Marilyn Haggerty's amazing Olive Garden review and the subsequent viral shitstorm

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otm ^^^

Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Thursday, 15 March 2012 14:28 (fourteen years ago)

Saveur is all right, but James Osland is a douche. Eating Well is surprisingly not bad, but it is deffo not haut cuisine

aka vanilla bean (remy bean), Thursday, 15 March 2012 14:29 (fourteen years ago)

btw you know epicurious has an archive of Gourmet magazine recipes. it's awesome. Although I'm not advanced enough a cook for some of their recipes.

the prurient pinterest (Hurting 2), Thursday, 15 March 2012 14:31 (fourteen years ago)

That's almost all I use for recipes now, I'm glad I have access to all of those amazing christmas cookie recipes.

Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Thursday, 15 March 2012 14:33 (fourteen years ago)

I really can't imagine eating haute cuisine on a regular basis.

L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 15 March 2012 14:37 (fourteen years ago)

I mostly make the really quick/easy recipes like stir frys or pasta dishes.

Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Thursday, 15 March 2012 14:40 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, almost any cooking publication's definition of "quick weekday meals" is my definition of "weekend culinary adventure." My definition of weekday meal is on par w/ lex's tbh.

carl agatha, Thursday, 15 March 2012 14:56 (fourteen years ago)

I can vouch for that. You had me over for mac 'n' chz 'n' cut up hot dogs.

But TBH I think you're selling yourself way short b/c I've been over for ordinary "quick" meals and I'm always inspired. You do shit like make soup (and I'm totally Lex w/r/t soup: soup comes from a CAN!! (it was put there by a man/in a factory downtown)) and roast brussell sprouts when it's not even a special occasion!

free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:05 (fourteen years ago)

oh, man

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/232108/

^^^ must-read

max, Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:05 (fourteen years ago)

I was kind of "whatever" at the fuss over the Olive Garden review but I really adored this.

thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:09 (fourteen years ago)

"I soon will take my hammer named Margo and go down to the river."

L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:09 (fourteen years ago)

Brilliant.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:09 (fourteen years ago)

i get emails from my grandma that read just like this

frogbs, Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:10 (fourteen years ago)

Marilyn seems like an archetypal Garrison Keilor character

L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:11 (fourteen years ago)

"When the Village Tattler or whatever called from New York, I didn’t understand who they were."

max, Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:11 (fourteen years ago)

Genuine LOLs

L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:11 (fourteen years ago)

wait, what is a hammer named margo?

scott seward, Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:12 (fourteen years ago)

that must be north dakota slang i don't know.

scott seward, Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:12 (fourteen years ago)

Btw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Red_River_Flood

L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:14 (fourteen years ago)

I defy anyone to be unable to make this amazing meal - http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/24/sausage-recipes-hugh-fearnley-whittingstall

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:14 (fourteen years ago)

"rapeseed oil" is maybe the most unfortunately-named ingredient

thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:16 (fourteen years ago)

I am confident that lex could somehow find a way to make this attempt at a meal cause the earth's axis to shift or something

L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:17 (fourteen years ago)

Non-consensual semen lubricant was too long for the label, DJP.

L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:18 (fourteen years ago)

Marilyn Haggerty is the art of pretend simpleness, I love it

the prurient pinterest (Hurting 2), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:18 (fourteen years ago)

Hurting OTM. The way she's playing everyone reminds me of the classic faux-naif strategy.

L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:19 (fourteen years ago)

How much rapeseed is non-canola? Did ppl create canola just so that they could stop saying "coat ingredients in rapeseed oil"?

thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:20 (fourteen years ago)

"they hauled me to that newfangled teleo-optical station up fargo way..."

scott seward, Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:25 (fourteen years ago)

rapeseed tends to be bitter and canola was bred to be less bitter.

L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:26 (fourteen years ago)

I guess it would be bitter.

Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:28 (fourteen years ago)

I love how they "sent a driver up from Fargo"

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:29 (fourteen years ago)

"I soon will take my hammer named Margo and go down to the river."

cool johnnie to election reference

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:45 (fourteen years ago)

hahaha

max, Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:46 (fourteen years ago)

so what does it mean??? nobody knows?

scott seward, Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:47 (fourteen years ago)

ah its a fishing rod. kinda figured...

scott seward, Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:47 (fourteen years ago)

there is exactly 1 google return for "hammer named margo"

goole, Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:48 (fourteen years ago)

well probably more now

goole, Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:48 (fourteen years ago)

It sounded ominous, like she was gonna pull a VA Woolf.

free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:48 (fourteen years ago)

ha, yes I also had that thought.

the prurient pinterest (Hurting 2), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:49 (fourteen years ago)

Although I obviously do not wish that to be true, it would be quite a poetic suicide note to leave.

the prurient pinterest (Hurting 2), Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:50 (fourteen years ago)

This also sounded a bit ominous.

Early Saturday morning, the ABC show sent a driver up from Fargo. I was driven down there to answer questions.

free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:00 (fourteen years ago)

she's like the aw shucks killer in jim thompson's the killer inside me. after writing her folksy letter...she goes down to the river with a hammer named margo...

that's actually a movie i'd really like to see.

oh wait that's just the movie fargo.

scott seward, Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:01 (fourteen years ago)

She went down to the river with her hammer named Margo, to see about the man called Kevin Hoffman.

the prurient pinterest (Hurting 2), Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:02 (fourteen years ago)

my favorite bit:

"It was fun seeing the innards of the TV station. I don’t know exactly what I said."

Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:06 (fourteen years ago)

she said some pretty fucked up shit

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:09 (fourteen years ago)

Given our general food discussion here earlier: friend/music writer Simon Price just sent along a photo of this from a Tesco's -- UK food is truly a different world:

http://i.imgur.com/dyRTO.jpg

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:15 (fourteen years ago)

that's actually a kind of sausage

the prurient pinterest (Hurting 2), Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:17 (fourteen years ago)

sausage pudding iirc

Euler, Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:18 (fourteen years ago)

BTW along the same lines, "breakfast sausage" is not what you think it is in the UK, and I wouldn't recommend asking for it

the prurient pinterest (Hurting 2), Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:19 (fourteen years ago)

is it really fudge?

scott seward, Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:19 (fourteen years ago)

Okay hold on, they have fudge sausages?

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:21 (fourteen years ago)


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