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Sad meal competition: $30 Italian Meal vs. Butter & Cheese Sandwich vs. Brooklyn BBQ

Which meal is the saddest meal?

  • $30 Italian Meal

    Votes: 395 28.5%

  • Butter & Cheese Sandwich

    Votes: 565 40.7%

  • Brooklyn BBQ

    Votes: 427 30.8%
  • Total voters
    1,387
ElectricBlanketFire

ElectricBlanketFire

What year is this?
Member
Oct 25, 2017
31,877
It's time to take a vote. Which meal is the saddest meal?

Introducing the challengers:

$30 Italian Meal

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Butter & Cheese Sandwich

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Brooklyn BBQ

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dlauv

dlauv

Prophet of Truth - One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 27, 2017
11,515
Depends on how much the BBQ costs. $30 bucks for a sack lunch is kind of hard to beat.
 
Book One

Book One

Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,823
Picking a winner here seems impossible

Though I will say, as someone who lives in Texas, seeing that BBQ pic made me genuinely angry for a second or two
 
Meg Cherry

Meg Cherry

Member
Oct 25, 2017
7,279
Seattle, WA
$30 Italian entirely because we know exactly how much had to be paid for that nightmare. Brooklyn BBQ is likely worse about this - but the price is a pleasant mystery.
 
Keywork

Keywork

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,135
Brooklyn BBQ, simply because coming from the south just having meat and bread on a plate with two pickles is not a BBQ meal. Where is the slaw, the mac and cheese, the collard greens, the BBQ beans with giant hunks of brisket or pork?!
 
Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins

Banned
Feb 10, 2018
17,534
The Italian meal is good, but a rip off.

The cheese on buttered bread is a perfectly acceptable lunch or snack.

So my vote goes to the brooklyn BBQ it looks posh and good quality, but is incomplete and under portioned.
 
Nairume

Nairume

SaGa Sage
Member
Oct 25, 2017
6,944
Brooklyn BBQ is the sadder meal, both in terms of what it is and the overall context.

$30 Italian Meal is funny, but it's easy to forget that the price was what it was because he bought food for his sister too.

Butter and cheese sandwich is harmless.
 
Pharaun

Pharaun

Member
Oct 27, 2017
2,053
Definitely the Brooklyn bbq, it's offensive to real bbq on every level.

The strugglewich is more funny than sad, it's not like it's aspiring to be a great meal.

The $30 Italian meal looks fine for take out American-Italian, if it was a $12 Italian meal no one would give it a second thought.
 
args

args

Banned
Oct 28, 2017
1,897
that italian meal looks pretty good actually. let's take it out of context for a moment before casting judgment.
 
Robochimp

Robochimp

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
2,677
The pickles and grocery store rolls of the Brooklyn BBQ meal make it the most pathetic.
 
baggage

baggage

Member
Oct 25, 2017
517
I couldn't get ESRGAN models to upscale it well, but Waifu2x did pretty good at it

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FRV

FRV

Member
Oct 27, 2017
367
Why you guys hating on Butter & Cheese Sandwich. It's not trying to be something else its is what its supposed to be, simplistic.
 
nded

nded

Member
Nov 14, 2017
10,586
I vote $30 Italian Meal because we know its price which gives us a good idea of how pathetic it is. European Cheese Sandwich is humble as fuck but probably didn't cost more than $2 to make and Brooklyn BBQ Tray at least has beer.
 
subpar spatula

subpar spatula

Refuses to Wash his Ass
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Oct 26, 2017
22,153
This is a lot like when people joke about tap water being gross but don't realize most people have no access to clean water. Eat your damn cheese sandwich.
 
TheMango55

TheMango55

Banned
Nov 1, 2017
5,788
That Brooklyn BBQ picture (and accompanying article) just perfectly frames how New Yorkers can take the most ordinary thing in the world, do it themselves in the most ordinary way, and then proclaim it the greatest in the world.

Speaking of, has anyone heard of the amazing chopped cheese sandwich?! Only in New York amirite?!
 
BLEEN

BLEEN

Member
Oct 27, 2017
21,893
TheMango55 said:
That Brooklyn BBQ picture (and accompanying article) just perfectly frames how New Yorkers can take the most ordinary thing in the world, do it themselves in the most ordinary way, and then proclaim it the greatest in the world.

Speaking of, has anyone heard of the amazing chopped cheese sandwich?! Only in New York amirite?!
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lol true
I will say this about the chopped cheese, there is a def. a certain science to it, as simple as it is, that makes it arguably greater than a burger. To me, it's the Maillard reaction to more surface area ratio. You get that down, and it's all groovy. I really don't approve of using frozen patties, tho I understand why for food carts.
 
Ortix

Ortix

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
1,438
Sandwich is fine. Just a quick homemade bite.
Italian meal is good even. The funny part was the guy thinking it was a steal at 30 dollars.
So that Brooklyn BBQ is saddest. I'm getting sad looking at it.
 
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