Fun fact! Michelin stars were actually made by the tire company to encourage people to keep traveling, and therefore wearing out their tires and buying more tires! They'd pick really good restaurants, places to visit, and hotels, and listed them in pamphlets and booklets for people to carry and reference. It only really stuck for restaurants but still an interesting history.
Hi Robin! Fun fact - at a lot of Asian markets, you can find lil packets of just ramen. Flavored, and meant for eating. I'm pretty sure the most popular ones are the one with the kid wearing the baseball cap with Prince written on it.
Robin: "At some point you have to stand up and say enough, I'm not paying for this!" Also Robin: "Yeah, Mcdonalds gave me a bunch of burgers with no meat, but I just took it in stride"
I honestly feel really sorry for everyone who had to have shitty school lunches because my high school's food was absolutely divine. Like, I had to drop out of 6th form due to mental health issues and not being able to have the food there anymore was actually a very big hangup for me. There were different food halls for different age groups and the 6th form had like 3 to choose from not including the other school that was across the street. We could get pizza, crepes, popcorn, a variety of cakes and cookies, and a bunch of other really delicious food that we could get pretty much whenever we wanted! (The pizza was also really good, really big slices that were better than any takeout ive had)
I had school lunches over here in Italy. Let me tell you it's good looking garbage. The food looks good and edible but it's horrible. The pasta with pesto was swimming in olive oil. The olive oil in pasta with olive oil felt as if it was drizzled raw on top. The only passable things were veggie soups and polenta. The food was bland. The salad next to the meat was so incredibly tasltess. If anything it was incredibly bitter. The only topping you had was vinegar. No salt and pepper on it. They had to stop giving out vinegar because a classmate of mine drank if for fun out of a glass. The meat (except the roast) was dry and tasltess. And you'd get the saddest looking piece of fruit at the end. You barely got the fun stuff. And the fun stuff was considered ice-cream, ricotta cheese and yoghurt. My brother recalls it as being extremely pathetic food. Also not only was it pre cooked and just re-heated but you couldn't even ask for extra. Unless everyone was served and something was left. And even then they'd give you a stink eye because if one asked and they got the remaining food, other kids would get jealous. So you were stuck with that amount. And you were also reminded at all times that you have to eat all of it and wasting food is bad for the kids in Africa who don't get any. But you still got a plate in front of you. So you couldn't really say you didn't want the food. They'd make sure we all had some and the same amount.
@@nikitatavernitilitvynovai can safely say from my experience as an American kid in the 90s/00s, that school food has definitely nose dived in quality. I always got a carton of milk, sometimes also juice, and the food was better than that. Our pizza was this, admittedly plain squares of pepperoni pizza, but at least it wasn't burnt shit. Sometimes got some real good shit, like uncrustables or half a kiwi fruit. Sometimes pretty meh, when it was clear they were out of budget and just throwing things together, like toasted hot dog buns with slices of cheese. Rare, but sometimes.
Yeah, it's really strange about school lunches. I'm lucky to have had nice food in all three school grounds my entire life. Well, four if you count daycare. My current school has some quite fancy dishes, with nice spices and higher effort put into them. It ain't just plain spaghetti and meatballs. And there's vegan options and lactose free or gluten free, etc. Even veggies and sometimes extra stuff like dried cut bread pieces soaked in some kinda oil. I get to eat something different than the cheap noodles and warm-up pizzas.
The same thing happened to me in middle school. I went (on a scholarship) to this super upperclass private school where we would literally order our “main courses” for the week and then have different sides depending on the day. The food was practically restaurant quality too. If I hadn’t been bullied out of that school for being poor, I probably would’ve turned into a huge dick tbh.
True. I had to call once because I was sent the wrong order and unfortunately it was a meal containing ingredients I am allergic too. They were very apologetic and sent the right one out, I paid for both since my mom decided she want the first meal and she wasn't allergic to it.
And even if you're annoyed, that's no excuse to treat the person at the counter (almost 100% not the person who made the food/mistake) like theyre inhuman
Never anger the people handling your food. You don't want to be the one they take their frustrations out on. Between bad bosses, demanding customers, and a breakneck frantic work load, the stress has to be enormous. A little kindness, a spoonful of sugar as they say, helps a lot, and you might make their day by showing them some actual decency!
@@Craxin01 absolutely. Like when they accidentally double charged me. I went to them in person instead of by phone, explained what had happened and that rather that make the bank take the money back I'd really rather keep a good relationship with them and have a second meal. And they absolutely agreed. We do order from them a lot. And this only happened once when they were training a new person.
I'm in full support of frozen pizza. I've had delicious, stone oven pizzas, artisan pizza and they open my eyes to how amazing it can be. There is also just something about the cheap, shitty tostinos pizza that just is so good
Try getting a decent pizza in the middle of Oklahoma sometime. Frozen is like god tier compared to the crap pizza chains. Last pizza I got that wasn't a frozen (or made myself) was a thin crust that was like an inch tall because of the stupid level of undercooked toppings making it necessary to eat with a knife and fork or end up with it in my lap or down my front.
@@Craxin01 THIS. I live in small-medium sized midwestern town. It's not super tiny, but it's nowhere near city size. About 10k people but many of them are wayyy out in the country. We have pizza hut, domino's (in our walmart), papa johns, and a few local places. Not only is it expensive, but I rarely get what I asked for. I get regular cheese, pepperoni and extra sauce. I never get right amount of sauce. After essentially cheese melted on bread, I'd rather just buy a Jack's. Those are always good.
@@cybedraAnything's edible once, so I say go for it! If you're not lactose intolerant now, _you will be after that burger._ Feels like the kind of food that you'd find at the Minnesota state fair. They have *b u t t e r p e o p l e,* so they probably got cheese burgers... Or fried cheese burgers.
4:27 They actually have a snack like this! (At least in korea). Its called 뿌셔뿌셔 and its a bit less hard than a plain uncooked instant noodle (so its easier to eat). Also a lot of people eat uncooked bags of instant noodles sometimes(especially when you have a bag of instant noodles but no hot water), you put the sauce packet into the bag, crunch it a bit, shake, then eat the pieces.
Pretty sure that is a thing everywhere. Youngsters will snack on anything affordable, that can be eaten right away. Some people have just managed to live under a rock, with these things.
