Ellick is getting an Olive Garden

If I become King I will shut down and ban all Olive Gardens on day one.

That's sad as frick

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I’ll unite us peasants and bring you down

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Life is too short to eat shitty "Italian" food, baw.

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If I become King I will shut down and ban all Olive Gardens on day one.

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Not a damn thing wrong with tour of italy with bottomless salad and breadsticks

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Alexandria, it's finally happening! Olive Garden is coming to the city.

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This is such a sad quote.

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This is like 25 years too late. Who still goes to Olive Garden?

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Clearly not you. OG is still awesome considering it’s Louisiana and we don’t have any good Italian places

All jokes aside, of all the shitty chain restaurants around, I think Olive Garden is actually pretty good. It’s not top quality Italian obviously, but it’s decent.

It's a shame to see a big corporate chain like that moving into small towns replacing the local character of authentic Italian joints like Johnny Carino's.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

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If I become King I will shut down and ban all Olive Gardens on day one

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Anthony Bourdain praised by food critic whose Olive Garden review he defended

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Marilyn Hagerty was 85 when she was mocked over a positive review of the chain. The chef publicly came to her aid

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Hagerty is a food columnist for the Grand Forks Herald. In 2012, when she was 85, she wrote positively about a new Olive Garden in the city, which she called “the largest and most beautiful restaurant now operating in Grand Forks”.

“The chicken Alfredo ($10.95) was warm and comforting on a cold day,” Hagerty wrote. “The portion was generous. My server was ready with Parmesan cheese.”

For her praise of the widely derided chain, Hagerty was subjected to widespread online mockery. Bourdain, one of the most famous faces in food journalism in the world, quickly came to her defence.

“Marilyn Hagerty’s years of reviews [are] a history of dining in the America too few of us from the coasts have seen,” he tweeted. “We need to see.” He went on to denounce the “snarkologists (myself included)”.

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Tastes just like a Lean Cuisine

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OG is a mid-tier chain restaurant and I'd never say they were amazing or anything other than what they are, but, I've always felt the "OG just microwaves all their food" meme is a self-own. Never mind the taste, if you can't tell the difference in consistency and texture between microwaved steak gorg or fet Alfredo and even a place like OG, you aren't the food authority you imagine yourself to be.