olive garden... could this really be happening?
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I have secretly always wanted to go to Red Lobster. It does look really good in the commercials. I fear the reality would be disappointing.
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I never been to red lobster don't know what the draw is. be honest with you, white people can't do two things well, seafood and vegetables
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run like hell, armchair
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Rose wrote: [quote=veets]
It's okay, I remember being very angry about Barnes & Noble opening and boycotting for a while, but one day I found myself inside, and since then I have spent hundreds of dollars in that store. But I do miss Booklink.
Oh Lord Save me... I am tempted to go to Ikea and Whole Foods when it opens and... Forgive me NOW because I shoped at Lowes and Home Depot and Target.... I didn't use natural resources, Lord... I did walk there.... I know these stores are run by the Devil who commutes here from the suburbs Tempt me no further with WalMart Super Stores and Kohls and Micheals Crafts!! (anyone visited the suburbs recently and has names to add to that list!!!???)
See when Barnes and Nobles opened I gave myself dispensation because I truly believe that any place that sells BOOKS has the potential of holiness. Now places that cross the boundaries of individual categorization and sell MANY DIFFERENT things like plants, and wood and coffee makers do not pass my fundamentalist religious upbringing and I feel uncomfortable about crossing those threshholds cause my soul might be endangered,. -
Rose wrote: I have secretly always wanted to go to Red Lobster. It does look really good in the commercials. I fear the reality would be disappointing.
I've always wanted to go to Red lobster too and been shot down on more than one occasion. Someday, we'll get there Rose, someday... -
well there is enough closet red lobster people here to form a group to go.
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armchair_warrior wrote: well there is enough closet red lobster people here to form a group to go.
Now that made me laugh.. fast forward a year or whatever it takes to open this place and someone posts an EXPEDITION to search olives!! -
I went to a Red Lobster in The Bronx. It really sucked. I would have to say that two of my favorite chains are IHOP, especially the one on Rockaway Blvd. and Joe's Crab Shack located in Texas. And Friendly's does make a mean tuna salad sandwich.
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waffle house is the best chain in the world.
also yuppies eat at olive garden in the south because there are no italian resturants and everything is a damn chain.
but is olive garden any worse than some lame ass coffee shop or organic fruit store. -
waffle house? don't know... denny's is pretty swell and you get a free meal on your birthday. and i love baja fresh.
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I will go to Red Lobster if just for the cheesy biscuits.
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1. I've been to Red Lobster; it's nothing like the commercials. (Sorry.)
2. The Italian food is better here than in the South, but there's no barbecue here. I can make my own Italian food.
3. At Denny's, you get hashbrowns. At Waffle House, you get potatoes scattered, smothered, covered, and diced (and chunked, peppered, capped, and topped, if you're like that). There is no contest. -
IHOP is disgusting. All that sweet syrup shit on the suger covered candied waffles. Yech.
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Oh man, I used to loooooove Red Lobster when I was a kid. My aunt would take me there and I'd order popcorn shrimp (basically, heavily breaded little shrimp-bits) and soak them in the melted butter for minutes before slurping the whole mess. I probably went through 5 little dishes of melted butter at each sitting.... it's a wonder I didn't need a bypass operation when I turned 12 yrs old.
Course, I would never go there now. I'm 100% pretentious now. -
An Olive Garden in Brooklyn? Well, hey why not donate a bunch of Olive Garden Gift cards to your local soup kitchen then. All you can eat soup and breadsticks at lunch.
Now that's making lemonade out of pre-packaged frozen lemon concentrate! -
all you redlobster loving people are dead to me. :x :x
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Good ol' Red Lobster. A guy I work with had a bad mackrel sandwich from that place. Amazingly, even though he felt a bit queasy on the way home, he stopped at Dairy Queen with his kids and threw some ice cream on that situation. He was out for a few days.
As for Olive Garden, well, having a place like that in Brooklyn does seem to be a bit like sending coals to Newcastle, but the joint (along with Chili's, Outback, etc.) can be handy when you're on the road in the middle of nowhere and have no idea where the good places are - at least now that Howard Johnson's has left us. -
Many years ago, a man I was dating took me to Red Lobster. That was bad enough, but during the meal the horrifying reality dawned on me that he was proud to be treating me to a high-class meal.
A total, instant deal-breaker.
And as for my meal: Somehow they ruined a simple pan-fried halibut filet. Pallid, flabby, mushy, just all-round yucky. Kinda like that boyfriend.
Never been back. -
Brooke Lynn Knight wrote: Many years ago, a man I was dating took me to Red Lobster. That was bad enough, but during the meal the horrifying reality dawned on me that he was proud to be treating me to a high-class meal.
If that had been me I would have taken you to Fuddrucker's. Any type of burger you wanted would have been my treat. That and one drink..not top shelf though....I would have been proud to be at a place that serves real double bacon with jalepenos.
A total, instant deal-breaker.
And as for my meal: Somehow they ruined a simple pan-fried halibut filet. Pallid, flabby, mushy, just all-round yucky. Kinda like that boyfriend.
Never been back. -
sounds like my date at the sizzler. gross.
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When my cousin came to visit from California, she said that she wanted to have "Italian" food. She wanted to go to the Olive Garden. When I suggested that she could have Olive Garden anywhere, and that there were many wonderful Italian restaurants in New York, she didn't care. She's only an elementary school teacher so what the hell does she know. Anyway, It wouldn't be my first choice but never having been very good at being a snob, I took her there. I ate it. It was fine, not great, but fine.