Instant ramen isn't technically uncooked though, it's dehydrated noodles that have been already deep fried (which is why the fat content of instant ramen is so high). I don't remember how 뿌셔뿌셔 makes the noodles, but they definitely do some level of extra cooking to make it edible. Dried pasta is just dehydrated pasta with no level of cooking done at all. Very different.
The metal doesn't bother the microwave as long as it doesn't touch the edge/wall of the microwave, apparently. I routinely leave my metal spoon in my mug while I heat water for tea.
4:22 Here in Poland, the local instant ramen company "Vifon" made exactly what you described. It's called Vifon Snack and it's literally just ramen noodles with seasoning. They come in few flavours such as curry and wasabi. Honestly? It slaps like mama's belt 🔥
I remember one time we ordered this huge sandwich and we thought "It must come with a good serving of fries to acompany such beast" The sandwiches each came in their own box they were so big and the fries in a rectangular box, I thought it was a pretty light box and when I opened it, there was NO JOKE, 25 Fries with a piece of cheese melted on top and thats it. I complained to the restaurant, they turned their back and blocked me, changed the restaurant name 3 times already that I know of. I couldnt even get my money back. Most dissapointed day ever. I know chips are just a side dish but if you are gonna make a HUGE sandwich at least put a good ammount of fries with it. Totally scammed, even the pictures had more fries than I got.
Honestly, cooking a frozen pizza on a baking stone, or oven, makes it so much better, it's like using anything made of cast iron cooking other flavors into food
Thankfully when I was growing up we had help from the state because my dad passed away and we lived so below the poverty line that they gave my siblings and I free lunch
It wasn't until high school for me that I was in a place where the state would help out with school lunches and that's because my school was overall so poor that they just said screw it and gave everybody free lunches.
feeling so validated by the raw ramen noodle thing. my addiction started when some girl in elementary school gave me EXACTLY what robin mentioned actually. a chip bag of dry noodles with the flavouring on it. i think it was a korean snack or something, i'm not quite sure what language the text was in
14:10 ok but the orange chicken innovasian makes put on some 90 second microwave rice absolutely slaps, and its pretty good as leftovers as well, the rice is usually a bit sad from being in the fridge for like a week after it was cooked but its still good lol
Regarding the Ramen snacks you mentioned, there is a snack called Mamee monster which is exactly what you describe. Ramen with flavor pack in snack bag you can chomp down.
My mom is a private chef and she taught me to cook from a young age- it’s a habit of mine to make other people’s plates look as nice as I can, but then my own plate is just thrown together with no structure lmao
2:20 looking at the drink cup, it has "brewing co" on it. Since some states and municipalities have laws stating you cannot serve alcohol unless you also serve food, some places will do things like this. The menu typically says something along the lines of "because we are legally required to serve food, here is some store-bought crap. We are not a restaurant. This menu only exists because it is illegal for us to serve alcohol without it." If they don't say that, then that's shitty of them. But if they do say that, and you order food and have the gall to complain that the food on the menu is exactly what they told you it would be, that's shitty of you.
I used to work at a snackbar at a batting cage facility and for a VERY brief time we sold chicken wings prepared via microwave. They looked WRETCHED, like flubbery floppy skin lumps that evoked the idea of medical waste more than a food product. I really appreciated when a woman (very politely!) complained to the manager about them looking so bad, we took them off the menu that day. RIP Flippo's Flubber Lumps, you will not be missed.
I work inthe US school system and that lunch is considered "complete and healthy" I can with 100% truth tell you that this is because of farming lobbyists making sure we serve loads of grain and dairy.
I would argue what dairy Queen makes isn't food most of the time. I'll never forget when my aunt came down to visit and warned her that dairy Queen food was gross and she wanted to try it anyway. I asked her what she thought and she looked at me and earnestly said "it's almost as good as McDonald's" like that was a compliment 😂 Honey if it's not even quite as good as McDonald's im not even sure you can classify it as food anymore.
@@strayiggytv I went to this one in wisconsin that had a triple cheeseburger. That was WAY better than mcdonalds and almost as good as Culver's but only because Culver's uses so much butter
Glad I’m not the only one who thinks that, the hallways are overcrowded, the desks are a mess that people stick gum under, the lunch looks like somebody literally took a s’ on a piece of pizza, they teach you even more boring useless things than before, & now, the kids are 10x more annoying than before.
20:30 a restaurant in my area has been shut down for thawing chicken like that. It is BAD! 1: thawing incorrectly (Should be in the fridge) 2: thawing in water, 3: the water is stagnant, and 4: it’s UNPROTECTED! That is death in a sink!
0:58 Yep, that's about right. Maybe if you're lucky there'll be canned beans you can choke down too, or a slice of cheese bread with a tiny amount of marinara sauce instead of the slice of pizza.
OK, first if your BF\GF calls you a loser after you cooked for them. GET RID OF THEM! I lost my bf on Saturday due to geopolitical BULLCRAP (no he couldn't get a visa to the US , he tried all that) and my heart is broken AGAIN after having lost my son in 2021 (Eff that year forever) If I had the opportunity to have had him cook for me after I came home from work, I would have given him so much love and affection for even thinking of me and I would have eaten it with gratitude and love. I didn't have the chance to even meet him in person (LDR) nevermind having him cook for me. So appreciate your SO and your family because they can be gone in a heartbeat, mine was. Secondly, it looks like someone c@me on those nuggets
4:57 if you wanna make that more visually appealing i have a few suggestions, cube the hot dogs, use more rice, mix it all together, and use more sauce
Penne and Pennetta are absolutely the superior pasta shape, use it for "mac'n'cheese" and lasagna and Bolognese and all sorts of dishes that normally call for other pastas and it's ALWAYS better!
18:15 The biggest issue is not the fact that he left it in the microwave for 3 weeks the biggest issue is the fact that it's still in the microwave but now it has a fork in it which means he put it in with a fork in it
@@Echinacae No. It didn't. You're lying. It's simple electromagnetism. Electrob00m did a video on it. Kinda hard to get a spark at all. Entirely impossible with just 1 utensil.
99/100 chance that they didn't even assemble the pasta at the store ordered from, they just pulled it out of a freezer and stuck it in a prep oven, then delivered it.
18:40 i assume they choose the bathroom because there is generally a ventilation fan in there and they are cooking with gas so ventilation is very important.
