I think it’s the chain restaurants we’re supposed to be killing, which means the ones that are more expensive than fast food but not as unique as independent places.
blue
Yeah, those – you know, the ones that old folk like because nostalgia and no damn taste.
Oh, like a Chili’s or a Red Robin. I just always catalogued them as fast food because they sell a much more slowly prepared version of fast food. Thank you.
Abel Undercity
Apparently Millennials Are Killing Hooters, for which I can only say, well, thanks!
Leila
Are we? Friend took me there when I turned 21 and the place was packed with college dudes. (Yeah, he wanted to see how much of a prude I was. After 20 minutes of silence, he finally said “Well?” and I said “Mine are bigger” and stole his mojito.)
Ntrovert
Oh, well played…?
Orion Fury
out damn
(Well then, I went to type out “’bout damn time.” and that was what decided to type out. I think my computer wants to sleep.)
Needfuldoer
Applebees, The 99, TGI Fridays, Chili’s… I lump them all into one generic, interchangeable group of “suburb food”. Old Country Buffet and Cracker Barrel have safe predictable meals for the elderly. We only have McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s up here, but I choose Wendy’s when possible.
The trick to finding good food is to look for local joints in the okay part of town that look like dives, but are always crowded. You know the people aren’t there for the ambience! (Also, if you’re at a restaurant for the first time, order the dish they named after the restaurant.)
Delicious Taffy
Death to Cracker Barrel.
zoomer296
Their sawmill gravy is about as flavorful as sawdust.
I’m pretty sure I’d be beaten to death with small wooden crosses if I said that here in the south.
Those fuckers hurt.
PumpkinWhat
As someone who lives in the south, zoomer, I agree to every part of what you said. I live with family, and they’re big fans of Cookout, Folks, and Cracker Barrel. Really deincentivizes me from going out to eat with them.
Course, when they go on dates and I’m not around, they go to Chili’s which I like a lot better than Cookout. Meh.
Orion Fury
I think someone else can comment better than myself here.
Actually we spend less than 25 year olds in 1989 on eating out. And entertainment. And transport. And clothing. And medical care. In fact, we spend less % of our income than gen x on everything, except of course housing. That’s the only thing we spend more on. But that’s not exactly news.
Needfuldoer
Well, we don’t spend all our free time hanging out with our friends at the food court in the mall.
Or at the mall in the first place, for that matter.
In more ways than one, the Internet is our mall.
Deathjavu
Shhh, don’t explain math to the entitled elderly sophisticates who write articles about “them damn kids is the worst because x!” If you point out that our spending habits largely exist because wages haven’t been kept anywhere near inflation and we’re always broke, old writers might have to face up to their own role in ruining society! (Which considering they run it and have run it for decades, is a lot more accurate than blaming the young.)
Just kidding, it’s fine. No one reads their ‘think’pieces anyway because newspaper and magazines are dead.
I know I’m a millennial because I had the Internet while I came of age. What generation comes after us, do they have a spiffy name yet?
Delicious Taffy
The Hopeless
Dana
I ran into something calling them the iGeneration or something. Let’s hope that doesn’t catch on.
-Sentinel-
Indeed. Very unoriginal. Pretty much every future generation will be the iGeneration, anyway, unless societal collapse brings about the end of technology.
Reltzik
Or unless Apple decides to rebrand sometime in the next 30 years.
The only one I heard is the extremely original Gen Z. What do they even plan on calling the next one, if they’re going with that?
Geneseepaw
I think the next character after zed is the open curly brackets; ascii 7B or 123 or something like that.
Blackbird
Generational names don’t really seem to get solidified until after all of their members are born. The term Generation X didn’t really take off in its current meaning until the late ’80s, and although the term Millennials seems to have been first coined to refer to us early-’80s to early-’00s kids back in 1987, it too didn’t really gain any ground in the mainstream until the mid-’00s. We’ve got 5-10 years before we have to worry about the options available for naming the next generation.
Halpful
nah, it’s just going to be millennials all the way down from now on. 😉 it already covers, what, a 25-30 year span? it’s completely silly to be lumping people in their 30’s in with today’s teenagers…
Marsh Maryrose
I am technically a baby boomer (very tail end) and I’ve spent my entire demographic life being lumped in with people 15 years older than me. Get used to it, kid. (And get off my lawn! Also, you call that music?)
Me too. 1963. I think the arbitrary pigeonholing is silly anyway. It’s just one more way to slice demographics to try to make some kind of point.
