On Being Served A Bad Biscuit and Offensively Bad Bacon

I don’t like just flaming a food place for being bad publicly, but a bad biscuit and offensive bacon is an aggression that cannot stand.

Andrew Donaldson
7 min readJun 26, 2023
Photo by GeneralMillsCF, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Here’s the thing: I don’t like just flaming a food place for being bad publicly, but a bad biscuit and offensive bacon is an aggression that cannot stand.

I loathe the Yelp!-ing of reviews that social media has brought forth. While some folks honestly do try to evaluate and give out information, the vast majority are just ranting for attention and/or nefarious purposes that have nothing to do with the average person getting the expected service. Plus, while the nameless faceless keyboard malcontents find great personal enjoyment in trashing business concerns, in the real world there are consequences to such things that service workers just trying to get their check get punished for. A viral PR moment in a thin-margin business usually results in folks becoming unemployed, and if you yourself get your jollies off on wrecking working-class lives for your own online joygasm, then shame on you.

Furthermore, there are layers to things. Not all bad food is created equal. There is “this is bad” because an otherwise good recipe was prepared wrong, left on the pass too long, jostled en…

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Andrew Donaldson
Andrew Donaldson

Written by Andrew Donaldson

Writer. Mountaineer diaspora. Veteran. Managing Editor @ordinarytimemag on culture & politics, food writing @yonderandhome, Host @heardtellshow & other media

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