The oven pan burgers isn't a bad idea. It's just flatter meatloaf and meatloaf sandwiches are freakin' awesone! I usually cook bacon in the oven too (in a weave pattern) so a square of bacon on top of a square of beef patty... eat your heart put Wendy's
If anyone gives me spaghetti with cottage cheese, there will be hands thrown. And there will be no slander of deep dish pizza. Even Minneapolis acknowledges Chicago pizza.
just a quick thing on the bean patty is depending on the place sometimes you have to be very careful with entering orders. you can accidentally send an order in the computer that says the patties are the bun as some restaurants. Someone entered the order incorrectly.
Military eggs are powdered eggs which are reconstituted. As a kid they weren't bad tbh. Also for velvet cake, green works better (can make a checkerboard red and green velvet cake, I made one for work chrostmas party one year), or just leave it to be colored by the cocoa
the fact the Robin watches Ashens is awesome. also, yes Ashens did a video about a "Whole Chicken in a can". and it what came out of that can made me nauseous just watching
School lunches they used to be somewhat decent in quality and then after the healthy eating initiative schools did not get increasing budget for lunches so you know what they did, they decrease the quality of the food to meet the bare minimum requirements
Regarding the pizza with apple sauce at 20:40 : In my country we have a fairly popular dish, which is basically potato pancakes (i think you could call it hash browns, correct me, if i´m wrong) and it´s usually served with apple sauce. Tastes surprisingly good, even if i prefer it without the sauce. ^_^
GOOD NEWS Theres a korean snack which roughly translates to break it or romanized "Ppushu Ppushu" anyways its basically dry ramen but as a snack and you can find it at hmart or other korean supermarkets. Its made by a Korean brand named Ottogi
12:27 As someone who worked at a pizza hut not too long ago, WHAT IN CHRIST IS THAT! NO! REALLY! WHAT IS THAAAAAAT!???! Dude, even the old way of doing pasta at our location never looked that bad, holy shiteeeeee!
My human.. forks in the microwave... do nothing. Try it. You were lied to. Google it and be in awe of how susceptible to lies you are. I've left my utensil in the bowl all of 10 years of microwaving leftovers. Only sharp edges near each other arcs, like balled up aluminum foil.
The roast chicken ramen is worlds better than the plain chicken. There's a cheesy ramen too, but I think it's only in the cup style. And you saw the canned bird in either an Ashens video or The Wolfe Pit back when he still had good use of his hands.
We got a microwave that beeps after it finishes once a minute until you open it. Means you never forget it. Absolute lifesaver since the other two people in the house (dad and sister) have ADHD.
I'm thinking that the person didn't even turn the microwave on because the fork, which I'm assuming is metal, is still on the plate. also why did 3 weeks go by with nobody using the microwave? sincerely, over-analyzer
@macroblitz964 omg yeah I looked it up and it's mostly safe. it did say that thinner metals near eachother, like the prongs of a fork, can cause sparks though, so this specific fork would have at least sparked. It also said smoother edges that are further from the metal walls of a microwave should be fine, but also there are exceptions like aluminum foil and gold trim
I have ADD, and hate the microwaves that do that nonsense. My fella has one and the number of times I've seriously wanted to feed it a f#$&!ng fork... I mean, I'm happy that your folks find it helpful, but is there a way to turn that feature off?
@Meggzilla my microwave have a feature to turn off all the sounds so it doesn't beep at all, even when you press the buttons. we have a Whirlpool microwave and I press and hold on the 2
Snack dry-ramen is a thing!!! It's sold in asian stores under "Ottogi Ppushu Ppushu Noodle Snack". It's rlly good and has a little flavor packet. You smash it up, put in the powder, then mix and enjoy :D
Regarding the quality of food for Michelin star places, the fancier the shop looks, the "blah" the taste is sometimes... Maybe I am not rich enough to have my taste buds justify the price tag that comes with it. On the other end, some "shitty" looking places, but awesome food, that have had some stars places on on them, are my choice.. Regarding food labeled "prize wining", I can't remember if it was TGIF or Ruby Tuesdays, but they had a limited run menu of MasterChef top finalists halfway through a season. I tried some of them.. and I would not rate them praise worthy or "MasterChef" tier.
To help decode Michelin-Speak, here is a little glossary: Charcuterie = Lunchables on a plank Coulis = Drizzle of jam Crème anglaise = custard Escalope = Schnitzel Goujons = Nuggets / fingers
4:18 Here in the Philippines we do have a chip called Nooda Crunch which is literally dried ramen and a flavor packet that you crush up, shake and eat. Also I remember that one scene in Squid Game where they eat dried ramyeon with their soju.
I went to a Greek restaurant and ordered "lamb skewers", expecting a shish-kabob or something. Nope, 2 greasy lamb sausages on sticks. $24 for 2... corn-dogs without batter?
Speaking as someone who lives in a household with cats, maybe they just put it in there to prevent a pet from eating it, and forgot about it. We use our microwave as the Cat-Proof Temporary Hot Food Storage Unit of choice.
That work provided "meal"... My mom once had her work by her shift pizza, but the higher ups ate it all before anyone on shift got to their meal break.
New Haven Connecticut native here, pizza capital of the country. I am a pizza snob - and still say DiGiorno's, Red Baron, and those premade pizzas from Aldi's are all top tier frozen food.
The answer as all things are in the USA is it depends. Most cafeterias don't share funding with the main school. They have a smaller allocated budget which goes to pay staff and pay for the food and treats to sell. The managers have to maximize profit if they want their people to get pay raises. [Again not all schools but many of the ones was I was around growing up] Though the food would be hand made each day in the back though some wouldn't be like the Pizza that was just pre-packaged and shoved into a combi oven. Basically food at American schools can actually be really good or it can be basically inedible trash.
in public schools its usually very mid, although i didnt get school lunch in school and i still don't, i do remember that there were quite a few kids in elementary school who were in lunch debt, and the milk cartons had a pretty high chance of just being frozen. most of it was just poorly reheated frozen food.
6:14 I've had chocolate milk that apparently had potato pearls mixed in, and it came out super rich! I wonder if something similar happened with these mashed potatoes...
14:35 As an Asian, I suddenly understand the rage all the Italians must have felt at all the blasphemy shown earlier. I will happily share brain bleach with everyone who needs some.
I made a dessert called the 'mysterious concotion' a while ago. It was made with cookies and cream ice cream, crushed teddy grahams, and peanut butter. It looked like vomit, but it was SO GOOD.
