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I didn’t read OP’s statement as racist.

I think anyone with taste knows that a small non-chain restaurant, stall, or cart will have much better food than some corporate chain crap food made with industrially sourced ‘ingredients.’

Personally, I’m always looking for the small restaurants that serve food on Styrofoam or paper plates. Bonus points if it’s attached to a gas station or the owner’s little kids are in the dining room or kitchen playing and coloring.

Ethnicity doesn’t matter, it can be a barbecue joint or some sort of Asian culture I’m ignorant of.

You see a little kid quietly coloring in a booth by themselves, you know that shit is going to be good.

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RogueBanana@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The first statement sounded like I am always eating at road side stalls and never had a lunch at a restaurant. Not that I would bother going to a chain like that to begin with. I am obviously not a native speaker so maybe I misunderstood it.

I am not a fan of those road side stalls, I am not a germaphobe but at least my food should be made in a clean Kitchen. Maybe because my mom would never let me try those and I grew up that way.

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- Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s rare, in America, for their to be an actual stall. Food trucks or carts are much more common and serve the same function. Stalls can be found at festivals and fairs.
  
  Some of the best food comes out of food trucks. There’s a whole little culture around food trucks.
  
  I’ve seen stalls in other countries on TV. Anthony Bourdain, for instance. He seems to accept a certain amount of food poisoning and dubious ingredients. Some of it still looks really good.
  
  We also have the Tamale Lady phenomenon here. If you see a Hispanic lady or old man selling tamales out of a cooler, you better get some. They’ll be the best damn tamales you’ve ever had.
  
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ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think anyone with taste knows that a small non-chain restaurant, stall, or cart will have much better food than some corporate chain crap food made with industrially sourced ‘ingredients.’

With my aversion to food made out in the open, right next to running cars and open-coughing people, I stopped eating from roadside stalls by the time I started having enough autonomy.
I tend to prefer non-chain restaurants with viewable kitchens ^[those places tend to hire cooks who actually mind their coughing], but due to lack of any such desirable place in my area, eating out nearby, usually means subway (which is just, less bad).

Then I realise that with the amount of money I would spend to pay for the cheapest local meal place, I can actually cook with Ghee at home. And that topples the equation over its head.

Morning: Sandwich in Ghee/butter/peanut oil depending upon the mood

Afternoon: Fried rice in Ghee

Evening: Gram/Kidney Beans/Lentils in Ghee, with rice

Definitely not going back to outside food with nobody knows which oil they use.
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- Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  We try and only eat out as a treat. Almost all of our my meals are eaten at home as we work from home these days. Also, my wife is an amazing cook and her food is better than most restaurants. We usually have leftovers or a sandwich for lunch.
  
  I’m not familiar with your currency symbol? What country do you live in and are the health standards low enough that eating from a stall is a concern? That’s a different situation.
  
  I’m in the US, so food trucks, stalls and gas stations actually have decent standards. (Often, the cleanliness in these places is heads and shoulders above corporate chain places.)
  
  I learned to always check the bathroom of a restaurant. How clean they keep their bathroom tells you a lot about how they keep their kitchen. Small, family run, places tend to have the best food and the cleanest bathrooms, in my experience.
  
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  - ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    I’m not familiar with your currency symbol
    
    Try qalc.
    Arch: pacman -S libqalculate Debian: apt install qalc Red Hat: yum install qalculate Otherwise: qalculate.github.io
    
    It’s got both, a terminal frontend and a Qt GUI one. (Actually 3. Also a GTK one)
    
    You can copy the currency text along with the symbol into it and by default, it will convert it to your Locale’s currency, so you can know the exchange rates at least.
    
    Also, ₹2000 - ₹3000 per 8 hour day tends to be what an engineering fresher would normally expect in a place like Delhi, where a Subway sub will cost around ₹400.
    
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    Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Running stock Android on my phone and use Jerboa for Lemmy, my computer is Windows 10 as Linux still is lacking in CAD/CAM. In particular, CAM at a professional level. My home server is running Linux, however. Been playing with Linux for a long time.
    
    Wish Mastercam worked in Linux and I’d happily make the jump.
    
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