And I have been wondering on the cool days lately where I put my gloves.
- 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
The last weekend of October arrives with Hawks hovering over Grand Forks and ready to play football.
Although they have not counted, the Hawks have noticed people in cars and on airplanes heading west towards Las Vegas. There the UND hockey team will take center stage. It’s the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame game with Arizona State on Saturday.
Halloween hovers over Grand Forks these days.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 23:16 (one year ago) link
leave me out of this
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 06:14 (one year ago) link
He said Grand Forks.
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:37 (one year ago) link
And i said leave me out of this
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:44 (one year ago) link
Its reminds me of how the COlumbine shooters were bowling earlier in teh day
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
and received soup as a prize
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 13:57 (one year ago) link
They drank the soup. It was hot. There were ferns in the planters.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 14:02 (one year ago) link
In the lowest of sea levels, Grand Forks is welcoming a new restaurant — Mt. Everest 8,848 feet.
Since its opening this month, the small, cozy restaurant has been visited by a variety of curious guests. They wonder and want to see a restaurant named after a world’s highest peak has its name chosen for the lowest level reading of Grand Forks.
There is a glassed in display of foods that are on the menu. Appetizers include naan bread and neplai pan puri. The food is designed for eating in or takeout.
Twenty entrée choices include a creamy butter chicken ($10.99) and Himalayan Thupka ($8.99). The choices are pictured on the menu.
There are desserts — desi sweets and Nepali rice pudding.
The restaurant opened formally with an introduction by ambassadors from the Grand Forks Chamber last week.
The restaurant is small, attractive and cozy. There is seating at tables or on chairs at the bar. There is a buffet style counter where customers can order their choices.
Owners of the restaurant have other businesses in Grand Forks. There’s Haaam-ro Bazar, an international market, and Blessed Homecare with non-medical service for anyone over 18. The couple have two young children who seem to feel at home n the restaurant.
My second visit to the restaurant was interesting with curious companions including Matt Dunlevy who were pleased with the new restaurant and the experience of eating there.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link
curious companions
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
You rang?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:19 (one year ago) link
Wait, I'm confused. Is it a buffet, or do you order?
Also I am given to understand that "naan bread" means "bread bread"
― is it milli vanilli or just a facsimile (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:28 (one year ago) link
They wonder and want to see a restaurant named after a world’s highest peak has its name chosen for the lowest level reading of Grand Forks.
― Cat? Cat??! CAT!! (cat), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:38 (one year ago) link
The word salad is crisp and refreshing.
(sorry, ilu ms. hagerty)
― Cat? Cat??! CAT!! (cat), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
ILX expedition to Grand Forks to chill with Hagerty at Mt. Everest.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
the grand forks grand tour! poster forks' attendance is mandatory.
― Cat? Cat??! CAT!! (cat), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:55 (one year ago) link
https://64.media.tumblr.com/7a4b37457a82dbb108bde5b94b0132f3/2267000fbe108ddd-92/s1280x1920/6b02c75ca267029c9090c7668b578a1674aee7eb.jpg
― jmm, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 17:11 (one year ago) link
The couple have two young children who seem to feel at home n the restaurant.
IMO, this is the most critical sentence she's written.
― pplains, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 17:56 (one year ago) link
And damn! Grand Forks is a lot lower than I thought it was!
― pplains, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
I'd check it out: https://www.mounteverest8848.online/
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 26 January 2023 00:05 (one year ago) link
"creamy butter chicken" doesnt seem very Buddhist
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 26 January 2023 13:18 (one year ago) link
why is the plate of potstickers waving like it is underwater
That's not potstickers, that's Hagerty
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 January 2023 13:24 (one year ago) link
Please tell me they have a dish named Potatoes au Haggerty
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 26 January 2023 13:39 (one year ago) link
Odd that she specifies feet in the review, it’s not in the restaurant’s name and 8848 is Everest’s height in metres
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 26 January 2023 13:53 (one year ago) link
"meters" are un-American, dude
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 January 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
Now I want to open up a Scottish restaurant in Grand Forks just to be able to name a dish "Marilyn Haggis."
― is it milli vanilli or just a facsimile (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 26 January 2023 14:07 (one year ago) link
stole my joke dammit
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 January 2023 14:12 (one year ago) link