Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

I doubt you're playing ten lines at once, though.

 

You don't know me, son.

 

I'd like to hear a ten-voice fugue

 

He’s right, junior, tiddles, boobykin, kiddo, (sniff) eh you @Fred Kidelfidstarter if that even is your name.

 

Call him Mr. Pen. Easy to remember. True, too.

 

Here's something that annoys me. "Genuine street food" served in a trendy upmarket restaurant with fancy menus, servers in neat uniforms and a price tag to match.

I can absolutely guarantee you that any "authentic street" Thai food that doesn't come with a side order of Bangkok pollution ain't genuine.

 

This kind of disdain is a slippery slope to eating a bat and causing a pandemic.

 

It helps to exercise a brain cell or two to choose what to eat.

 

I'd have serious trepidation about eating there.

 

Is there no place to buy real Thai streetfood?
Edit: I mean nearby.

 

Haha, I meant nearby.

 

Sorry I am a:

 

Depends on nearby to where.

 

Nearby to you, presumably.

 

Why can’t the advertisers see that all these companies cashing in on C19, with their patronising fucking messages of ‘We’ll get through this...’ and other bollocks is only making matters worse? Why the fuck do they think we want, or even need, to be reminded of this shit every day? And listen, cunts! Do you honestly think ANYONE that possesses more than a couple of brain cells believes you’re saying these things because you care, as opposed to simply using this crisis as a vehicle to promote your business??

 

I can make better Thai food than most of the Thai restaurants around here. At least, the kind of Thai food I like.

 

We have a taco truck here that is legit street food. It's run by migrant Mexicans, sits in a vacant lot with lifetime tables and a whiteboard menu. Cooler out front with soda. They do brisk business because the food is so good. Better than the sit-down Mexican restaurants.

 

You suit tassels.

 

That's what I mean. I've eaten real street food in Bangkok many times, and IMO, it really is the best - although there's a difference between street food in the areas where tourists congregate and where locals go.

In tourist areas, it's all Northern Thai food - mainly because the vendors are all from the poor north, but also because it's mostly grilled food, and easy to prepare while a sweaty farang is standing in front of you. And most foreigners in Thailand end up thinking that's what Thai food is.

 

Yep. Hipster foodie lingo does not better food make. Same with "craft" and "artisanal".