Did your parents used to drink hard liquor and smoke in restaurants?

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Black Angus Steakhouse when I was seven years old:

The restaurant was dark and the leather smooth. Both my parents would order a highball before dinner, and usually one after dinner, and have a smoke at the table! Now I know that still happens every night in Nevada, but in California, that world is pretty much over.

― andy --, Friday, 4 March 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

no, i'm jewish.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I would have this extensive family gatherings at restaurants just like that, and I had/have relatives I remember as always smoking and as always being really old, even when they were probably just in their thirties or forties when I was younger. Most of them were cousins of my parents, and they all smoked like chimneys. Many of them died of lung cancer too soon. And they all drank hard liquor.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

no, i'm jewish.

Umm, my gf's family is Jewish ans they all drink scotch before dinner and some of them smoke.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

No smoking, plenty of boozing and a little wine for the kids too if appropriate.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i think he meant, as a jew, his parents would never have taken him to black angus steakhouse.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Can the jews visit outBACK steakHOUSE!!?

― andy --, Friday, 4 March 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think there are legal limits on where jews can go in this country.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

No, they go to Morton's!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

cutty otm

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

As white trash, I can say that I am definitely on this side of the "Black Angus Steakhouse" cultural divide. And yes, there was whiskey and cigarettes consumed with the meat. Still is.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to think "Crump" was Welsh for "a Pall Mall and two fingers of Canadian Club."

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/handouts/tobacco_advertising/images/1980_camel.gif

When I was kid, I was so into the Camel "Where A Man Belongs" campaign that I collected them in a scrapbook (my uncle gave me the idea). But if Camel thought they were creating a future customer, boy were they wrong. I smoke, but I DON'T SMAOKE CAMELS! Ha!

― andy --, Friday, 4 March 2005 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG!!! Before i opened this thread, I was goin to post the same answer as amateurist!

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

More likely here:

http://www.inetours.com/images/Restaurant02/Izzy

or here:

http://www.bestofsanfrancisco.net/alfredsmainroom.jpg

or here:

http://www.toprestaurants.com/sf/harris%20dinningrm.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.olesbiggame.com/images/dinner.jpg

No way, HERE man.

― andy --, Friday, 4 March 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Most goyishe thread ever.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Besides that other one.

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://web.mit.edu/dlightly/www/Images/interests/lime-jello.gif

Ha HA! Take THAT!

― andy --, Friday, 4 March 2005 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: Ashekenazi vs. Sephardic food

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

'used to'?

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Luna OTM. The last time I was out with my folks my Dad had I think 3 or 4 glasses of Jim Beam on the rocks. That may have been to soothe his nerves since he hates driving in the city.

Neither one smokes though, at least not for 20+ years.

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Ditto Luna. Silver Butter Knife Steak, anyone?

http://www.murraysrestaurant.com/murrays_interior.jpg

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Ditto Luna. Silver Butter Knife Steak, anyone?

http://www.murraysrestaurant.com/murrays_interior.jpg

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Everytime I think of places like this, I think of Lileks' Gobbler site.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

My Mom and stepfather are primarly wine and beer drinkers, with the occcasional foray into the sweet liqeurs on my Mom's end (Grand Marnier, Amaretto) which I used to steal from the liquor cabinet when I was a teenage girldrinkdrunk. My stepfather used to smoke cigarettes and quit. My Dad is totally straight edge.

― Sara Sherr, Friday, 4 March 2005 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost Holy my god. Somehow I missed that part of Lilek's site. (The now removed section abut bad meat once nearly made me wet myself, tho.)

Behold these works, ye mortals, and despair!

http://www.lileks.com/institute/motel/hallx.jpg

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The depressing photographs make up for the right-wing screeds.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 4 March 2005 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

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