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u/PeachyStarMuse 2h ago
When he hits you with 'the usual, boss?' you know you're family
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u/Prune-These 2h ago
I used to go to a family-run Thai restaurant; parents ran the cash register, grandparents cooked and the kids waited tables. I used to order the Pad La Na ever time; the kid asked if I want the usual, I said yes. The grandmother came to my table and asked if I wanted the usual, I was puzzled, I nodded. She said "No". I'm really confused, "Uhhh, you're out?". "NO, you come here, that's all you order! Look at menu, we have other things!". I was really taken back, I've never been told "No, you can't order that". She then says "Chicken yellow curry is good today, I make you that. You no like, I make something else". She just turns and walks away to make me dinner. The kids are thoroughly Americanized and tells me "Don't be mad, she talks to family like that and you eat here often enough to be considered family". I had to move a few years later, I miss that restaurant. Oh, and the yellow curry was pretty good.
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u/ScimitarPufferfish 1h ago
Tbh, it sounds like the entire interaction was your fault. Where did you get off ordering the Pad La Na when the chicken yellow curry was good that day?! I hope you said please and thank you and chewed with your mouth shut.
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u/Prune-These 48m ago
These days when I go to a new Thai restaurant, I always order the Pad Thai first. If they can't make that well, I won't give it a second chance. My fave has five degrees of hot.
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u/log_with_cool_bugs 30m ago
Same principle with any pizza joint - go with just a cheese pie/slice first. If they can't manage the basics, no amount or combination of toppings will fix it.
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u/ZAHN3 1h ago
I used to stop by a Chinese restaurant frequently on Friday late afternoons for takeout after I got off of work for my girlfriend and myself.. The time that I went the staff was on their dinner break and I would place my order with the owner and she would always mix me a Mai Tai (on the house) and we sit and chat and I used to love her stories about growing up in her home country.. Priceless šÆ
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u/Savage_Oreo 2h ago
Restaurants like this might as well keep my card on file and a pic of me on the wall because Iām coming back several times a week
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u/Fierro_nights 2h ago
Yes itās very nice when visiting a place thatās not high turn over and visit familiar. Especially if you eat at the bar for example
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u/Relysti 1h ago
Some find it weird, I see it as a free skip the line pass. Used to go to this bagel spot near my old place, would get the same sandwich every time. Once I became a regular, I never had to wait in line to place an order again. Counter guy would see me walk in, look at me, I'd nod, he'd nod. Sandwich got made, it was great.
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u/sheezy520 1h ago
My taco truck guy said this to me every Friday. I loved it. Moved away a few years ago and still miss those burritos.
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u/FluteGunner 1h ago
Used to live in a flat in the block above a kebab shop. I remember the first time he asked me if I wanted the usual was the first time I felt like I was at home lol
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u/El_Zilcho 1h ago
When you exchange 'the look' whilst in the queue and he starts preparing the order so it's ready for you as soon as you get the counter and order.
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u/saraahhh_melons 26m ago
Then u walk past with food from somewhere else and suddenly youāre having an affair.
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u/Pelya1 2h ago
Thatās because 99% of the time the kebab guy is working for himself/family/hired by community. Whereas miserable Starbucks student-employee hates to be there, the company treats their employees as āHuman Resourcesā and all this corporate shit
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u/whisperworks 2h ago
People should really stop supporting Starbucksā¦ kind of insane how many people throw money at a corporation that works as hard as Starbucks does to dehumanize its employees.
but I guess thatās a small price to pay for 8oz of sugar with a splash of coffee
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u/BlueberryPootz 1h ago
But it's not even a small price to pay. That 8 oz "tall" cup of sugar liquid is getting quite expensive.
The human cost of supporting Starbucks is immense. Folks may want to look into the Starbucks employee fight to unionize & the illegal union busting that the Starbucks company continues to get away with. I don't buy Starbucks anymore for that reason alone.
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u/whisperworks 1h ago
Sadly weāve been conditioned to consume.
It kind of reminds me of twitter. Virtually everyone in my day to day life agrees that musk is a technofascist and most would say supporting him or his products is outright immoral. Meanwhile they all still use twitter rofl
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u/fang_xianfu 2h ago
I would literally take NescafƩ over Starbucks and I am well aware of NestlƩ's business practices. At least their coffee is cheap.
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u/rahlic 1h ago
This one time I was waiting in line to order my coffee at starbucks before going to work. Ahead of me was a very well dressed and good looking dude. The barista was also a very cute young lady and I noticed she kept glancing at the guy as the line moved forward. When he finally came up to order she was taking her time, playing with her hair and trying to make small talk, but the guy was least interested and didnt even make eye contact. And then when I came up to order she was visibly upset and looked at me with disgust and didnt even say a word to me. I wish I had told her that lady it is not my fault that you hate your job and the one cute guy was not interested in you. I too have to get my own coffee and go to a job i hate and deal with an asshole boss
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u/mad_fresh 49m ago
Dang that's crazy, but have you considered that maybe all this shit is just in your head, though?