6:47 That is not a lunchbox. It looks, at best, like a lunchbox sized cooling bag. That said, without a cooling element, it might as well be a pencil case.
That's what lunchboxes are here in the states. Little cooler bags. Nobody carries the old metal kind and if you carry a bento style container you put it in the cooler style lunch box
A college buddy of mine wo was in the US Navy and I came up with: I will not eat grey eggs and Spam! I will not eat them, Uncle Sam! I will not eat them on a boat, In dry-dock, or while afloat. I would not, could not, Uncle Sam! I will not eat grey eggs and Spam!
@@GipsyDangerfan Y'ever overcook eggs to the point of dryness? You see it most in hardboiled eggs: they get a weird grey colouration on the yolks. Also, it's a Dr. Seuss reference.
6:20 No, you're absolutely right, those look like out-of-a-can refried beans. If I had no milk to make mashed potatoes, I'd use the cooking water. Wouldn't takes like chocolate syrup!
I really don't eat bacon anymore, either, Robin. For the *exact reason* that my body can't handle the fat. Those strips of "bacon" look like walking red flags for my digestive system.
You should try back bacon or Canadian peameal bacon, then. Much, MUCH less fat than the streaky bacon that some people (wrongly) think is the only bacon in existence.
Everyone can cook thier own food for aslong as they want. And cooking time varries between noodle to noodle. Some noodles are done in 2 minutes. Some take 8. Some even take 20 minutes. And i even had noodles that took upwards of 30 minutes. The supposed "Italian" op clearly didnt mention that the noodles, by the looks of it, were only a side project to possibly just making potent noodle water for making a soup base.
14:57 OK but to be fair that is exactly the type of meals. I grew up on with two parents who worked full-time and didn’t get home until late. Was it the best thing in the world? No, but it was warm and mom made sure we never went to bed hungry
Fun fact! Michelin stars were actually made by the tire company to encourage people to keep traveling, and therefore wearing out their tires and buying more tires! They'd pick really good restaurants, places to visit, and hotels, and listed them in pamphlets and booklets for people to carry and reference. It only really stuck for restaurants but still an interesting history.
I never even realized they both went by Michelin.
That is interesting! Thanks for sharing.
I was wondering if that was coincidence or not.
Honestly kind of genius.
*takes train to get to the places*
Hi Robin! Fun fact - at a lot of Asian markets, you can find lil packets of just ramen. Flavored, and meant for eating. I'm pretty sure the most popular ones are the one with the kid wearing the baseball cap with Prince written on it.
Oh yea, theres another one blue packet with wizard and stars on it
Yup, first heard about them from an Australian friend when we were talking ramen. Snack ramen seems to be quite common there too.
See, the ones I see has a kid on it wielding a hammer called ppushu ppushu or something like that. Absolutely great snack
@@smolpurrito759my go to is the bulgogi flavored
the one i grew up with was mamee monster noodle snack
Robin: "At some point you have to stand up and say enough, I'm not paying for this!"
Also Robin: "Yeah, Mcdonalds gave me a bunch of burgers with no meat, but I just took it in stride"
The duality of man
in some places you can't just expect miracles
guess it wasn't the right point. 🤣
I honestly feel really sorry for everyone who had to have shitty school lunches because my high school's food was absolutely divine. Like, I had to drop out of 6th form due to mental health issues and not being able to have the food there anymore was actually a very big hangup for me. There were different food halls for different age groups and the 6th form had like 3 to choose from not including the other school that was across the street. We could get pizza, crepes, popcorn, a variety of cakes and cookies, and a bunch of other really delicious food that we could get pretty much whenever we wanted! (The pizza was also really good, really big slices that were better than any takeout ive had)
I had school lunches over here in Italy. Let me tell you it's good looking garbage. The food looks good and edible but it's horrible. The pasta with pesto was swimming in olive oil. The olive oil in pasta with olive oil felt as if it was drizzled raw on top. The only passable things were veggie soups and polenta. The food was bland. The salad next to the meat was so incredibly tasltess. If anything it was incredibly bitter. The only topping you had was vinegar. No salt and pepper on it. They had to stop giving out vinegar because a classmate of mine drank if for fun out of a glass. The meat (except the roast) was dry and tasltess. And you'd get the saddest looking piece of fruit at the end. You barely got the fun stuff. And the fun stuff was considered ice-cream, ricotta cheese and yoghurt. My brother recalls it as being extremely pathetic food. Also not only was it pre cooked and just re-heated but you couldn't even ask for extra. Unless everyone was served and something was left. And even then they'd give you a stink eye because if one asked and they got the remaining food, other kids would get jealous. So you were stuck with that amount. And you were also reminded at all times that you have to eat all of it and wasting food is bad for the kids in Africa who don't get any. But you still got a plate in front of you. So you couldn't really say you didn't want the food. They'd make sure we all had some and the same amount.
@@nikitatavernitilitvynovai can safely say from my experience as an American kid in the 90s/00s, that school food has definitely nose dived in quality.
I always got a carton of milk, sometimes also juice, and the food was better than that. Our pizza was this, admittedly plain squares of pepperoni pizza, but at least it wasn't burnt shit. Sometimes got some real good shit, like uncrustables or half a kiwi fruit. Sometimes pretty meh, when it was clear they were out of budget and just throwing things together, like toasted hot dog buns with slices of cheese. Rare, but sometimes.
I never ate in my HS cafe, but I heard it was decent.
Yeah, it's really strange about school lunches. I'm lucky to have had nice food in all three school grounds my entire life. Well, four if you count daycare. My current school has some quite fancy dishes, with nice spices and higher effort put into them. It ain't just plain spaghetti and meatballs. And there's vegan options and lactose free or gluten free, etc. Even veggies and sometimes extra stuff like dried cut bread pieces soaked in some kinda oil. I get to eat something different than the cheap noodles and warm-up pizzas.
The same thing happened to me in middle school. I went (on a scholarship) to this super upperclass private school where we would literally order our “main courses” for the week and then have different sides depending on the day. The food was practically restaurant quality too. If I hadn’t been bullied out of that school for being poor, I probably would’ve turned into a huge dick tbh.
