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

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

Brilliant.

i get emails from my grandma that read just like this

Marilyn seems like an archetypal Garrison Keilor character

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

Genuine LOLs

wait, what is a hammer named margo?

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

Btw

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I guess it would be bitter.

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

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

cool johnnie to election reference

hahaha

so what does it mean??? nobody knows?

ah its a fishing rod. kinda figured...

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

well probably more now

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

ha, yes I also had that thought.

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

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.

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.

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

my favorite bit:

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

she said some pretty fucked up shit

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

that's actually a kind of sausage

sausage pudding iirc

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

is it really fudge?

Okay hold on, they have fudge sausages?

i don't like the turn this is taking

http://batcountryword.com/wp-content/themes/blogum/images/1313434757-romney-fudge.jpg

I do not trust his own cream and butter, I have to finally say.

Wait til he gets to the Americano Steamer.

what scott said a little upthread. i'm not judging people for eating badly--i eat badly all the time. in fact if anything it's empathy because i have both weight issues and a tendency to eat very fatty foods if i don't watch myself. so when i see very morbidly obese people going back to a shoney's food bar three, four times and piling up mashed potatoes, corned beef, fried chicken, etc. i sort of shudder both for their own health and my own, potentially.

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

v curious as to what you were expecting and what you got.

I guess as someone who struggled with weight and has watched family members do the same, I just know the kind of cycle of rationalization that needs to be broken to really change one's eating habits, which, admittedly, is very difficult when you have places like the Olive Garden basically packing calorie trojan horses into all of your food. So I bristle a little at the suggestion that maybe the obese guy who is eating a 3000 calorie meal is just enjoying his occasional indulgence in an otherwise healthy diet.

yeah i mean it's not the most dependable inference really.

http://marilynhagerty.areavoices.com/

her latest video misues "hoi polloi". i guess we should be sneering after all!

probably the bread sticks at olive garden doing the most health damange /garytaubes