Wow that’s really good lmao
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Need the boys to jump into the Matt Schlapp-Your-Shlong developments. Shenanigans started at Manuel’s Tavern in ATL
Original Article on The Atlantic.
Found it free here - Tipping is weird now - The Atlantic - deleciousfood
My issue with prolific tipping stemming from guilt I feel over the ability to work from home is… a take.
I’ve come to think that the awkwardness of modern tipping comes less from our desire to compensate for service and much more from the fact that the practice is at the center of a very complex cultural, socio-economic and political Venn diagram. People who work in service jobs are exhausted, often exploited, often underpaid and caught in an unsustainable, damaged industrial model. They have persevered through a global health crisis in which they have been called essential, but have often been treated as expendable and undeserving of hazard pay. Meanwhile, many consumers have felt enormous guilt over the privilege of working from home during the pandemic and renewed respect for the people who deliver packages to their doors and put food on their shelves.
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very cool!
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@Tron can you post the Martha Stewart cooking techniques article your mom sent you ?
I don’t feel guilty at all about working from home. Sure I thought it sucked that some of the lowest paid members of our workforce were deemed essential in order to serve us, but it’s not like they were the only ones. And I certainly am not tipping more because of any guilt. I’m tipping more because every freaking place is now asking for a tip while staring at me waiting for me to decide on the spot. I just got takeout the other day and I had to think about the tip. The lowest “stock” tip was 18%. Honestly, I hit no tip just because there was a line of people and I didn’t want to figure out the tip and add it manually. And there was no way I’m giving someone the same tip for handing me a bag as I do a server that does it all through an entire meal.
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For a foodie/wine gui, not having any sense of smell has to really screw up your ability to taste @Tron.
@Tron I had the septoplasty and turbinate reduction a few years back. I also made the bonehead decision to have my tonsils removed at the same time, which made the recovery awful. Worst part of the nasal surgery is the day you go back and have the tubes removed. I legit almost fainted. That being said, it’s totally worth it. Game changing stuff.
Also, Fields is the truth. Bear Down.
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I’m supposed to get all of that done and keep pushing it back due to fearing the recovery. Tonsils are so dumb
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I did this, they took my adenoids out, and fixed a deviated septum. Never knew what real sleep was like until after this surgery about 8 years ago. The scar tissue and shit they pull out of your nose after recovery was fucking wild.
Edit - @Tron so just caught the first 20 of the podcast and this makes a lot more sense now. The conversation with my wife right before we got engaged was:
Her - you know you’re not supposed to have that much trouble breathing through your nose and it’s probably why you snore so much and wake up in the morning with a beet red face and all inflamed. (she said without saying I had to go to the ENT before we got engaged)
Me - Come on, I’ve made it this far and been to ENTs and they’ve never said anything. I’m not sick now, it’s just allergies. But OK, I’ll go (see engaged comment about)
ENT - (dramatice reenactment) holy shit your nose is fucked up! Let’s get in there and cut a bunch of shit out and fix that deviated septum.
Yadda yadda yadda, they put me under, fixed it all, and she was right, I was never able to breath correctly for nearly my entire adult life.
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This all sounds fascinating and disgusting.
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I heard @tron mention that JetBlue has gone downhill in years past.
I don’t fly as often as I used to (10-15x/year), and usually just SFO->JFK or SFO->BOS, but feels like it’s about the same as it was pre-quarantine.
I fly Monday morning…and I’m gonna be wondering…what am I missing?
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love TC’s RG3 take…guy needs to go.
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“Buck Tech” never fails to make me laugh. I find myself using it in public settings and people are left more confused after I explain it.
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@Tron, heard you’ll be in Amsterdam.
A torso turned up in our IJ-canal, weighted and wrapped in plastic. Turns out it’s a Russian art dealer who fell out with Putin and his cronies, and who was afraid the Russian foreign agency was after him; what are the odds, right?
Anyhow, we still can’t find his head and limbs though. We’d really appreciate some help in the search, so hit me up if you have some spare time.
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The general flight experience is the same and a lot of their planes are upgraded too, which is nice. I’d say this summer their logistics struggled and went downhill, so there were a lot of cancellations/delays. But that seems to have righted itself as well, so I’ve haven’t seen any issues or changes lately. I think it’ll be a perfectly fine experience barring something unexpected happening, like FAA grounding all domestic flights.
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So you’re telling TC to avoid the local shellfish for a while.
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If you’re eating things that came from rivers and canals in Amsterdam the dead body of a Russian criminal should be at the very back of all potential health risks. There are a lot people still using it like the open sewerage system it once was.
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Just flew them roundtrip PFG → Boston (their hub) and can say it was an all around okay experience. The planes are pretty new, which is nice, but both flights were delayed about an hour for what seemed like just incompetence by their gate employee/bagging crew.
There’s usually better options for the price I’d say.
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