Did boomers really go to restaurants just to have coffee?

That's the mickey mantle episode.

Didn't they go to restaurants for literally every meal?

I don't think I saw any of them once cook food except for Kramer a few times

muttoids will go to a greasy diner just to have a cup of stale drip filter coffee, flirt with the mid 45 year old single mother serving them and leave 3 months wages as a tip

It was New York in the 90s. A cup of coffee cost like 50 cents.

Do Americans really trust these opaque squeeze bottles?

A third place is important and creates stimulation. Plenty of social ills are coming to public awareness with nobody being able to socialize.

>>212746574 (OP)
diners aren't restaurants, they have multiple selections for people in a rush.

>>212746923
>3 month wages as tip
I realize 6 bucks is a lot to a 3rd world retard like you, but it isn't too bad. Especially if you compare it to a lot of places in europe where waiter wages are fully covered by restaurants and the cost of eating there is high enough that people just outright avoid it.
>>212746954
Yeah they work fine

>>212746901
in the 90's the economy was so good that it was cheaper to eat out than to cook.

>>212746954
>>212746923
Don't you have websites for your "country" that you can use instead of bothering us?

>>212746574 (OP)
Oven

>>212747037
Boo hoo, grow up

>>212746574 (OP)
No, you're confusing diners with restaurants. Restaurants are where you go with your date or family, sit-down, and have a beautiful college waitress treat you like a king -- followed by a 20% tip. Diners are where you 'stop-by' with friends of yours, sit anywhere, and are treated more like cattle than a human. You don't order 'food-food' at a diner unless you want food poisoning. That's why you only see them order coffee and pastries; they're the safest bet.

Oh also diners are 1/4 the price of restaurants so just avoid real food at diners and you're golden.

>>212746923
four bucks may be several months wages to seething thirdies but the average american makes that in a few minutes

>>212747037
No, we're interdependent due to NATO and your social media megacap companies which buy all promising European startups. We're part of the same empire

>>212747037
Lol. No. They don't. The internet is ours and they just use it lmao

>>212747192
They order real food in almost every episode.
There’s even a plot point that George always gets tuna on toast, until one day he decides to get the opposite.

>>212746872
I think it was joe damaggio

>>212747192
>You don't order 'food-food' at a diner
Shut up you faggot retard. A good Diner is something an entire town will rally at.
Breakfast at the local diner is a staple for people that aren't brown.

>>212747347
>There’s even a plot point that George always gets tuna on toast, until one day he decides to get the opposite.
He got toast on tuna? Disgusting.

>>212746923
i do this without the tip and im 35 and in Europe. I go to a restaurant after work just to get coffee and no food. Several times now the waitress has just give me the coffee for free.

And ciggerettes

>>212746574 (OP)
Gen Z really needs to rediscover this brilliant old movie called Coffee and Cigarettes by Jim Jarmush. It’s so funny and weird, so many memorable scenes. “I didn’t know that you were a Taco Bell guy man” “bill motherfuckin Murray serious delirium”

https://vocaroo.com/1mTyEbUibOmE

>>212746574 (OP)
That's when diners were bustling with people making hand over fist. Now they jacked up the prices and barely anyone goes there.

>>212746901
Not every meal, Jerry has breakfast stuffs at home. Bread, milk, cereal, etc. Hence why Kramer comes by to raid his fridge.

>>212746574 (OP)
new yorkers live in shoe box sized cockroach infested dumps that freeze in winter and are an oven every other time. they had no internet, couldnt afford a tv and most didnt even have a stove in their shit hole apartment. going out to a restaurant and staying there was better than being at home.

>>212747789
those aren't meals, just stuff you grab when hungry

>>212746574 (OP)
Have you never done this, anon? Are you retarded?

>>212746901
In real life their apartments would have probably been a lot smaller and suck for trying to cook large meals in.

>>212747386
Ah, you're right.
Well, at least I didn't say Keith Hernandez

>>212746574 (OP)
Are zoomers really afraid of human contact?

>>212747723
Millennials drove up prices because they are so stupid that they would pay any price for food as long as they don't have to prepare it themselves.

>>212747192
>don't eat the real food at diners
Yeah, why don't you just keep your "dinner timin'" at McDonald's, "homie".

>>212747810
guess that's why NYC is the only part of the country with a tangible culture.

>>212747526
Your mom gave me her coffee for free IYKWIM

They didn't sit at that table very often, only when the plot needed them to see something out the window.

