rant · moment 19 of 27
WASPs vs. Ethnics Complaining About Restaurant Food
from #216 - A Good Deal | The Tim Dillon Show · #216
4 min
A dinner in North Salem with bad food leads to a riff on how WASPs never complain to servers while ethnic diners (Jews, Italians, Greeks) will, and how that determines food quality by neighborhood.
- Tim dined in North Salem where the food was so bad, but complaining about it with friends was genuinely fun.
- WASPs don't complain about food, but Jews do—and ethnics complain too, which is why good food exists where those groups live.
- WASPs avoid eye contact with servers and refuse to discuss anything with the help, so bad food doesn't bother them as long as the restaurant looks like a colonial inn.
- Tim was at the restaurant with Italians, Greeks, Jews, and other ethnics—loud people who actually care when the meal is bad.
- His uncle works for a legendary Manhattan restaurant group that runs famous steakhouses including Maloney and Porcelli and Park Avenue.
- They opened a new place called Quality French, which Tim visited with Chris and Giannis from History Hyenas, and the experience was atrocious.
- The restaurant brought out an enormous hunk of herbed butter—so large and grotesque it made everyone's stomachs churn.
- After the food came out and everything was bad, Tim told the manager the experience was an act of war and he didn't know when he'd process what happened.
- The chocolate mousse was smeared on slate to look modern instead of served traditionally, making it look exactly like dog feces on a concrete sidewalk.
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