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Why do people bring their kids to 'Hooters'?

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Originally posted by: Intake77
Hooters is a quality family resturaunt... .I dont know what the big deal about it is.
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BTW, i even think they have a special kids menu! My dad took my little brother and myself in there all the time. I do have to say their food it quite good! plus, i learned that you can make some serious money working there! no biggie. it's good to show kids there is nothing to be ashamed about your body...or someone elses!
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Originally posted by: aphexII
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
the wings
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My ass makes better wings 😀
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I believe it probably does. Years ago when I still ate meat someone brought Hooters wings to work for us and a few of them still had feathers on them. I never even bothered to taste them.
 
I had a hot wing eat-off with my friend. We split 50 wings and it was first person to 20.
He won by a wing and a half.. both of us started experiencing blurry vision by that time and I had gone deaf. It was interesting.
 
Originally posted by: flavio
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt <-- proudly never been to hooters
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What's there to be proud about? Has it been so difficult for you?
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Nah, I pride myself on not giving myself the chance to turn into a dirty old man with a smutty mind. What do you think places like that promote? Decent family values!? Yeah... right.

nik
 
ROTFLMAO at this thread!

I can't answer the question but I can give you two examples.

On one hand, there is me and my family... we don't go to Hooters and have never been because my husband doesn't like having his dumb stick used as a way to get his $$$ (sex may sell but you don't have to buy into it) and I don't want my daughters to think being objectified is ok and I don't want my son thinking it's ok either. That said, we are not total prudes by any stretch of the imagination. It is just something we don't want to buy into... part of the Big Social Machine that we'd rather not participate in.

I have a good friend who has always gone to Hooters and taken her kids. She was the head cheerleader in college and a very pretty blonde... she was always very thin so she had breast implants put in for her 35th birthday (they are too big now, she looks just like a Barbie). She went through a lot of pain getting used to them, too. She looks great, but I do wonder how she will look in 15 years with those suckers strapped to her chest. I love her very much but she never seems to be happy. She keeps having houses built in new subdivisions and then selling them in hopes that the next neighborhood she builds in will somehow be better. Unfortunately, I do think she has bought into a lot of the messages our society sends... "You have to look a certain way, you have to live in a certain kind of neighborhood, you have to drive a certain kind of car, blah blah blah."

Generally speaking, I think a lot of people who choose not to eat at Hooter's are saying "we aint buying it". Maybe some are saying "boobies are bad" but that's not me. (Boobies are good, mine have made us all very happy) I just don't care to eat at a place that is known for its cheesy 'hot' waitresses rather than its food. I'll suffer through Chuck E Cheeses first...

BTW, if I am going to spend my money on going out to eat, I usually try to choose a place that is known for its cuisine, and that usually disqualifies most of the big chains. So that may be part of it, too...

<---food snob

Just my .02, and to each his or her own.

 
BTW, if I am going to spend my money on going out to eat, I usually try to choose a place that is known for its cuisine, and that usually disqualifies most of the big chains. So that may be part of it, too...

<---food snob

Just my .02, and to each his or her own.
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True that. 😀

Hooters is probably good for a group of guys to check out the waitresses, grab some beer and munch into those wings with feathers.
 
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Originally posted by: flavio
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt <-- proudly never been to hooters
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What's there to be proud about? Has it been so difficult for you?
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Nah, I pride myself on not giving myself the chance to turn into a dirty old man with a smutty mind. What do you think places like that promote? Decent family values!? Yeah... right.

nik
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Well you certainly get proud of yourself easily. Places like that serve food and have waitresses wearing shorts and t-shirts. If you think that is a big deal then your a prudish old man with a closed mind.

Values? Pretty girls, sports, beer and food...sounds good to me.

 


Let me guess....there is going to be another thread that shows up asking why people take their kids to the beach. Lighten up....It's not like they are exposing themselves.....
 
Dude I brought my little brother to hooters once and he got us extra attention from the women that work there. There is a side benifit to it.
 
Let me guess....there is going to be another thread that shows up asking why people take their kids to the beach. Lighten up....It's not like they are exposing themselves.....
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Not started by me. Hooters just seems really cheesy. The beach isn't cheesy. Hooters is a social establishment... the beach is a gift from nature. (OK, maybe some of the Hooter's girls are gifts from nature, lol...)