Chaucer59
I’m older than you, Keith (1959), anc I could never understand what makes me a boomer. The name Baby Boomers refers to the population explosion caused by Greatest Genners returning from WWII, getting GI Bill educations, and then settling down to shit out a brood. My parents were children during WWII (both born in ’37), so they were too young to be considered Greatest Gen. So,when someone tells me everyone born between 1948 and 1964 are all in the same category, I cry bullshit.
Li
The trouble is that “millennials” has a great sound to it.
We’re seeing the same thing happen with it that specifically happened with Baby Boomers, where a bunch of folks are using it as a catch-all for “people older than [the speaker] who are assholes, often bigoted”. Which is why it keeps being used to describe middle-aged white voters, even though all of the actual Baby Boomers are named for a phenomenon circa 1946-1965, and only the very youngest of them are 52. (Prediction: we’re gonna keep referring to people in their late 40s and 50s as Boomers for a while longer yet. It might even become less of a generational word and more of a generic descriptor, with people vaguely thinking the “Boomers” are so named for their tendency to yell (“boom”) at clouds rather than for the post-war baby boom that made them a disproportionately large and influential generation.)
Similarly, “millennials” is being used as a generic word for The Youth, even though people who are currently teenagers are actually part of what we’re currently calling Generation Z. (That’s not likely to stick; millennials used to be Generation Y, but people already frequently forget that Generation X exists, and that was the progenitor of that style of generation-naming. A potential candidate mentioned on wikipedia that I’d currently bet on: the iGeneration, as what distinguishes GenZ from millennials is “widespread internet usage at a young age”.)
wwwhhattt
I think we have to wait until millennials start complaining about younger people. That’s normally how these things work out right?
Needfuldoer
This first-wave ‘Millenial’ has been doing it for years now!
Then again I’ve always felt like a Gen X-er who was late for the bus, so I dunno.
You can swap some of those ingredients (e.g. beans for peas), but yeah.
I’m hungry now.
EvilMidnightLurker
Lamb. It’s not cowboy’s pie.
Showler
A smart shepherd uses his neighbour’s cow rather than his own sheep.
foamy
In my grandfather’s day, he was served horsemeat shepard’s pie.
I have also seen people add beets, which are an abomination unto Nuggan.
Chaucer59
Right. If it contains beef, it’s a cottage pie. Also, neither version contains corn.
thejeff
I find all of this vaguely amusing. It’s a peasant dish – It’s a pie with a potato topping, whatever kind of meat you’ve got in your area and whatever veges you’ve got available. Corn wasn’t used because corn wasn’t common in the British Isles. It’s used in American versions because it is.
Even the cottage vs shepard’s pie distinction is apparently an English one, not common in Ireland.
Hennerson
If he was properly British he’d be complaining it was a ‘Cottage Pie’ if it was made with beef rather than lamb…
So now apparently apart from killing gold, Applebees, diamonds, the housing market, the renting market, and boobs, now they’re killing Shepard’s Pie. What else will people claim Millennials are killing?
329 thoughts on “Yelp”
Ana Chronistic
LIFEHACKS
also Walky, you have clearly never had Bennigan’s Shepherd’s Pie
which isn’t that flavourful at all =p
(Millennials are killing restaurants anyway so w/e)
butts
I shot a restaurant in Reno, just to watch it die.
Delicious Taffy
Pics or it didn’t happen.
Meamoi
And leave evidence lying around? Are you mad, sir?
Orion Fury
I lol’d.
Znayx
https://xkcd.com/206/
Doki
Are we? I thought we ate out more than baby boomers and, uh… whatever the generation before us is. Gen X?
(Unless you meant killing as in KILLING IT, like, in a good way, in which case I completely misinterpreted you, oops. |D)
Mollyscribbles
I think it’s the chain restaurants we’re supposed to be killing, which means the ones that are more expensive than fast food but not as unique as independent places.
blue
Yeah, those – you know, the ones that old folk like because nostalgia and no damn taste.
Rukduk
…So, like…Olive Garden? I honestly can’t think of any other chain restaurants that don’t technically count as fast food.
Viktoria
Applebees and the like. The ones that aren’t bad, but generic and more expensive than they should be.
Rukduk
Oh, like a Chili’s or a Red Robin. I just always catalogued them as fast food because they sell a much more slowly prepared version of fast food. Thank you.
Abel Undercity
Apparently Millennials Are Killing Hooters, for which I can only say, well, thanks!
Leila
Are we? Friend took me there when I turned 21 and the place was packed with college dudes. (Yeah, he wanted to see how much of a prude I was. After 20 minutes of silence, he finally said “Well?” and I said “Mine are bigger” and stole his mojito.)
