In relationships, you should always be with someone trying to build you up (and vice versa), never someone attempting to tear you down. The moment that the other person starts chipping away at you, it’s over whether you know or it not.
I learned that the hard way, unfortunately.
Did the quality of fast food take a huge hit?
For sure it did. Post-pandemic it’s quite a lot worse in general. There are a variety of reasons for this, I suspect. Among them is that fast food companies started using lower-quality (thus cheaper) ingredients to attempt to ameliorate the effects of wholesale inflation. Also, I’m guessing the ubiquity of delivery apps divorced direct feedback on food quality from the experience of its consumption so there are fewer complaints that make it to anyone who notices or cares.
It’s not just fast food, though. Food quality even at middle- and high-end restaurants has nose-dived too. Recently, I got lobster ravioli with fresh crab at a local mid-end restaurant. It was nearly $40 for just the entrée. The dish had nearly no actual seafood in it, was otherwise entirely mediocre and the portion size was also extremely small.
When I pay that much for something, I expect it to be better than what I can make at home. That wasn’t even close. I could’ve whipped up something similar but tastier in 30-ish minutes.
So this decline in quality is occurring in every tier of restaurant.
Bad move. Once a plant gets a taste for blood they start hunting. And once that happens, you wake up in the middle of night with some Pothos tendrils around your neck. Then it’s over.
Very dangerous thing to do.
It’s so strange to me that so many people declare something “impossible” when they merely do not understand how it works. Since the vast majority of people understand nearly nothing, that’s a whole lot of “impossible.”
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