I grew up on the beach and I am very comfortable with nudity and sexuality. I've got at least 7 bikinis and I'm not ashamed to wear them, even when I've been pregnant and nursing (and recovering, too). But then again... I grew up on the beach and that's a very different thing from "Spring Break". If you only knew how wonderful a place the beach is when it isn't packed with stupid, drunken people...

I just don't like being manipulated by sexuality. (Well, I don't mind being manipulated under certain agreeable conditions, but that's a whole 'nuther story.... 😛 ) I think that on some level, people who don't like Hooters feel the same way... why spend money on a place that is selling sex and not awesome Panang Curry?

I think that there is room for all kinds of people in the world, I just want to speak up for those who are not Hooter's customers. We are not prudes... we are snobs! 😀 😉

 
Isla - Hooters food is pretty much on par with BW3's, Scorchers, or any number of other sports bars. It's a sports bar that is not going to have Panang Curry.

Actually their menu is probably better than most sports bars.
 
Well I have to say the first one I ever went to was with my mom, my dad, and my sister. I was about 14 and my sister was 8. Both of us ended up growing up to be relatively level headed indidviduals, graduating college and assimilating into the "real" world. My family has always enjoyed wings places, granted Hooters doesn't compare to "Quaker Steak and Lube" in Sharon, PA, but when your on vacation or with a couple friend it's a casual sports bar with bar food. Besides I have been to many more places that are supposed to be upscale and the waitress was trashier looking than those I have had at Hooters.

Chicken is chicken and Boobs are boobs, and we men and some women (non vegeterian ones at least) are gonna eat chicken and look at boobs, whether it's at a restaraunt that promotes it or the place of work that frowns on it.
 
Well, there you go flavio... I looked at the menu and now I know for sure I am not missing anything. 😀

We have kind of a fun sports bar here that I used to go to called The Press Box. It did have OK food, at least it did 10 years ago. Other than that, we are not 'sports bar' people (ok, we are not 'bar people' at all, unless you count sushi bars). I'm usually looking for a French-Vietnamese infusion... or an Armenian bakery... or an authentic Northern Italian Mom and Pop restaurant... "American" food does nothing for me, except give me indigestion.

Honestly, I don't think that there is anything 'bad' about Hooters. It's just not for some people, like me. And I admit... I prefer to watch my sports A) at the arena or B) on someone's projection TV, and I like my food to be the star of the eating-out experience. I'm persnickety about some things. Everyone is a little persnickety about one thing or another, and I am about this. OK, I guess if I was starving I would eat there. 😛

<---used to subscribe to Bon Appetit, also a big football fan 🙂

Oh, BTW, we had a topless doughnut shop in our city a few years back.

"Would you like milk or cream with that?"

😀 😀 😀
 
I'm with Isla on this one. I am far from a prude, and I know my boys are going to look at women, and their bodies as they get older. I would just rather it was at regular women, and not at a place that sells sex along with their food. Sex is around us every day, in so many ways, I just don't think any extra influences are needed on them. And I have a daughter, who I want to know that its ok to be proud of your body, and look good, but it doesn't mean that you have to put yourself on display to feed mens fantasies for an ego boost. I also don't want her to grow up thinking its ok to sell how you look in exchange for money, she is a smart girl who is going to be a beautiful woman one day, and I want her to learn to use her brains to make something of herself, not her body.
 
But you'd still go, right? 😀

Originally posted by: GirlFriday
I'm with Isla on this one. I am far from a prude, and I know my boys are going to look at women, and their bodies as they get older. I would just rather it was at regular women, and not at a place that sells sex along with their food. Sex is around us every day, in so many ways, I just don't think any extra influences are needed on them. And I have a daughter, who I want to know that its ok to be proud of your body, and look good, but it doesn't mean that you have to put yourself on display to feed mens fantasies for an ego boost. I also don't want her to grow up thinking its ok to sell how you look in exchange for money, she is a smart girl who is going to be a beautiful woman one day, and I want her to learn to use her brains to make something of herself, not her body.
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