The Bear (FX on Hulu) TV Show • Page 95

Personally I'm too picky for tasting menus, but I'm not gonna act like I've never had a fancy meal that was a different experience than having a grilled cheese

 

Well that’s a simple but I guess still fairly accurate way of putting it lol.

they had a travel guide for years for this reason, marketing Michelin tires this way was a thing way before they rated restaurants more deliberately. they would give ratings to all kinds of establishments including hotels and repair shops; the goal was to be a “road trip guide” in general. But no other publication was rating restaurants in other states and overseas to the same comprehensive degree at the time (it was like the 1920s-1930s) so it very indirectly became the “authority” on restaurants. The travel guide was already marketing for Michelin - its restaurant ratings became something way bigger than they thought lol

 

It’s totally normal / ok to prefer beer heavily to wine, lots of people I know do, but there actually is science behind being a sommelier and describing wine flavors, it’s legitimately not just made up, there are specific chemical compounds that develop during the fermentation process that correspond every category / group of flavors that wine can take on

I know it sounds pretentious to a non wine drinker when people say wine tastes like bell pepper and jalapeño, or tastes like butter, etc. but in those examples they are talking about pyrazines and lactic acid, respectively, which factually exist in the types of wine you’d use those terms to compare the flavor.

 

Red wine tastes like grape juice is missing something.

 

never change

 

This post could kill an Italian

 

It’s not really a one or the other situation. The Bear and gourmet restaurants are not occupying the “what should I have for dinner tonight” space as the $15 sub sandwich haha.

 

shitty red wine does, yeah

 

Wine is fine. Prefer beer or bourbon

 

Beer is fine. Wine is fine. Liquor is fine. Not drinking is fine.

Will never hear wine people talk seriously about wine without thinking “yep, I’m ordering a rum and diet so this person leaves promptly.”

 

My go to liquor is rum, either dark or spiced works. Brugal Anejo from D.R is my favorite. I like tequila sometimes too. I am not a fan of whiskey straight. Vodka I find disgusting.

 

vodka. Pearl Vodka is king of liquors. $20 handle, smooth as hell, rarely gives me a hangover

 

I think that’s just an aficionado thing if you don’t care about the topic, not specifically wine. There’s just more chances for a wine person to talk to you about it I guess

 

Gin >>>>

 

Whole convo seems almost like comparing community theater to broadway

Totally reasonable to prefer the accessibility and intimacy of community theater. Or to prefer the production quality of broadway. But if you'd never go see something on broadway even if your friend gave you tickets or you'd never go to a local community theater showing because you think its beneath you... in either case you're gonna miss out

 

Vodka is my preferred liquor for sure. Never offends me. I also like a whiskey ginger.

I have a friend who drinks beer and twisted tea and whiskey as much as he wants but his stomach "can't do" vodka, which always makes me laugh. Sugary garbage and brown liquor? a-ok. clear liquor? gross

 

A good server would first ask if you were interested in wine and would not proceed if you say no haha.

 

been on a big brandy kick recently. E&J's vanilla brandy is really delicious

 

Jager is the one liquor i absolutely cannot drink again under any circumstances. I can't even smell it without having flashbacks to puking my guts out at age 20.

 

100%

 

southern comfort for me

 

Oh fuck that one too

 

Nothin worse than Goldschläger

 

Smirnoff Ice for me

 

I had just graduated high school and I was trying to get this older guy at work to buy me alcohol and he said that it would impress women so I ended up paying him to get it. We ended up throwing the bottle into the ocean.