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This is at a restaurant. Someone paid money for cheese and raw onion on bread. What are we doing here?
Probably drinking first and eating secondarily
There’s not enough booze in the world to make me rawdog an onion like this.
Raw onion on a deli sandwich is great, but maybe not quite so much...
Vidalia Onion is good this thick, but usually only in a burger. It’s a very sweet variety, though the sweetness and flavor have declined as it’s become more available I feel. At least where I buy them.
This guy knows his onions
Funny. We Iranians almost always eat raw onions alongside food, but everyone in the west seems to hate them unless it's dripping with 6 liters of frying oil
I think if you tried the onions we have available to us, you'd understand.
I eat them raw as a topping/side, but I like pickled onions best.
It really depends. Raw onions are common on hot dogs, burgers, salads, and various other foods.
Wait wait wait wait. You guys put raw onion on hotdogs and burgers? Not fried onions?
By the west you mean Americans, the rest of us are fine with raw onion.
American here, my grandmother would eat an onion would cut an onion with a knife like a. Apple and eat the pieces
Americans eat it as a topping on salads, burgers, hot dogs, and sandwiches. Not as an entire layer of the sandwich though.
Plenty of Americans like raw onion, myself included.
It's not uncommon for US BBQ to be served with a side of raw sliced white onion.
The older I get the more I desire the raw onion.
raw onions are life.
Probably less alcoholics there, no?
Not with alcohol, just in general
Also you'd be surprised at how many "muslims" drink and fuck and gamble and do any manner of debauchery possible
You say that now but that sounds exactly like every fucker I've ever heard with a hangover saying "Jaysus, Mary and Joseph and all his carpenter friends I'm never touching a pint again."
As my father used to say "hunger is good sauce".
Four pints in and no dinner I'd gobble that down. GOBBLE IT. Best sandwich I've ever had at that point I'd wager.
This is the truth.
I went camping with my dad up in Canada in early April. Completely snuggled down in my sleeping bag, hiding from the creeping cold, it was the best sleep I've had in my life. That morning I got up and had starbucks instant coffee (no cream or sugar) heated on a pot over the campfire, and a can of Hormel corned beef hash from the same fire. That was the best coffee and best breakfast ever. I'd freeze for a other night to replicate that feeling. I don't think it comes entirely from misery though, I think it comes from the inability to have anything else. The nearest town was hours away, and so that cheap coffee and canned hash was literally the best food available. There was nothing else to have, so there was nothing else to want.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Abbott_onion_video
Pubs aren't restaurants. If your pub has menus on the table after 7pm it's not a pub. It might be a bar, depends how much they're persuading people a pint of shite lager should cost.
How do you feel about gastropubs?
Not normally my thing, but these places need to turn a profit during the less prime time drinking hours. I wish they had a specific bar for cocktails and another bar for beer though, to get the amateurs out the way.
A measured response. Personally, I think that a lot of pubs are going to pivot that direction- Gen Z aren't big drinkers, and if the trend continues they'll need other sources of revenue than alcohol.
Which bar would get all the amateurs?
Left deliberately vague for comedic effect
I can't wait until you find out what wine is.
That's a pub not a restaurant
Is it a place where you can exchange money for food while you sit down at a table? Semantics.
Yes, you're right. All these words are equal. It's a pizzaria. A caffeteria maybe. Some might call it a bistro. Or a cafe. Perhaps a coffee shop or a burger joint. Quibbling over distinctions here would be semantics.
Well, yes. If you shop around you are able to find the same kind of food on some place using any one of those names.
It's almost like these different words to differentiate between the locations that offer varying services, you nonce.
It's like that was my original point or something you twerp
The fact is that it's pretty much irrelevant what kind of establishment it is. The point is who the fuck pays for that sandwich. Your insistence on correcting them on something totally irrelevant to the point makes you a twat.
Someone might pay for that sandwich if the primary function of the establishment is the consumption of alcohol (as it is in a pub) and not the serving of quality meals (as it is in a restaurant).
In a pub, especially if it's the type of place where some real serious drinking occurs, the primary function of the a method of filling a stomach and absorbing alcohol and that sandwich would probably fill the brief.
I'm not saying it looks like a good sandwich, but it's a practical one. A real sandwich for a real alcoholic. It's definitely not the type of food you'd expect find in a restaurant. The type of place IS relevant, you chump.
It isn't because if you serve me food (not even good, just edible) and you give me that, IDC how shit faced I am, I'm gonna throw it at you. That isn't food, and the fact that you're so hellbent on pointing out that it's a pub just enforces the stereotype that the English don't know anything about food.
English food has always been "just have pints until it's edible". But even that has its limits.
This whole thread feels like that food court argument from Mall Rats, and I'm here for it.
So then replace the word restaurant with pub then, doesn't change the message.
It's the same damn thing
There's only so many words in the English language for "a place you can get a meal at", you wanna go over em all?
And yes I've been to actual midcountry pubs, they're bars with good dining space usually situated in a village so people can walk there. They often have playgrounds, fuckin, somehow.
Gotta put the kids somewhere
They're absolutely not. A pub primarily sells beer, salted peanuts, and if they're feeling fancy, a bread roll with stuff in it. A restaurant sells meals with plates and cutlery and has one or two crap lagers available. A gastropub does food and beer but both are crap and are twice as expensive.
If you're in an actual real pub, have had a handful of pints, this food is perfect, and ideally costs less than half a pint.
Blah blah blah blah
At the end of the day it's a BUSINESS with a KITCHEN, a staff, and a dining area. When Americans say "it's a restaurant" that's what we mean.
I get the historical context. But you can't define a pub in a business plan in any way that won't leave me going "it's a restaurant". "It's a neighborhood social gathering place for people to drink and eat and play!" Yeah I get it bro, it's a bar.
I know bar owners on both sides of the pond, you won't fool me. In fact, i kinda hope you try. I was just in Nottingham for two weeks in November. Mfer you don't go to the Midcountry IN WINTER unless you're learning something.
Why are you translating into American?
Is a hot dog stand a restaurant?
It's a business with a kitchen, staff (1 person) and a dining area on occasion (foldable plastic chairs and tables).
That seems like an argument the courts are hearing. How does the legal definition of "restaurant" require "dining space"? Ed: tou seem to have edited since my reply. I say yes, a food truck is a restaurant.
My point is, when Americans colloquially say "restaurant" they mean "any dining establishment". We can piss and fight over semantics but what yall got are bars across from schools.
Ah, Americans. I see the misunderstanding now.