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

And you had no place to go.

It was a fantastic meal and with it I felt like I was being folded into another new family.
===Dan S
six salad choices
20 choices of pizza
Pork chops are
among six
offerings of poultry and pork.
There are
eight choices of seafood.
Steaks are
listed.
And liver and onions
— rarely found available —
is served with
choices of potato and coleslaw.
There are
10 choices of burritos
with tostados
and enchiladas
available.
The largest level is a step up.
The largest level is a step up.
Desserts are
plentiful
on the Shananigan menu.
There’s
cheesecake,
Mexican fried ice cream,
fudge brownie sundaes.
Also
lava cake,
turtle
cheesecake
along with
sundaes
The largest level is a step up.
The largest level is a
step
up.

Sorry, I haven't eaten supper yet,
don't know what it will be.

Sweet potato
Successfully heated.
Baked beans with brown sugar,
Fresh from the can,
Barely began,
New microwave went out.
On another old counter,
In another old outlet,
With the same adapter,
3-to-2,
Just press Quick 30,
This time it works.
The sweet potato
is still warm enough
to blend nicely with the
baked beans with brown sugar,
though not up to code.

what is a "pleasant restroom area"?

having seen dozens upon dozens of unpleasant restrooms, I think I have an instinctive appreciation of this distinction.

This small review seems to have something for everyone.

This made cackle for some reason

'Restroom area' to me implies both the restroom and the hallway leading to the restroom. Those hallways can sometimes be pleasant.

enter the age of bots writing restaurant reviews

https://web.archive.org/web/20130809042020/https://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/231419/

"On a hot summer day, I will try the raspberry lemonade that was recommended."

interesting to add a promise of a future act in a restaurant review rather than evaluation of the actual visit

"I will, fine, try this swill recommended by people whose opinions I once trusted."

When the people in Haggerty's primary audience, who live in the Dakotas and sometimes eat in those restaurants, complain that her reviews do not meet their needs or interests, then she can be said to be a bad restaurant reviewer with an inadequate grasp of her job requirements. I'm sure she understands this and finds both puzzling and amusing the attention given to her reviews by people who will never consult them for their primary purpose, which is describing local restaurants to a local audience.

Thanks, Aimless.

lol

"I love olive garden! But not this one. So very disappointed with this meal! One of the salads had the lettuce stem. The kids noodles & sauce was cold! Everything else was still hot. The bread sticks seemed a little overcooked."

Amy Lynn - "local guide" - from Google Maps

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Olive+Garden+Italian+Restaurant/@47.8914883,-97.0685705,14.5z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xa0cd7582ae110816!8m2!3d47.8903201!4d-97.0721967

Either I've lost my ability to post, or I can't post a link from CNN.com, but:

Oath Keepers spent over $400 at post-US Capitol riot feast at the Olive Garden, prosecutors say

After the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, members of the Oath Keepers met for a late-night dinner at an Olive Garden in suburban Virginia and spent hundreds of dollars on an Italian feast.

“ALCON: Going to eat at Olive Garden,” Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes allegedly said to an encrypted Signal chat for the militia group the evening of the Capitol riot using what prosecutors say is a military abbreviation for “all concerned.”

OATH KEEPERS: We just wanted to call to tell you how much we enjoyed your Olive Garden review.

MARILYN: Oh, I'm sure you did.

I’m wondering how many rounds of free breadsticks they plowed through.

They probably put ketchup on them

FL contingent unite! <3

Defense lawyers for Rhodes have previously addressed the dinner, saying that prosecutors’ theory of the episode is incorrect. Rhodes’ lawyers said in a court filing the dinner is evidence that the militia leader wasn’t working to foment a revolution.

“The conditions would never be better. Yet, Rhodes and the others left the Capitol grounds and went to Olive Garden for dinner,” lawyers for Rhodes wrote. “The answer is quite simple: because stopping the certification, overthrowing the government, was not Rhodes’ intent. It was not the Oath Keepers’ intent.”

Ah yes, the Olive Garden defense.

“ALCON: Going to eat at Olive Garden,” is the new “FAP?”

$400 doesn't necessarily seem like that much depending on the size of the paramilitary death squad though

The last weekend of October arrives with Hawks hovering over Grand Forks and ready to play football.

Although they have not counted, the Hawks have noticed people in cars and on airplanes heading west towards Las Vegas. There the UND hockey team will take center stage. It’s the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame game with Arizona State on Saturday.

Halloween hovers over Grand Forks these days.

leave me out of this

He said Grand Forks.

And i said leave me out of this

Its reminds me of how the COlumbine shooters were bowling earlier in teh day

and received soup as a prize

They drank the soup. It was hot. There were ferns in the planters.

In the lowest of sea levels, Grand Forks is welcoming a new restaurant — Mt. Everest 8,848 feet.

Since its opening this month, the small, cozy restaurant has been visited by a variety of curious guests. They wonder and want to see a restaurant named after a world’s highest peak has its name chosen for the lowest level reading of Grand Forks.

There is a glassed in display of foods that are on the menu. Appetizers include naan bread and neplai pan puri. The food is designed for eating in or takeout.

Twenty entrée choices include a creamy butter chicken ($10.99) and Himalayan Thupka ($8.99). The choices are pictured on the menu.

There are desserts — desi sweets and Nepali rice pudding.

The restaurant opened formally with an introduction by ambassadors from the Grand Forks Chamber last week.

The restaurant is small, attractive and cozy. There is seating at tables or on chairs at the bar. There is a buffet style counter where customers can order their choices.

Owners of the restaurant have other businesses in Grand Forks. There’s Haaam-ro Bazar, an international market, and Blessed Homecare with non-medical service for anyone over 18. The couple have two young children who seem to feel at home n the restaurant.

My second visit to the restaurant was interesting with curious companions including Matt Dunlevy who were pleased with the new restaurant and the experience of eating there.

curious companions

You rang?

Wait, I'm confused. Is it a buffet, or do you order?

Also I am given to understand that "naan bread" means "bread bread"

They wonder and want to see a restaurant named after a world’s highest peak has its name chosen for the lowest level reading of Grand Forks.

The word salad is crisp and refreshing.

(sorry, ilu ms. hagerty)

ILX expedition to Grand Forks to chill with Hagerty at Mt. Everest.

the grand forks grand tour! poster forks' attendance is mandatory.

curious companions

https://64.media.tumblr.com/7a4b37457a82dbb108bde5b94b0132f3/2267000fbe108ddd-92/s1280x1920/6b02c75ca267029c9090c7668b578a1674aee7eb.jpg

The couple have two young children who seem to feel at home n the restaurant.

IMO, this is the most critical sentence she's written.

And damn! Grand Forks is a lot lower than I thought it was!

I'd check it out: https://www.mounteverest8848.online/

"creamy butter chicken" doesnt seem very Buddhist

why is the plate of potstickers waving like it is underwater

That's not potstickers, that's Hagerty

Please tell me they have a dish named Potatoes au Haggerty

Odd that she specifies feet in the review, it’s not in the restaurant’s name and 8848 is Everest’s height in metres

"meters" are un-American, dude

Now I want to open up a Scottish restaurant in Grand Forks just to be able to name a dish "Marilyn Haggis."

stole my joke dammit

That restaurant looks good

i am into this