Ntrovert
Oh, well played…?
Orion Fury
out damn
(Well then, I went to type out “’bout damn time.” and that was what decided to type out. I think my computer wants to sleep.)
Needfuldoer
Applebees, The 99, TGI Fridays, Chili’s… I lump them all into one generic, interchangeable group of “suburb food”. Old Country Buffet and Cracker Barrel have safe predictable meals for the elderly. We only have McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s up here, but I choose Wendy’s when possible.
The trick to finding good food is to look for local joints in the okay part of town that look like dives, but are always crowded. You know the people aren’t there for the ambience! (Also, if you’re at a restaurant for the first time, order the dish they named after the restaurant.)
Delicious Taffy
Death to Cracker Barrel.
zoomer296
Their sawmill gravy is about as flavorful as sawdust.
I’m pretty sure I’d be beaten to death with small wooden crosses if I said that here in the south.
Those fuckers hurt.
PumpkinWhat
As someone who lives in the south, zoomer, I agree to every part of what you said. I live with family, and they’re big fans of Cookout, Folks, and Cracker Barrel. Really deincentivizes me from going out to eat with them.
Course, when they go on dates and I’m not around, they go to Chili’s which I like a lot better than Cookout. Meh.
Orion Fury
I think someone else can comment better than myself here.
Vicmaze
Incidentally it’s wath the gravy is made of
Gilly
Actually we spend less than 25 year olds in 1989 on eating out. And entertainment. And transport. And clothing. And medical care. In fact, we spend less % of our income than gen x on everything, except of course housing. That’s the only thing we spend more on. But that’s not exactly news.
Needfuldoer
Well, we don’t spend all our free time hanging out with our friends at the food court in the mall.
Or at the mall in the first place, for that matter.
In more ways than one, the Internet is our mall.
Deathjavu
Shhh, don’t explain math to the entitled elderly sophisticates who write articles about “them damn kids is the worst because x!” If you point out that our spending habits largely exist because wages haven’t been kept anywhere near inflation and we’re always broke, old writers might have to face up to their own role in ruining society! (Which considering they run it and have run it for decades, is a lot more accurate than blaming the young.)
Just kidding, it’s fine. No one reads their ‘think’pieces anyway because newspaper and magazines are dead.
Reltzik
I think part of the joke is that Jason would think even that non-flavorful shepherd pie was too flavorful.
Lyingcat
Clearly he’s been in the states too long then. Shepherd’s pie is supposed to be flavourful.
Ryek Hvek
It’s supposed to be filling. Should some flavour care to hitchhike along, okay, but not a dealbreaker.
Shade
If you’re making something with gravy in it and there’s no flavour you just suck at cooking.
Ryek Hvek
Judging from the number of people who put salt on their food before tasting it, there is a lot of sucky cooking out there.
Shade
Or people that just don’t taste their food first. I have a grandmother that tried to put tomato sauce on bacon carbonara.
thejeff
I’ll admit I suck at gravy, but then I’ve also never really been as addicted to good gravy as some of my friends are.
Reltzik
That or Jason’s just always loved bland.
Remmington Steele
Made with real shepherds, naturally.
Benjamin Geiger
Have you any dean?
Doctor_Who
Are Millennials killing Shepherd’s Pie?
Some1
Is Walky even technically a millennial anymore, I’m barely a millennial!
butts
18 years old, so born 1999. Technically a millennial. This year, anyway.
Leorale
I know I’m a millennial because I had the Internet while I came of age. What generation comes after us, do they have a spiffy name yet?
Delicious Taffy
The Hopeless
Dana
I ran into something calling them the iGeneration or something. Let’s hope that doesn’t catch on.
-Sentinel-
Indeed. Very unoriginal. Pretty much every future generation will be the iGeneration, anyway, unless societal collapse brings about the end of technology.
Reltzik
Or unless Apple decides to rebrand sometime in the next 30 years.
zoomer296
Nah, that’ll never happen.
Historyman68
I think that was MC Lars.
Passchendaele
The only one I heard is the extremely original Gen Z. What do they even plan on calling the next one, if they’re going with that?
Geneseepaw
I think the next character after zed is the open curly brackets; ascii 7B or 123 or something like that.
Blackbird
Generational names don’t really seem to get solidified until after all of their members are born. The term Generation X didn’t really take off in its current meaning until the late ’80s, and although the term Millennials seems to have been first coined to refer to us early-’80s to early-’00s kids back in 1987, it too didn’t really gain any ground in the mainstream until the mid-’00s. We’ve got 5-10 years before we have to worry about the options available for naming the next generation.