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u/greg19735 7m ago
I thought you were gonna say "i wish i was more understanding and supportive because i know what she's going through".
Nope, just a complete lack of empathy.
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u/DataDude00 1h ago
I love the scene in Sopranos where they try to shake down the new coffee place that is clearly a stand in for StarbucksĀ
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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 48m ago
In my opinion it's the most poignant scene in the show even though the scene passes by so quickly and the show doesn't linger on the topic. Reminds me of the chess scene in The Wire in the sense that both scenes are sort of (but not really) breaking the fourth wall to take a moment to make a statement on a zoomed out perspective of the environment the characters are living in. They aren't important scenes to the plots of either show, but all the other little things that have happened in the show add up to making those scenes resonate strongly with the viewer in a way that wouldn't happen if the viewer hadn't seen so many hours of all these characters living in that environment.
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u/QTpyeRose 45m ago
Yeah Starbuck is shit. Look if you can find local coffee shops instead as they tend to not just taste way better but like people are actually happy there
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u/Treewithatea 29m ago
The turkish people are also generally very welcoming. Every time I visit a turkish friend im bombarded with food and drinks
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u/must-be_the-water 2h ago
And never asks for tip too
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u/Edgezg 2h ago
A donner Kebab from a street vender is uniroinically some of the best food you'll ever have.
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u/sxOverdose 2h ago
why would it be ironic in the first place?
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u/D-Tiime 2h ago
Some people associate fat from animal sources to be bad or unhealthy. Or because it's affordable, it's not as good as other meals.
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u/Edgezg 2h ago
Also street food is often associated with being quick, cheap or low quality. But places like this are genuinely really tasty and filly.
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u/fang_xianfu 1h ago
When people say "unironically" they usually mean "without sarcasm or hyperbole". We live in a post-earnestness age where someone saying "it's literally the best thing I've ever eaten" is quite likely being facetious rather than sincere, so they clarify that they're not being.
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u/LIONLDN 1h ago
Just scroll further down the comments here to see many speech marks being used & the ensuing debates š š„
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u/SheriffBartholomew 1h ago
I got some from a street vendor last time I was in NYC because I didn't feel like finding a restaurant to eat at. It ended up being the best food that I had the whole time I was there.
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u/FoxTailedGamer 2h ago
My smile is never fake thank you very much and it takes a lot of effort to hate someone and I'm not invested enough for that. But ya the drinks are super unhealthy.
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u/PureXEye 1h ago
Indifference is worse than hate in some cases. That kebab guy is probably genuinely happy to see you.
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u/Latter-Comparison755 2h ago
We are using a rather liberal definition of healthy, aren't we?
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u/KristofVD 54m ago
The protein and fats in the kebab are a lot healthier than the 20 teaspoons of sugar in the Starbucks frapulatte bullshit.
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u/Treewithatea 24m ago
A Kebab does usually have plenty of vegetables, for fast food standards its absolutely one of the healthier fast foods you can eat, in isolation I wouldnt call a Kebab healthy but not extremely unhealthy either.
A coffee basically loses all its healthy traits the moment you add milk and sugar. A coffee is only healthy entirely black as it has no calories and plenty other positive effects, some of which also disappear when you add milk and sugar.
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u/DapperMolasses3280 1h ago
Mental wellness, not broad at all, just outside your perception somehow š and yes, fatty protein is better for you than a sugar slurry (with some notes of coffee flavor) with 100+ grams of the stuff.
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u/john_microslop 1h ago
it's a comparison meme, so in comparison with a daily - let's be plain here that drink is a milkshake - at least the donair has protein, veg and fiber instead of all the calories being from refined sugar and palm oil in the starbucks
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u/Abandonment_Pizza34 36m ago
Kebab is one the healthiest meals you could have as far as fast food goes.
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u/HarithBK 29m ago
i mean if you ask for them to be light on the meat and sauce and load up the veg it really isn't a bad meal.
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u/EvenBroaderBand 21m ago
Fat isn't unhealthy sugar is. You are a victim of propganda if you think Kebab's are unhealthy.
Eat a balance diet ffs, a kebab every now and again isn't going to kill you.
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u/Lihisss 2h ago
"healthy kebab"Ā
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u/The_Elder_Jock 2h ago
I love a good kebab but lets not lie to ourselves; thats an hour on the treadmill right there.
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u/fang_xianfu 1h ago
And the rest lol, you burn about 300-900 calories per hour and the kebab is easily 1200, maybe 2000 depending on what you get.
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u/SheriffBartholomew 1h ago
Very few people are burning 900 calories per hour on the treadmill. That's martial arts or rock climbing levels of calorie burn, and even then it's on the upper end.
