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SBARRO IS GOOD. EAT AT SBARRO. SBARRO. EAT THERE. HAVED SOME FOOD. SPADGETTY. BIG BOWLS. SBARRO. FORK. KNIFE. MILKSHAKE DRINK. TASTES GOOD. NABKIN DISPENDER. HOT AIR BLOWER. COST MORE MDONILLDS. BETTER THEN MDONILLDS. COST MORE BURGER KING. BETTER THEN BURGER KING. SBARRO COST MORE DOLLARS AND BETTER THEN THOSED ONES. HAVED SPADGETTY. SBARRO. BIG BOWLS. SIT AT BOOTHS. WAIT FOR SPADGETTY. FORK AND KNIFE. HOT AIR BLOWER. THEY COST MORE. THEY ACT NICE. SBARRO PAY THEM. YOU PAY THEM. JUST USE MONEY. DISPENDER. HOT AIR BLOWER. GARLICK BRED. FORK AND KNIFE. BIG BOWL OF SPADGETTYS. TO GIVED THEM MONEY. EATING BOOTH. JUST PAY WITH MONEY. THEY DO THE REST. PARMAZING CHEEZE DISPENDER. TASTES GOOD. BETTER THAN MDONILIDS. HOT AIR BLOWER. GARLIC BRED ROLL. TASTES GOOD. WAIT FOR SPADGETTY. CHAIR FOR BABIES. USE DISPENDER. USE FORK. USE KNIFE. USE BOOTH. USE SBARRO. THEY DO THE REST.

― TIM@KFC.EDU, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

ts: orange julius vs. nedick's

― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

SPADGETTY OR NOT. SBARRO.

― TIM@KFC.EDU, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I've had some pretty bad street corner pizza, even in new york. At least Sbarro's is a known quantity.

― :[ (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link

There are definitely worse pizza places than Sbarro, even in NYC. But there are also many better (and cheaper), once you find where they are. However, a Sbarro with high turn-over could still be better than a neighborhood favorite with low turn-over, if you're going to end up with the one particular slice with your favorite toppings that's been sitting under the hot lights since breakfast.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Daniel_Rf, you're lucky that the only consequence of choosing a slice of seafood pizza (why!?) from a vendor in a trainstation food stand was that it didn't taste much like pizza. you're just lucky you didn't end up like astor riviera up there.

I dislike most food - the seafood pizza was the only thing available which didn't feature some foodstuff that I couldn't stand for. I am aware of these tales about bad seafood being a most risky venture, but attribute them mostly to supersitition and followers of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred's "Necronomicon".

And how *did* Astor end up? Posting links to sbarro sites? That really doesn't sound all too frightening.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I dislike most food

wtf

― _, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link

otm

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

lol

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link

omg

― Paranoid Spice (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link

atm machine

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

otm mark.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link

lemme tell you something. as a kid growing up in the midwest, sbarro was the Led Zeppelin of fast-food/cheap pizza chains. better than domino's, little caesar's, and pizza hut. but not as good as virtually every other pizza joint in northern IL. So i only went there a few times, primarily to the one at Spring Hill Mall in Dundee. i think this is nostalgia and nothing more speaking; if i had it today i'd probably vomit.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Did they have Rocky Rococo's up by you, Gear? We had those until sometime in the early 90s when they all mysteriously converted to Pizza Huts.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, Rocky's. When I was a kid, I LOVED that place, and then they mysteriously disappeared in SE Wisconsin. Now there appears to be a Rocky Rococo's renaissance, but after having one down the hall from my office for six months I can't ever eat it again.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link

There was some inscrutable family joke about drinking your soda to the bottom of Rocky's head (i.e., the image on the cup), but fuck if I can remember it now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I dislike most food
wtf

Almost no veggies, very few kinds of fruit, fish is a seldom occasion. I mostly subsist on meat and candy. Not proud of it or anything!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't think there was a Rocky Rococo's....the places I would usually go to were Nick's in Crystal Lake, Bill's in Mundelein, the Foxhole in McHenry (cheap pub pizza, but good), Barnaby's (scattered throughout the suburbs), and of course Giordano's.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Is Rocky Rococo the place with Leon Redbone?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Woman: Does this bus go to the Garden?
Bus driver: No, the M10 or 20 goes to Madison Square Garden.
Woman: Not that Garden: Olive Garden!

from Overheardinnewyork.com

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link

I kind of like Olive Garden.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link

They used to have a pretty decent fettucini with green beans in white wine sauce, but then they stopped making it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link

It's the Italian Denny's.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link

It was the romantic hot-spot of Williamsburg, VA.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link

daniel, i don't understand why you would choose seafood pizza over a plain slice. seems risky.

