Few cultures are as intertwined as hip hop and basketball.
So it should come as a surprise that one of the most successful athletes in Christian hip hop hails not from the court, but rather the pool.
Following a highly successful water polo career, San Diego-based emcee Graham Saber has taken the subgenre head on, appealing to a different demographic than most with his most recent project The Quarter Life . His love for music goes so far back it’s difficult to pinpoint a time when he first got involved in making it.
Around the age of three, Saber started playing the piano and taking lessons from a teacher that he loved. Unfortunately, his teacher died shortly after starting lessons with him, forcing Saber to take lessons with other teachers that he wasn’t quite as fond of.
“They told me stuff like, ‘If you’re not going to practice and do the book work, then you’re wasting my time and your parents money.’ And I had to ride my bike to piano lessons, so that was horrible,” Saber said. “I kind of got over it and just wanted to create piano pieces. Even at a young age, I would play by ear and I would create stuff.”
As he played piano over the years, Saber also familiarized himself with some of the pioneers of Christian hip hop, such as The Cross Movement and T-Bone. Given that his parents would not allow him to listen to mainstream artists, this is how Saber began to build a love for rap — something which his father could never really understand.
I can’t tell if this article is parody. Also can’t say I’ve ever stepped foot in a Panera Bread or have any intentions to.
yeah its a bit too weird rich kid rebels against his christian dad who owns everything and named him after billy graham and he launches his christian rapping career with all the black christian athletes he met at college during his national championship water polo career but tbh he was actually a pretty nice guy when him and all his friends came in and got free food.
probably a little weird to be able to walk into a fast food restaurant since birth and get free food whenever you want but the other co-owner used to come in every single day before school with his grade school kids and they were the nicest family ever and right when i started i didn’t know how to order food in the computer so i memorized their order and would start making it perfectly when the phone rang and i wanted to be so good at it that it would make my other coworkers look bad and i’d get noticed like oh mr_unstoppable must have not worked this shift because the kid opened his lunch in 2nd grade at his private school with the panera bread bag from his dads franchise and everything wasn’t folded perfectly and they forgot the apple so you better get this kid some more hours and it pretty much worked.
Maybe better than Bill Callahan’s America! because I can’t actually tell if this is some high art. It seems to be because no one could possibly be this sheltered or stupid. That cut of the eagle flying gets me every time.
Not being able to tell if it’s satire or just extreme stupidity is how I imagine people reading my posts. Unlike all those other idiots though I know the real answer.
No one goes to Applebees just to abuse the staff, but at the same time, it’s clear that the whole “customer is always right” mentality and the tipping system create opportunities for middle-class people to lord it over people who are lower in the pecking order. I can dock your pay if I’m not happy with the speed of drink refills; I’ve known people who think like that. I think it speaks to the basic goodness of humanity that only a small percentage of people use the opportunity to abuse the waitstaff.
I’ve complained about the poor quality of bread in America before, but Panera really brings it home. You’ve got a restaurant chain that gives itself a vaguely European, bread-based name and the bread isn’t even that good? Have you ever been impressed with the bread that this bread-centric chain delivers?
I’ve seen them get pissed about having to refire orders absolutely. The good ones get pissed at themselves for sending out inferior product, the bad ones get pissed because you’re making them do more work. It’s an annoyance either way because it disrupts the work flow.
Depends on the culture and process of the restaurant. With a good kitchen run by a good manager that is expediting the food and handling all complaints, not an issue at all. But some places the servers have to get the kitchen to redo the order and that can get ugly.
But if you order a steak medium rare and it comes out well done no one is getting pissed that it comes back. But if it comes out medium just fuckin eat it.
Panera started life as the St. Louis Bread Company, which was referred to in St. Louis as BreadCo. So when you think “Panera” just think “BreadCo” and it’ll make more sense. Obviously the irony is that BreadCo was pretty good and miles better than Panera.
Not if there’s a legit problem with the order (cooked wrong, forgot to remove an item that customer doesn’t want) but probably if it feels like someone is just picking nits, although I’m sure it varies from person to person on what bothers them.
A better question might be how people feel about sending back food if you simply don’t like the way it tastes. I’ve taken a lot of direction from Keith Law when it comes to cooking and going to restaurants and he says never send anything back unless it’s made wrong - if you don’t like it that’s just tough luck. I guess I can see both sides because you don’t want to eat something you dislike, so I don’t know if you send it back or just eat the cost and order something else? The only thing I remember sending back in recent memory was coffee that tasted like water - I just told them it wasn’t good and asked if they could take it off the bill (so I could go somewhere to get better coffee).
A favorite that I remember. This server used to somehow always forget to place part of her order. Every damn time it was a well done steak that took twice as long as the other food. Rest of her food would be done already when she mentioned it.
