It's been a little bit since I posted

Hey, hope everyone is doing well. Uncle Covid seems to keep hanging around and probably will for the foreseeable future. Booster now, and then booster in a few months, and then the next booster. That stinks. Yes I'm fully vaxxed. 

The first restaurant I went to/dined in since Uncle Covid arrived was Red Lobster. On the South Service Road, near Ronkonkoma. A while ago. It was 4 PM-ish on a Friday. There was almost no one there. Is that the story elsewhere on Long Island? I saw a tweet that around 750,000 jobs in the industry were still unfilled as opposed to pre-pandemic. I saw our waitress seemed bored most of the time and was yakking it up with the bartender most of the time. Whatever, no dig at the waitress or Red Lobster (the food was mediocre/sub-par at best--there's my food rating), but are restaurants going to deal with this nonsense for years? 

One thing I've discovered on YouTube since the last 4+ (face palm) years I've posted (thanks, Yelp, a website full of morons, telling us their moronic opinions on food and killing food blogs) are competitive eating folks. Why do I want to watch people stuff their mouths with pounds of food in 10 minutes or an hour? I don't know. But they're worth checking out. Too many good ones to name. I'd wave the white flag after about 5 minutes. 

Time for another post I guess

I took a nap and woke up, and it looks like about a year has passed since I wrote my last post. So I guess it's time for my yearly update!

Okay, so, yeah, definitely things like Yelp and Google reviews and other things killed the short-lived food blog era.

Here's the thing, though. The people who post on Yelp and in Google reviews are IDIOTS. They are idiots! Their opinions are stupid and terrible, and they are terrible people.

And remember, this blog started because idiots would post on AOL about restaurants that I had been to, and these people were clearly stupid and had no idea what was good food and what was garbage. I would post on those web pages, and tell the people how stupid they were, and I think my comments got deleted or something, I don't know. Screw them. So I was like I'm going to create a website and set people straight!

So I got in early in the food blogging days. But with the rise of Yelp, blah, blah, the food bloggers lost their influence.

One of the first was kipblog or something, which went from blogging to just a list of food bloggers. One was the amateur gourmet, who apparently had some small fame for a short time and now does whatever. There was a french chick. I don't know what happened to her.

Anyway, where are we in 2017? We are back to the same awful place we were back in the early 2000's, with idiots posting their stupid opinions for consumption by the gullible masses. We have traveled a full, cruel, merciless circle of culinary stupidity.

I weep.

More on the Death of Food Blogs

I guess a fairly obvious answer to the death of food blogs is the rise of things like Yelp and reviews on Google and Google Maps.

The good thing, especially with Yelp, is that you can see potentially lots of reviews, all at once. The bad thing is that those apps make everyone a food critic, and people are idiots.

For instance, I searched for "restaurants" on Google Maps. The app gave me a bunch of local restaurants with ratings from people. A certain Chinese restaurant was rated 4.9 out of 5.0 stars. I'm like WTF? Those reviewers are idiots. That place is average at best. And if 2.5 out of 5.0 means average, it deserves a 2.5.

OMG Why?

OMG who still comes to this thing?  It makes me almost want to start blogging again. Just because I feel bad for the people coming here and seeing a vast wasteland.

2 new posts in one day! Unprecedented!

Where's Everybody Been?

So how's everyone's summer? Haha omg who even looks at this thing???

But seriously ... Have recently been checking out food blogs that were once popular, like in 2005. I see many have folded. But not me! I'm still around!!! This post is proof!

I'm old enough to remember when people thought they could actually make a living writing about food or wine on stupid blogs, like a stupid blog such as this.

Not that I ever thought I could. And never intended to.

The reality? No one cares about food blogs. They sure went away fast huh? And I'm sure whoever currently gets paid to write posts about food makes squat.

Anyway, I'm still around (i.e. I exist on this earthly plane). Maybe more posts to come. You never know.

BJ's laughs at my salted butter purchase

Yeah, I got some salted butter. It's not that funny, BJ's.

Hamburger at Pace's = Shockingly Good Deal

Had lunch at Pace's in Hauppauge recently. Never been there before. Weird decor (i.e. law books) but whatever.

Got the hamburger for lunch. I think it was $10.75. The burger was big and comes with a good amount of fries and cole slaw. I added cheese for (I think) a buck 25.

Can't believe I'm saying this, but an expensive steak house actually has a good deal --> the lunchtime hamburger. It's not the greatest hamburger, but it's a good-size meal, and I'll take that deal all day long.

Just in time for Christmas!

As usual, I'm probably late to the party, but just saw a commercial for the StufZ burger maker.

Just in time for Christmas, for the person who is incapable of stuffing things inside a hamburger without the use of a mechanical device.