May 20, 2025 • 16 mins
Fred reads a Reddit post about a woman who is unwilling to go on vacation with her boyfriend because he only eats chicken fingers... Find out what Fred and the crew have to say!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I got you morony Monday on a Tuesday. Okay, so
here it is and I actually have a real life
update on what happened to him, which is amazing.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
But this is what it says.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
My boyfriend has a ton of food restrictions and is
picky in general. He basically will only eat chicken fingers,
grilled cheese, mac and cheese, and pad time. I've never
seen him eat a vegetable. We just started dating a
few months ago, and I love him, but I eat
everything and I'm very laid back. I know we're going
to have to plan our entire day while on vacation
(00:31):
around finding food that he can eat, on top of
listening to him complain that things aren't the same. Even
if a restaurant does have chicken nuggets or mac and cheese,
it won't be the same as what we get at home,
and I don't want to hear about it. Am I
the a hole for not letting my boyfriend come on
vacation with me because he is a picky eater.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Oh, he can't even come.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
So she doesn't want to go on vacation with this
guy because she has to treat him basically a child
and he'll only eat you know so and foods and
you won't like it eight five, five, five nine one
one three five. I mean, I guess I would ask
the question then, if you don't want to go on
vacation with this dude, why even with him?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Exactly?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah, that is really hate to be dumped though over
chicken tenders, little putty.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, but is it though?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I mean, you know, you travel the world and you're
in Florence or something, you're in Italy, or you're in
wherever you went, and you're walking around and you can't
eat it at the cafe because they don't have turkey sandwiches,
or they don't have mayo on them, and don't have
this and that and the other thing. I mean, that's
not always easy to do when you're on the go
and so and sometimes maybe you want to go to
the local spot with the local in and whatever. And
(01:37):
if you're constantly worried about finding this guy, you know,
American quote unquote food or generic plain food at places
where they may not have it, then you're probably not
going to a lot of the places you would want
to go. Local spots may not have it, fancy places
may not have it.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I know, you had a friend like this.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, my sister's friend. Truly, it's an issue.
We'll only eat chicken tenders and we do go on
vacation with her and it, you know, we don't you know,
shift our plans for her, but it can be annoying.
I personally also eat weird, like I don't eat beef,
I don't eat this or that. But I think it's
like the individual person's thing. Like I don't think you
(02:14):
can make it anybody else's problem. Ever, no one should
be affected by the weird ways that you eat.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So figure it out, is what I have to say.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Or I get it, but it would suck, like if
you if you go someplace, they don't have anything you want,
and to your point, you're like, figure it out, so
you just don't eat anything or you I don't know.
I feel like people who have preferences. And I don't
mean dietary restrictions. If you have a dietary restriction, that's
one thing, like if you if you'd like a health
related thing, but I mean if you if you just
I don't know, you can. I find that people who
(02:43):
eat like that sometimes will make it awkward too for you. Yes,
you know, what I mean, like, oh, I guess I
just won't eat. You just won't eat, okay, Well, meaning
you knew, you knew where we were going, you knew
what was going on.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Right, get up, map the resort, figure out a place
that you can grab food from and bring with you.
Figure out if you will eat the sides rice whatever,
I mean, figure it out.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Someone say, how do we get from chicken tenders to
pad tie? Well, pat tie is basically just spaghetti. I
mean not really, but you know what I mean. It's
it's like it's like fetaccini. It's a noodle. So maybe
he likes the little sauce on it or something, but
I mean, he doesn't need vegetables. We have to take
the vegetable off so we can't have that.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Mikes.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, I don't know. I just I don't think I
could be with this person. I would have to dump them.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I'd have to leave. I'd leave them at home.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
And by the way, the update is I am breaking
up with him after seeing a glimpse into my future
via your responses, I realized I can't do this and
it will eventually wreck us.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Thank you. This was some Reddit people commenting on it.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Listen, I get a girl. Food is everything to me.