1:01 that pizza looks like it was found under the ruins of Pompeii 💀
The krabby patty that killed the health inspector pizza-ified 💀
@@FizzyFangthey really put the “crusty” in krusty krab pizza 💀
@BrokenInsanity 💀
The pizza was color corrected in the thumbnail and it STILL looks bad 💀
@@realPurpleOrbyeah I don't think I've ever seen reverse click bait, and it still works
there's a difference between politely saying that they got your order wrong at a restaurant vs being annoying about it
True. I had to call once because I was sent the wrong order and unfortunately it was a meal containing ingredients I am allergic too. They were very apologetic and sent the right one out, I paid for both since my mom decided she want the first meal and she wasn't allergic to it.
And even if you're annoyed, that's no excuse to treat the person at the counter (almost 100% not the person who made the food/mistake) like theyre inhuman
Never anger the people handling your food. You don't want to be the one they take their frustrations out on. Between bad bosses, demanding customers, and a breakneck frantic work load, the stress has to be enormous. A little kindness, a spoonful of sugar as they say, helps a lot, and you might make their day by showing them some actual decency!
@@Craxin01 absolutely. Like when they accidentally double charged me. I went to them in person instead of by phone, explained what had happened and that rather that make the bank take the money back I'd really rather keep a good relationship with them and have a second meal. And they absolutely agreed.
We do order from them a lot. And this only happened once when they were training a new person.
I'm in full support of frozen pizza. I've had delicious, stone oven pizzas, artisan pizza and they open my eyes to how amazing it can be. There is also just something about the cheap, shitty tostinos pizza that just is so good
I’m more upset they had to colorize the thumbnail pizza
Try getting a decent pizza in the middle of Oklahoma sometime. Frozen is like god tier compared to the crap pizza chains. Last pizza I got that wasn't a frozen (or made myself) was a thin crust that was like an inch tall because of the stupid level of undercooked toppings making it necessary to eat with a knife and fork or end up with it in my lap or down my front.
I once got a rash from eating frozen pizza
@@Craxin01 THIS. I live in small-medium sized midwestern town. It's not super tiny, but it's nowhere near city size. About 10k people but many of them are wayyy out in the country. We have pizza hut, domino's (in our walmart), papa johns, and a few local places. Not only is it expensive, but I rarely get what I asked for. I get regular cheese, pepperoni and extra sauce. I never get right amount of sauce. After essentially cheese melted on bread, I'd rather just buy a Jack's. Those are always good.
The perfect burger for someone who wants to be like Homer and eat tons of cheese slices and speedrun blindness any%.
Interesting pfp
I wanna try one so bad.. but like only once. I’d probably only get to try it once before perishing anyways
I'd like to try it
@@cybedraAnything's edible once, so I say go for it! If you're not lactose intolerant now, _you will be after that burger._ Feels like the kind of food that you'd find at the Minnesota state fair.
They have *b u t t e r p e o p l e,* so they probably got cheese burgers... Or fried cheese burgers.
@@Just_a_commenter fried cheese burgers?
I’ve gotta get one of those thailand cheese burgers and deep fry it
4:27 They actually have a snack like this! (At least in korea). Its called 뿌셔뿌셔 and its a bit less hard than a plain uncooked instant noodle (so its easier to eat). Also a lot of people eat uncooked bags of instant noodles sometimes(especially when you have a bag of instant noodles but no hot water), you put the sauce packet into the bag, crunch it a bit, shake, then eat the pieces.
We have the same thing in Hong Kong too!
we also have dry noodle snack packets in Indonesia, but ngl i dont rlly like them ;(
Pretty sure that is a thing everywhere. Youngsters will snack on anything affordable, that can be eaten right away. Some people have just managed to live under a rock, with these things.
Instant ramen isn't technically uncooked though, it's dehydrated noodles that have been already deep fried (which is why the fat content of instant ramen is so high). I don't remember how 뿌셔뿌셔 makes the noodles, but they definitely do some level of extra cooking to make it edible. Dried pasta is just dehydrated pasta with no level of cooking done at all. Very different.
I thought it was just something New Zealand kids did. Crush, Sprinkle the flavour pack in, and go to town
I'm surprised Robin didn't rant about the metal fork in that microwave that was very clearly left in there WHILE it was cooking.
The metal doesn't bother the microwave as long as it doesn't touch the edge/wall of the microwave, apparently. I routinely leave my metal spoon in my mug while I heat water for tea.
@@PawsOnTheBalcony If you're heating liquid it's better to leave a metal spoon in there or else it could overheat.
@@PawsOnTheBalcony No, it's really risky being in the middle
@@Grey_Warden_Invasion but metal... gets hotter
Not only did the roommate turn the microwave into a biohazard, they apparently also microwaved a fork.
I hereby revoke their kitchen privileges.
Imagine a restaurant giving you mac n cheese from a microwave. I want my money back now.
It would get the place closed down, if they tried to pull that stunt where I'm from.
I wouldn't pay, I'd have gotten up and left.
i love it when robin goes on rants, please never stop yourself mid sentence and move on cuz i love hearing what you have to say!!
4:22 Here in Poland, the local instant ramen company "Vifon" made exactly what you described. It's called Vifon Snack and it's literally just ramen noodles with seasoning. They come in few flavours such as curry and wasabi. Honestly? It slaps like mama's belt 🔥
I remember one time we ordered this huge sandwich and we thought "It must come with a good serving of fries to acompany such beast" The sandwiches each came in their own box they were so big and the fries in a rectangular box, I thought it was a pretty light box and when I opened it, there was NO JOKE, 25 Fries with a piece of cheese melted on top and thats it. I complained to the restaurant, they turned their back and blocked me, changed the restaurant name 3 times already that I know of. I couldnt even get my money back. Most dissapointed day ever. I know chips are just a side dish but if you are gonna make a HUGE sandwich at least put a good ammount of fries with it. Totally scammed, even the pictures had more fries than I got.
Fun fact, those aren’t necessarily McDonald’s nuggets. McDonald’s uses Tyson nuggets any restaurant can get from Sysco.
No, that is not a fun fact. Just a fact if anything.
@@dyztroyax4628 I found it fun.
For the pancakes that look like raw meat, I'd love to see a themed restaurant that serves regular food and food that looks like regular food.
On the chocolate milk potatoes, you honestly got the comparison to refried beans pretty fucking spot on, my goodness.
Honestly, cooking a frozen pizza on a baking stone, or oven, makes it so much better, it's like using anything made of cast iron cooking other flavors into food
Thankfully when I was growing up we had help from the state because my dad passed away and we lived so below the poverty line that they gave my siblings and I free lunch
Thankfully you were so poor, that you didn't have to pay. Lucky you.
