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

"I grew," Scott said, "up in a," he continued, "family that ..."

all less coherent, but still better i think that what they went with! (obv the best place to break it up would be at the end of the idea)

than*

okay now i'm hooked on her old reviews. and not in a condescending way.

"My idea of a club sandwich is turkey, bacon, tomato and lettuce in a toasted double-decker format. The Southgate version has all of that plus some bland cheese that seems unnecessary. It is good. It is excessive, and so half of it goes home to join other leftovers in the refrigerator. My check was $8.49."

for a lady nicknamed "the appetite" she sure take a lot of leftovers home.

it is a really weird place to break up that quote.

this review makes me happy. places like the olive garden make me very happy.

maybe "the appetite" is also ironic

maybe it refers to her legendary sex drive

;_:

My new favourite thread.

I thought someone was going to pull a Misery and kidnap Lex and tie him to a stove in a remote cabin and force him to make ravioli from scratch.

aahahahahahahahahahah

scott I didn't really think you were being condescending, sorry if it came across that way

i can make ravioli! just put in boiling water and it's done in 3 mins. my staple food to eat when returning tipsy from the pub

gauntlet thrown

Scott's store story deserves it's own thread/internet meme imho

Pics or it didn't happen, lex.

i can make ravioli! just put in boiling water and it's done in 3 mins

lol

Picnics or it didn't happen

lexcooks.tumblr.com

oh wait you mean MAKING THE ACTUAL RAW RAVIOLI?

it had never crossed my mind that people could do that :o

this is like when someone told me you could make your own pesto, my brain couldn't really process it. pesto comes out of JARS.

Making pesto is easy! Basil, pine nuts, olive oil, blender. Takes five minutes at most.

pre-filled jars that grow on trees

xp

might want to put some salt/pepper in that Ned

Making pesto is easy! Basil, pine nuts, olive oil, blender.Unscrew jar. Takes five minutesseconds at most.

unless i drop the jar which has happened ;_;

some cursory googling leads me to believe I need to finagle a business trip to the UK around Pancake Day

xp: omg lex you are killing me

Sounds like someone should compile an ILX cookbook.

Making pesto is easy! Basil, pine nuts, olive oil, blender. Takes five minutes at most.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, March 14, 2012 3:07 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

somehow this would with lex running screaming from a building engulfed in fire, with pine nuts being projected from it at 180 MPH.

would END

Store-bought pesto is unworthy bullshit.

might want to put some salt/pepper in that Ned

True but I've cut back on salt a lot since the high blood pressure kicked in, so...

ALL of my housemates own store-bought pesto. and two of them are really good cooks who love it and do it regularly.

That somehow led to an image of Lex's housemates being Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay.

I think Jamie Oliver has better taste than to do it with Gordon Ramsay.

there is really nothing in the world like fresh fluffy pesto

nothing

Now I'm imagining dry cotton ball pesto.

is lex mr. bean

I was gonna say, "fluffy" is not generally an adjective that comes to mind when I am trying to describe the consistency of pesto

Little fluffy pestos

would watch Food Network "Lex vs. Food" TV show

or alternately read a series of kids' books (Lex and the Case of the Exploding Hard-Boiled Egg, etc.)

pesto comes out of JARS.

i really don't want to continue this aghast @ lex thing but this is the first thing he has said that is actually depressing to me.

drop him by helicopter into a kitchen and make him cook an omelette.

Lex Pretend and the No Good, Horrible, Very Bad Pancake.

there's some fantastic pestos out there that are in tubes

yeah it's not that i'm some fresh pesto nazi or anything (far from it) but more like the lack of imagination and curiosity he seems to be expressing.

Crest Pesto-paste

I guess I am a pesto purist -- I don't even like making it now if I have to get store bought basil, it has to be fresh from the garden.