I want to try everything.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
And except beef, and last have I ever made it
anyone else's problem?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
You know? Yeah, there was that one time when you
protested in front of the restaurant. You trusted a cow
costume because I ordered to stay. There was that one time,
and then then you pick it and then you put
one of those big rats out in front of the Yeah,
I was yeah. No, so yeah, there were those. Other
than those times, though, No, No, You've always made it
very very normal.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You can not even see it when I'm with people
and they go, like if someone's reading me, like the
beef special, Like we were at Gibson's and they brought
over the slab of meat right into my face and
everyone's like giggling, and it's fine. But like usually my
friends will be like, oh no, she doesn't eat that.
It's like, okay, chill, I can hear what kind of
beef they have. I'll be all right, I'm just not
gonna get it.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, it's like it doesn't eat, like it doesn't exist
because you won't need it.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Like I don't know, it sounds harsh, but it's annoying. Yeah,
it's a deal breaker.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
The other thing is that I don't want to pick
anybody in particular, but it's possible that we just traveled
recently with someone Kiki who like it has to only
eat at fancy restaurants, Like it's got to be a
Michelin mentioned, or it has to be.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
That's annoying too.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It has to be. And I love this person deeply,
but like, you know, I don't. I just I felt
like everything had to was researched and was like on
the you know, zagat Guy or whatever, I don't know,
whatever whatever list of you know, fancy restaurants or up
and coming and it has to be.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And I get it.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
It's an experience, and that's what the person's going for, right,
But I also like sometimes it can be a little
too fancy for me. Yeah, Like it's a little like
it's it's like you can't just get a burger when
you want a burger, you have to get like a
burger with flog Wall's fire, you know, and it's got
you know, mixed with water from the Library of Congress
or something. I mean, I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
It's it's just like Congress.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Sometimes I love a tender.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Hey, not not contenders, but I just mean sometimes I
want I want what I want, and it doesn't have
to be so Like if you're with people who are
like consider themselves quote unquote foodies, yes, then the problem
is like, well what if I don't Sometimes I don't
want to be a foodie, Like sometimes I want a
club sandwich, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Like sometimes I just want I don't know, I don't,
we don't. It doesn't have to be we don't have
to go to the place that has only like I
don't you have to knock a special way, you know
what I mean? And then just I don't leave it satisfied.
And sometimes it's a place for that, right, Like maybe
if you go on a trip, maybe you go to
one of those kind of fancy places or like one
of those places that that's on the list, you know,
(05:59):
the place that you have to eat in line for
or whatever else, and then the other ones.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Maybe I want.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Chili's, Well, well, I mean, come on, if I'm on vacation,
maybe not.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I mean, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Here you have vacation, is on a vacation without an
airport Chili's, Well, oh that's different. Okay, Now, hold on
the airport is the airport is different territory.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Before you start coming for my homeland.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
The airport the airport not come on hold on a
second days. In all fairness, you are not going to
San Diego and looking for the nearest Chilis. You're gonna
go to San Diego and you might find something that's
similar to it. But aren't most people typically when they're
on a trip, aren't they looking for something that's unique
to that place, but maybe has the same sentiment, like
because you can go to Chili's anywhere.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
We have Chilis at home and then we don't.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
But you know what I mean, Like I love Chilis,
and I think it just depends on the purpose of
the trip, Like if I'm on vacation, I might try
and find a place that would only be where that
place is, you know, you know what I mean? Like
I don't know. Maybe they have their own version. Sure,
I mean, I have no idea what's in any city.
So they called the internet.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
You look it up. You can like google it, and
so they google still eat it Chili. I follow someone
who's just ate it.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
The Chili's on the Nile River in Egypt, and it
was like her and her boyfriend's like dream.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It looked really but that's kind of funny.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Actually did chili. Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. The only reason
I would go to Egypt. Right, They're like, we.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Finally made it to the chilis on the river and
literally checked in Egypt.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
It's amaz.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I don't know, no, I hear you, I hear you.
