Originally Posted by
bhatnasx
Long story short - she's one of those people it's impossible to go out with because she eats at high end restaurants, so the lower end don't cut it & only a few of the higher end are any good! I love the girl, but man - going out to eat is a pain!
I honestly have found peopel like that to be not people who truly enjoy food. I 'enjoyed' food until my wife taught me better...shes Italian, she
loves food. People like your friend, in my opinion, judge places not by the food but by the price and that correlation is just asking for a bummer of a meal.
Originally Posted by
number_6
Absolutely true; but it also does not mean simple = inexpensive (though it can, as it was in your example). I've eaten great meals for >USD 1000 per person (typical 3-star dinner with wine), and also for <USD 3 (carnitas burritos). Enjoyment and even quality can be all over the place. ...
...But I also stock 5 kinds of salt at home (the best being Murray River salt, which is soft and airy like snowflakes and it shows in the flavour!).
You nailed it! almost exactly for me at least. Our honeymoon included 3 meals we still talk about, the first was in the back of a convenience store, the second in a semi-causal restaurant, and a third at a world class fine dining. They excel at different things, the $3 burrito melts you with love the $1000 meal with beauty and technical perfection.
PS. salt snobs are worse than wine snobs.
