The charmed life of being a grandchild to President John F. Kennedy evidently hasn’t been all Jack Schlossberg had hoped as the elitist marked Independence Day with a rant against the restaurant industry writ large, “You have to read to get your food.”
Making nepo babies look like the salt of the earth, the beachside Schlossberg unashamedly took to Instagram Monday to post what he called a “Resta-rant” that many believed was filmed by his own mother, Caroline Kennedy.
During the lengthy diatribe where the woman behind the camera could be heard prodding the 30-year-old Yale and Harvard graduate and giggling over his comments, he asserted eating at a restaurant was “purely corrupt” as he declared his independence from ever doing so again.
“We only have a couple choices, and you don’t know what any of them are gonna taste like or what’s good…and we’re gonna sit there for most of the time and wait for some guy to come up and ask us some question. And we’re gonna have to f*ckin’ talk to some guy about what we wanna eat,” he could be heard lamenting in one segment shared on Twitter.
Jack Schlossberg’s anti-restaurant tirade is the exact deranged himbo social cause JFK’s grandson should be doing. “My friends don’t like eating dinner. Most people in the world don’t spend their lives eating dinner.” Icon pic.twitter.com/XKk8JOX6Q5
— Russell (@RussellFalcon) July 4, 2023
“We have to wait there to eat something that we don’t get to choose, really, what it is,” Schlossberg contended before later complaining, “You have to read to get your food. Why? You don’t actually need to do that, and that’s why I’m never, ever going to a restaurant again.”
A far cry from “Ask not what your country can do for you,” JFK’s grandson seemed to suggest that the only acceptable restaurant experience would be to have his every whim met instantaneously as his biggest gripe was the number of times diners are left sitting at their tables wondering when the waiter would return.
“You spend hours and hours eating at restaurants when you could spend a minute-and-a-half eating something that is good for you,” he also argued.
As it happened, while attending Harvard in 2017, Schlossberg had boasted of the regularity at which he frequented a favorite eatery, and told a local news outlet at the time that he went to Darwin’s almost every single day. “That’s the greatest restaurant of all time. I have a turkey sandwich from there at least six days a week.”
Knowingly or not, his take claiming the majority of people do not spend their time eating dinner struck a chord with many who saw it as a telling commentary on the devolving culture.
One person reacted, “How sad that he wishes to banish dinner. In my Italian household, we had dinner as a family every night at the kitchen table, telling stories of the day. Every holiday, the extended family together, the best times and greatest memories ever.”
Others ripped into the elitism of his take where even eating out has devolved into some kind of “chore” for Schlossberg.
I wonder if he’s so wealthy that eating out isn’t seen as a treat, just a chore. It’s not special when you can always go wherever you want and are waited on all the time, this man is begging to cook some sloppy joes for his family
— C2 (@see_twoo) July 6, 2023
I don’t understand, there are people with money who don’t like going out to dinner? What?
— Andrew Weiner (@DickeyNate) July 6, 2023
God, I’m always eating dinner. Is that where I’ve gone wrong my whole life?
— Brian Centrone (@BrianCentrone) July 4, 2023
It is reassuring to know that I’ll never be in a restaurant with this person.
— Giselle Donnelly (@DonnellyGiselle) July 5, 2023
Does he hate restaurants or is he really just against reading in general? Who’s to say
— Peri (@newyorkperi) July 5, 2023
Camelot really is over isn’t it….
— puremichigan (@campwagonconcl2) July 4, 2023
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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