>>212747861
Jerry's apartment would probably not have that kitchen island and that's just were his stove and sink would be with the right by the door and his bed would probably be where his computer is. His computer would be where his shelf is. His bathroom might be where it actually is and then his bedroom would be someone else's oddly shaped bedroom/living room

>>212747192
>dine at a restaurant
>somehow it is not called a diner

>>212748141
Elaborate.

>>212748141
I hate my mother so this holds no meaning to me.

>>212747872
I despise that episode.

>>212747218
Then stfu nigger

>>212746574 (OP)
it is a jews-do-a-jewish-things type of show

>>212748369
>French word with different origin and meaning from an American English word
You don't say

>>212748437
You sound like a thin skinned pansy

>>212748193
>in the diner literally every episode
>they weren't there that often

>>212748434
Me too. You can't have Keith Hernandez and Jerry Seinfeld on one show. They can't act. What kind of asshole asks a guy you barely know to help move?

>>212746574 (OP)
I don't know what rat fink Yorker jews do, nor do I want to know

>>212747037
>>212747250
kek

>>212747386
DINKY DONUTS

>>212748974
Read the post again and consider deleting your post to avoid further embarrassment

>>212749197
nobody asked or cared about where they were sitting specifically in the diner.

All i know is that diner set is very comfy, the second comfiest set of the whole show behind Mr. Pitt's office.

>>212749253
Are you retarded?

>>212746574 (OP)
Yeah and it was kino. I feel bad that your generation doesn't have third places in the way that we did

>>212746901
sometimes they do take out

>>212749439
>Thinks anything in New York is "kino"
Tard

>>212746574 (OP)
Can you read the word written on the window nigger?

>>212749296
>They didn't sit at that table very often, only when the plot needed them to see something out the window.
That was your post. You brought up the fact that they sat at that specific table in the diner when nobody asked nor does it relate to the thread OP question. You might be the retarded one

>>212746574 (OP)
>restaurant
It says "cafe" literally right there in the middle of your picture.

>>212746574 (OP)
Are zoomers and gen alpha so unimaginative that the concept of meeting friends for coffee is fucking foreign to them? Yes, you fucking troglodyte. Do you do nothing but sit in your fucking room and browse the internet all day little zoom-zoom? Fucking touch grass.

I'm more disturbed by the fact that people pay 5 dollars a day for coffee now instead of just making their own

no they stayed home and talked to their computer

>>212749684
it's just the idea of going to a diner for that is weird. This was before coffee chains were a thing.

>>212746982
>>212747192
>>212747723
>>212749575

>>212749819
It's a restaurant, not a diner.

>>212746901
City apartments, especially in places like New York, tend to have very small kitchens and most people have roommates (often multiple). Trying to cook at home is difficult so the kitchen ends up being mostly for reheating leftover takeout food. Even though the apartments and roommate situation is the show aren't typical, the yuppy culture of the time is reflected in their dining habits.

>>212746954
In high trust areas, yes. Not sure if that would have applied to their part of 1990s NYC but it is a tv show so it doesn't have to be accurate in every minor detail.

>>212746923
That's because we know the secret password, "scrapple", to obligate the waitress to let us ejaculate inside her vaginal barrel.

>>212746574 (OP)
That's not a restaurant that's a fucking Cafe

>>212749616
You the fucking postin' police pal?
The fuckin meme militia?
The gahdamn reply regulator?
Get bent. I'm walking here.

>>212746923
>3 months wages as a tip
what's zimbabwe like this time of year?

>>212746574 (OP)
Yes, before social media and smartphones rotted your retarded zoomer brain people actually left their basements and hung out in restaurants and coffee shops and socialized.

>>212746574 (OP)
They worked at most 2 or 3 hours a day, so they had lots of time for these things. Meet women, engage in hobbies, and so on.

All while drawing a salary that afforded them a wife, kids, 2 cars, a vacation home, a boat, and a retirement fund. Plus a company pension and a gold watch when they got tired of "working".

>>212749926
that's not what every other autist is saying here.

>>212750290
Well, they're fucking wrong.

What was wrong with the original diner?

>>212749873
On the actual show it was called Monk's Cafe

>>212747810
Hell you could say the same for most people throughout time. Without modern amenities, homes were generally one room shitholes with no semblance of privacy, infested with pests, stuffy and filled with smoke, etc. With running water, modern sewage systems, HVAC, a kitchen, and internet, most modern day westerners live more comfortably than medieval royalty

>>212751386
Was a dif place in the pilot https://screenrant.com/seinfeld-hidden-details-monks-cafe/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G8YCM0pGfU

>>212746923
Kek theyre rattled

>>212747037
Your social media killed foreign sites.