Halpful
nah, it’s just going to be millennials all the way down from now on. 😉 it already covers, what, a 25-30 year span? it’s completely silly to be lumping people in their 30’s in with today’s teenagers…
Marsh Maryrose
I am technically a baby boomer (very tail end) and I’ve spent my entire demographic life being lumped in with people 15 years older than me. Get used to it, kid. (And get off my lawn! Also, you call that music?)
keithcurtis
Me too. 1963. I think the arbitrary pigeonholing is silly anyway. It’s just one more way to slice demographics to try to make some kind of point.
Chaucer59
I’m older than you, Keith (1959), anc I could never understand what makes me a boomer. The name Baby Boomers refers to the population explosion caused by Greatest Genners returning from WWII, getting GI Bill educations, and then settling down to shit out a brood. My parents were children during WWII (both born in ’37), so they were too young to be considered Greatest Gen. So,when someone tells me everyone born between 1948 and 1964 are all in the same category, I cry bullshit.
Li
The trouble is that “millennials” has a great sound to it.
We’re seeing the same thing happen with it that specifically happened with Baby Boomers, where a bunch of folks are using it as a catch-all for “people older than [the speaker] who are assholes, often bigoted”. Which is why it keeps being used to describe middle-aged white voters, even though all of the actual Baby Boomers are named for a phenomenon circa 1946-1965, and only the very youngest of them are 52. (Prediction: we’re gonna keep referring to people in their late 40s and 50s as Boomers for a while longer yet. It might even become less of a generational word and more of a generic descriptor, with people vaguely thinking the “Boomers” are so named for their tendency to yell (“boom”) at clouds rather than for the post-war baby boom that made them a disproportionately large and influential generation.)
Similarly, “millennials” is being used as a generic word for The Youth, even though people who are currently teenagers are actually part of what we’re currently calling Generation Z. (That’s not likely to stick; millennials used to be Generation Y, but people already frequently forget that Generation X exists, and that was the progenitor of that style of generation-naming. A potential candidate mentioned on wikipedia that I’d currently bet on: the iGeneration, as what distinguishes GenZ from millennials is “widespread internet usage at a young age”.)
wwwhhattt
I think we have to wait until millennials start complaining about younger people. That’s normally how these things work out right?
Needfuldoer
This first-wave ‘Millenial’ has been doing it for years now!
Then again I’ve always felt like a Gen X-er who was late for the bus, so I dunno.
Mephron
The Damned.
@zombieundergrnd
Still Living With Their Parents generation
Mr. Mendo
Nothing can kill Shepherd’s Pie! It can’t be destroyed by conventional weapons!
Ryek Hvek
truffles are kryptonite to shepherd’s pie
ProfessorDetective
Like fruit cake. Or broccoli.
Goshii
Fruit cake is great when made right. I mean any dish that is preserved by pickling it in alcohol is wonderous.
Reltzik
Teeth and a digestive track are its only weakness!
…. Bob help us all.
Orion Fury
It’s like the Grimace.
foamy
Whoever makes a shepard’s pie without meat ought to be hung up by their thumbs. “Lasagna made of vegetables” my ass.
pumacatrun2
Beef, peas, carrots, corn and potato.
foamy
You can swap some of those ingredients (e.g. beans for peas), but yeah.
I’m hungry now.
EvilMidnightLurker
Lamb. It’s not cowboy’s pie.
Showler
A smart shepherd uses his neighbour’s cow rather than his own sheep.
foamy
In my grandfather’s day, he was served horsemeat shepard’s pie.
I have also seen people add beets, which are an abomination unto Nuggan.
Chaucer59
Right. If it contains beef, it’s a cottage pie. Also, neither version contains corn.
thejeff
I find all of this vaguely amusing. It’s a peasant dish – It’s a pie with a potato topping, whatever kind of meat you’ve got in your area and whatever veges you’ve got available. Corn wasn’t used because corn wasn’t common in the British Isles. It’s used in American versions because it is.
Even the cottage vs shepard’s pie distinction is apparently an English one, not common in Ireland.
Hennerson
If he was properly British he’d be complaining it was a ‘Cottage Pie’ if it was made with beef rather than lamb…
Tacos
So now apparently apart from killing gold, Applebees, diamonds, the housing market, the renting market, and boobs, now they’re killing Shepard’s Pie. What else will people claim Millennials are killing?
Halpful
can we kill hate? that would be nice.
Reltzik