It's it's we got to be a little flexible. Sometimes
there's time for a burger and fry. Sometimes it's time
for smoke to come with my meal.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
I don't mind the smoke as long as I don't
have to pay, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Like, right, so you're okay going to the place that
like they serve you something that looks like a it
looks like a lemon, but it tastes like turkey or something,
you know what I mean. Or or the place where
like your dessert is on the table the whole time
you didn't know it and then they come over and
like smash the plants on the table and for seven
thousand dollars. You know, it's like you know these places,
(07:56):
these liquor it's like eighteen courses, but each course is
a little bite.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Oh Yeah, that's nuts songs.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I'm not paying because what I'm going to go back
to the hotel and order what I really wants.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
What I mean, when I'm going to get taco bells,
that is a night door dash to my hotel room door.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
It's fine, Yeah, this is appetizer.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I mean, like I've said this a million times, Like
sometimes I want Dominoes. Is there better pizza in town?
Of course there's better pizza in town. Sometimes I want Dominoes.
But if I'm on vacation, I probably won't sit in
my hotel room and order Dominoes. I might later after
I've had a few cocktails, but like, I'll probably try
and find a place that has pizza that you know,
is it is only in San Diego or wherever I'm going. Yeah, right,
(08:38):
I might try that as opposed to every city I
go to. I go to Chili's because well, the thing
about Chilies is it's supposed to taste the same everywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
That's the point.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So if I'm meeting Chili's everywhere I go, then why
do I even leave my neighborhood? You know, then you
could say, oh my gosh, like I went to the
San Diego Chilies and they had this type of margarita.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah right, well, I.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Bet you a million dollars. It's the same margarita that
you can get at the Arlington Heights Chilies. Hey Jackie, Hello,
Hi Jackie. So you dated a guy like this, a
guy who didn't want to eat anything but mac and
cheese and chicken fingers as a grown up? Yes?
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Yes, this was just like last year. And it was
like the most miserable time ever. We went on like
four dates. And I'm a foodie, like, I love food,
I love trying new places, new things, and I just
could not see this man in my future, like at all,
whatsoever the way he was eating.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, so what would he eat?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Like?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
What did it have to be?
Speaker 6 (09:30):
It was chicken fingers like every time, and he always
he wanted to go to the same restaurant every time
because he liked the chicken fingers best there. And I
was like, why don't we try somewhere new? And he
like did and he like picked out like a plane
Hamburger like the entire time, and I was like, what
are we dring? Like I'm the type of person that
like dances when I eat.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Hello, that's not going to work. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Yeah, so my boyfriend now and I we both love food.
We cooked together. We're actually going to pasta cooking class
to speak, and like, my life is just so much
more enjoyable.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, did you have chicken fingers there at the pasta place?
So I'm just wondering.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
No, no, no, no fingers on the menu.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Thank you, Jackie. You have a good day.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
You guys to love you love me.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I guess my issue is with these fancy, fancy, like
you know, contemporary places. It's just that they're expensive. And
then I don't walk out feeling full. So I'm to
your point, Like we go to the we go to
the fancy place everyone's talking about because so and so
like plan the whole trip around it.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Paid a lot of money, and I ate, you know,
little tiny bites of fifty tiny, little little inny bitty bites,
you know, and it took someone seven hours and tweezers
to make it right, you know. And then and then
I go back to the room and I'm and I
order it a twenty seven dollars hamburger from room service
because I'm hungry.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Still, that's like a date spot, or like a special
occasion spot for me, like you know, if you want
to be skinny, you.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Know, after experience more than like a right.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
No, like that place, that place that Jason I took Jason,
my gosh, Jason, I didn't know each other that well,
and it was your birthday. We I mean, we were friends,
but like not like not like not like you know,
on top of each other, like we are now inseparable.
But it was your birthday and you had a birthday party.
I missed it. So I was out of town. So
I said, Jason, I want to take you to dinner.
