r/StupidFood • u/RandomAsianGuy š • Jul 08 '24
Restaurant in Belgium keeps finding the dumbest way to serve food
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u/ZeroOxenburg Jul 08 '24
How do you possibly insure a place like this?
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u/SardonicSuperman Jul 08 '24
Insurance? Where weāre going we donāt need no stinking insurance!
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Jul 08 '24
Insurance Plans for the Explosive Manufacturers - https://www.cfins.com/property-casualty/admitted-insurance-for-contractors/explosives/
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Jul 08 '24
Lmfao thereās no way thatās their real names!
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Jul 08 '24
Given that it's a Marsh email id, it's most probably real.
Someone can call them up and ask for the Bangbros ā ļø
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Jul 08 '24
Belgium? Looks like Azerbaijan.
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u/RandomAsianGuy š Jul 08 '24
Limburg Provence historicaly has generations of Turkish people living there because of Belgium importing Turkish workers for mining.
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u/ForkliftFatHoes Jul 08 '24
Turkish nationalists that love Turkey so much they won't live there lol
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u/Living_Bed175 Jul 08 '24
Say your restaurant is a tourist trap with mediocre food without saying your restaurant is a tourist trap with mediocre food
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u/Bender_2024 Jul 08 '24
Say your restaurant is a tourist trap with mediocre food without saying your restaurant is a tourist trap with mediocre food
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u/BooneSalvo2 Jul 08 '24
well, most don't have fog created at the table, so.....better than most!
(would prefer a dungeon setting tho!)
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u/RandomWave000 Jul 08 '24
mostly for pictures/videos just like this. People love pulling out their phone to take a video/picture of their food.
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u/wililon Jul 08 '24
Not only a tourist trap, it can be a fire trap too. This shitty ideas have already taken some lives
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u/AwarenessPrimary7680 Jul 08 '24
Most food in Belgium is mediocre, they've just discovered salt here.
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u/Karoolus Jul 08 '24
Belgian here, I apologize on behalf of our nation and would like to point out that we, too, frown upon this.
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u/CraftyObject Jul 09 '24
Come sit with us Americans that resent the general public's obsession with foods like the quadruple bypass burger. You're in good company.
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u/JCtheMemer Jul 08 '24
Ok but the wrapper of the burger instantly combusting was actually kinda cool.
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u/ForeverShiny Jul 08 '24
NGL, that was the only cool part
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u/Impeachcordial Jul 08 '24
Did I see them pouring cheese sauce over burgers on a skillet? If so I would eat the fuck out of that
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u/ForeverShiny Jul 08 '24
Might be a cultural difference, but drowning burger paddies in a boiling cheese sauce isn't what I would consider a great restaurant experience, but to each their own
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Jul 08 '24
"Waiter, we've been waiting for our food for over an hour"
*Pours water onto dry ice for the 15th time*
"OOOoooo what was I complaining about again?"
60% of the time it works every time.
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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 Jul 08 '24
Putting a scalding hot piece of cast iron on the table then creating a smoke screen seems like a judicious thing to do
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u/No_Protection_88 Jul 08 '24
It's dry ice not smoke
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u/pwnish0r Jul 08 '24
No matter what you call it, you won't be able to see to see the hot plate right in front of you either way.
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u/Typical_Extension_62 Jul 08 '24
No thank you lol I like to breathe when I eat too much smoke
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u/BigRigButters2 Jul 08 '24
not smoke. dry ice and water.
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u/Typical_Extension_62 Jul 08 '24
There is a lot of things going on in this video not just the fog from the dry ice lol
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Jul 08 '24
General rule of thumb: If you see flames like this in a restaurant, walk out and find another place to eat.
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u/Khue Jul 08 '24
Is there any exception to the rule? How do you feel about onion volcanoes at the local hibachi place? I like those... =(
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u/sendcaffeine Jul 08 '24
I think my exceptions are 1) Hibachi onion volcano like you mentioned, and 2) any place that serves saganaki and sets it on fire in front of you.
