On Monday, February 6, 2017 at 11:10:47 AM UTC-5, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 03:16:05 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
> >On Sunday, February 5, 2017 at 6:07:15 PM UTC-5, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> >> Gary wrote:
> >> >Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Or we could go to a restaurant and pay $65 for a single meal for two.
> >> >> It really is a no-brainer.
> >> >
> >> >Many here seem to have no concept of what's a good meal deal.
> >> >I suppose I'm just too poor to understand this. oh well.
> >> >
> >> >For $65, I can eat quite nicely for 2 weeks.
> >> >I like to cook and don't mind doing so.
> >> >I also have no wish to be served/pampered for extra $$$$$$.
> >> >I also have a decent amount of leftovers whenever I cook.
> >> >
> >> >It even bugs me when someone invites me out to a nice dinner.
> >> >I can't help being annoyed at the high prices and I don't
> >> >even have to pay. I would rather invite them to my house
> >> >and cook the same meal for so much less.
> >> >
> >> >Sorry, I'm not criticizing (or at least it's not intended).
> >> >Everyone is different and everyone is ok in their own world.
> >> >I'm just constantly floored at how much people will pay for
> >> >a meal. And the $65 for 2 people is actually good for a nice
> >> >meal. The $200 or so meals for 2 really gags me. lol!
> >>
> >> $65 for two at a steak house is what I call a Greazy Spoon price,
> >> they're doing the equivalent of The Sizzler. $200 is closer to the
> >> truth for two at a real steak house.
> >
> >Perhaps. We never order appetizers and never have a bar tab, so
> >$65 for two would be $32.50 per meal. Not Peter Luger's, obviously,
> >but here in the wilds of the Midwest you can get quite a good piece
> >of beef for that price.
> >
> >As I said upthread, we very rarely go out for steak or prime rib.
> >However, if we did, we'd go he
> >
> ><http://www.knightsrestaurants.com/ann-arbor/?menu=dinner_specials#collapseTwo>
> >
> >Prime rib is $28 for the 12-ounce cut, and includes potato, soup or salad,
> >vegetable of the day, and bread. If I ordered a 12-ounce prime rib,
> >I'd cut it in half when it was served to me, and take home half. It
> >would make a delicious sandwich the next day for lunch.
> >
> >Cindy Hamilton
>
> With how you eat out, no frills (no appetizers, no bar tab, probably
> no dessert) why bother.

We don't think of it as "no frills". We never drink, even
at home. Why order alcohol in a restaurant? Restaurant
meals are so large, that if we ate an appetizer, we would
be uncomfortably stuffed even just sampling the rest
of the meal.

> To be perfectly honest you'd do much better
> preparing a roast/steak at home, you'd eat much better for $28, and
> give the tip to yourself. I don't consider roasting a joint of beef
> or grilling/frying a steak any kind of cooking anyway... Neanderthals
> used the same one ingredient cookbook but at least they offered great
> tableside entertainment twirling the meat over an open fire on a
> stick.
> No frills dining defeats the whole purpose of dining out.

Not the whole purpose. I still don't have to clean up.

> For $28 you can have four nice rib steaks in your cave.

And that's how we usually do it. When we go out, it's
to get something we can't or won't get at home: ethnic
food, deep-fried food, jet-fresh catch, etc. Our most
frequent dinner out is at a Thai place.

If I recall correctly, the last time we went to the
steakhouse that I linked to, we had a weeknight power
outage at home, so we just saddled up, drove out there
and had dinner. Soon after we came back home, the power
came back on.

Cindy Hamilton