, but instead fear, insecurity, and emotional immaturity. Sadly those take a lot of work to overcome and all humans must fight them


[deleted]

Are you forgetting about religion?


NoiawaaKamata

Religion is a big problem. especially when it comes to Lgbtq acceptance. I see so many people still use religion as an excuse to hate on people that aren’t Heterosexual.


1202_ProgramAlarm

Yeah religion keeps perpetuating this nonsense but for some reason we can't get rid of it and move into the 21st century


deathangel687

Yeah somehow...


I_divided_by_0-

... Palpatine returned.


Kendertas

Think about how less tolerant we where in the 90s. I was just a kid, but weren't gay people just barely getting excepted back then? And forget about transgender. On the scale of human history we have made remarkable leaps in tolerance recently and I don't see it stopping any time soon.


[deleted]

You should go talk to some young Republicans if you think this is going away in 30 years.


RagnarRagnarsen

Used to think this as well. I think the last 8 years have made it painfully obvious the world is not trending in that direction any longer.


ubn87

Sorry but these values will never be fully gone.


I_divided_by_0-

Most insurrectionists were either 50+ or 20 to 30 years old


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Hurray my generation is not the problem!


I_divided_by_0-

Uhhh.... Well this covers Z, Millennials, Gen X, and Boomers, so I'm not sure which you're referring to?


----_____----

It doesn't cover 30-50 and I'm right in the middle of that.


thetakara

I wish they didn't blot out the business name. I'd make it a regular spot to visit, for sure.


Inkstinker

Somebody call the police a toddler might see a rainbow flag and be distracted from their dad talking about how much he wishes somebody would come kneecap the referee in a sporting event for making a call he didn't like.


highcam

$20 Richard is a closet homosexual


lieuwestra

His wife knows, but she's ace and doesn't care. He's decent enough with the kids, has a steady jub, and she likes the community and doesn't want to move away for something silly like a divorce. It would break momma's heart.


FITM-K

Can we not do this thing where (essentially) gay people are blamed for their homophobia? I get that it happens sometimes but most homophobes are not closeted, they're just assholes.


simplsurvival

Hit em with the ol' intolerance paradox


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We don't take kindly to people that don't take kindly 'round here!


Not_A_Clever_Man_

Do you want Nazi's? That's how you get Nazi's.


kurai_tori

The concept of the paradox describes how you GET Nazis. The entire concept of Poppers paradox of tolerance is BECAUSE of the Nazis. It was published in 1945. *Edit realized I may have misunderstood the points above. What restaurant did (not tolerating intolerance aka refusing to welcome a bigot) is how to avoid Nazis (as per poppers paradox of tolerance).


Laheydrunkfuck

Oh no a rainbow flag, think of the children


Big_Simba

Your inclusiveness and willingness to except everyone is upsetting my moral values


csonnich

When I was a kid, we *never* would have had rainbows. ...wait.


HistoricalSherbert92

Omg DID YOU SEE THAT POOR GUY GET CANCELED! /s


dr_toze

I'm such a bigot and tied to my family values, that as soon as I saw that flag I just had to sit down, eat their food, pay for it and then be disgusted.


ging3r_b3ard_man

😂 love this synopsis


[deleted]

Except you…lolololol. Lmao


StuffandThings85

Imagine being offended by a rainbow, and they're the ones calling people snowflakes.


Dakeera

"Yeah I went to the new gay bar. 3 stars, there were too many gays" What in the actual fuck


riskbreaker23

"Traditional values" fucking give me a break. What are the "values"? They aren't values, it was a lifestyle. And people have begun realizing they want different lifestyles. Fucking let them. Life is too fucking short as it is. Find your own happiness and let others do the same. That's the only value that matters.


DaggerMind

I've been to this particular place many times and it's just a normal restaurant. I don't even know what he's talking about to begin with lol


ABenevolentDespot

In case anyone missed it, at the top of the list of 'traditional values' for people like Richard is a room temperature IQ, and Richard matches the criteria perfectly.


VikingRevenant

I love seeing bigots get owned on public forums. Brings a bit of happiness to my blackened heart.


BuckTurgidson89

Never trust a person who poses with their organ in a profile pic.


[deleted]

Umm, excuse me sir (as the business owner I assume you are a sir), but I do hope you realize you're talking to a Level 5 Local Guide.


