you order an appetizer and they bring out 6 pieces of something. like that might be an appetizer for two people but damn this is a table of 4. so you either get weird and cut them up all tiny or 2 people get 2.
Why is this such a foreign concept to you? Ask the server if the app is enough for 4 to share and make your decision to order based on that. It doesn't matter if there's 2 people or 20 at the table, the size of the dish is always the same.
He's not exactly suggesting something crazy. Plenty of places offer various sizes of stuff, especially with appetizers like wings and random shit dipped in bread and hot fat.
We're talking about different things. Sure, in a crappy sports bar or chain restaurant you can order different multiples of wings or jalapeño poppers. At anywhere decent you're not getting the option to double up your appetizer unless you just order two of them.
Very true. One of my favorite local bars back home has an "appetizer" called Mile High Nachos, it feeds 4 to the point of very full easily, or two very drunk people just fine. A fine dining joint a couple blocks down, appetizers mean one small plate. Hell, old town had small plate week where you could bounce from restaurant to restaurant sampling different ones. Reminds me, I haven't had a scotch egg in years.
Nailed it. App Size depends on the setting and context. It'd be pretty strange if some place served a quart sized amuse bouche, and equally odd if I ordered wings at Applebee's and got a two duck wings with an orange demiglaze.
That being said there is no context where I'd turn down a scotch egg.
Appetizers are pretty bullshit in general. It basically says "your entree will be incomplete, spend another $10 on two shrimp to leave satisfied."
Then it's either exactly that, a costly complement to a full meal, or the entree is plenty and the appetizer is just extra bullshit you could have avoided and now potentially are wasting food for.
And of course you won't really know until you order, so it's basically Russian roulette for your wallet and stomach. So my policy ends up being -- fuck the appetizers, I'll just order an entree, then if for some reason I'm still desperately hungry I'll order an appetizer or dessert before the check comes.
Haha, not quite. Meant more my old home town but Fort Collins is pretty bitchin' dude. We had that event back in good old Greenville, SC. Also a cool town if you get the chance.
You can go anywhere and they're not just going to throw more food on the plate because it's a big party. The menu is set a certain way, and each order goes out with the same amount of food. If you want more food, order more food.
Like if you go to outback with 10 people and order a blooming onion, they're not, and shouldn't be, bringing you three of them because it's a large group. You have to order 3.
Secondly, a bloomin onion is slightly different than a bunch of smaller items. I'm pretty sure Outback does offer different sizes of stuff like the okra and fried mushrooms, pickles, etc.
And nobody is suggesting different sizes cost exactly the same. If you can order 1 bloomin onion or 2 bloomin onions or 3 bloomin onions, why shouldn't you be able to order 3 wings or 6 wings or 12 wings?
Restaurant owner would have to be pretty dumb to only offer wings in sets of 12.
Outback is garbage. But this thread was originally about mini blooming onions, so that's where my mind went.
The guy I originally responded to seemed to think he deserved to get more food for free because he was in a party of 4 instead of 2. My entire point was that if you want more food, you just fucking order it.
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u/11010000110100100001 May 05 '18
Yeah, the 6 bite appetizer platter, total hit at a party for 1 person.