re: When is the last time you went to Red Lobster?

Had it for the first time last week. Lobster is overrated in my opinion but I enjoyed the crab legs.

Pre 95

Probably 1972 or so because that's where my date wanted to go.

~5 years ago.

Including one other time as a kid I've been there twice in my life.

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I have a mild allergy to crustaceans.

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I have considerable disdain for the crabs.

On topic... At least 30 years ago.

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I’ve never been to a RL but I hear the biscuits are the only thing on the menu worth trying

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A decent biscuit is not worth the experience of dining at Red Lobster.

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That was the Sizzler. The western sizzlin was across from Florida Blvd Baptist church. Was a Mexican place for years afterward. Next to that hardware store and a funeral home

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Yep, Sizzler and Western Sizzlin' were 2 separate businesses with similar names. El Rancho Mexican Restaurant is now in the old Western Sizzlin' building.

For several years in the mid to late 70's after my father died, my Mother would take us kids out to eat every now and then to decent yet affordable places around Baton Rouge. I have memories of both of these steak houses, and Europe's Restaurant and La Fonda's on Airline, as they were some of her favorites.

I think we only ate at the Red Lobster once, and that was just a week or so before the murders. It was such big news around Baton Rouge, such a shockingly grisly crime for our city. Red Lobster closed and left Baton Rouge after that. I remember that they did try to re-open several years later, but I think the local's memory of the highly publicized gruesome murder attached to the company's name prevented it from having much staying power here. This, plus all of the new local seafood restaurants that were opening at the time were 100% better, with fresher quality seafood than Red Lobster.

I have to admit that even today, whenever I see a Red Lobster commercial, I still think about that crime.

i've only been once...ever. went to the one on bluebonnet a few years back and it was one of the worst restaurant experiences i've ever had.