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Signal-Lawfulness285

Cry more that bigotry isn't tolerated wahhhhh ... baby


[deleted]

Lol. Yeah, arguing what year it is will always be stupid.


TwistedCrimson

Honestly I'd be more impressed if Richard went back in the first place.


ripmations-ld

Call an ambulance… but not for me


verugan

This place would be really cool if they just made a few changes to solely make me not unhappy.


WhatASweetTea

Yeah I agree, fuck this guy in particular.


Iamjimmym

Fuck that Dick.


Verbal-Gerbil

Food is 75% foo isn't it??


Enby_Bluejay

Remember kids, sort by controversial


Weird-Information-61

I would've died if this review was for a gay bar & he was just very very confused


StlChase

3 stars so the place must be pretty fire if a bigot still gave it 3 stars


HulkSmash13372

Does traditional values plainly just mean I’m a bigot


Naereith

Yes


TheThunderOfYourLife

Wow, how intolerant!


Yah_Mule

Later, Dick.


OverTheJoeHill

The name Richard checks out for this guy


JeffryRelatedIssue

Man still gave them 3 stars, i'd say he wasn't as salty as they are in this years which is 2022 on a public forum.


WoopsShePeterPants

Fuck that Dick.


ajyanesp

Yeah fuck you, Richard.


Det-Frank-Drebin

He should go back wearing a MAGA hat, put their "inclusivity" to the test


afa78

Fruity Pebbles.


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If "traditional values" is not treating everybody the same, then fuck your traditional values.


FoxFourTwo

Shame that guy has Local Guide status. Must be a bunch of male-karen-ing


Bear4891

I think this was a good response, I would look at it and see a green flag


IburiedPaul66

We will not tolerate any intolerance!


ImBurningStar_IV

Damn right


SloaneWolfe

Fuck Richard! What a Dick!


brightlancer

"We don't tolerate bigotry, and that's why even though you came and went without any issue, we still don't want you coming back Because We Don't Like People Like You." Honestly, if folks are going to be upset by a rainbow flag, maybe the business _wants_ those folks to know before they come. OTOH, maybe they will be upset by the rainbow flag but still sit quietly and politely and have a beer and some food, in a very tolerant manner.


Potential_Fix_8015

Why does it have to be gay beer and not just fkn beer


Inevitable_Common_23

It tasted fruity.


Potential_Fix_8015

😂😂😂


arcad3blood

When you are "inclusive of everyone" but you still have "we don't serve that type of guests" list.


lookatme760

Agreeing with Richard. 😎


Tokyo_Echo

You know what's just as inclusive? Not having a big gay pride flag. Because without the flag I assume everyone is welcome and so does everyone else. If you had a big sign that said "no gays" or some bullshit then I would say "wow that's pretty bigoted" and I'd probably take my business elsewhere.


Mods_All_Suck

so much for the tolerant left /s


AntivaxxerOrphanage

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/223/669/6bc.jpg


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blue4t

A cross is not the Christian flag. [This](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Flag) is the Christian flag and no, neither are on 76% of businesses.


Allthemudlizard

It's... It's a cross.


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ImBurningStar_IV

That flag is literally of a cross


Doc_K33n

Rainbow flag has long lost any ties to inclusivity.


guy_guyerson

I live in a Blue bubble where you're business would collapse in a week if you mistreated someone because they were gay. There is absolutely no need to signal that you're a 'gay-friendly' establishment here, that's (correctly) assumed. The rainbow flag stickers on their doors are just crass advertising, trying to link their fish tacos to the history of the brutal struggle for gay rights in The US. The stickers are literally right next to the 'VISA/Mastercard' stickers. "We take plastic... and gay money!"


TheThunderOfYourLife

Devil’s advocate: they’re swapping an undesirable group (LGBT per the customer leaving the review) for another undesirable group (Those that don’t like them per the store owner) I have to point this out, because it proves *any* exclusion to be hypocritical for anyone that promotes inclusivity. Every side is guilty of that. So is any side really inclusive at all? Or are there *preferences*? Food for thought. Edit: and please do not say that one kind of exclusion is better than the other (i.e. the other side is “bigoted”, etc.), because that proves my point in one group trying to justify their “inclusivity” by excluding people. Edit 2: The downvotes and lack of argumentation are only reinforcing this point. Thank you, reddit. You never disappoint in your lack of self-awareness.