Has anyone here actually eaten at one of these “fine dining” places that charges you an arm and a leg for like 10mg of food at a time in 20 servings?Apparently these places have “stars” that mean something to someone, but you know the only thing that matters here is whether you enjoy your meal.I simply can’t imagine enjoying a meal like this. I can understand wanting to sample things, sure, but if I enjoy what I’m eating typically I want more than 1ug of it in my mouth.Can someone explain the appeal of these “one bite roulette” multiple courses? I’m genuinely baffled that people spend money on this kind of activity when there are plenty of delicious choices out there which you can actually fully enjoy. This seems like it would be so irritating, like going to an ice cream shop and just getting endless samples.
99 percent are rich people exercising their status1 percent is highly discerning food autists who see it like a craft and can actually afford to spend 1k for a meal
>>21959512How can you explain anything to a classless slob
>>21959512I'm going to pretend that you're actually asking this in good faith.Have you ever eaten a dessert that was good, but incredibly rich or sweet, something that you wouldn't want to eat more than a small portion of? It's like that, except instead of simply rich or sweet, the dishes are interesting and unusual flavors or combinations of flavors. They're good and fun to try, but trying to scarf down an entire plate of any one of them would get old fast.
>>21959512You know tasting menus come at all price points right
>>21959512Don't worry about it, you can't afford it anyway. You wouldn't even get a reservation.
>>21959512A good tasting menu is not a random assortment of foods. It has pacing and flow through the different tastes and textures. Generally tasting menus are also balanced where an average person will feel nicely satiated after the entire tasting menu. You may wish to have had more of one dish, but then another new really delicious dish is being served up to experience.It's fun to have a bunch of different really delicious things instead of just an appetizer, entree, and dessert.
>>21959512oh anon... it's ok I was poor once. get good.
>>21959512There is one in my city that I went to with a friend. It was fun, except halfway through the meal they had one of the waitresses sing a song about climate change which was bizarre considering McDonalds will have 1/100 the energy impact per meal of a place like this
>>21961937>McDonalds will have 1/100 the energy impact per meal of a place like thishow do you figure? what are you basing that on?
>>21961941Costs of non-rare goods are directly tied to their energy usage. Energy usage is directly tied to environmental impact. Energy plants are effectively the only thing that create wealth and why they are limited and in places like Germany actively destroyed.
>>219619411/100 was hyperbole but it is definitely less efficient. We were in a large, highly air-conditioned room and 40 people were being served maybe 800 calories of food over two and half hours.There were probably 30 people working all day to make it happen and they used probably 60 different ingredients that all had to be processed/shipped/etc to get there. Some from halfway across the world
