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Default Peanuts on the floor

On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 4:11:49 AM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
> We ate at some Roadhouse tonight. Not Texas. Uh...Jimmy Macs. Not sure if
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> they are a chain or not. I had the chili and it was good although oddly a
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> bit too salty. But...
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> They offer you free peanuts in the shell. If you want them, you use one of
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> those bamboo salad bowls and scoop your own from a feed trough. Then you
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> eat them and toss the shells on the floor. The filthy, uneven, cement
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> floor.
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> I hated walking through the piles of shells to get to our table and I was
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> seated at the end of the booth so I had to keep looking at them down there.
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> What is the appeal of doing this? I ate one peanut. One. Not even a
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> double one. Just a single peanut and didn't want any more. Not that I
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> dislike peanuts but... The whole experience rather dampened my appetite and
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> I am glad that I only ordered the chili and not a meal. Oh and the burgers
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> are served in a hubcap. Again, don't get it.
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> Hop Jacks serves their food in a pie tin. Yep. A lightweight, slippery
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> bottomed metal pie tin that wants to shoot across the table as you try to
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> eat.
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> What is with this stuff? Can we not serve our food on plates? And why do
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> we throw the trash on the floor? Am I being a stick in the mud? Or do
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> people really like this?


Only hillbillies and white trash idiots eat at Texas Roadhouse. Same with Outback Steakhouse. Chain restaurants are garbage.