looking through a french onion soup remix:
Memories were flowing when entering the never ending ages in the middle of the day.Servers seemA steady streamthroughout the tiaramisu and cheesecakecome and go in the large, surrounding lotin three different sections.There are tiara misu windows all around and overlooking the large, cheesecake paved parking lot.
― dow, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link
There are others who meet others there.
― dow, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:39 (one year ago) link
"There are some who pass the Archives by."
I don't know this Borges story.
― jmm, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:40 (one year ago) link
yes you do
― dow, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:41 (one year ago) link
The model of the Archives was as large as the Archives itself.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link
Servers seema steady streamcustomers come and goServers seema steady streamin the large, surrounding
(That's what we go for, to be served steady)
― dow, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 00:57 (one year ago) link
I have had only one experience at an Olive Garden, it was at a celebration with relatives I didn't previously know in El Centro, California after my sister-in-law's funeral. It was a fantastic meal and with it I felt like I was being folded into another new family
― Dan S, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:18 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-4b6x2FR5Q
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:23 (one year ago) link
the sauce is boiling like lava of mount doom
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:26 (one year ago) link
the worst part about eating cheesy pasta is when it's incredibly hot and then the congealed, burning cheese layer detaches from the rest of the food and reconnects with your human, burning face
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:27 (one year ago) link
it's so hard to maintain composure as the staff asks if anyone is a doctor
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:28 (one year ago) link
My cousin waited tables at an Olive Garden when he was in college. There were some regulars who would order water and breadsticks--"And keep the breadsticks coming."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:33 (one year ago) link
i always wondered if the staff kept track of what the record was for the breadsticks
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:42 (one year ago) link
Silently hoping for someone to explode
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 01:45 (one year ago) link
oh man, you do not want to clean up a breadstick world record attempt failure
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 02:04 (one year ago) link
You break the record, you get to ring the bell
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 02:08 (one year ago) link
Customers appear to feel at home in this restaurant. The décor is pleasant and home-like. There is space to move around and visit with friends. The restaurant has been around Grafton for 38 years and has been its present location 13 years.
The menu lists six salad choices. And there are 20 choices of pizza. Pork chops are among six offerings of poultry and pork. There are eight choices of seafood. Steaks are listed. And liver and onions — rarely found available — is served with choices of potato and coleslaw.
There are 10 choices of burritos with tostados and enchiladas available.
This large facility seems to have something for everyone. The largest level is a step up. Some prefer the street level which also is large and comfortable. Service was especially friendly in the quiet of an early afternoon visit to the restaurant. A trip around the building leads to a community room and a pleasant restroom area.
Desserts are plentiful on the Shananigan menu. There’s cheesecake, Mexican fried ice cream, fudge brownie sundaes. Also lava cake, turtle cheesecake along with sundaes.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 October 2022 15:13 (one year ago) link
“rarely found available” an unusual clanger there from marilyn. not one of her best i’m afraid
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 October 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
This small review seems to have something for everyone.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 October 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
what is a "pleasant restroom area"? Do they serve blueberry muffins in there
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 October 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
you’ll have to take trip around the building to find out. i wonder if Marilyn always takes a trip around the building, in search of community rooms or other hidden accommodations, or just when she needs to utilise restroom areas.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 October 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
xpost Depends on how you ask.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 October 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link
― Tracer Hand
There is space to move around and visit with friends. The largest level is a step up.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 October 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
Namaste!
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 October 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
Here's a letter to a friend in Florida hit by Hurricane Ian. The tone is weird: an affected affectlessness.
Dear Dave McFarlane,
I’ve been sitting by the English Coulee and eating a piece of pumpkin pie. You know how the Coulee wiggles its way from the west end of Grand Forks on up through UND.
And I have been wondering on the cool days lately where I put my gloves.
This is the week for Columbus Day, although it doesn’t get too much attention anymore. When I was in grade school we had to memorize a verse that started saying something like, “In 14 hundred and 92, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.”
Thanks for sending along an update on your recovery from the wild weather down there in Florida. You say it is in a way reminiscent of the flood of 1997 here in Grand Forks. Back then, some blamed the weather service here for saying the flood level would reach 49 feet when it ended at 54 feet.
In Fort Myers you say they predicted a storm surge of 6 to 8 feet landing in Tampa. And on the day of the day of the hurricane they changed the landfall to Fort Myers to a 10 to 14 feet surge.
Then they placed your community in a mandatory evacuation zone. And it was too late by then as the winds and rain had already started. And you had no place to go.
You made it through the storm. You had no place to go.
Well, at least you are very impressed with the clean-up process and the way things are going.
Now that you are cleaned out, you say you are trying to estimate the extent of the damage. Your home looks good, but you say it took a beating.
And you had no place to go.You had no place to go.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 October 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
Now that you are cleaned out, you say you are trying to estimate the extent of the damage.