(11:18):
I'll take you anywhere you want to go. So how
did you pick the place.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
That you picked?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
It was a suggestion from one of my uh rather,
I guess rather bougie friends.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Now, So we go to this place and it turned
I'd never heard of it. I didn't care.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I made a reservation. You and I go clearly, we
walk in. It's it was a Miami restaurant, wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah, there's one in Miami and one in California.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I don't even know if they're still open. This one's well, this.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
One's gone, this one in the city.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
But it was like it was.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
It was one of these places where everything was wildly
expensive and everything was way over the top. Like if
you ordered, like I ordered a steak and they bring
the steak and a six foot tall fork.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Oh remember, Like he ordered.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Popcorn shrimp and they brought an entire popcorn machine. So
the machine and the popcorn shrimp was in it. But
they were like, it was like seventy eight dollars for
popcorn shrimp. Like the bill was I think it was
five hundred and eighty dollars for two people to eat.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Why would you do that, Jason?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Well, he didn't know.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
He didn't know, but not only as soon as I
walked in. I knew enough about you to you know, like,
this is not what you wanted. We should have went
to Chili. Yeah, honestly for five I could we could
have gone to Chili. We could have eaten it, and
I could have given you five hundred dollars. So it
was just it was lost on and I'm just sitting
there going, this is oak, this is mid food, And
(12:41):
it really was for the Instagram photos, That's what it was.
Everything was a presentation. Everything was way over the top.
But and I know you didn't know that. But I'm
just going I've never spent so much money on one
human being for a dinner.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
I don't think ever run it out right, I don't
think money having a place though.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I never took any one of us to dinner by
ourselves ever. No, no, for you guys, that's so surf,
no tradition.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Before long, we're going to be at some place where
the man flew from Japan with the fish in his
bag to This is a guy who likes he's the
only man in the world that knows how to cut
fish this way. It's in the basement of some guy's
house in wicker Park somewhere with the.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Fish he brought with him.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Hey, sureley, Hi, surely would you jump somebody who was
not an adventurous eater and not even adventurous, who just
wouldn't get off the kids menu?
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (13:40):
You know, we have this thing with my grandkids called
the green bean theory where if you you know, if
you try it, you know, you may find that you
like it. But I don't know how long these this
couple is burn together, or even how old they are,
but it sounds like a struggle that I would have
with my grandkids, and so I was thinking long term,
(14:01):
what is this girl isn't going to be getting any
fine dining from him. He's probably not going to take
her out anywhere.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, there's there.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah, you're gonna have to as it grown up, you
have to venture a little further away from the than
the kid's menu, then the chicken fingers and.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Stuff like that. You got to be able to You
got to be a little more flexible than that.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
And if you're looking for just to hook up with somebody,
all good. But if you're looking for a long term relationship,
then you start getting into health issues because they're not
having very much nutritional.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Well, Shirley, that's right, Shirley. Thank you. Have a good
day with the un Are you glad you called him? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Well, I mean you go to a seafood restaurant, they
may be probably not going to have a hamburger or
chicken fingers. You know, you're gonna want to go in
the same places all the time. It would be annoying. Yeah. Hey, Paul, Yeah, Paul,
this is your what you married a woman like this?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Good morning.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
Hey, we had something. Wife is kind of that way,
not as bad, but we were in pain it. We
went to Paris for spring break that this last here
and I've been there before. It was her first time.
And we're eating that. We picked this little juice cafe
restaurant and we are there, you know, and I ordered
the special with some kind of beef I can't pronounce it,
(15:12):
you know, potatoes. The wife ordered a cheeseburger and frize.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
So at the end, the server comes up and she's
like you. We start talking. He's like, where you're from,
old Chicago and that, and she goes, you come all
the way from America and you ordered cheeseburger and prize
and you have a coke too.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, yeah, sounds about right.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
It was funny.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
She would sweet about it, but just it was just funny.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
The way you're supposed to get the snails.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Everybody knows that, pols Cargo, I don't know. I don't
know what you would tell her it is. It's chicken
finger stuff.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
We had the chroissan.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Okay, there you go, thank you, Paul. Have a good day,
all right, you two have a nice one.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah, you gotta ain't gonna work. But I'll tell you who.
I wonder if they're eating it at the five Star
joints or at Chili's. These guys that broke out of jail,
most of them are still on the loose. I go
right to Chili's once I left jail, right, you go
right there. Good to know where we'd find you. It'd
be you at a jumpsuit with one of those mazzarella sticks,
(16:23):
Buffalo Mozzarelli sticks wrapped around you.
