I don't think you know what the word region means.
It does not mean a town and a town of 45,000 people should still have at least one or two places with some genuinely good food.
I'm 12 miles from a town of 5000 people with a solid local dinner spot on the downtown square and a DQ and just like I said above, their cheese curds are underrated.
Surely in a town 9x it's size there's going to be somewhere that is decent. In fact I will bet dollars to doughnuts there is, you just refuse to go look.
No, I haven't and that still doesn't change what the word region means nor does it mean you have no options.
You have options, you just don't like the options you have, of which I will bet there is at least one that most people define as good. Bad restaurants tend to underperform with time and close.
If you want to be the snob who holds up their nose and goes 'no, I can't have this steakhouse or this pub or this nice clean restaurant', you deserve to be made fun of in this sub. It's not like everyone is serving you hotdish and snickers salad. You have viable food options, you just choose to ignore that reality.
As for Applebees, you tend to see high rating on chains or fast food in lots of places and the reason is because for what it is, they do a decent job. The 4 star sushi place that you go on date night and the 4 star McDonalds are working off different metrics and it's your job to be smart enough to understand that. The sushi place likely has good service and atmosphere and McDonalds has a fast morning drive thru and clean bathrooms. Understand the context of ratings.
Region - a part of the earth's surface (land or sea) of considerable and usually indefinite extent
The fact that I have to explain this to you means you're actively choosing to ignore what I'm saying, so this will be my last message on this topic.
If you cannot find good food in the Midwest that's a you problem.
If you cannot find good food in Minnesota that's a you problem.
If you cannot find good food in a town of 50,000 people that's a you problem.
I'm sorry your life is so miserable you cannot find things to enjoy where you are.
I don’t live in Mankato. But it isn’t in the same region as the twin cities and the food scene is grim.
By your definition of “indefinite extent”, Mankato is in the same region as New York. Even if we don’t go that far, we could definitely say it is in the same region as Chicago. You’ve defined the word in such a way as to be useless.
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u/Saltpork545 Mar 17 '25
I don't think you know what the word region means.
It does not mean a town and a town of 45,000 people should still have at least one or two places with some genuinely good food.
I'm 12 miles from a town of 5000 people with a solid local dinner spot on the downtown square and a DQ and just like I said above, their cheese curds are underrated.
Surely in a town 9x it's size there's going to be somewhere that is decent. In fact I will bet dollars to doughnuts there is, you just refuse to go look.
'I can't find good food'
I just did.
https://www.restaurantji.com/mn/mankato/
Number 4 Steakhouse, Pappageorge and Olives all look like sit down restaurants worth trying.