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If restaurants just microwave their food can I just get the frozen version and cut out the middle man? (midwest.social)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Yes, it is called cooking. Was I stoned at the time? No comment.

fr though. Where does Applebee's get their potato skins?

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't think that's really the spirit of the question. Not all frozen food are made equal. The stuff in restaurants is higher quality frozen food than what you typically find in the frozen foods section of your local supermarket.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Higher quality seems like a stretch based on the last times someone dragged me to a crappy national chain.

    Higher salt and fat content definitely, because that shit tastes good. At the grocery store, you're far more likely to shop for things that seem healthy, and the restaurant meals would have insane nutrition labels (especially if they were honest about restaurant serving sizes).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    There's a lot more frozen food served at restaurants than you realize. And not just at crappy national chains like Applebees. There are different grades of frozen foods, and the better restaurants use higher quality ones.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I get that.

    It seemed like you presented it as a given that just because it's at a restaurant, it's higher quality.

    I was trying offer the counterexample and suggest that the grocery store frozen food is also intentionally different making "quality" difficult to compare.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I thought they were referring to the restaurant branded food you can buy from the supermarket snd make at home. Like these two chain restaurant items that I have purchased and consumed.

    https://www.walmart.com/ip/Red-Lobster-Cheddar-Bay-Frozen-Biscuits-Ready-to-Bake-Makes-8-Regular-Biscuits-15-66-oz-Box/423932600

    https://www.walmart.com/browse/food/on-the-border-salsa/976759_976787_1001393_7109351_7154555

    There are some frozen ones too, but don't remember which ones.

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