should read: "it's like they took a fast food approach (make everything greasier, tastier) to imitating something that's a bit classier"
OLIVE GARDEN TAKE NOTE
― G00blar, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Oreos are terrible already, on a pizza with that goo they look frightening.
Its funny though, an old pizza restaurant from my hometown thats been around since the early 70s used to have a dessert pizza on its menu. It was a thin crust and it had cream cheese, sultanas and cinammon/icing sugar. Kind of morroccan or something I guess.
I never tried one though.
― Trayce, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i misspoke, the act of stuffing things into the crawlspaces of the pizza is the problem. do people not know they can buy cheese all by itself, in big solid blocks? totally legal, have at it! let poor pizza hut concentrate on getting actual pizza right.
― tremendoid, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Just out of curiosity, how unpalatable is Olive Garden's food? The worst restaurant of that ilk that I've ever eaten at was Applebee's.
― dell, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Olive Garden is perfectly fine. So is Applebee's, really, if they don't screw anything up.
― nabisco, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I just got xposted by a MACHINE
Also, am I totally off in remembering Pizza Hut's food as being pretty good up through, say, the early '90's? I have a feeling that they took a serious dive south in the last dozen years or so. But maybe a distorted memory plus my then-youthful and inexperienced young palate make for a loss of credibility points in asserting this to be the case.
― dell, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
BAN TREMENDOID
― G00blar, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, I've had one meal in my life at Applebee's and it was pretty wretched, and basically seemed like the kind of thing that couldn't be screwed up (it was fish and chips-- so I assume that it's the kind of thing that they just dig out of the vacuum-sealed bag and throw into a fryer...
― dell, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
xxp The beginning of the end was that huge 'monster' pizza they started selling, the cheese on that was inedible. I don't think they went wholesale to that type of cheese(they wouldn't still be in business) but a bunch of changes were made to the cheese and consistency of the pizzas, to the point that now their default pizza is all sloppy like a hot pocket turned inside out. not my thing.
― tremendoid, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I think, also, that they stopped putting beer in the cheese.
― G00blar, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link
then-youthful and inexperienced young palate
durr. Hunger-induced tautology.
― dell, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks, tremedoid. That would make sense; the lower-quality cheese thing and probably adjustments to the crust recipe and stuff. I had a couple of slices at a friend's place earlier in the year, and it was not what I remembered it once being.
Hot pocket turned inside-out, ack!
― dell, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't help but wonder what GARU G would have to say about the "kitty litter cake" pic upthread.
― dell, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
hmm.
http://inlinethumb54.webshots.com/17909/2126521250068014149S425x425Q85.jpg
― StanM, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i3.tinypic.com/525t4i0.jpg
― StanM, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:24 (sixteen years ago) link
^^ scene from Domino's test kitchen
― dell, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:31 (sixteen years ago) link
lol looks like a still from Cronenberg's Shivers
― latebloomer, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i love oreos and oreo flavored things but this is just nasty
― latebloomer, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:41 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.cookiemadness.net/ddloreos%20007.jpg
^^^^^ ¿Dondé comprar?
― remy bean, Thursday, 13 September 2007 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd hit it.
― G00blar, Friday, 14 September 2007 00:04 (sixteen years ago) link
cakesters: y or n?
― jeff, Friday, 14 September 2007 00:11 (sixteen years ago) link
It can't be that bad.
― Jeff, Friday, 14 September 2007 03:09 (sixteen years ago) link
ok this half-assed oreo pizza thing is gross and dumb but srsly - people don't like oreos??? i haven't had any in years (!) so maybe it's a childhood nostalgia thing but oreos are good! oh but also i remember american friends/aquaintances always saying that canadian oreos were like 345234 times better than american oreos. i don't think i've ever tried american oreos. wld do this taste test though.
― rrrobyn, Friday, 14 September 2007 03:34 (sixteen years ago) link
siding with american, however, i do want to try a chocotaco one of these days and i don't think they exist here. oreo ice cream and ice cream sandwiches do though, and they are goood.
― rrrobyn, Friday, 14 September 2007 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link
oreo milkshakes or oreos in ice cream are good
― latebloomer, Friday, 14 September 2007 04:00 (sixteen years ago) link
chocotacos are down by law, u have to get them with the shells properly stale and chewy = delight. oreos are alright i guess, i don't bother with them.
― tremendoid, Friday, 14 September 2007 04:04 (sixteen years ago) link
God the ad for this stuff is so fucking disgusting. Sorry I'm late to the party.
― 31g, Friday, 14 September 2007 04:05 (sixteen years ago) link
taco bell should come out with a rasberry chalupa! i don't even like rasberry anything but it rolls off the tongue really well. it's spelled 'raspberry'?!
― tremendoid, Friday, 14 September 2007 04:08 (sixteen years ago) link
oreos are great, rrobyn!
― horseshoe, Friday, 14 September 2007 04:59 (sixteen years ago) link
the shells properly stale and chewy
I had never previously realized how absolutely key and true this is! Once these things have been sitting around for a while ... it's like the shells have been infused with butterscotch.
― nabisco, Friday, 14 September 2007 05:12 (sixteen years ago) link
b/c of ilx: 1. i have watched all of 'sex and the city' and 2. now all i want are oreos and chocotacos effing bastards
― rrrobyn, Friday, 14 September 2007 06:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Mmmmmm, petrified dung.
http://snacks.cyberpunks.org/chocotaco.html
― StanM, Friday, 14 September 2007 06:32 (sixteen years ago) link
so i bought oreos for the first time in like 10 years (?) and liked the first two enough to eat two more and then the weird chemical after-taste hit me but then i ate two more anyway just to make sure and then i felt really GROSS i didn't know what to do so i just drank some decaf chai and waited for the ill to pass ugh this was hours ago and i still feel weird
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 04:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i am watching terminator 3
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 04:19 (sixteen years ago) link
whoa my god lemme get those dulce de leche oreos
― iiiijjjj, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 04:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Are there healthy / vegan oreos that are any good?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 04:24 (sixteen years ago) link
THOSE DULCE DE LECHE OREOS ARE HEAVEN
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 04:25 (sixteen years ago) link
AND VEGAN OREOS ARE AN ABOMINATION IN THE EYES OF OUR LORD
for my birthday this year i'm going to make a pizza topped with tacos and sushi
― iiiijjjj, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 04:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://fasthugs.typepad.com/blog/images/2007/09/18/cakesters_3.gif
HMM
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 05:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Baby I'm just a Cakester for your love.
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i think the oreos gave me a glucose hangover
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
all i want to eat today is salad, fruit, yogurt and green tea purification ritual in face of false food
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
This is how I feel after not being hungry and then going out for chicken wings, potato dinguses (dingii) w/cheese, and Stellas last night.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
(nb I am not actually eating salad and yogurt, duh)
― Jordan, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure you were lied to, Jordan. Potatoes don't have dinguses any more than chickens have fingers.
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
There was totally an online video where a kid was showing how to make the pizza using domino's official recipe book, and he keeps saying "this is probably really illegal"-- what happened to this? did anyone else see it? i see no link in this thread...
― Will M., Wednesday, 19 September 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Why in God's name would you want that
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link