Celebratory lunch out

Why do we go out to eat for people's birthdays?  Is it because we don't want to risk messing up cooking for the birthday person?  Is it because we want to be free to celebrate instead of slaving away in a hot kitchen?  I don't know, but the fact remains that people eat out for special occasions like birthdays.  This is a late post, but we went out to lunch for my grandma's birthday, and it was not too bad for a big chain restaurant.

This is the blackened chicken sandwich from The Cheesecake Factory.  While I will acknowledge that The Cheesecake Factory is pretty consistent in terms of quality, I don't know how to feel about it as a chain.  I mean, it's a chain, but they seem to do good work.  The only real fault I have with them is that their portion sizes seem to represent everything that's wrong with American eating.  I avoid eating there, but I generally enjoy when I do eat there.  It's a little confusing.  Oh well.

I also had In-N-Out yesterday.  It was glorious.