@@qtluna7917 is that supposed to be derogatory?
im so sorry that happened during your childhood! Hopefully everything is better now!!
It wasn't until high school for me that I was in a place where the state would help out with school lunches and that's because my school was overall so poor that they just said screw it and gave everybody free lunches.
Believe it or not, about a quarter of all students are eligible for free lunch.
No one applies. It doesn't cost anything to apply :(
feeling so validated by the raw ramen noodle thing. my addiction started when some girl in elementary school gave me EXACTLY what robin mentioned actually. a chip bag of dry noodles with the flavouring on it. i think it was a korean snack or something, i'm not quite sure what language the text was in
14:10 ok but the orange chicken innovasian makes put on some 90 second microwave rice absolutely slaps, and its pretty good as leftovers as well, the rice is usually a bit sad from being in the fridge for like a week after it was cooked but its still good lol
Regarding the Ramen snacks you mentioned, there is a snack called Mamee monster which is exactly what you describe. Ramen with flavor pack in snack bag you can chomp down.
As an American cheese hater, this burger will be the death of me.
Then there's me who would actually take a bite. I'm not American. Just insane.
I’m ngl I’d inhale that thing, especially if I was drunk
As someone who likes cheese squares, that burger is too much
@@iclynnx You sir, are the devil.
@@MoonlitGecko Nevermind, you are.
My mom is a private chef and she taught me to cook from a young age- it’s a habit of mine to make other people’s plates look as nice as I can, but then my own plate is just thrown together with no structure lmao
2:20 looking at the drink cup, it has "brewing co" on it. Since some states and municipalities have laws stating you cannot serve alcohol unless you also serve food, some places will do things like this. The menu typically says something along the lines of "because we are legally required to serve food, here is some store-bought crap. We are not a restaurant. This menu only exists because it is illegal for us to serve alcohol without it."
If they don't say that, then that's shitty of them. But if they do say that, and you order food and have the gall to complain that the food on the menu is exactly what they told you it would be, that's shitty of you.
I used to work at a snackbar at a batting cage facility and for a VERY brief time we sold chicken wings prepared via microwave. They looked WRETCHED, like flubbery floppy skin lumps that evoked the idea of medical waste more than a food product.
I really appreciated when a woman (very politely!) complained to the manager about them looking so bad, we took them off the menu that day. RIP Flippo's Flubber Lumps, you will not be missed.
That is a hilarious description
I work inthe US school system and that lunch is considered "complete and healthy"
I can with 100% truth tell you that this is because of farming lobbyists making sure we serve loads of grain and dairy.
14:00 I refuse to believe that that's actually DQ food. No nation wide fast food chain uses styrofoam containers anymore.
Yeah, the last time I went into a Diary Queen, the burger & fries I had were great.
I would argue what dairy Queen makes isn't food most of the time. I'll never forget when my aunt came down to visit and warned her that dairy Queen food was gross and she wanted to try it anyway. I asked her what she thought and she looked at me and earnestly said "it's almost as good as McDonald's" like that was a compliment 😂
Honey if it's not even quite as good as McDonald's im not even sure you can classify it as food anymore.
@@strayiggytv I went to this one in wisconsin that had a triple cheeseburger. That was WAY better than mcdonalds and almost as good as Culver's but only because Culver's uses so much butter
With the moldy spaghetti in the microwave, I'm far more concerned about the fact that he microwaved a metal fork.
Glad I'm not in school anymore...
They seem to get worse and worse
youre first!
They’ve been declining since the late 90s but you can only see it after getting away from and viewing it as an outsider
Glad I’m not the only one who thinks that, the hallways are overcrowded, the desks are a mess that people stick gum under, the lunch looks like somebody literally took a s’ on a piece of pizza, they teach you even more boring useless things than before, & now, the kids are 10x more annoying than before.
I go to a private school… we still have to pay for our food even though our parents PAY THE SCHOOL TO LET US GO THERE.
20:30 a restaurant in my area has been shut down for thawing chicken like that. It is BAD! 1: thawing incorrectly (Should be in the fridge) 2: thawing in water, 3: the water is stagnant, and 4: it’s UNPROTECTED! That is death in a sink!
0:58 Yep, that's about right.
Maybe if you're lucky there'll be canned beans you can choke down too, or a slice of cheese bread with a tiny amount of marinara sauce instead of the slice of pizza.
OK, first if your BF\GF calls you a loser after you cooked for them. GET RID OF THEM! I lost my bf on Saturday due to geopolitical BULLCRAP (no he couldn't get a visa to the US , he tried all that) and my heart is broken AGAIN after having lost my son in 2021 (Eff that year forever) If I had the opportunity to have had him cook for me after I came home from work, I would have given him so much love and affection for even thinking of me and I would have eaten it with gratitude and love. I didn't have the chance to even meet him in person (LDR) nevermind having him cook for me. So appreciate your SO and your family because they can be gone in a heartbeat, mine was. Secondly, it looks like someone c@me on those nuggets
The cheese plate sent me. Fancy dining is now just 15 slices of the same flavour of cheese singles, with some berries, onions, and a marinated Skittle
4:57 if you wanna make that more visually appealing i have a few suggestions, cube the hot dogs, use more rice, mix it all together, and use more sauce
Penne and Pennetta are absolutely the superior pasta shape, use it for "mac'n'cheese" and lasagna and Bolognese and all sorts of dishes that normally call for other pastas and it's ALWAYS better!
That's what i do too 😌
My country's schools have canteens where we buy our own food from stalls like those in a food court so I look at cafeterias in the US and wow
1:23 I've shat out pieces of crap that look more like pizza, than that slice of pizza.
18:15 The biggest issue is not the fact that he left it in the microwave for 3 weeks the biggest issue is the fact that it's still in the microwave but now it has a fork in it which means he put it in with a fork in it
😂 you still believe that lie?
No. It doesn't arc or spark. Literally nothing happens.
@@Alexa-Rainehaha, So funny! I know for a fact our microwave DOES arc. please keep your comment to yourself.
@@Echinacae No. It didn't. You're lying. It's simple electromagnetism.
Electrob00m did a video on it.
Kinda hard to get a spark at all.
Entirely impossible with just 1 utensil.