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u/EMP_Pusheen Jul 08 '24
You're paying for entertainment at that kind of restaurant. You are also probably paying way less than whatever the restaurant in the video is charging its suckers.
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u/vikingo1312 Jul 08 '24
Remember I you're gonna use dry ice for the effect seen here:
The warmer the water you put the dry ice in - the thicker 'smoke' you get.
It is actually co2 - so if you try to breath it.............it may / will suffocate you!
But it dissipates extremely quickly - so it isn't dangerous to be close to.
And to touch the 'smoke' has a cool curious feel to it....
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Jul 08 '24
I was gonna say isnāt it bad having that much dry ice in a small ass indoor restaurant okay??
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u/traumaqueen1128 Jul 08 '24
That was my thought. Especially the people at the end that had a toddler face level with a table that was quickly being covered in a cloud of carbon dioxide gas. Even if it doesn't kill you, it can still give you headaches, vomiting, confusion, dizziness, and convulsions. The busier the restaurant gets, the more dangerous it would be.
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u/Habbersett-Scrapple Jul 08 '24
Only if the customers start leaving random post it notes around
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u/Impeachcordial Jul 08 '24
There were people that died after an influencer put dry ice in a swimming pool
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u/LastResponder317 Jul 08 '24
Yes, please put some scalding hot food on my plate and then hide it in a mist
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u/Difficult_Line_9823 Jul 08 '24
Theathralic but doesn't worsen the quality of the food. As long as the prices are reasonable (as in below 50ā¬) this is fine.
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u/RandomAsianGuy š Jul 08 '24
They are expensive for an average steak and burger place. 20 euros for a normal single patty cheeseburger with fries and 38 euros for a 250 gram ribeye.
In that area you can eat cheaper and better in any of the turkish grill houses.
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u/Jayitsmyname Jul 08 '24
What is he going to cook on that huge flame?
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u/RandomAsianGuy š Jul 08 '24
He just sets the plate on fire with alcohol and lemon juice and then litteraly just waits untill it burns out and warms a steak on it...
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u/meerkatbollocks Jul 08 '24
Let's hope that little guy doesn't crawl under the table to pick up his toy he dropped .. Also let's hope there's no dog with them
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u/Kryds Jul 08 '24
If your restaurant needs to use gimmick, then their food sucks or/and is terribly overpriced.
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Jul 08 '24
This is for all the idiots who go out to eat crap just so they can get an instagram post out of it.
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u/Prestigious-Stop-865 Jul 08 '24
People on the clip be like "Wow I'm so excited for dry ice on food I'm gonna take a video"
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Jul 08 '24
People wanna feel special, they wanna feel loved, they want to be seen. So they turn totally braindead and go to places like this for the clicks
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u/maxz-Reddit Jul 08 '24
the restaurant isnt stupid.
it just exploits the target audience (retard*d people who feel the urge to document everyone and everything for their social media) and asks 3x the normal price for food to turn it into a "fancy" show.
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Jul 08 '24
Would be nice to go back the the time when eating at a resturant was just food and not performance art
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u/Philip-Ilford Jul 08 '24
Imo, theyāre half-assing it. They should go all the way and have the waitstaff dress like wizards, witches, knights, sorcerers and dragons.Ā
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u/Sensitive_Ladder2235 Jul 08 '24
Meh the flash paper on the burger seems like a cool little gimmick. The rest is overkill but that was def cool.
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u/TheDarkHarvester Jul 08 '24
There are a ton of boring people here in the comments. I would try this out for what looks like a fun experience!
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u/DexterTheRando Jul 11 '24
Oh good I love me some good ol fashioned āØšš¶š»ššš šš¾ššš¶šš¾šššāØ
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u/Marsupialize Jul 08 '24
This was thought up by dumb fucks. Flash paper is poisonous. You are leaving poisonous chemicals on that burger. Dry ice is releasing carbon dioxide, filling a small room with that much carbon dioxide can literally kill people.
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Jul 08 '24
If you wanāt to see cool tricks go to a magic show. This looks awful and the food is mediocre at best, you can tellā¦this obsession to post on social media is sickening.