Since I work with many of those Long Island/New Jersey working class suburban types who don't know much about good food and since I frequently find myself on the road with them at hotels that are on strips with lots of "low class eateries", I have have been known to eat much of this kind of food like Outback steakhouse and TGIF's just for the pleasure of their company while some of my other more sophisticated coworkers have turned their noses up at it.
Soooo....Oh, gag! A chain restaurant that working class blue collar people and suburbanites like in Park Slope? Nooooo! Nooooo! This will lower our "tolerant/diverse" neighborhood. It will bring in low class types that can't afford to eat at expensive New Orleans restaurants that serve salty food. It will bring in those types who can't stomach bad Thai food and don't know enough to complain about it. This is awful.
On the upside, it will give us better people types someone to laugh at and look down on! -
O>K. i have to admit that I have eaten at Outback.. there is one in Brooklyn, folks... technically I think it is in Besonhurst (of all places) and it is a hoot!! We go no more than 2 times a year.. They make incredible Bloody Mary's.. order the blooming onion and if you get as far as dessert... split it.. because the sweets are terrific (and don't think about the $42 cake I just read about on another thread.. far cheaper and very rich)and portions huge. May not be hip to eat at Outback, or Red lobster but at least people who post here are cool enough to admit that they endulge in those restaurants from time to time.
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Subject: at the olive garden
waitress: hi, welcome to the olive garden. are you ready to order?
man with hat: yeah, i'll start off with your room temperature house salad with dressing from those foils packs. oh, then i'll have your gnocchi, a bit frozen on the inside, and instead of vodka sauce please use half and half, and make it's really watery and salty. oh, and some breasticks for the table. make sure they're flavorless and dry. i want them to shatter like bird bone in my mouth.
waitress: sir, i can't give you that!
man with hat: why not? you gave it to me yesterday. -
haha K the druid hehe good one
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It shouldn't be a deal breaker if someone took you to one of those places...it should only have been a deal breaker if you were on your first date, he took you to one of those places and then he tried to use a coupon he had cut out of the Sunday paper!
I think people need to remember that in other places, they just don't have the variety of good, local restaurants that we have here. I think in smaller towns, it's harder to sustain a nice restaurant for a long period of time. When I go to Virginia to visit my mom, I try taking her to local restaurants but very few seem to stay in business over a course of 3-4 years. Of course when I tell her I'll take her wherever she wants to go to eat, she insists we go to Red Lobster. For her town, that is considered a "nice" restaurant. It's where kids take their prom dates before the prom. -
I grew up in a town like that, in Southern Delaware - and going back home to Mom is painful in the food department. I've come to regard PS as a breadbasket - with all the Famer's Markets (I live near the 5th Avenue one that just ramped up again), the Co-op, A&S, Great Western, Russo's, that little fish store on 7th Ave between 3rd and 4th Sts - and that's just what stocks your kitchen. Then there's all the little restaurants to fall out to if you don't feel like cooking - we are soooo lucky. I get slapped in the face with that reality when I work on-site for clients outside the city, or if I have to travel to a trade show, or visit my mother.
My brother lives in Boston and my sister in Philly and they notice the same things about food - my bro is quite the gourmet, and my sister lives near the Italian market. My brother was going to have to move to Virginia for work, and he pitched a fit because there was no good food shopping near that town. They let him stay in Boston. I just thought that was hysterical - he wouldn't move because there was not a good cheese selection. -
ljnd wrote:
Never underestimate the power of cheese.
My brother lives in Boston and my sister in Philly and they notice the same things about food - my bro is quite the gourmet, and my sister lives near the Italian market. My brother was going to have to move to Virginia for work, and he pitched a fit because there was no good food shopping near that town. They let him stay in Boston. I just thought that was hysterical - he wouldn't move because there was not a good cheese selection. -
turtle95 wrote: It shouldn't be a deal breaker if someone took you to one of those places...it should only have been a deal breaker if you were on your first date, he took you to one of those places and then he tried to use a coupon he had cut out of the Sunday paper!
Turtle95, I don't know whether to admire your forbearance, or deplore your low standards!
We both worked in midtown Manhattan at the time. He was considerably older than me and had a good job, and his idea of high livin' was to take me to northern NJ (his home) for some Red Lobster. Dealbreaker.
It wasn't just that the food and ambiance were utterly depressing. I could've soldiered on and hoped the next date would be better. No, it was that he thought he, the older man, was showing young little me a glimpse of a sophisticated world. In retrospect, it could have been a Seinfeld episode.
Incidentally, I never let a man pay my way on a date again. I wanted veto power over where we went. That method worked out much better.It's where kids take their prom dates before the prom.
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This is pretty funny - from a 2002 Daily Standard piece quoting an article in the WSJ...
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/500bptjb.asp -
Idlewild wrote: [quote=Brooke Lynn Knight]Many years ago, a man I was dating took me to Red Lobster. That was bad enough, but during the meal the horrifying reality dawned on me that he was proud to be treating me to a high-class meal.
If that had been me I would have taken you to Fuddrucker's. Any type of burger you wanted would have been my treat. That and one drink..not top shelf though....I would have been proud to be at a place that serves real double bacon with jalepenos.
A total, instant deal-breaker.
Never been to Fuddrucker's, but yeah, I sure do love me an honest burger with bacon & jalapenos. (And a beer. A Yuengling will do fine.)
Actually, nothing makes me happier than a good meal at a real Greek diner. I'm not a food snob at all. I love a straightforward diner, coffee shop, clam shack, or halal food cart, but I can't stand pretentious prefab "dining concept" places that claim more than they can ever deliver. ("For the seafood lover in you," my ass!)
Oh, and I've found that any restaurant that routinely offers any variation on "all you can eat" is gonna be a place I want to avoid.
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