Red Lobster: A Good Value or Ghetto?

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you mean you don't normally give tips larger than a quarter, mr. patrin? man, you a cheap mofo!

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 July 2003 04:58 (twenty years ago) link

The Olive Garden is just evil. It's hard to find a good seafood restaurant, period (inland) - but in every town of 50,000+, there's at least one decent Italian restaurant, maybe two.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 27 July 2003 05:01 (twenty years ago) link

I went for the unlimited breadsticks. I stayed for the unlimited breadsticks.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 27 July 2003 05:02 (twenty years ago) link

This must have been a decade ago, but I still think about those unlimited breadsticks.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 27 July 2003 05:03 (twenty years ago) link

i've eaten celentano's frozen italian foods, which must be just as bad (if not worse) than olive garden.

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 July 2003 05:05 (twenty years ago) link

The thing about the Olive Garden is that there's probably no other place on Earth that looks less like an olive garden.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 27 July 2003 05:06 (twenty years ago) link

...and you're lucky if you get more than three olives in each round of salad they give your table.

― Andy K (Andy K), Sunday, 27 July 2003 05:09 (twenty years ago) link

Olive Garden staff are as bitter and surly as they come, too. Unlimited breadsticks+cheap 'bottomless' salads=customers from the deepest pits of Hell.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 27 July 2003 05:10 (twenty years ago) link

that's a-me!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 27 July 2003 05:10 (twenty years ago) link

Actually I am a very good customer.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 27 July 2003 05:11 (twenty years ago) link

you do give tips bigger than a quarter, i hope? (unlike a certain ILXor ...)

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 July 2003 05:11 (twenty years ago) link

I'm not sure how a restaurant could make it worse for their employees than endless salads and breadsticks for prices any group of teenagers living large could afford.

Walking across hot coals to get to the table, maybe.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 27 July 2003 05:13 (twenty years ago) link

Red Lobster: The cheesy biscuit-buns ain't as good as they used to be, but if i'm poor and craving some seafood or they're having all-you-can-eat shrimp, I'll go.

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 27 July 2003 05:18 (twenty years ago) link

I've only been to Olive Garden once, but man, it was tasty -- and I'm usually picky about Italian places. (Granted, I got Stuff You Really Can't Fuck Up, and the fried ravioli -- I'm pretty much an easy bitch for fried ravioli.)

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 27 July 2003 05:20 (twenty years ago) link

I have never eaten at Red Lobster, an unfortune I can soon recitfy due to the recent opening of Manhattan's very own branch in Time Square. Hush puppies, anyone?

http://direct.where2getit.com/redlobster2/geoproc.cgi/redlobster2?action=fieldquery&qfield=BusinessID&qvalue=6298&country=US&dist=2.70%20miles&addr=&place=&state=&zip=10002

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:04 (twenty years ago) link

I don't know about Red Lobster near the coast, but at 250 miles inland, I paid $13 for a plate of soogy fried shrimp and no side vegetable. It was awful food that was expensive. How can you recopmmend that?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:06 (twenty years ago) link

Man, I'm all with the drunk typos. I had more vodka than I thought.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:07 (twenty years ago) link

that means i must walk past it every night on my way home from work ... and yet i've never noticed it! that situation must be rectified, of course.

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:08 (twenty years ago) link

the new NYC red lobster that is

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:10 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, you must notice it, and keep walking.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:10 (twenty years ago) link

considering some of the shitty food joints in that area (i.e., it's a stone's throw from Tad's Steak House), that Red Lobster is def. one of the better eats there!

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:13 (twenty years ago) link

You might want to save that judgement until after you eat there.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:16 (twenty years ago) link

(It just opened last week. We must christen it.)

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:18 (twenty years ago) link

i've eaten at Tad's Steak House ... whudda mistake ... a dirty kitty-litter box would taste better than that, so that's not a very high hurdle to leap!

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:19 (twenty years ago) link

How do these bad bad restaurants survive with such high rents?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:20 (twenty years ago) link

a lunch-time fap is not out of the question ... (though not the week of august 4th cause i'll be outta town)

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:20 (twenty years ago) link

times square/bryant park = tourist trap. that's how they survive.

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:21 (twenty years ago) link

Any chain seafood is COMPLETE ghetto. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm all for embracing the inner ghetto (or outer).

