{"id":250,"date":"2002-04-12T06:13:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-12T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2002-04-12T06:13:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-12T14:13:00","slug":"250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, because last week’s<\/a> answers proved so amusing (gee, thanks, Miranda), here are the Friday Five<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1. What is your favorite restaurant and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even though my apartment has next to no kitchen and I can barely (which is to say not at all) cook, I don’t do an awful lot of eating out at restaurants. When I do, it’s usually fast food or a pizza ordered in. When you start to recognize the pizza delivery people — and, more importantly, when they start to recognize you — it’s time to start considering other options. Locally, my friends are all poor college students, so when we eat together it’s usually just a burger and fries grabbed on campus. I really don’t date (which is a whole different set of questions), so the nicer restaurants are usually reserved for when my parents visit me for birthdays and such. Right now, if I had to choose, I’d probably say my favorite local restaurant is The Gingerbread Man<\/a>. I’ve never actually been inside<\/em>, oddly enough, but it’s not pizza and they deliver.<\/p>\n

2. What fast food restaurant are you partial to?<\/strong><\/p>\n

They’re all equally awful in their own way, so I try to mix it up. Variety is, after all, the spice of life. Again, if I had to choose, I’d probably pick Taco Bell, if only because there’s usually less of a wait at the drive-through.<\/p>\n

3. What are your standards and rules for tipping?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I like to be generous, although not absurdly so, and it depends in large part on the situation, the quality of service (or, more often, the promptness of delivery). I start with fifteen percent and then go from there.<\/p>\n

4. Do you usually order an appetizer and\/or dessert?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Again, it depends on the situtation, what I’m eating and who I’m with. Depends on the menu, too.<\/p>\n

5. What do you usually order to drink at a restaurant?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I’m with my family, we have, for some reason, all taken to ordering ice tea. More often than not, if I’m by myself, I’ll order a soda. It depends on the meal and my mood. I don’t drink alcohol very often, and only once have I ordered a glass of beer with a meal — I was in Texas, and my hosts told me I should. Maybe if I ate out more often. Maybe if I was more of a drinker. Maybe if fewer of my meals came with an offer for free cheesy bread.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again, because last week’s answers proved so amusing (gee, thanks, Miranda), here are the Friday Five: 1. What is your favorite restaurant and why? Even though my apartment has next to no kitchen and I can barely (which is to say not at all) cook, I don’t do an awful lot of eating out … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}