I got you morony Monday on a Tuesday. Okay, so
here it is and I actually have a real life
update on what happened to him, which is amazing.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
But this is what it says.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
My boyfriend has a ton of food restrictions and is
picky in general. He basically will only eat chicken fingers,
grilled cheese, mac and cheese, and pad time. I've never
seen him eat a vegetable. We just started dating a
few months ago, and I love him, but I eat
everything and I'm very laid back. I know we're going
to have to plan our entire day while on vacation
(00:31):
around finding food that he can eat, on top of
listening to him complain that things aren't the same. Even
if a restaurant does have chicken nuggets or mac and cheese,
it won't be the same as what we get at home,
and I don't want to hear about it. Am I
the a hole for not letting my boyfriend come on
vacation with me because he is a picky eater.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Oh, he can't even come.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
So she doesn't want to go on vacation with this
guy because she has to treat him basically a child
and he'll only eat you know so and foods and
you won't like it eight five, five, five nine one
one three five. I mean, I guess I would ask
the question then, if you don't want to go on
vacation with this dude, why even with him?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Exactly?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah, that is really hate to be dumped though over
chicken tenders, little putty.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, but is it though?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I mean, you know, you travel the world and you're
in Florence or something, you're in Italy, or you're in
wherever you went, and you're walking around and you can't
eat it at the cafe because they don't have turkey sandwiches,
or they don't have mayo on them, and don't have
this and that and the other thing. I mean, that's
not always easy to do when you're on the go
and so and sometimes maybe you want to go to
the local spot with the local in and whatever. And
(01:37):
if you're constantly worried about finding this guy, you know,
American quote unquote food or generic plain food at places
where they may not have it, then you're probably not
going to a lot of the places you would want
to go. Local spots may not have it, fancy places
may not have it.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I know, you had a friend like this.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, my sister's friend. Truly, it's an issue.
We'll only eat chicken tenders and we do go on
vacation with her and it, you know, we don't you know,
shift our plans for her, but it can be annoying.
I personally also eat weird, like I don't eat beef,
I don't eat this or that. But I think it's
like the individual person's thing. Like I don't think you
(02:14):
can make it anybody else's problem. Ever, no one should
be affected by the weird ways that you eat.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So figure it out, is what I have to say.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Or I get it, but it would suck, like if
you if you go someplace, they don't have anything you want,
and to your point, you're like, figure it out, so
you just don't eat anything or you I don't know.
I feel like people who have preferences. And I don't
mean dietary restrictions. If you have a dietary restriction, that's
one thing, like if you if you'd like a health
related thing, but I mean if you if you just
I don't know, you can. I find that people who
(02:43):
eat like that sometimes will make it awkward too for you. Yes,
you know, what I mean, like, oh, I guess I
just won't eat. You just won't eat, okay, Well, meaning
you knew, you knew where we were going, you knew
what was going on.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Right, get up, map the resort, figure out a place
that you can grab food from and bring with you.
Figure out if you will eat the sides rice whatever,
I mean, figure it out.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Someone say, how do we get from chicken tenders to
pad tie? Well, pat tie is basically just spaghetti. I
mean not really, but you know what I mean. It's
it's like it's like fetaccini. It's a noodle. So maybe
he likes the little sauce on it or something, but
I mean, he doesn't need vegetables. We have to take
the vegetable off so we can't have that.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Mikes.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, I don't know. I just I don't think I
could be with this person. I would have to dump them.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I'd have to leave. I'd leave them at home.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
And by the way, the update is I am breaking
up with him after seeing a glimpse into my future
via your responses, I realized I can't do this and
it will eventually wreck us.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Thank you. This was some Reddit people commenting on it.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Listen, I get a girl. Food is everything to me.