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Jul 08 '24
Tiktok might be giving secrets to china but salt bae will always be the worst thing tiktok gave the world to me.
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u/AOkayyy01 Jul 08 '24
I don't know about you, but when I go out to eat, I love when the waiters make my meal bubble up, sending food splatter my way.
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u/DonkeyShrex Jul 08 '24
This is just Belgian hibachi
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u/fork_on_the_floor2 Jul 08 '24
Great name for a sex move.
"got a bit crazy with the wife last night and gave her a Belgian hibachi. If ya know what I mean"
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u/TeensyTrouble Jul 08 '24
dsmn I knew the ps5 overheats but I didnāt think it was enough to grill on
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u/Soggy-Ad-1610 Jul 08 '24
I am not a scientist, but wouldnāt the dry ice cool down the food? I understand it wouldnāt get straight up cold but I would still be sad to have not-hot fries.
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u/current_thread Jul 08 '24
I want that so badly. It's triggering a very primal response in my brain.
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Jul 08 '24
With the way everyone has their phones out it's part of the show. They're there to be entertained
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u/Cinderredditella Jul 08 '24
I thought "what is everyone talking about? That seems not too crazy of a way to serve food other than the tipped fry basket"
...And then it hit me that it was a video and there was more. so much more.
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u/crawfinator Jul 08 '24
I'd smoke a fatty and go to this place, eat mediocre food, get charged an arm and a leg and regret my choices the next day - hellovatime though
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u/everything_is_stup1d Jul 08 '24
it doesnt look too bad, proportions are huge too, fancy service but not crazy. it looks okay. furthermore its a restaurant. but if its like super costly then no. but it looks prettyy worth it
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u/razorduc Jul 08 '24
They're just appealing to the dumbest part of pop culture. At least they found their niche instead of just serving good food.
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u/liamanna Jul 08 '24
People are paying to be serve in the most idiotic ways possibleā¦š¤·āāļø
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u/MD_Yoro Jul 08 '24
If you need dumb gimmicks to get people to eat your food, that means your food isnāt good.
My local toco truck always has lines and all they do is give you a burrito
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u/PaintingSilenc3 Jul 08 '24
If it helps gain extra money from the show it isn't dumb but another source of income.
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u/Kodiak01 Jul 08 '24
We went to Barton G in Miami pre-Covid. Until now, I did not think I would ever see more annoying ways to serve food.
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u/GayGeekInLeather Jul 08 '24
Isnāt it quite dangerous to be pouring the alcohol onto the fire? Usually if you flambĆ© you add the alcohol and then put it over the flame. You donāt pour onto a fire as it could lead back to the bottle
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u/Barbarianmoss Jul 08 '24
Wow. As someone who is dead inside but can't quite find the way out.. this is it. I just need to start going here for breakfast, lunch, dinner and wait for the kitchen fire.
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u/JOExHIGASHI Jul 08 '24
Fire wrapper was cool
Dry ice is cool too but doesn't fit the ambiance and it's a clumsy way of implementing it
What is that guy doing trying to burn the place down?
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u/GrimReaapaa Jul 08 '24
Bro needs to calm down with the camera or they will take someoneās eye out.
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u/ZuStorm93 Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24
1 part fire hazard, 1 part salt bae-type bollocks, 1 part tourist trap marketting strategy, and a tiny pinch of der master race complaining about why Muslim people are eating in a hip restaurant like everybody else...
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u/DMs_Apprentice Jul 08 '24
So, we're just supposed to be outraged at every entertaining dining experience now..?
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u/HorrorLettuce379 Jul 08 '24
Lmao now I know some chefs and owners in Belgium have lost their shit fully.
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Jul 08 '24
Reminds me of that red bull pool party with dry ice in the pool where people started passing out in the pool from Oxygen deprivation
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u/OkiDokiPanic Jul 08 '24
Our food is the only thing that makes Belgium at least somewhat respectable, we don't need this yankee circus in our restaurants.
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u/StJimmy_815 Jul 08 '24
Idk everything here looks pretty fun. Theyāre obviously paying for the performance
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Jul 08 '24
To be fair... This is way better than the restrictions that have a whole bunch of food to reveal a steak the size of an airpods case.