― pplains, Monday, 24 October 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
She should be Poet Laureate
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 24 October 2022 16:08 (one year ago) link
- Sei Shōnagon
― jmm, Monday, 24 October 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
every sentence the punchline of a kōan
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 24 October 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
And you had no place to go.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 October 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
It was a fantastic meal and with it I felt like I was being folded into another new family.===Dan Ssix salad choices20 choices of pizzaPork chops are among six offerings of poultry and pork. There areeight choices of seafood. Steaks are listed.And liver and onions — rarely found available — is served with choices of potato and coleslaw.There are 10 choices of burritos with tostadosand enchiladasavailable.The largest level is a step up.The largest level is a step up.Desserts areplentifulon the Shananigan menu.There’s cheesecake, Mexican fried ice cream, fudge brownie sundaes. Also lava cake, turtle cheesecake along with sundaesThe largest level is a step up.The largest level is a stepup.
Sorry, I haven't eaten supper yet,don't know what it will be.
― dow, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link
Sweet potatoSuccessfully heated.Baked beans with brown sugar,Fresh from the can,Barely began,New microwave went out.On another old counter,In another old outlet,With the same adapter,3-to-2,Just press Quick 30, This time it works.The sweet potatois still warm enoughto blend nicely with the baked beans with brown sugar,though not up to code.
― dow, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 02:24 (one year ago) link
what is a "pleasant restroom area"?
having seen dozens upon dozens of unpleasant restrooms, I think I have an instinctive appreciation of this distinction.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 04:11 (one year ago) link
This small review seems to have something for everyone.This made cackle for some reason
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 04:47 (one year ago) link
'Restroom area' to me implies both the restroom and the hallway leading to the restroom. Those hallways can sometimes be pleasant.
― jmm, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 12:28 (one year ago) link
enter the age of bots writing restaurant reviews
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
https://web.archive.org/web/20130809042020/https://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/231419/
"On a hot summer day, I will try the raspberry lemonade that was recommended."
interesting to add a promise of a future act in a restaurant review rather than evaluation of the actual visit
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
"I will, fine, try this swill recommended by people whose opinions I once trusted."
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
When the people in Haggerty's primary audience, who live in the Dakotas and sometimes eat in those restaurants, complain that her reviews do not meet their needs or interests, then she can be said to be a bad restaurant reviewer with an inadequate grasp of her job requirements. I'm sure she understands this and finds both puzzling and amusing the attention given to her reviews by people who will never consult them for their primary purpose, which is describing local restaurants to a local audience.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 04:22 (one year ago) link
Thanks, Aimless.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 13:06 (one year ago) link
lol
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
"I love olive garden! But not this one. So very disappointed with this meal! One of the salads had the lettuce stem. The kids noodles & sauce was cold! Everything else was still hot. The bread sticks seemed a little overcooked."
Amy Lynn - "local guide" - from Google Maps
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Olive+Garden+Italian+Restaurant/@47.8914883,-97.0685705,14.5z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xa0cd7582ae110816!8m2!3d47.8903201!4d-97.0721967
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
Either I've lost my ability to post, or I can't post a link from CNN.com, but:
Oath Keepers spent over $400 at post-US Capitol riot feast at the Olive Garden, prosecutors say
After the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, members of the Oath Keepers met for a late-night dinner at an Olive Garden in suburban Virginia and spent hundreds of dollars on an Italian feast.“ALCON: Going to eat at Olive Garden,” Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes allegedly said to an encrypted Signal chat for the militia group the evening of the Capitol riot using what prosecutors say is a military abbreviation for “all concerned.”
“ALCON: Going to eat at Olive Garden,” Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes allegedly said to an encrypted Signal chat for the militia group the evening of the Capitol riot using what prosecutors say is a military abbreviation for “all concerned.”
― epistantophus, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 22:25 (one year ago) link
OATH KEEPERS: We just wanted to call to tell you how much we enjoyed your Olive Garden review.
MARILYN: Oh, I'm sure you did.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
I’m wondering how many rounds of free breadsticks they plowed through.
― epistantophus, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
They probably put ketchup on them
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
FL contingent unite! <3
― epistantophus, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 22:42 (one year ago) link
Defense lawyers for Rhodes have previously addressed the dinner, saying that prosecutors’ theory of the episode is incorrect. Rhodes’ lawyers said in a court filing the dinner is evidence that the militia leader wasn’t working to foment a revolution.“The conditions would never be better. Yet, Rhodes and the others left the Capitol grounds and went to Olive Garden for dinner,” lawyers for Rhodes wrote. “The answer is quite simple: because stopping the certification, overthrowing the government, was not Rhodes’ intent. It was not the Oath Keepers’ intent.”
“The conditions would never be better. Yet, Rhodes and the others left the Capitol grounds and went to Olive Garden for dinner,” lawyers for Rhodes wrote. “The answer is quite simple: because stopping the certification, overthrowing the government, was not Rhodes’ intent. It was not the Oath Keepers’ intent.”
Ah yes, the Olive Garden defense.
― jmm, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 23:03 (one year ago) link
“ALCON: Going to eat at Olive Garden,” is the new “FAP?”
― epistantophus, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 23:08 (one year ago) link
$400 doesn't necessarily seem like that much depending on the size of the paramilitary death squad though
― jmm, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link