I want to try everything.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
And except beef, and last have I ever made it
anyone else's problem?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
You know? Yeah, there was that one time when you
protested in front of the restaurant. You trusted a cow
costume because I ordered to stay. There was that one time,
and then then you pick it and then you put
one of those big rats out in front of the Yeah,
I was yeah. No, so yeah, there were those. Other
than those times, though, No, No, You've always made it
very very normal.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You can not even see it when I'm with people
and they go, like if someone's reading me, like the
beef special, Like we were at Gibson's and they brought
over the slab of meat right into my face and
everyone's like giggling, and it's fine. But like usually my
friends will be like, oh no, she doesn't eat that.
It's like, okay, chill, I can hear what kind of
beef they have. I'll be all right, I'm just not
gonna get it.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, it's like it doesn't eat, like it doesn't exist
because you won't need it.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Like I don't know, it sounds harsh, but it's annoying. Yeah,
it's a deal breaker.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
The other thing is that I don't want to pick
anybody in particular, but it's possible that we just traveled
recently with someone Kiki who like it has to only
eat at fancy restaurants, Like it's got to be a
Michelin mentioned, or it has to be.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
That's annoying too.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It has to be. And I love this person deeply,
but like, you know, I don't. I just I felt
like everything had to was researched and was like on
the you know, zagat Guy or whatever, I don't know,
whatever whatever list of you know, fancy restaurants or up
and coming and it has to be.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
And I get it.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
It's an experience, and that's what the person's going for, right,
But I also like sometimes it can be a little
too fancy for me. Yeah, Like it's a little like
it's it's like you can't just get a burger when
you want a burger, you have to get like a
burger with flog Wall's fire, you know, and it's got
you know, mixed with water from the Library of Congress
or something. I mean, I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
It's it's just like Congress.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Sometimes I love a tender.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Hey, not not contenders, but I just mean sometimes I
want I want what I want, and it doesn't have
to be so Like if you're with people who are
like consider themselves quote unquote foodies, yes, then the problem
is like, well what if I don't Sometimes I don't
want to be a foodie, Like sometimes I want a
club sandwich, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Like sometimes I just want I don't know, I don't,
we don't. It doesn't have to be we don't have
to go to the place that has only like I
don't you have to knock a special way, you know
what I mean? And then just I don't leave it satisfied.
And sometimes it's a place for that, right, Like maybe
if you go on a trip, maybe you go to
one of those kind of fancy places or like one
of those places that that's on the list, you know,
(05:59):
the place that you have to eat in line for
or whatever else, and then the other ones.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Maybe I want.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Chili's, Well, well, I mean, come on, if I'm on vacation,
maybe not.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I mean, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Here you have vacation, is on a vacation without an
airport Chili's, Well, oh that's different. Okay, Now, hold on
the airport is the airport is different territory.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Before you start coming for my homeland.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
The airport the airport not come on hold on a
second days. In all fairness, you are not going to
San Diego and looking for the nearest Chilis. You're gonna
go to San Diego and you might find something that's
similar to it. But aren't most people typically when they're
on a trip, aren't they looking for something that's unique
to that place, but maybe has the same sentiment, like
because you can go to Chili's anywhere.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
We have Chilis at home and then we don't.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
But you know what I mean, Like I love Chilis,
and I think it just depends on the purpose of
the trip, Like if I'm on vacation, I might try
and find a place that would only be where that
place is, you know, you know what I mean? Like
I don't know. Maybe they have their own version. Sure,
I mean, I have no idea what's in any city.
So they called the internet.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
You look it up. You can like google it, and
so they google still eat it Chili. I follow someone
who's just ate it.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
The Chili's on the Nile River in Egypt, and it
was like her and her boyfriend's like dream.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It looked really but that's kind of funny.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Actually did chili. Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. The only reason
I would go to Egypt. Right, They're like, we.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Finally made it to the chilis on the river and
literally checked in Egypt.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
It's amaz.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I don't know, no, I hear you, I hear you.