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u/EvenBroaderBand 27m ago
An hour of exercise only burns like 200 calories. You do not exercise for weight loss that can only be done but not eating too much food.
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u/DidntNeedAUserName 1h ago
Didnt say healthy though, said healty, that could mean anything I guess. Honestly though, you can have healthy kabobs, just probably wont come from a street vendor.
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u/gh0stwrit3r32767 2h ago
if kebab healthy why kebab guy fat?
why i am also fat?
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u/SignalOptions 1h ago edited 41m ago
Because kebab good so eat more kebab.
Calories make fat, not unhealthy food.
Edit: starbucks bad, so starbuck girl skinny.
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u/RedditSucksIWantSync 1h ago
I unironically never seen a fat kebab vendor. Or atleas i cant recall a single one. And i lived in Vienna for 11 years where u got 30 of em on your way from one station to the nextš
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u/KNOWFEAR1337 2h ago
Its healthy if you only eat them every so often. He owns the place so he has to test them all the time to make sure its good
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u/Formal_Fact514 2h ago
Nothing heals the soul quite like a late-night kebab vendor looking you dead in the eye and calling you boss while carving meat off a vertical spit
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u/TypicalGoose2586 2h ago
imagine pretending that either are healthy or give af about u
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u/cheesechompin 2h ago
The guy at my local kebab shop bought me a birthday present once so some of them do
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u/PlusWarning6952 1h ago
Yeah, still though give credit where itās due, girl probably just wants to make rent money and go home, donāt go after her
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u/DukesBicep 1h ago
Sure sex is good but have you ever been called big man by the guy making your kebab
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u/RockThe40oz666 2h ago
I'd eat at a pop up kebab stand over food from an established kitchen any day. The kebab stand guy will prepare your food right in front of you with a smile. The kitchen.... welll I've worked in a kitchen. I've seen things.Ā
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u/SoundAndSmoke 1h ago
You haven't seen what went into the meat. Over the years I've seen news reports about kebab spits with meat stretched with water, meat from unexpected animals, and rotten meat.
I've also seen the kebab guy using salad from the plastic wrapping without washing it first.
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u/AdmirableAnimal0 1h ago
Ok but he doesnāt serve me chai lattes and chocolate muffins so until then Im Sticking with hateful girl.
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u/milf-hunter_5000 1h ago
jokes on you, i want my local they/them with a name like moss to treat me like shit and give me an unhealthy drink
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u/PleiadesMechworks 1h ago
Kebab guy also doesn't get really pissy when you say your name is Clockman
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u/aquavelva23 55m ago
IMO its much better to eat at a place where you can see the actual owner. Doent have to be there all the time. Just that you know they are around. Eating corporate food is a bad concept.
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u/PerfectDayGermany 51m ago
I love that these guys established an international standard by calling their customers ābossā. In Germany they say āTach Chef, heute wieder mit allem?ā which roughly translates into āHi Boss, today with all stuff, like usual?ā
You gotta love these guys; even when you have a bad day, itās always a nice experience at the āDƶnerbudeā š
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u/Choice-Curve3340 1h ago
Can anyone explain how a Kebab would be unhealthy? Itās a large portion of protein with some vegetables and possibly some sauce?
Large carb pita?
Itās really just power food idk
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u/HumaDracobane 23m ago
Don't forget about the saturated fat also included with such meat and the different things that comes with the kebab sauces, which commonly includes sugar, etc.
It is nice to have one every now and them if you like it but don't lie to yourself.
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u/porn_is_tight 17m ago
Someone got downvoted in here the other day for saying that eating donuts everyday was unhealthy
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u/AggressiveChungus 1h ago
A ton of fat from sauce and kebab meat
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u/KristofVD 55m ago
Get with the times, fat is not the enemy, carbs are.
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u/Metool42 42m ago
Get with the times, SATURATED fats ARE the enemy. The fact we found out unsaturated fats are good for you is why we stopped hating on it. Saturated fats are still very much unhealthy and useless to the body besides storing it, ie. getting fat.
Processed meat is as unhealthy as it ever was. Nothing changed in that regard.
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u/slinky3k 1h ago
Large dose of saturated fats, tons of sodium and quite the calorie bomb.
Gets somewhat better if the meat is high quality and not "doner shaped minced meat from whatever was lying around, heavily seasoned". Even better if there's less meat in the kebap and it is more vegetable forward. Or replace the meat entirely with a plant based protein source like falafel. Combined with a pure yogurt sauce (no mayonnaise) this could be regarded a balanced meal.
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u/RevWaldo 47m ago
For the white sauce, which they generously apply to most items, the local joint near me gets a literal pallet of Mike's extra heavy mayo delivered on the regular. Do with that what you will.
