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

She is much the same as she was 10 years ago

Memories were flowing when entering
the never ending
soup surrounding is never a problem.
Afternoon dessert
tiara misu and Sicilian cheesecake
come and go, chicken alfredo
and chicken and shrimp carbonara
seem professional.
Our table was pleasant and helpful.
seating for 298
comfortable in three different sections.
There are
windows all around and overlooking closing on
and closing.

Tiara misu aaaaaaaaaaah

tiara misu

lol xp

paved parking lot
paved parking lot
paved parking lot

This is just to say
Ethan Moore
who waited on our table
was pleasant
and helpful

They paved a parking lot
and put up an Olive Garden

O parking lot
O shrimp
O Ethan Moore

in the rooms the customers come and go
speaking of chicken alfredo

The occasion was a family gathering – for lunch, as it were.

I like how she always defaults to calling things 'large'.

well yeah
livin large
not just a garden
even ov olives
Olive Garden
for you and me

and even if
driven from
there is
large paved parking lot

mid-day through the evening customers come and go / their favorites include chicken alfredo

ack sorry Tracer

not at all, it is screaming to be acknowledged

Ethan Moore
does interiors and exteriors
you can look it up

my portraits are my still lifes

Look at the paved parking lot, Larry

It's beautiful.

https://i.imgur.com/TTOK5uY.png

https://i.imgur.com/efi4ZCX.png

"you ordered the macaroni and cheese. i ordered the french onion soup. and of course, for dessert we enjoyed cheesecake"

Cheesecake Factory at the mall, where the magic happens.

i knew from the moment that we both suggested cheesecake factory at the same time that we belonged together

A Cheesecake Factory in Grand Forks would be Michelin-quality food, you snakes.

Dear Marilyn, these 1530 posts are all for you. Accept them with pride.

xp It's probably worth the drive to Minnetonka, then.

If someone suggests Cheesecake Factory as a first date in Atlanta, run, do not walk, in the opposite direction.

Wallace Stevens:

They bump their way down country roads. They are piled high in trucks.

This weekend around Grand Forks, potatoes are the king and queen.

Potatoes were ready to be riding high among the floats and marching bands in the Saturday morning parade.

Recipe books from days gone by tell the story. Long live the potato pancakes.

Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

That fourth paragraph comes out of nowhere:

GRAND FORKS — Archives Coffee House attracts a fair share of customers throughout the day on the UND campus. This weekend it is bound to draw those on the campus for homecoming — before, during and after the Saturday parade.

Earlier this week, the Monday morning customers were gathered around tables of both high and low design. We ordered and picked up our coffee at the counter and found a place to sit.

There are some who pass the Archives by. There are others who make regular stops and often meet others there.

And the place is so homey that it even has a spot for well behaved dogs.

"tables of high and low design"

She disliked bars and bodegas. A clean, well-lighted cafe was a very different thing.

a clean well-lighted dog

Everything tastes of liquorice. Or dog biscuits.

looking through a french onion soup remix:

Memories were flowing when entering
the never ending ages
in the middle of the day.
Servers seem
A steady stream
throughout the tiara
misu and cheesecake
come and go
in the large, surrounding lot
in three different sections.
There are
tiara misu windows all around and overlooking
the large, cheesecake paved parking lot.

There are others who meet others there.

"There are some who pass the Archives by."

I don't know this Borges story.

yes you do

The model of the Archives was as large as the Archives itself.

Servers seem
a steady stream
customers come and go
Servers seem
a steady stream
in the large, surrounding

(That's what we go for, to be served steady)

I have had only one experience at an Olive Garden, it was at a celebration with relatives I didn't previously know in El Centro, California after my sister-in-law's funeral. It was a fantastic meal and with it I felt like I was being folded into another new family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-4b6x2FR5Q

the sauce is boiling like lava of mount doom

the worst part about eating cheesy pasta is when it's incredibly hot and then the congealed, burning cheese layer detaches from the rest of the food and reconnects with your human, burning face

it's so hard to maintain composure as the staff asks if anyone is a doctor

My cousin waited tables at an Olive Garden when he was in college. There were some regulars who would order water and breadsticks--"And keep the breadsticks coming."

i always wondered if the staff kept track of what the record was for the breadsticks

Silently hoping for someone to explode

oh man, you do not want to clean up a breadstick world record attempt failure