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Why is "Applebee's in Virginia" so absurd?
I was watching a film called Arbitrage (a relatively new release, I think, with Richard Gere). He was having a conversation with another character, who told him "I've bought an Applebee's franchise in Virginia."
Gere's character responded, "You bought an APPLEBEES in VIRGINIA?!?!" accentuating those two words, as though there was absurdity in the notion.
Why is that? I'm not from the US so it's not immediately apparent to me. My best guess (from googling both terms, haha) is that Applebee's serves deep-fried dishes, for which Southern states, incl. Virginia, are renowned? So it's a case of a chain restaurant directly competing with local cuisine?
Or is there a different undertone to the sentence?
2 Answers
- MarkLv 77 years ago
I'm not sure, and no, Applebee's is not known for deep-fried food. I suppose he was sort of making a kind of joke, like "The Olive Garden is fine dining", but if so, it goes over MY head.
- 7 years ago
Virginia is filled with hapa people people of extreme mixed backrounds and ethnicity. There for it would be hard to serve food?
