Ray Rice Would Not Recommend Green Bay As Travel Destination

[pbmax]

You think there are good restaurants in GB and yet you state that all you like is a extremely limited menu. Most people like variety. You think there is an eskimo somewhere in the arctic thinking his village has great restaurants? All three make the best whale blubber ever. WHat more could you want?

A good point about preferences. I think most people actually want the limited menu mentioned. And that is what causes confusion and disappointment when it is not available. Its an adjustment, a change. And that makes people uncomfortable. Which leads to McDonalds selling its 40 Trillionth burger.

I was actually referring to restaurant choice and not an actual individual restaurant menu.

My brother is very meat and potatoes kind of guy. He visited me on Kodiak Island one year and I pulled in a crab pot and had 2 - 10lb King Crabs that got boiled within 20 mins of coming out of the pots. If you have ever had extremely fresh king crab, you have no idea. (back me up on this Freakout) My brother? Wouldn't even try it, he had a PBJ instead.

As I tell his kids, you eat the same foods as your Dad, try something else. If your Dad didn't like Brats, you would never have had them either. Think - based on your Dad's decision, you might never have enjoyed the pleasure of a good brat. There maybe foods out there that you like even better, but you will never know unless you try them. Only recently have they started trying other stuff.

Poor word choice on my part. I did not mean the specific menu items you had covered in you post. I meant the menu that an individual would be familiar with from childhood through adulthood.

Most people, prefer the known and miss it when it is not available. It might be steak and potatoes, red beans and rice or it might be fresh sushi, but the familiar is comfortable to most people, including your brother obviously.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

i love Green Bay...reminds me of my home town...pueble, colorado. same size, ethnic background, industrial, surround by beautiful country.

Good call. They are pretty similar. Both are right around 100,000 in population, relatively boring, and both have bad weather. Only difference is Pueblo is too hot in the summer, GB is too cold in the winter. And Pueblo doesn't have the greatest football franchise of all time.

Yeah, but Pueblo produces a hell of a government pamphlet!

Pueblo (whoever he is) ain't got nothing on Thomas Paine.

Ty asked Paine for information on Diabetes recipes and he never got back to Ty. Pueblo right away, along with info on Listeria and Restaurant and Take-out safety....Paine is a charlatan.

[MJZiggy]

I think the difference between GB and other places is volume. In DC, like in NYC Chicago, Miami, etc. is that the added population in these cities (especially multi-ethnic populations) means that it's easier for a decent restaurant to survive. From my DC office I can walk to any number of ethnic restaurants along with enough organic, crunchy food to make you want to stop at the hot dog stand. Do they have a Nieman Marcus or Barney's in GB? Perhaps not, but while in GB, you don't really need that kind of flash either. I've also been partying there and we had a pretty good time...

[gbgary]

i love Green Bay...reminds me of my home town...pueble, colorado. same size, ethnic background, industrial, surrounded by beautiful country.

Good call. They are pretty similar. Both are right around 100,000 in population, relatively boring, and both have bad weather. Only difference is Pueblo is too hot in the summer, GB is too cold in the winter. And Pueblo doesn't have the greatest football franchise of all time.

Yeah, but Pueblo produces a hell of a government pamphlet!

Pueblo (whoever he is) ain't got nothing on Thomas Paine.

Ty asked Paine for information on Diabetes recipes and he never got back to Ty. Pueblo right away, along with info on Listeria and Restaurant and Take-out safety....Paine is a charlatan.

why would you ask about that? their commercials say it all...kills germs for "the deepest clean...for the healthiest mouth!"

[MichiganPackerFan]

. . . . wisconsin has some of the best places to eat anywhere. you just have to find them. they might look like hell, and you might not pay 100 bucks for a meal, but the food will be just as good if not better then any high priced downtown joint in any city

Sorry Red. I am originally from Appleton and have spent much time in GB and have eaten at many restaurants there. I have also lived in a bunch of other cities.

I love Green Bay for many reasons and Wisconsin also - but the restaurants are not one of them. I am a bit of a gourmet and love Thai, Chinese, Indian, and many other types of foods. You just can't get much good food in the Fox Valley compared to here in Vegas or in Seattle, San Fran, San Diego, etc.

In Green Bay you can find a good steak and a good fish fry. After that, I don't know.

Enlighten me if I am missing something. Any suggestions on restaurants and I will happily try them out.

see, thats probably the problem, i'm a steak and fish fry, fried chicken type of guy. you can keep your asian food

for me, i'd rather have a great steak at a backwoods super club then pay 3 times more to sit around a bunch of snooty people eating a portion half the size at a big town place

to each his own.

I like quality food. It's not all about quantity. You have to pay for quality and there's nothing snooty about that. Even having a low end steak is a step up from Ramen, so everyone has personal likes and standards.