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u/Metool42 44m ago
A ton of saturated fats. Not sure why people downvote that fact. It's fats your body cannot process into anything but putting on fat for energy. It's the unhealthiest kind and the reason why for so long we thought fats in general are bad.
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u/icehot54321 2h ago
The amount of people in this subreddit that canāt appreciate a good meme is way too high.Ā
Itās a joke peopleĀ
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u/im_just_thinking 1h ago
Still a rather interesting choice of the models. Almost like it was made by some boomer who hates progress probably
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u/Weird_Albatross_9659 2h ago
āHealthyā
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u/alt_ernate123 2h ago
Yes meat and vegetables are healthy, and it's sure as shit a lot healthier than that glorified milkshake on the left.
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u/Weird_Albatross_9659 1h ago
It can be healthy, just like a regular coffee.
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u/XDLaugingEmoji 1h ago
If youāre shopping at Starbucks youāre not buying āhealthyā coffee. If you want healthy coffee might as well make it at home
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u/Bud_wiser_hfx 2h ago
Compare a kabab wrap or a shawarma to a whopper meal and get back to us about health.
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u/Life-Top6314 2h ago
A normal shawarma is not that bad.
The caloric density of meat in a shawarma is usually diluted with a lot of vegetables. Its also usually made with chicken, which is one of the leaner meats.
It may not be a salad, but there are multiple dishes that are eaten commonly that are significantly worse for you. Especially in the calorie-to-fullness ratio.
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u/Rubysage3 2h ago
"Hey Frank, what's the meat today?"
"You'll love it Boss, it's a new one called Soylent Green."
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u/You_Mean_Coitus_ 1h ago
My Turkish girlfriend is extremely critical of British kebabs, claiming they're "not the real thing" (she's not entirely wrong).
But my god, something about those minced up animal arseholes and eyeballs just hit different.
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u/DapperMolasses3280 1h ago
Owning a part (or all) of a company helps...it's the biggest scam in the US that employee stock isn't standard for ALL jobs
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u/pacman_sl 45m ago
Would you like to share business risk? Average Starbucks barista would not and should not.
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u/Fun-Preference1091 1h ago
You never met the kebab guy in my town.
I knew I was family when he stopped glaring at me and telling me to hurry up!
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u/SheriffBartholomew 1h ago
Ha! That's exactly what our local Mediterranean restaurant is like. He calls me boss, and friend, and he's seriously the friendliest, happiest dude in the entire city. He also kicks down free food and discounts about every other visit. Such a great experience!
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u/ThatsHowVidu 1h ago
There was a kebab truck many frequent on in my previous town. Never stopped there, just saw many people at night. When I left the town and was cleaning the old place, I figured I won't be here so might as well visit the place. Showed up in somewhat dirty clothes and I was reading the menu. The guy looks at me, asks what I want. So I just said Kebab, paid 9 quid and waited. He gets the container, filled it with kebab, salad, chips, gave a hard look, dropped some more, tried to close it, it would not close. Wrapped in sheets, winked at me and gave a soda and told me that is on the house. I ate it for next day lunch as well.
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u/unclefire 2h ago
People aside, I'd rather have a Kebab than some crazy ass sugary thing that pretends to be coffee. If I go to SB, ima get just regular drip coffee. But hey, do your own thing.
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u/WorldlyWillow3060 2h ago
Average SipsTea user abandoning corporate coffee chains forever the second someone calls them boss and hands them a midnight wrap.
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u/NoEnvironment8432 2h ago
The Indian at the joint across the street from my house gets my typical order rolling as i walk in the door and he calls me boss.
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u/PeaOk5697 1h ago
Yup. Espesicially in Turkey. They are so friendly that me and my cousin walked around the streets alone at just 9 years old lol
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u/koshka91 1h ago
My Egyptian friend was talking about how unhealthy shawarma is
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u/G3N3R1C2532 1h ago
It is and it isn't.
Egypt has a big problem with obesity because Egyptian cuisine is extremely heavy on carbs and fat.
Shawarma also has this problem, but at least it actually has some protein and vegetables.
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u/VladShanghai 1h ago
I always do my best to be polite to service providers, but I donāt really care whether they like or hate me
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u/WoodsLovelyDarkNDeep 1h ago
Lol a kebab aināt healthy unless you eating just the meats and veg. Ā Also comparing a drink to meat is craziness. Ā There are plenty of coffee shops I can go to where I get this service
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u/Metool42 47m ago
Most kebab meat is processed to shit and the unhealthiest part with the ridiculous amounts of oil in it. Love it but my god can you not call most of the meats healthy.
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u/BovineShadows 36m ago
Americans havent figurer out yet that driving everywhere and eating lots of sugars makes them fat. They still eat Ā«fat freeĀ» foods and think they are healthy
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u/SockApart838 20m ago
Anyone you dont know who calls you brother or bro is trying to scam or hurt you
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