It's it's we got to be a little flexible. Sometimes
there's time for a burger and fry. Sometimes it's time
for smoke to come with my meal.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
I don't mind the smoke as long as I don't
have to pay, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Like, right, so you're okay going to the place that
like they serve you something that looks like a it
looks like a lemon, but it tastes like turkey or something,
you know what I mean. Or or the place where
like your dessert is on the table the whole time
you didn't know it and then they come over and
like smash the plants on the table and for seven
thousand dollars. You know, it's like you know these places,
(07:56):
these liquor it's like eighteen courses, but each course is
a little bite.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Oh Yeah, that's nuts songs.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I'm not paying because what I'm going to go back
to the hotel and order what I really wants.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
What I mean, when I'm going to get taco bells,
that is a night door dash to my hotel room door.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
It's fine, Yeah, this is appetizer.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I mean, like I've said this a million times, Like
sometimes I want Dominoes. Is there better pizza in town?
Of course there's better pizza in town. Sometimes I want Dominoes.
But if I'm on vacation, I probably won't sit in
my hotel room and order Dominoes. I might later after
I've had a few cocktails, but like, I'll probably try
and find a place that has pizza that you know,
is it is only in San Diego or wherever I'm going. Yeah, right,
(08:38):
I might try that as opposed to every city I
go to. I go to Chili's because well, the thing
about Chilies is it's supposed to taste the same everywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
That's the point.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So if I'm meeting Chili's everywhere I go, then why
do I even leave my neighborhood? You know, then you
could say, oh my gosh, like I went to the
San Diego Chilies and they had this type of margarita.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah right, well, I.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Bet you a million dollars. It's the same margarita that
you can get at the Arlington Heights Chilies. Hey Jackie, Hello,
Hi Jackie. So you dated a guy like this, a
guy who didn't want to eat anything but mac and
cheese and chicken fingers as a grown up? Yes?
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Yes, this was just like last year. And it was
like the most miserable time ever. We went on like
four dates. And I'm a foodie, like, I love food,
I love trying new places, new things, and I just
could not see this man in my future, like at all,
whatsoever the way he was eating.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, so what would he eat?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Like?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
What did it have to be?
Speaker 6 (09:30):
It was chicken fingers like every time, and he always
he wanted to go to the same restaurant every time
because he liked the chicken fingers best there. And I
was like, why don't we try somewhere new? And he
like did and he like picked out like a plane
Hamburger like the entire time, and I was like, what
are we dring? Like I'm the type of person that
like dances when I eat.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Hello, that's not going to work. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Yeah, so my boyfriend now and I we both love food.
We cooked together. We're actually going to pasta cooking class
to speak, and like, my life is just so much
more enjoyable.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, did you have chicken fingers there at the pasta place?
So I'm just wondering.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
No, no, no, no fingers on the menu.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Thank you, Jackie. You have a good day.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
You guys to love you love me.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I guess my issue is with these fancy, fancy, like
you know, contemporary places. It's just that they're expensive. And
then I don't walk out feeling full. So I'm to
your point, Like we go to the we go to
the fancy place everyone's talking about because so and so
like plan the whole trip around it.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Paid a lot of money, and I ate, you know,
little tiny bites of fifty tiny, little little inny bitty bites,
you know, and it took someone seven hours and tweezers
to make it right, you know. And then and then
I go back to the room and I'm and I
order it a twenty seven dollars hamburger from room service
because I'm hungry.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Still, that's like a date spot, or like a special
occasion spot for me, like you know, if you want
to be skinny, you.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Know, after experience more than like a right.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
No, like that place, that place that Jason I took Jason,
my gosh, Jason, I didn't know each other that well,
and it was your birthday. We I mean, we were friends,
but like not like not like not like you know,
on top of each other, like we are now inseparable.
But it was your birthday and you had a birthday party.
I missed it. So I was out of town. So
I said, Jason, I want to take you to dinner.
