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

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

I went there for the first time last year cause my gf wanted to as this weird guilty pleasure thing and the salad and breadsticks bummed me out, it was just like school cafeteria food

is it really fudge?

― scott seward, Thursday, March 15, 2012 12:19 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's slang for viral shitstorm

^ this. the weirdest and most depressing thing about olive garden/red lobster food is how bad it is. i mean, it's "good" in that it's salty as hell, drowning in oil cheese and butter, made of generally tasty things, and chemically engineered to hit some perfect crowd-pleasing greasy/salty sweet spot, but beyond that, it's borderline awful.

^ this = xp

my girlfriend just points out that her aunt is one of those people who really loves o.g. and in general likes many of the slightly upscale chain restaurants. she'd drive an hour to eat at olive garden and genuinely loves the food. she's also been to italy and stuff (although i would not call her very worldly or sophisticated).

what would you say to her?

srs question

"let's go to olive garden"

and the next time: "let's go someplace else"

i went to a red lobster as a 'joke' a while ago, and yeah, pretty solidly shitty food.

tho like a moron i tried to 'order well' and got some salmon and vegetables that was like nursing home food. i bet if i just got popcorn shrimp and a lobster tail i would have been fine

damn dude you really fucked up your joke visit to red lobster

re amateurist: my gf's parents love olive garden, and i've eaten there three times in the last few years (after never having been). i do not object and have not spoken an ill word of the place to them. my mom loves it, too, and applebees, though i do give her a hard time abt it.

"good" in that it's salty as hell, drowning in oil cheese and butter

My parents gave me a Red Lobster gift card a couple years ago, and my wife got without a doubt the saltiest piece of fish I have ever tasted. She couldn't eat it, but we were too depressed to send it back. She was ill when we got home. Never again.

in france, olive garden is where farmers send their animals to eat

i went to a red lobster as a 'joke' a while ago, and yeah, pretty solidly shitty food.

tho like a moron i tried to 'order well' and got some salmon and vegetables that was like nursing home food. i bet if i just got popcorn shrimp and a lobster tail i would have been fine

― goole, Thursday, March 15, 2012 1:01 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn dude you really fucked up your joke visit to red lobster

― max, Thursday, March 15, 2012 1:03 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lolllllll

i really did fuck that up ;_;

what a horribly formed "joke visit"

why would you go there and do that

there is nothing wrong w/ ironic eating cmon

i don't even know, god

you waste. you little man.

a runaway joke visit to olive garden a couple years ago just ended up making me, my gf, and our friends all feel kinda sad. not a funny joke don't do it!!

did you 'order well'?

we all ordered fairly funny

in red lobster, joke is on you

in that case ordering the hospital salmon really was probably the least bad outcome he could have had, sort of like stalemating red lobster

go big or go home imho

I just looked at OG's online menu - not good. If I had to go I'd probably get the minestrone and the caesar chicken salad with the dressing on the side and a bottle of the Valpolicello to share. Interestng that they have a Brunello on the wine list, albeit at $70.00.

apparently hagerty's husband died in the red river flood

i would love to go to lunch with missus hagerty. i have a feeling i would like her town!

this kills me. this thread is as good as any for it.

http://consumerist.com/assets_c/2010/03/DoubleGulp-example1-thumb-400x316-38336.jpg

It appears that the local 7-11 I've been going to for some time has employed the good old Grocery Shrink Ray on their "Double Gulp" brand of Fountain Sodas. I have been getting them there since they where originally put out in the heavy Wax paper folding cups and they have 64 ounces of liquid for a long time.

The new cups, pictured in the examples I've sent, are very pretty looking with the see-through plastic but are CLEARLY much smaller then the original cups. I do not have an exact fluid ounce on the new cups because they are not labeled like the old cups have been. The price however still remains the same for less liquid refreshment as I've also
attached from my Cellphone.

I hope the information is useful, I love it when places do this and think no one will notice. Great way to save money, same price, less drink!

Keep up the excellent work and fighting the good fight!

eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

apparently hagerty's husband died in the red river flood

― max, Thursday, March 15, 2012 1:21 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aw

The closest OG has at least a two-hour wait on Saturday nights.