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re: Is Olive Garden a white trash restaurant?
Posted on 12/4/14 at 9:33 pm to SmackoverHawg
Posted on 12/4/14 at 9:33 pm to SmackoverHawg
Steak Gorgonzola Alfredo is on point
Posted on 12/4/14 at 9:36 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
The food isn't terrible. It's a perfect restaurant for when someone that lives in North Dakota or has kids wants to eat "exotic food"
Posted on 12/4/14 at 9:40 pm to WaltTeevens
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that lives in North Dakota or has kids wants to eat "exotic food"
Hell yeah! Probably the best food there. Food in that part of the world fricking sucks.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 9:41 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Yes so is red lobster
Posted on 12/4/14 at 9:41 pm to CoCo311
Not ALL chains are trash. Just the one's that portray a bunch of super awesome white people having the time of their lives. When in reality, it's a bunch of tweens, low to lower small town middle class, and urban culture. Restaurants with commercials are trying to compensate for their shitty product, and make you think they don't have shitty clientele.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 9:46 pm to lsudat10
I ate there for the first time Tuesday night and was not impressed at all with the food. Probably will be my last time eating there.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 9:47 pm to WaltTeevens
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Marilyn Hagerty (born May 30, 1926) is a newspaper columnist writing for the Grand Forks Herald. She has been with the paper since 1957, when her late husband Jack Hagerty (1918-1997) became editor of the paper. Hagerty gained fame in March 2012 when her review[1] of a new Olive Garden restaurant in Grand Forks, North Dakota, was noticed by online news aggregators and became an overnight sensation among both critics and admirers. Anthony Bourdain announced plans to collaborate with Hagerty
From Anthony Bourdain:
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What is it about the 86-year old Ms. Hagerty that inspired such attention and affection?
Why should you read this book?
Of the 7,000 pages of articles and reviews I read while assembling this collection, there is little of what one would call pyrotechnical prose. Ms. Hagerty's choices of food are shockingly consistent: A "Clubhouse sandwich," coleslaw, wild rice soup, salads assembled from a salad bar, baked potatoes. She is not what you'd call an adventurous diner, exploring the dark recesses of menus. Far from it. Of one lunch, she writes:
"There were signs saying the luncheon special was soup and a Denver sandwich for $2.25. In places where food service is limited, I tend to take the special. I wasn't born yesterday."
She is never mean,even when circumstances would clearly excuse a sharp elbow, a cruel remark. In fact, watching Marilyn struggle to find something nice to say about a place she clearly loathes is part of the fun. She is, unfailingly, a good neighbor and good citizen firsthand entertainer second
But what she HAS given us, over all these years, is a fascinating picture of dining in America, a gradual, cumulative overview of how we got from there... to here.
Grand Forks is NOT New York City. We forget that—until we read her earlier reviews and remember, some of us, when you'd find sloppy Joe, steak Diane, turkey noodle soup, three bean salad, red Jell-o in OUR neighborhoods. When the tuft of curly parsley and lemon wedge, or a leaf of lettuce and an orange segment, or three spears of asparagus fashioned into a wagon wheel, were state of the art garnishes. When you could order a half sandwich, a cup of soup. A pre-hipster world where lefse, potato dumplings and walleye were far more likely to appear on a menu than pork belly.
Reading these reviews, we can see, we can watch over the course of time, who makes it and who doesn't. Which bold, undercapitalized pioneers survived—and who, no matter how ahead of their time, just couldn't hang on until the neighborhood caught up. You will get to know the names of owners and chefs like Warren LeClerc, whose homey lunch restaurant, The Pantry, turned down the lights to become the sophisticated French restaurant Le Pantre by night. And Chef Nardane of Touch of Magic Ballroom who, in his 6,200-square foot ballroom, served cheesecakes inspired by Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor, and envisioned an exclusive private membership club with frequent celebrity entertainment. And Steve Novak of Beaver's Family Restaurant, who when Marilyn visited his establishment, spoke of reviving his beaver act, complete with costume, for birthday parties.
And you will understand why the opening of an Olive Garden might be earnestly anticipated as an exciting and much welcome event.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 9:48 pm to SmackoverHawg
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Not if that's what people enjoy. And if it's nice to them and they can pay for it with money they earned at work...not trashy. Anybody calling hardworking Americans eating a decent sit down meal at a restaurant that seems nice to them? Not trashy. Pathetic brokedick trying to act like bigshit online by making fun of the "commoners"? Real fricking trashy.
SmackoverHawg has spoke. I agree, yet agin, this is the OT on the TD message boards, so I'm going with trashy...even though I do agree with Smackoverhawg.
I bought a date to applebees's for sophmore prom or something. Heyzeus christo, what a trainwreck of a memory.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 9:51 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I love their salad and breadsticks. The rest I can usually cook better than them.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 9:54 pm to MrFreakinMiyagi
It is
But the soup, salad, and breadstick lunch is A frickin' OK in my book.
But the soup, salad, and breadstick lunch is A frickin' OK in my book.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 11:09 pm to Snatchy
Its not trashy at all for lunch. Or even a date if you're in high school. For a grown up date or night out its at least borderline.
Posted on 12/4/14 at 11:57 pm to lsu480
quote:You were one of the only posters I recognized from back then... but yeah, it was hilarious.
I have no idea but that is hilarious!
Posted on 12/5/14 at 10:33 am to lsudat10
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Not ALL chains are trash. Just the one's that portray a bunch of super awesome white people having the time of their lives. When in reality, it's a bunch of tweens, low to lower small town middle class, and urban culture. Restaurants with commercials are trying to compensate for their shitty product, and make you think they don't have shitty clientele.
You sound pretentious as frick just like most people in "is this trashy" threads. Way to fit in.
I know how to appreciate GOOD food but how about you let people enjoy what they enjoy?
This post was edited on 12/5/14 at 10:34 am
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