(11:18):
I'll take you anywhere you want to go. So how
did you pick the place.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
That you picked?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
It was a suggestion from one of my uh rather,
I guess rather bougie friends.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Now, So we go to this place and it turned
I'd never heard of it. I didn't care.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I made a reservation. You and I go clearly, we
walk in. It's it was a Miami restaurant, wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah, there's one in Miami and one in California.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I don't even know if they're still open. This one's well, this.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
One's gone, this one in the city.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
But it was like it was.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
It was one of these places where everything was wildly
expensive and everything was way over the top. Like if
you ordered, like I ordered a steak and they bring
the steak and a six foot tall fork.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Oh remember, Like he ordered.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Popcorn shrimp and they brought an entire popcorn machine. So
the machine and the popcorn shrimp was in it. But
they were like, it was like seventy eight dollars for
popcorn shrimp. Like the bill was I think it was
five hundred and eighty dollars for two people to eat.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Why would you do that, Jason?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Well, he didn't know.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
He didn't know, but not only as soon as I
walked in. I knew enough about you to you know, like,
this is not what you wanted. We should have went
to Chili. Yeah, honestly for five I could we could
have gone to Chili. We could have eaten it, and
I could have given you five hundred dollars. So it
was just it was lost on and I'm just sitting
there going, this is oak, this is mid food, And
(12:41):
it really was for the Instagram photos, That's what it was.
Everything was a presentation. Everything was way over the top.
But and I know you didn't know that. But I'm
just going I've never spent so much money on one
human being for a dinner.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
I don't think ever run it out right, I don't
think money having a place though.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I never took any one of us to dinner by
ourselves ever. No, no, for you guys, that's so surf,
no tradition.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Before long, we're going to be at some place where
the man flew from Japan with the fish in his
bag to This is a guy who likes he's the
only man in the world that knows how to cut
fish this way. It's in the basement of some guy's
house in wicker Park somewhere with the.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Fish he brought with him.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Hey, sureley, Hi, surely would you jump somebody who was
not an adventurous eater and not even adventurous, who just
wouldn't get off the kids menu?
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (13:40):
You know, we have this thing with my grandkids called
the green bean theory where if you you know, if
you try it, you know, you may find that you
like it. But I don't know how long these this
couple is burn together, or even how old they are,
but it sounds like a struggle that I would have
with my grandkids, and so I was thinking long term,
(14:01):
what is this girl isn't going to be getting any
fine dining from him. He's probably not going to take
her out anywhere.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, there's there.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah, you're gonna have to as it grown up, you
have to venture a little further away from the than
the kid's menu, then the chicken fingers and.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Stuff like that. You got to be able to You
got to be a little more flexible than that.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
And if you're looking for just to hook up with somebody,
all good. But if you're looking for a long term relationship,
then you start getting into health issues because they're not
having very much nutritional.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Well, Shirley, that's right, Shirley. Thank you. Have a good
day with the un Are you glad you called him? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Well, I mean you go to a seafood restaurant, they
may be probably not going to have a hamburger or
chicken fingers. You know, you're gonna want to go in
the same places all the time. It would be annoying. Yeah. Hey, Paul, Yeah, Paul,
this is your what you married a woman like this?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Good morning.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
Hey, we had something. Wife is kind of that way,
not as bad, but we were in pain it. We
went to Paris for spring break that this last here
and I've been there before. It was her first time.
And we're eating that. We picked this little juice cafe
restaurant and we are there, you know, and I ordered
the special with some kind of beef I can't pronounce it,
(15:12):
you know, potatoes. The wife ordered a cheeseburger and frize.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
So at the end, the server comes up and she's
like you. We start talking. He's like, where you're from,
old Chicago and that, and she goes, you come all
the way from America and you ordered cheeseburger and prize
and you have a coke too.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, yeah, sounds about right.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
It was funny.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
She would sweet about it, but just it was just funny.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
The way you're supposed to get the snails.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Everybody knows that, pols Cargo, I don't know. I don't
know what you would tell her it is. It's chicken
finger stuff.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
We had the chroissan.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Okay, there you go, thank you, Paul. Have a good day,
all right, you two have a nice one.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah, you gotta ain't gonna work. But I'll tell you who.
I wonder if they're eating it at the five Star
joints or at Chili's. These guys that broke out of jail,
most of them are still on the loose. I go
right to Chili's once I left jail, right, you go
right there. Good to know where we'd find you. It'd
be you at a jumpsuit with one of those mazzarella sticks,
(16:23):
Buffalo Mozzarelli sticks wrapped around you.
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