[QUOthanks for nothimmmmmm"peabody, post: 16300001, member: 27519"]Maybe you can try Yelp....[/QUOTE]
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Yelp is a good source of funny reviews. You can even review detention centers and other institutions, like prisons.
I would equate the Olive Garden with a detention center or prison. I certainly would never want to eat there.
I ate at an upper priced Italian place here (Il Giordano(?)) a while back. What a disappointment and waste of money that was! Nice surroundings, good service, but a chicken breast with a little sauce over it with a smidgen of spaghetti on the side for $38? I find too many of these upper priced places like this. One of our favorites is an hour drive to the mountains, but if it wasn't for the drive/mountains we wouldn't go there for the same reason - great food/surroundings/service - but kind of like a sampler plate rather than a full meal. I want to be fed, and with most of these places you have to shuck out over $100 and get appetisers, soups, salads, and deserts in order to be near that, and I've found at some that even that's not enough. At least at the OG I find I can have a reasonable meal (as long as I stay away from that styrochicken stuff - yech!) that won't leave me hungry on the way out for around $60 including a 15% tip (for 2 people). I had a shrimp/scallop/clam dish last time that was quite good and generous in the portion that was served me. Coupled with the all you can eat Tuscan Soup, which I love enough to go into the can to purge to fit more in, I walk out of that place full and satisfied that I got pretty good bang for the buck. That's why there's typically a 20 to 45 minute wait at these places.
Having been raised in an Italian-American family, I generally do not go out for Italian food. I eat Italian food at home all the time. And if I do go out for Italian? It had better be AMAZING.
Let's face it, pasta is easy to make. And if you want value? Pasta is inexpensive, too. But the sauces? And the more complicated dishes? Those take talent and experience. I don't trust a chain like Olive Garden to deliver on that front. They might serve up a portion size that leaves diners feeling like they got their money's worth. But to me, the measure of a meal is about how well a dish is prepared. Not how much of it is heaped on my plate.
Let's face it, pasta is easy to make. And if you want value? Pasta is inexpensive, too. But the sauces? And the more complicated dishes? Those take talent and experience. I don't trust a chain like Olive Garden to deliver on that front. They might serve up a portion size that leaves diners feeling like they got their money's worth. But to me, the measure of a meal is about how well a dish is prepared. Not how much of it is heaped on my plate.
Gaolee
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My son and I stopped in a truck stop somewhere along I-5 a bit south of Sacramento. We couldn't figure out why the restaurant was full of triple sized people until the waitress came back and asked if we wanted more food. It was an all you can eat place, like Olive Garden. It was about the same quality, except it didn't have the stucco arches of broken dreams. It had the backlit plastic sign of mere existence.
We didn't have seconds.
We didn't have seconds.
My thoughts exactly. You probably exceed some sort of number of characters limit..... by about a million.
I didn't even bother when I saw how long it was and that it started with your life story (which nobody needs when reading a restaurant review).
it didn't have the stucco arches of broken dreams. It had the backlit plastic sign of mere existence.
That's poetic.
That's poetic.
My thoughts exactly. You probably exceed some sort of number of characters limit..... by about a million.
I didn't even bother when I saw how long it was and that it started with your life story (which nobody needs when reading a restaurant review).
+ 1 food good or not , service good or not, that's all you need.
Just the fact that you continued beyond this point tells me that either:
(a) you're making this whole thing up
(b) it was just a bad dream
(c) you were still really drunk
(d) you were really high
(e) you are insane
(f) all of the above
I wonder what some alien culture milleniums from now that stumbles upon the transcripts of our internet will make of our culture, rambling restaurant reviews and what the best bass for metal is, makes me giggle just thinking about it
After many years of observation of Google and applying pure speculation and imagination I have concluded that Google is simply an Anglicization of the surname Goebbels.
I am Samantha's newest fan. That was very funny. Excellently written.
Slo, you have serious competition there.
Slo, you have serious competition there.
slobake
resident ... something
I agree, I won't even try to compete with her.. She is a very good writer.
Man, you are going to have to back off on the nice guy thing. You are making the rest of us look really bad.
slobake
resident ... something
