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Posted: Mar 19 2009 12:42 pm

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/Cli5vpa5qY4/Custom-Everything

wired.com wrote:

Bespoke products have always been available to anyone willing and able to pay the price, whether for an individually tailored suit or a customized car. In recent years, one of the big shifts in retail has been giving customers the ability to design their own versions of premium products—like wedding rings, pricey handbags, and Nikes—at prices that are comparable to the regular versions.

Now, without most of us realizing it, we’re on the cusp of another big change. Thanks to market demands and developments in technology, we’re going to be living in a user-generated world, where everything we use can (and will) be customizable. It’s already happening, in ways both obvious and not.

I don't like this. While I personally love to be able to customize some things, I just don't like the idea of that becoming a standard for our society. Society is like a child, and I feel if it's always getting what it wants, it's going to become spoiled... even more spoiled then we generally already are.

Posted: Mar 19 2009 01:01 pm

Tell me about it, I work in the kitchen at Chili's and always deal with the most fucking ridiculous custom orders to the point that I cannot believe we even have a menu, it drives me fucking insane.

We are not Burger King damnit, you cannot always have it your way, sometimes you have to take a risk and deal with the consequences.

I totally feel you on this Rycona.

Posted: Mar 19 2009 01:03 pm

i can go either way for this. i'd like to have shirt that has che guevara holding a lightsaber about to slice off jesse helms' head.

but i could understand how a restaurant would be affected by this.

Posted: Mar 19 2009 01:16 pm

As stated, americans are already really spoiled. I'm conflicted. My consumer side tells me it's a great direction to take as it would please me to be able to customize my goods. My professional side however, thinks that it sucks and undermines the talent of many great artists and designers that work hard to make a product look a certain way, then Joe the Plumber comes along and fucks it up. One of my pet peeves are people that buy BMW's etc, and customize the shit out of them. You know, the designers of those vehicles are among the best in the industry. They don't want your stupid clear corners and spoilers on their work of art.

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As far as customizing in the cooking world as was mentioned, it's a pretty horrible insult sometimes to have a dish you've worked hard as hell on to get just right and someone wants you to do something that more or less ruins the entire thing.

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People have it so good, but they're always complaining. I'm guilty of it myself too sometimes. We have it so lucky, but we hardly ever appreciate it.

Posted: Mar 20 2009 06:49 pm

Fred wrote:

As far as customizing in the cooking world as was mentioned, it's a pretty horrible insult sometimes to have a dish you've worked hard as hell on to get just right and someone wants you to do something that more or less ruins the entire thing.

It depends on how drastic a change it is though. I don't normally customize orders much, if it's anything it's either removing onions or swapping one side dish for a different one. The only big change I ever make is if I'm in an Italian restaurant and they have a seafood dish with marinara, I'll ask for Diavolo sauce (spicy marinara) instead. Logistically it's a tiny change, but it certainly effects the dish in a big way and I'm sure would anger some uptight chef somewhere.

Posted: Mar 20 2009 06:59 pm

People, we live in a world where you can build your own Muppet: http://www.fao.com/catalog/factories/muppets.jsp

Truly, this is a glorious time to be alive.

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Syd Lexia wrote:

People, we live in a world where you can build your own Muppet: http://www.fao.com/catalog/factories/muppets.jsp

Truly, this is a glorious time to be alive.

Yay!!!

Posted: Mar 20 2009 07:11 pm

Quote:

Yay!!!

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*Annoyed*

Fonzie!

Posted: Mar 20 2009 08:27 pm

Andrew Man wrote:

Tell me about it, I work in the kitchen at Chili's and always deal with the most fucking ridiculous custom orders to the point that I cannot believe we even have a menu, it drives me fucking insane.

We are not Burger King damnit, you cannot always have it your way, sometimes you have to take a risk and deal with the consequences.

I totally feel you on this Rycona.

I work as a dishwasher a couple nights a week in a restaurant kitchen and have to hear about all kinds of weird customer requests. I always joke to the cooks that "This is not Burger King...you can't have it your way." One time some customer wanted the veggie wrap but also wanted chicken fingers in the wrap as well.

I say if you want custom stuff order the things needed and then put them in yourself. I once ordered a side of SPAM knowing I wanted it on my burger but I didn't make a special request of it to the kitchen.

Posted: Mar 21 2009 02:26 am

If you have ever

IceWarm wrote:

...ordered a side of SPAM knowing I wanted it on my burger

...you might be a redneck. Laughing

(I say that as a proud redneck of course; it just sounded too Foxworthy not to point out.)

Posted: Mar 21 2009 10:03 am

SoldierHawk wrote:

If you have ever

IceWarm wrote:

...ordered a side of SPAM knowing I wanted it on my burger

...you might be a redneck. Laughing

(I say that as a proud redneck of course; it just sounded too Foxworthy not to point out.)

It was quite good actually. They do cook the SPAM though. I wouldn't eat it raw. My point being though I didn't need to make a lame custom request for them to put it on the burger. The side of SPAM is a menu item and instead of coming off as an asshole I'd rather just put it on the burger myself.

This is at the restaurant where I work but I don't make silly requests when I go out to other restaurants either.

Posted: Mar 21 2009 10:09 am

...there are restaurants with Spam on the menu!?

This scares and confuses me.

Posted: Mar 21 2009 11:09 am

Syd Lexia wrote:

...there are restaurants with Spam on the menu!?

This scares and confuses me.

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Posted: Mar 21 2009 03:13 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

...there are restaurants with Spam on the menu!?

This scares and confuses me.

Yeah, but it is only served as a side of it, just a slice. They don't have it on anything else. Here is the website for the restaurant for any interested:

http://motherloadedtavern.com/Site/Welcome.html