@@Alexa-Raineliterally a fork can spark in a microwave, thats it, a single fork
@@etherealcs280 literally it can't. Try it. Right now. You'll see.
Not by itself as no water in the microwave will do other bad things.
That pizza slice is a crime against humanity.
The pancake was against the Geneva convention
I’m not Italian, but that shrimp pasta made me physically hurt
The poster might be Italian, but his dad lost citizenship the first time he cooked like that.
99/100 chance that they didn't even assemble the pasta at the store ordered from, they just pulled it out of a freezer and stuck it in a prep oven, then delivered it.
Oh wait, I responded as if this was another of the earlier pasta atrocities. Oh well scratch the dad, same point.
We definitely need more of this subreddit. I can't believe people can fail so hard at food
The reason the pink sauce was different shades is they were making it in ghost kitchens that weren't inspected and contamination happened a few times.
18:40 i assume they choose the bathroom because there is generally a ventilation fan in there and they are cooking with gas so ventilation is very important.
The oven pan burgers isn't a bad idea. It's just flatter meatloaf and meatloaf sandwiches are freakin' awesone! I usually cook bacon in the oven too (in a weave pattern) so a square of bacon on top of a square of beef patty... eat your heart put Wendy's
7:47 its the krabby patty that killed the food inspector
They cooked it in the bathroom because of the vent and lack of a fire alarm. They were cooking using a portable propane stove.
If anyone gives me spaghetti with cottage cheese, there will be hands thrown.
And there will be no slander of deep dish pizza. Even Minneapolis acknowledges Chicago pizza.
just a quick thing on the bean patty is depending on the place sometimes you have to be very careful with entering orders. you can accidentally send an order in the computer that says the patties are the bun as some restaurants. Someone entered the order incorrectly.
Military eggs are powdered eggs which are reconstituted. As a kid they weren't bad tbh.
Also for velvet cake, green works better (can make a checkerboard red and green velvet cake, I made one for work chrostmas party one year), or just leave it to be colored by the cocoa
that tiny ass kraft cup is at the dollar store for 1.25 I believe 💀
the fact the Robin watches Ashens is awesome.
also, yes Ashens did a video about a "Whole Chicken in a can". and it what came out of that can made me nauseous just watching
As someone who puts eggs into ramen when its boiling,,,, the omelet and ramen one is really really good
it's like a variation on omurice
School lunches they used to be somewhat decent in quality and then after the healthy eating initiative schools did not get increasing budget for lunches so you know what they did, they decrease the quality of the food to meet the bare minimum requirements
Regarding the pizza with apple sauce at 20:40 :
In my country we have a fairly popular dish, which is basically potato pancakes (i think you could call it hash browns, correct me, if i´m wrong)
and it´s usually served with apple sauce.
Tastes surprisingly good, even if i prefer it without the sauce. ^_^
GOOD NEWS
Theres a korean snack which roughly translates to break it or romanized "Ppushu Ppushu" anyways its basically dry ramen but as a snack and you can find it at hmart or other korean supermarkets. Its made by a Korean brand named Ottogi
12:27
As someone who worked at a pizza hut not too long ago, WHAT IN CHRIST IS THAT! NO! REALLY! WHAT IS THAAAAAAT!???! Dude, even the old way of doing pasta at our location never looked that bad, holy shiteeeeee!
I don't even work at pizza Hut, and i'm 100% sure that your pizza Hut makes it way better than this gross stuff!
At 18:10 he rants about the food and stuff...
My man... there is a FORK in the food... in the microwave.
My human.. forks in the microwave... do nothing.
Try it. You were lied to. Google it and be in awe of how susceptible to lies you are.
I've left my utensil in the bowl all of 10 years of microwaving leftovers.
Only sharp edges near each other arcs, like balled up aluminum foil.
The roast chicken ramen is worlds better than the plain chicken. There's a cheesy ramen too, but I think it's only in the cup style.
And you saw the canned bird in either an Ashens video or The Wolfe Pit back when he still had good use of his hands.
We got a microwave that beeps after it finishes once a minute until you open it. Means you never forget it. Absolute lifesaver since the other two people in the house (dad and sister) have ADHD.
I'm thinking that the person didn't even turn the microwave on because the fork, which I'm assuming is metal, is still on the plate. also why did 3 weeks go by with nobody using the microwave?
sincerely,
over-analyzer
@@martina5635metal isn’t that big of a deal in modern microwaves but yeah you’re probably right.
@macroblitz964 omg yeah I looked it up and it's mostly safe. it did say that thinner metals near eachother, like the prongs of a fork, can cause sparks though, so this specific fork would have at least sparked. It also said smoother edges that are further from the metal walls of a microwave should be fine, but also there are exceptions like aluminum foil and gold trim
I have ADD, and hate the microwaves that do that nonsense. My fella has one and the number of times I've seriously wanted to feed it a f#$&!ng fork... I mean, I'm happy that your folks find it helpful, but is there a way to turn that feature off?
@Meggzilla my microwave have a feature to turn off all the sounds so it doesn't beep at all, even when you press the buttons. we have a Whirlpool microwave and I press and hold on the 2
Snack dry-ramen is a thing!!! It's sold in asian stores under "Ottogi Ppushu Ppushu Noodle Snack". It's rlly good and has a little flavor packet. You smash it up, put in the powder, then mix and enjoy :D
Regarding the quality of food for Michelin star places, the fancier the shop looks, the "blah" the taste is sometimes... Maybe I am not rich enough to have my taste buds justify the price tag that comes with it. On the other end, some "shitty" looking places, but awesome food, that have had some stars places on on them, are my choice.. Regarding food labeled "prize wining", I can't remember if it was TGIF or Ruby Tuesdays, but they had a limited run menu of MasterChef top finalists halfway through a season. I tried some of them.. and I would not rate them praise worthy or "MasterChef" tier.
To help decode Michelin-Speak, here is a little glossary:
Charcuterie = Lunchables on a plank
Coulis = Drizzle of jam
Crème anglaise = custard
Escalope = Schnitzel
Goujons = Nuggets / fingers
15.45 talking about M&M and peanut butter being mixed... I think you channeled your inner Shaggy because, dude, you sounded like him!
4:18 Here in the Philippines we do have a chip called Nooda Crunch which is literally dried ramen and a flavor packet that you crush up, shake and eat. Also I remember that one scene in Squid Game where they eat dried ramyeon with their soju.
