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[–] [email protected] 201 points 5 days ago (6 children)

This is an outstanding idea.

[–] [email protected] 106 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I went to a bar like this in Brooklyn. It was decorated like the outside of a trailer park, complete with little trailers that were dining booths. There were strings of lights for ambient lighting and the tables had camping lamps.

The rest of the furniture was lawn chairs and folding tables, and they served hot dogs and hamburgers and potato salad, standard picnic fare.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 days ago

that actually sounds really good, and I don't even like that typical assortment of food. Just put me in the right environment and I'll eat thousands of pounds of it

[–] clay_pidgin 24 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Honestly that sounds pretty fun.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

And super Brooklyn. "Let's cosplay as the poors!"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You'll never live like common people

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You'll never fail like common people.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It was very relaxing for a bar in Brooklyn. Not even any TVs in it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They could have had some broken tvs!

[–] clay_pidgin 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

A 52" rear projection TV propped up on bricks.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Need to have another, smaller, tv on top of it. Bottom one has picture, top one has audio. Gotta have em on the same channel to watch anything

Edit: can't forget the coat hanger antenna!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Topped with an assortment of empty natty light cans, a bong, and a funko pop of that guy with the crossbow from the walking dead.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

Honestly, that sounds like some refreshing fun. Have the cook with a big grill out front, and putting in the order is just chatting with them.

"Hey, bud, you want a burger, hot dog, steak, or some of this brisket I been smoking since this morning? Want something to drink? There's beer and soda in the cooler, or we got tap water. The little cooler has juice for the little'uns."

And then have a cashier keep track of what they had, conveyor-belt sushi style. The cook chats with whoever is standing around drinking a beer with them (and is drinking beers or soda or whatever all shift), and everything gets served on paper plates. And the tables are all those wooden picnic tables with cheap plastic tablecloths.

And those who are eating there are encouraged to stand around and chat with other people as well (if they want). Just make the whole thing like a backyard barbecue with your neighbor Hank.

And hire nothing but retired men and women working part time as the cooks. Nothing but grill daddies and mommies, working just for some extra cash and the fun of barbecuing. I would take that job when I retired in an instant.

Edit: better yet, make it habachi-style, where there's a grill daddy/mommy for every group or two, set up like a park barbecue. I love this and want to go to one or work at one now.

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls 20 points 5 days ago

Shut up and take my investment money.

(Please note I have no investment money.)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My new retirement plan is to open that joint here in the States.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I want to open it overseas! Export some actual American culture.

I also want to have special football nights where we put the game on and do snack food appetizers. Pigs in a blanket, a couple crackpots of little smokies, chips and dip. There's a big sign out front that says when we offer tea we mean southern style sweet tea, so please ask for unsweetened if that's what you want!

So many ways this could be done right.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Or better yet, please ship authentic texmex anywhere outside of the us thanks. I am dying.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I would do this, just give me a pack of smokes and drinks and ill cook ya whatever you want (and im not even american!)

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[–] SpermHowitzer 85 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I like the idea, but why the fuck is Hank cooking on a charcoal bbq? Does he want to taste the heat and not the meat?!?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is from Season 3 Episode 19 where Peggy makes a video for the Dallas Cowboys by cobbling together old home movies to show them the personality of the people of Arlen. Presumably, this footage is from before Hank’s hatred for charcoal began—I’m going to take a wild guess and say he became more evangelical about propane when he became a lead.

https://kingofthehill.fandom.com/wiki/Hank%27s_Cowboy_Movie

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

In the early seasons he grilled on charcoal. Also they sell propane grills that use charcoal, this isn't actually a conflict, it was more an affectation.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes but it's actually a Mexican guy dressed in a pilgrim costume.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

lol with Free Bird playing in the background. Reminds me of when Khan became a redneck on King of the Hill.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (5 children)

No sir, the proper song is Sweet Home Alabama. It's our real anthem.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Have the full experience with Accent and flags. It might sell.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago

I tell you hwut.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think the full experience would be children running around with the dirtiest faces you’ve ever seen.

Your uncle getting in trouble with the park ranger for feeding the seagulls again.

One of your cousins brought their new girlfriend to the event and are for some reason fighting in the parking lot

Your aunt brought her Rottweiler who barks and snaps at all the families passing by

I grew up in Florida

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago (7 children)

I went to a western restaurant in Japan that was “stereotypical USA” themed and there was mainly kitschy shit all over the place like advertising memorabilia (stuff m&m character statues) and of course american flag themed stuff (but iirc no actual flag)

It was a long time ago but I remember the menu was like burgers, hotdogs, mac and cheese, etc and the food was super mid. Main thing I do remember was the mac and cheese was 100% kraft dinner which was so disappointing. the burger was also weak which is inexcusable because japan has serious burger game

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, that kinda sounds like the average American diner experience. Not bad, not good, just okay. Granted, a small hole-in-the-wall or independent diner that's been around forever will almost certainly be better; but when it comes to your average American diner (like IHOP, Denny's, etc) that sounds about right.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

One of the subtler jokes in Arrested Development is Little Briton having an "American-style" restaurant where the whole plate is covered in fries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Hey, as an American I'd totally order that.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I was dragged to a country western bar in Japan so, it’s not impossible?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I’d love to go to a bar like that in Japan purely to judge the authenticity.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't yakitori exist already?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I like this a lot better than the standard American [insert meme here] where everybody has like 5 guns. Such a tired trope.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Indeed, it has been done many times, but there's no sign of it stopping anytime soon. like their school shootings

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (5 children)

TBH I'd much rather have Thai food lol.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I want to see Buc-ee's and the fast food chain Cookout go international. That's authentic American food, and it's pretty damn tasty.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

I couldn't imagine a Buc-ee's in Europe.

In Texas there are signs for "Next Buc-ee's 108 miles". Do that in parts of Europe and you have to cross multiple international borders...and none of them will know wtf a mile is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

The heart wants what it wants. We cannot decide for it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Even better, they should still be directing to the ones in Texas.

Next Buc-ee’s in 4,181 nautical miles.

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