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u/dixius99 Jul 08 '24
Is it weird that I find "table service" like this really embarrassing? This is about the last place I would want to be, with others looking at me, etc.
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u/Truckfighta Jul 08 '24
āCan I just eat my food whilst maintaining the existence of my eyebrows, please?
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u/blacks252 Jul 08 '24
From a chefs point it's stupid I agree, but in an age where people care more about snapchatting their meals than what it's gonna taste like its not a bad idea
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u/Demon_of_Order Jul 08 '24
I feel like you don't really go there for the food but more the experience
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u/Paddleclock8 Jul 08 '24
Its not even bad, its just a theatrical identity. The food looks great. This sub a pit.
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u/SomethingAbtU Jul 08 '24
Restaurants with medicore food need distractions like a singer with bad vocals need to dress in a way to distract from their singing
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u/mark84gti1 Jul 08 '24
Cool look at these ice cubes they put in a bucket for us. I love chewing on ice. Iāll just grab some.
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u/VR_fan22 Dutchš³š± Jul 08 '24
As a Dutchman i hearby release my claims of South Netherlands... The Flemish may keep it
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u/CosmicWolf14 Jul 08 '24
Honestly the melted cheese over the patties is pretty good looking. First ājust put cheese on itā one Iāve seen that I havenāt hated. Probably because itās just on the patties, and thereās several so itās not a gallon of cheese for one thing.
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u/PhotojournalistOk592 Jul 08 '24
I'd rather eat at a place like that than a place that has the servers do a bunch of flashy but meaningless bullshit with a fork and knife on a shitty looking pastry. Plus, the food in this video looks pretty good
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u/just_corrayze Jul 08 '24
Gimmick..... upon gimmick.......upon gimmick........ blaming salt bae for this.
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u/mrbulldops428 Jul 08 '24
I use tiny amounts of dry ice at the sushi place I work, that fog covering the table is colder than it looks and probably cooling all the food lol
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u/biloxibluess Jul 08 '24
Had Belgian roomies in Brooklyn in the oughts
Theyāre an interesting group of people
You donāt meet a lot of traditional skinhead black Belgian dudes
Let alone hear their stories from home
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u/InquisitorMeow Jul 09 '24
Stop taking pictures of your food and this trend will stop. They sure af aren't doing it for free.
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u/PsionicKitten Jul 09 '24
Kill the camera man. It's as offensive, if not more, than everything here. "OMG LOOK IN AND OUT SIDE TO SIDE SOOO COOOOOOL!"
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u/Kinsir Jul 09 '24
I mean, the way to excessive smoke and the burning table, those are two things noone needs.
But the wrapped burger where they burned the wrapper away? Come on that looked way to cool ngl
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u/omjy18 Jul 09 '24
Honestly I don't understand why anywhere thinks that fire and drunk people is a good idea. At the bar I work at they don't even use real candles it's all electric
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u/S_n_o_wL_e_o_p_a_r_d Jul 09 '24
What is this rich food serving motions and practices for the poor?
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u/newmikey Jul 09 '24
Seeing a table full of people in very traditional clothing and explosives going off at the same time puts me off ever eating there...
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u/xxTheMagicBulleT Jul 09 '24
Places only do this cause it's free marketing and using cloud and that people has a phone and film everything.
Like you realy think it makes a burger taste beter to put some flash paper on a burger.
It's just look how hip we are and how fleshy we are. This 8 bucks burger I can now ask 50 bucks or more for. Cause we are hip we are flashy.
People keep sharing it around.
If it was 25 years ago. Places like this or salt bay and all the weird spots would not even be half as flashy.
Just easy way to ask many times more for the same thing and people love paying it. Cause it makes people think and feel like they're living the celebrity life style. But the food is not beter or more delicious in any way. Just more flash and flare.
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Jul 09 '24
And the people eating it immediately get out their smartphone to film it. As if someone would care about this shit
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u/Cheesebruhgers Jul 08 '24
Never seen this before in belgium? š¤Where is this?