Friday, January 29, 2016

Panera: Food for Rich White People




"Clean Pairings."  Did you hear that noise?  That was my soul dying under the weight of the narrator's self-satisfaction.

Ugh, the pretention!  It BURNS!

Seriously, though- the entire message of this heaping, steaming pile of bilge is "when you've got money, you don't eat prole food- you don't go to KFC or McDonald's or Burger King or even Subway.  You go to twee designer bread places like Panera, where you can get 'dirty' salads with 'clean' dressing, $5 cups of Low-Fat Vegetarian Garden Vegetable Soup with Pesto  sprinkled ever so gently with organic garlic, and $4 pitas to dip into it.  You bring all this stuff home to your Not Very Appreciative kids, all of whom would just kill to see a bucket of fried chicken or a sack of White Castle burgers just once, if only you asked them.  But you'll never ask them."

So, to all you "progressive" posers-- please, continue to bring this overpriced junk home and dissapoint your kids, time and time again.  Don't be too surprised when they begin to find reasons to not be home for dinner, coming home later with grease on their faces and empty Quick Wipe packets in their designer jeans.  Because believe me, there are only so many dirty salads one can eat, and there are only so many ways to disguise tasteless lumps of warm bread.

Here's a better idea- buy some rolls and salad (buy them at Whole Foods Market and make sure they are 'organic,' if you insist) and a can of soup, throw it together yourself in your kitchen,  Send the money you saved to Oxfam, you awful pretentious twats.


3 comments:

  1. Panera's is a lot like Bruegger's.
    Both places charge a $1 or so extra just to add cream cheese to either a bagel or a sandwich.
    This is corporate "gentrification" at work.

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    1. When ordering the "western style" egg breakfast sandwich at Bruegger's (with red and green pepper) I'm asked what kind of bagel I want it on.
      A cinnamon-sugar bagel of course. Yum!

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  2. I find that Panera provides little value for the price. The portions continue to shrink while the prices rise. I attempt to avoid this place unless there is nothing else available.

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