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link

There wuz no plain slice, only ones with icky greens that I didn't want to peel off. Hunger - and hunger for stuff I'd like - was very much overtaking security concerns. That seafood just looked yummy (and it was, in fact, the "best" part of the meal.) Also I hadn't had much sleep

It's great that ILX takes such an interest in my dietary habits tho! :)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I think I've only been to Olive Garden once.

Barnaby's? Doesn't sound familiar. The northern and southern suburbs of Chicago are like DIFFERENT WORLDS.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.posneradv.com/img/ec/sbarro-prn01big.jpg

UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Eisbär otm

― Paranoid Spice (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Is Famiglia any good?

― Super Cub (Debito), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Ummm, full disclosure? I have a soft spot for the Olive Garden, or at least for the seafood alfredo. I just don't mistake it for actual Italian food. There was a funny article online...ah, here it is -- in USA Today -- in which Marcella Hazan and her husband go to OG and report on what they find:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/mds048.htm

― Laurel, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link

It's not inedible, like Ray's (the original what?). But I don't know if I'd call it good. (xpost)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link

it's edible, usually.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 20 October 2005 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

TIME FOR SPADGETTY AT SBARRO. EAT THE GOOD SBARRO SPADGETTY. NAPKIN DISPENDER.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:15 (seventeen years ago) link

excellent timing on the thread revival.

i love this thread.

― sometimes my entire life be like DAMNNN! (tehresa), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:30 (seventeen years ago) link

i love the thread, too! wish i could say the same about sbarro's food, though :-(

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 20 October 2006 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link

As for D-ing the I, it was the source of a good joke in the US version of The Office. Michael goes to a conferance in NY and says to the camera "one great thing about being in New York is the pizza" or words to that affect, then we see him bee-lining to a Sbarro's.

I'm not sure if I've ever eaten there, there was one in our local mall for a while, but it looked like a last resort type of option for eating. But as someone implied upthread, there's almost no such thing as *bad* pizza, just various levels of goodness. I've eaten Little Caesar's, Papa John's, Pizza Hut, Round Table (my fave of the big chains), Mama's and Papa's (free pizza on your birthday = once a year I get one to go) and enjoyed it all, though I would never pick them as exemplary of quality dining.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 20 October 2006 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link

But as someone implied upthread, there's almost no such thing as *bad* pizza, just various levels of goodness.

hmm the pizza/sex simile isn't even on this thread!

― sometimes my entire life be like DAMNNN! (tehresa), Friday, 20 October 2006 03:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I'm not saying Sbarro's is a good as (even "bad") sex. Just that if someone offered me a "slice" and I were hungry I wouldn't turn it down.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 20 October 2006 04:32 (seventeen years ago) link

the point was not that it's as good as sex. it's that like sex, pizza, even when not so great, is still not bad and you'll take it.

― sometimes my entire life be like DAMNNN! (tehresa), Friday, 20 October 2006 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link

if sbarro = sex, then it would be a mercy fuck.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 20 October 2006 04:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, then, I'll accept not so great sex down to a mercy fuck. But like pizza, it's best while you're experiencing it not to think about all the great pizza you've eaten in your life.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 20 October 2006 04:47 (seventeen years ago) link

The ONLY places in Moscow you can just get a quick slice, so no complaints from me. (And they're surviving, whereas Pizza Hut is going belly up every couple of years.)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 20 October 2006 06:37 (seventeen years ago) link

jon 100% OTM below:

The worst is when you're really hungry and get a ton of food from a semi crappy place... like Sbarro. After your first slice you make like 3 bites on the second and have no more desire to eat it.

-- Jonothong Williamsmang (SUCCUM...), October 19th, 2005.

and i think that i ate at that sbarro in euston station when i was last in the UK!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 20 October 2006 06:56 (seventeen years ago) link

That sbarro is now gone! (The only place I would eat at euston station)

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:10 (seventeen years ago) link

In about 1982 a mall opened downtown and there was a Sbarro. I was just thankful that there was no "American" cheese on their pizza when I discovered it in 8th grade, because otherwise that shit definitely featured on any pizza sold in Minnesota.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 20 October 2006 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh you fucking New Yorkers and your spoiled rotten ways. Here in Ohio, as far as non-hideous pizza goes, Sbarro is pretty much the only game in town. I wish I lived in a city with more restaurants.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link

there is simply no way in hell Sbarro is the best pizza in Ohio.

― a|ex (Pareene), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Indiana maybe.

― a|ex (Pareene), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link

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