Rosabelle
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512 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 2 Jun
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And I will say this for the record. I think it's why I'm drawn to these slightly horrific places like McDonald's and Starbucks. It's because when you walk in, Duncan, there is a certain... No matter where you are in the country, you might be out on the road and feeling a little bit like you're missing home. You can walk into a place and it's like, this is just like my local.
And there is something both... awful about that kind of franchising of things, but also quite nice. And I've fallen into, I think, that cursed American thing of being like, there's an element in me that's like, yeah, the chain.
And it's, to be clear, it's fucking weird. Yeah. Like, it's really deeply unusual. You're kind of in a forest. Yeah, and the Eye of Sauron was a good observation. There is that. So I read up on this a little bit. I'll see if this helps at all. So this is from their website, which is now archived. So this is from the Wayback Machine. It's not currently on their site.
I mean, the White House and their website changes. Incredible. So part of the Cheesecake Factory experience is enjoying our distinctive decor. So they know that it's out there. This is where we add our color and fun, from the Egyptian columns and hand-blown lighting fixtures to the dark cherry wood and brass accents.
A common theme found throughout the Cheesecake Factory are our murals, and they're created by Mary DeStewis. I'll be saying that incorrectly, but it's my best bet. A former manager who launched the trend of at our Redondo Beach location in 88. So that's where the murals came from.
Ah, amazing. These distinct murals add panache. You don't hear panache very often.
Yeah, it's been around for a very long time. So rewind from that. This is from thedailymeal.com. The key designer who did all the batshit stuff came on board in 1992. So that was four years after the Redondo Beach location opened. And he did all that, as this site says, wacky as heck decor. So blame it all on Rick McCormick, who is a veteran designer.
If your instinct is, what do any of these things have to do with cheesecake? The answer is absolutely nothing. It turns out they were just items their designer and the CEO thought were cool. So it's that simple. It's that simple. I guess good on them. McCormick himself admits the style might not sound good if you've never experienced it yourself.
um telling the website if i try to describe to you what it looks like you'd probably think it was one of the most horrible looking places around so he gets it we should try promoting our podcast like that to people out in the world i'm like this idea sounds terrible it sounds terrible if you like if you go if you listen you'll like it you'll like it from the outside it sounds awful it's like two white guys talking to each other for ages awful
So this Daily Meal article goes on to say, no two Cheesecake Factory locations are exactly the same, but they all share a riot of influences from Egypt to Victorian England to areas in Central Europe. And according to an old interview that McCormick did, the Egyptian style was mainly because Overton always thought Egyptian stuff looked cool. And he was the CEO I mentioned earlier.
So that's why it looks like it is. They just thought it was cool.
There's 20 people around the table.
Yeah. He's like, Egypt, have you seen it? Look at this photo. It's amazing. Yeah. Europe, Victorian England. Let's do it all. Yeah. It's very American. You just like grabbing a bunch of other influencers and like branding it as your own thing.
No, I think I felt comfortable and at home in there. I saw many different people dining and they all seemed to be having a good time. I've also learned recently that they cut 13 items last month from their menu, but they've added 23 more. So you thought that menu was going to get down to 18 pages? It's probably up to about 21 now. I thought that was quite good.
Oh, like it's like two pages of cheesecake flavors. Insane. I'm sure there's some blogger out there that's gone through and had like one bite of every cheesecake, but we'll live our lives and we won't have all that cheesecake.
It does sound like I've just laid it down right now. I think you should make it... No, I'm trying to keep my cholesterol under control. I can't give myself a challenge like that.
You can have the other half.
for the next year I wonder if by the end of that year I would come to love cheesecake more or if I would be like I can't deal with any more of this I feel like it'd be moderate enough if it's like you're having three or four bites only don't do the whole thing no half might even be too much yeah I think I got through about a third of my Oreo.
I had a birthday cake one year and it was really big and I put it in the freezer and I just like chip away at it during the year.
It's frozen. Yeah. You can freeze a cake and it's still pretty good. Stay tuned for more Flightless Bird. We'll be right back after a word from our sponsors. Support for Flightless Bird comes from Mint Mobile. Now, do you say data or data? Data? Data. Hmm. Well, in my house, we say data. That's the New Zealand way.
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