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:23 (twenty years ago) link

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

There is if you like food.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:24 (twenty years ago) link

I love how every thread culminates in NYers meeting up somewhere.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:27 (twenty years ago) link

I know, right? I thought this was where the outcasts and geeks congregated. Now I'm an outcast among outcasts?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:29 (twenty years ago) link

you'll be with the NYC fappers in spirit ... if you want to be, of course

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:31 (twenty years ago) link

Oh like hell he will, he hates Christmas AND chocolate, fuck him. Fuck him in the ear.

I'm so there at a Red Lobster FAP, but I think we should go to the one in Wayne, NJ!

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:32 (twenty years ago) link

Let's go to both!

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:33 (twenty years ago) link

what's so special about the wayne red lobster? wayne is hardly a ghetto, you know!

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:35 (twenty years ago) link

Neither is Times Square if we want to be bitchy about this.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:36 (twenty years ago) link

wasn't trying to be bitchy, i was just curious is all.

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:36 (twenty years ago) link

Oh like hell he will, he hates Christmas AND chocolate, fuck him.

See? Outcast. I am so alone.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:38 (twenty years ago) link

well that settles it ... the times square red lobster fap must coincide with the rockefeller square/ice-skating fap

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:40 (twenty years ago) link

Ok! Then also I will stop in middle of the street in kogirl outfit and take pictures of random buildings and the sky like all tourists do!!!!

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:42 (twenty years ago) link

Tourists take pictures of the sky?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:43 (twenty years ago) link

I've taken a few pictures in NYC myself, but never of the sky.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:44 (twenty years ago) link

I did have a nightmare once that I was in Soho and heading to a bar and the sky turned red and hot and everyone ran into the nearest building to escape from it. That would be worth taking pictures of.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:45 (twenty years ago) link

mmmmmm hush puppies mmmmmmmmm

― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:56 (twenty years ago) link

anyway ... there must be a better red lobster than the one where you went, yes kenan? or is all austin seafood that bad?

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 July 2003 07:59 (twenty years ago) link

Hi, I'm an English visitor to this thread.

(looks around with vacant expression, takes picture of sky, leaves)

― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 27 July 2003 08:24 (twenty years ago) link

Dude, what happened to my post??

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Sunday, 27 July 2003 08:26 (twenty years ago) link

It's with your car

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 27 July 2003 08:34 (twenty years ago) link

then it is sweating its ass off and probably being pillaged by crackheads.

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Sunday, 27 July 2003 08:41 (twenty years ago) link

I submit my post, I go to bed, I wake up, I look at this thread and I realize that perhaps not everyone is familiar with a certain LL Cool J song.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 27 July 2003 14:47 (twenty years ago) link

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Horrifying on its own but when you think of the garlic butter drenched frozen seafood and Cheddar Bay biscuits that it will accompany, may god have mercy on us all.

― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link

How is this shit up for six years and people are still using the phrase "ghetto" on it

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, April 26, 2009 5:48 PM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

― Thoia Thoing, Maryland (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link

who's still using it itt?

― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link

it's in the thread title, so every revive throws it up there on SNA. we should lock it now that i think about it.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link

it's ok to make fun of poor, stupid, tasteless people for liking it in the other thread, we just have to be more polite about it.

― the burrito that defined a generation, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 23:50 (three years ago) link

It is precisely because this thread calls out the customers rather than the food that I started that new, more 'polite' thread. It is up to others whether the focus returns to the customers or the food. I tried to indicate that the food is the subject in the OP.

If someone does make fun of poor people on this thread or the other, feel free to bash them for it. I have not seen any such posts yet.

― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 02:02 (three years ago) link

Red Lobster one of those places like the Olive Garden, TGI Fridays or the Sharper Image I'm surprised hasn't reached the brink of bankruptcy yet.

― pplains, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 02:16 (three years ago) link

for something called a "doo-garita", it's the wrong color

― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link

Burrito was the first dumbshit to even post something in the neighborhood of "derogatory" in the other thread, so just ignore his trollish attempt at performance art.

(This Thread, on the other hand...)

― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 02:27 (three years ago) link

Mods, can we please lock this thread before more people have to look at the G-word in the thread title, or get called vulgar obscenities like d*mbshit?

― the burrito that defined a generation, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 02:33 (three years ago) link

(Sorry, should've replaced the vowel in the cuss part of the obscenity with the asterisk in order to protect people from reading it. So, dumbsh*t)

― the burrito that defined a generation, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 02:35 (three years ago) link

yeah. right.

― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 02:52 (three years ago) link

Locked Lobster.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 11:58 (three years ago) link

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