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[Argent Stonecutter]

Sort of like how artificial grape is what kids expect grapes to taste like?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Baudrillard’s most celebrated book is his 1981 volume Simulacra and Simulation, where he famously wrote about the map preceding the territory, and about Disneyland existing to conceal the fact that all of America is Disneyland.

Jean Baudrillard and the Donald: Is Trump a Fascist or is He the Parody of Fascism?

by Alan N. Shapiro Epistemology of True and False The kind of media theory or media analysis which has been prevalent on the American political left for the past several decades operates essentiall…

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[Innula Zenovka]

Sort of like how artificial grape is what kids expect grapes to taste like?

Or bananas

Why Doesn't Artificial Banana Taste Like Bananas? | America's Test Kitchen

Learn why artificial banana flavor doesn’t taste like the actual fruit, and more fun food facts for kids by listening to the Mystery Recipe podcast.

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[Free]

Or bananas

"We are the music makers. And we are the dreamers of dreams."

 

[Noodles]

So you think Cracker Barrel is nothing but fake nostalgia, a mock simulation of reality? Hey, let's talk about Olive Garden...

Wait, Olive Garden is not exactly like Italy?

 

[Essence Lumin]

So you think Cracker Barrel is nothing but fake nostalgia, a mock simulation of reality? Hey, let's talk about Olive Garden...

My dad liked that place. Good if you want a bunch of staff singing happy birthday to your kids. Crappy food though, especially considering all the Italian restaurants around here.

 

[Free]

especially considering all the Italian restaurants around here.

A rule of thumb taught to me by a boss I had in the food industry: if they serve meatballs with the spaghetti, it's not a real Italian restaurant.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Due to Circumstances, I was on the road one Thanksgiving and ate Thanksgiving dinner at a Cracker Barrel.

Not what you'd call a peak life experience. One star. Would not recommend.

 

[Free]

Due to Circumstances, I was on the road one Thanksgiving and ate Thanksgiving dinner at a Cracker Barrel.

Was the turkey at least dry and nearly inedible? That would make it authentically old-timey American country style.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Was the turkey at least dry and nearly inedible? That would make it authentically old-timey American country style.

It was dessicated, but I smothered it in delicious self-pity and general woefulness.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Usually it's served basted with the tears of line cooks who had to work Thanksgiving.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Nostalgia certainly isn't what it used to be.

U.S. Dept. Of Retro Warns: 'We May Be Running Out Of Past'

WASHINGTON, DC—At a press conference Monday, U.S. Retro Secretary Anson Williams issued a strongly worded warning of an imminent "national retro crisis," cautioning that "if current levels of U.S. retro consumption are allowed to continue unchecked, we may run entirely out of past by as soon as...

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[Dakota Tebaldi]

I don't think I've ever eaten at a Cracker Barrel before. Not in my adult life at least. Maybe when I was a kid? But I don't remember it at all.

I remember Denny's. Diner-class food but you know, sometimes it hit the spot back then.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I have been in one because I needed to use a restroom in Kansas.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Or bananas

Why Doesn't Artificial Banana Taste Like Bananas? | America's Test Kitchen

Learn why artificial banana flavor doesn’t taste like the actual fruit, and more fun food facts for kids by listening to the Mystery Recipe podcast.

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Because the artificial flavor is based on the flavor of the Gros Michel, which was the standard banana of the time before they got wiped out by infestation, and not the Cavendish ones we use today?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Because the artificial flavor is based on the flavor of the Gros Michel, which was the standard banana of the time before they got wiped out by infestation, and not the Cavendish ones we use today?

So the article says.

 

[Free]

Because the artificial flavor is based on the flavor of the Gros Michel

Ahem.

 

[Casey Pelous]

I have been in one because I needed to use a restroom in Kansas.

Everything come out all right?

 

[Noodles]

I don't think I've ever eaten at a Cracker Barrel before. Not in my adult life at least. Maybe when I was a kid? But I don't remember it at all.

I remember Denny's. Diner-class food but you know, sometimes it hit the spot back then.

I have been a few times but only once eve remotely recently. By boss has to travel to all his locations quarterly to visit bis employees, which ushally just means getting lunch on the company dime. We went to the Cracker Barrel one time. I got some pretty tasty eggs benedict.

Which feels like another issue, I ended up liking the dish enough that I had it again, made at home, much cheaper and easier.

 

[Isabeau]

I don’t think they have Cracker Barrel restaurants here, but we have a dairy company (mostly cheese) called Cracker Barrel. No Olive Gardens in Quebec, at least. But we do have Denny’s apparently. I remember them from when younger out west.

Anyhow, I guess I’m not missing much.