Here in Australia we also have this but it’s called mamee noodles
If we keep giving Robin these angry subreddits he's gonna start his villian arc
YESS
they do have snacks in japan that are basically flovered dry noodle bits
I went to a Greek restaurant and ordered "lamb skewers", expecting a shish-kabob or something.
Nope, 2 greasy lamb sausages on sticks. $24 for 2... corn-dogs without batter?
5:24 my mouth is watering. This looks like the best dish to ever exist. Especially the sauce... I can feel the coconut chicken coming inside me
Some people should be banned from entering a kitchen for all eternity. 🤢🤮
That pizza at 1:04 looks like it was infected by The Flood.
"McDonald's chicken nuggets"
They're made by Tyson... 😂
17:48 How did the microwave not explode with the fork?
That's a myth. Only sharp edges near each other causes arcs.
Pile of forks: might spark.
1 fork: will not spark.
Speaking as someone who lives in a household with cats, maybe they just put it in there to prevent a pet from eating it, and forgot about it. We use our microwave as the Cat-Proof Temporary Hot Food Storage Unit of choice.
That work provided "meal"... My mom once had her work by her shift pizza, but the higher ups ate it all before anyone on shift got to their meal break.
10:52 I am disappointed by that “plate of brisket”
New Haven Connecticut native here, pizza capital of the country. I am a pizza snob - and still say DiGiorno's, Red Baron, and those premade pizzas from Aldi's are all top tier frozen food.
I have very fond memories of Tombstone frozen pizzas, too.
Is school lunch in 'merica really this bad? Man I'm glad we in Germany get our Food fresh made from the kitchen
Yes! It’s warm, nutritious and most of all delicious 😋 and mostly even cheap 😁
The answer as all things are in the USA is it depends. Most cafeterias don't share funding with the main school. They have a smaller allocated budget which goes to pay staff and pay for the food and treats to sell. The managers have to maximize profit if they want their people to get pay raises. [Again not all schools but many of the ones was I was around growing up] Though the food would be hand made each day in the back though some wouldn't be like the Pizza that was just pre-packaged and shoved into a combi oven.
Basically food at American schools can actually be really good or it can be basically inedible trash.
@@evasadana8024Ok thx, didn't know that😮😊
@@evasadana8024 wow that is really informative thank you kind stranger ☺️✨
in public schools its usually very mid, although i didnt get school lunch in school and i still don't, i do remember that there were quite a few kids in elementary school who were in lunch debt, and the milk cartons had a pretty high chance of just being frozen. most of it was just poorly reheated frozen food.
your right man 100% looks like refried beans spot on, just happy to give you that good news.
6:14 I've had chocolate milk that apparently had potato pearls mixed in, and it came out super rich! I wonder if something similar happened with these mashed potatoes...
Might have been potato flakes, not pearls. But yes, it is a thing
I'd try it.
14:35 As an Asian, I suddenly understand the rage all the Italians must have felt at all the blasphemy shown earlier.
I will happily share brain bleach with everyone who needs some.
Bruh when a first saw the thumbnail I thought that pizza wasn’t that bad. But when gave a look to the actual post…
Robin is so right about dry ramen. It's very underrated
I made a dessert called the 'mysterious concotion' a while ago. It was made with cookies and cream ice cream, crushed teddy grahams, and peanut butter. It looked like vomit, but it was SO GOOD.
I made something very similar with my friend in like fifth grade. Can’t go wrong with mixing various chocolates and candies 🎉
12:06 you remember when crustaceans were for poor people?
Musashi Miyamoto remembers
6:47 That is not a lunchbox. It looks, at best, like a lunchbox sized cooling bag. That said, without a cooling element, it might as well be a pencil case.
That's what lunchboxes are here in the states. Little cooler bags. Nobody carries the old metal kind and if you carry a bento style container you put it in the cooler style lunch box
@@strayiggytv I should hope that nobody ever use them just bare like that, the bag is not getting clean once it's ruined.
The Bacon one is why I hate streaky bacon.
How does society reach these lows?
I have no idea 💀
Good question, I don’t know.
Can confirm with the military eggs; the real gourmet is green eggs and spam. And the spam is green as well. Only the best out in the field!
A college buddy of mine wo was in the US Navy and I came up with:
I will not eat grey eggs and Spam!
I will not eat them, Uncle Sam!
I will not eat them on a boat,
In dry-dock, or while afloat.
I would not, could not, Uncle Sam!
I will not eat grey eggs and Spam!
Why was it green?
@@GipsyDangerfan Y'ever overcook eggs to the point of dryness? You see it most in hardboiled eggs: they get a weird grey colouration on the yolks.
Also, it's a Dr. Seuss reference.
Can Robin get one of the fun subreddits, more than once a month?
6:20 No, you're absolutely right, those look like out-of-a-can refried beans. If I had no milk to make mashed potatoes, I'd use the cooking water. Wouldn't takes like chocolate syrup!
God he is getting tortured looking at these 💀
16:00 Pancakes? That looks like the person drop the saddest looking ice cream onto a plate.
9:37 Ohhhhhh, I love mushroom flavor! O-O
Also I will 100% defend you on frozen pizza, it's awesome.
I really don't eat bacon anymore, either, Robin. For the *exact reason* that my body can't handle the fat. Those strips of "bacon" look like walking red flags for my digestive system.
You should try back bacon or Canadian peameal bacon, then. Much, MUCH less fat than the streaky bacon that some people (wrongly) think is the only bacon in existence.
Everyone can cook thier own food for aslong as they want. And cooking time varries between noodle to noodle. Some noodles are done in 2 minutes. Some take 8. Some even take 20 minutes. And i even had noodles that took upwards of 30 minutes. The supposed "Italian" op clearly didnt mention that the noodles, by the looks of it, were only a side project to possibly just making potent noodle water for making a soup base.
23:47 "Biscuits and gravy! Made me a man!" -Jesse from WWE😂
9:56 i still see this crap with the same colour inconsistency. im in aroura, CO btw
19:16 Oh, trust me. Most steakhouses fuck up orders a lot. I like my steak to be medium-rare. They fucking give me congratulations.
20:25 Robin turns into a Tuba.
14:57 OK but to be fair that is exactly the type of meals. I grew up on with two parents who worked full-time and didn’t get home until late. Was it the best thing in the world? No, but it was warm and mom made sure we never went to bed hungry