i love olive garden salad, which is probably hard for 1 to believe, but still

i ate at mcdonalds in rome

Johns Roast Pork will now have saturday hours.

see you there

Woody wrote:i love olive garden salad, which is probably hard for 1 to believe, but still

that's the joke?

also, can we develop this "housh as 'everyman'" thought?

it was sarcasm, boners

jamiethekiller wrote:Johns Roast Pork will now have saturday hours.

see you there

This news can only be considered great

Bakestar wrote:

jamiethekiller wrote:Johns Roast Pork will now have saturday hours.

see you there

This news can only be considered great

The line forms at the Target

I don't generally like the national chain places. Local chains are usually OK unless they get too big and change the product.

I just found out about that review yesterday and really, there's nothing wrong with it. If it were written by a food critic at a big newspaper in a big city, yeah, it woul dbe bad, but you play the cards that you're dealt and this woman is the food critic for the Grand Banks North Dakota newspaper. OG is one of the better restaurants in the city. Her MO is to write positive reviews and not write reviews for palces she doesn't like. Its not a big city, you don't want to be known as the woman who killed a local restaurant.

Yeah, I do consider myself something of a food snob, but a lot of the people making fun of that woman never considered her circumstances. And for food, to each his or her own. Other people might not like what I like and that's fine. Maybe the goal is to have someone who like OG try a better, local Italian place that might use fresh ingredients and cook with better techniques. Maybe you pay a little more for that. Try it out and see if you like it.

Bonus and tax refund both hit my bank account today.

lethal wrote:I don't generally like the national chain places. Local chains are usually OK unless they get too big and change the product.

I just found out about that review yesterday and really, there's nothing wrong with it. If it were written by a food critic at a big newspaper in a big city, yeah, it woul dbe bad, but you play the cards that you're dealt and this woman is the food critic for the Grand Banks North Dakota newspaper. OG is one of the better restaurants in the city. Her MO is to write positive reviews and not write reviews for palces she doesn't like. Its not a big city, you don't want to be known as the woman who killed a local restaurant.

Yeah, I do consider myself something of a food snob, but a lot of the people making fun of that woman never considered her circumstances. And for food, to each his or her own. Other people might not like what I like and that's fine. Maybe the goal is to have someone who like OG try a better, local Italian place that might use fresh ingredients and cook with better techniques. Maybe you pay a little more for that. Try it out and see if you like it.

Like I said, having lived up there, the people were really excited about it. Maybe it's funnier to me since I actually remember people talking about how an Olive Garden might be built a year before it was. Having lived there, it made sense because there really is not much there food-wise. They finally got a Thai place about 3 months before I left and that was also a big deal.

That said, I actually like Olive Garden.

Grotewold wrote:

Bakestar wrote:

jamiethekiller wrote:Johns Roast Pork will now have saturday hours.

see you there

This news can only be considered great

The line forms at the Target

need bucky to ride his bike there at 4am and wait in line for the tailgate. fuck the sauasage stromboli, cheeseteaks and roast pork for all.

td11 wrote:it was sarcasm, boners

so we can't?

SK790 wrote:

lethal wrote:I don't generally like the national chain places. Local chains are usually OK unless they get too big and change the product.

I just found out about that review yesterday and really, there's nothing wrong with it. If it were written by a food critic at a big newspaper in a big city, yeah, it woul dbe bad, but you play the cards that you're dealt and this woman is the food critic for the Grand Banks North Dakota newspaper. OG is one of the better restaurants in the city. Her MO is to write positive reviews and not write reviews for palces she doesn't like. Its not a big city, you don't want to be known as the woman who killed a local restaurant.

Yeah, I do consider myself something of a food snob, but a lot of the people making fun of that woman never considered her circumstances. And for food, to each his or her own. Other people might not like what I like and that's fine. Maybe the goal is to have someone who like OG try a better, local Italian place that might use fresh ingredients and cook with better techniques. Maybe you pay a little more for that. Try it out and see if you like it.

Like I said, having lived up there, the people were really excited about it. Maybe it's funnier to me since I actually remember people talking about how an Olive Garden might be built a year before it was. Having lived there, it made sense because there really is not much there food-wise. They finally got a Thai place about 3 months before I left and that was also a big deal.

That said, I actually like Olive Garden.

Yeah, as soon as I saw Grand Forks, I thought of you. A guy who I have never met and only interact with on a Phillies message board.

Carrabas is good. Can we agree on this?

PrattRules wrote:Carrabas is good. Can we agree on this?

Nom nom nom

Never been. I expect all chain restaurants to be "good" (unless they're aiming on the fast/cheap side of the triangle) because if they weren't they'd have failed before expanding to my area.

PrattRules wrote:Carrabas is good. Can we agree on this?

LOL, when I went to the Atlanta area for work, the host asked us excitedly, "Do you like Italien? We have to take you to this new place around here."

Carrabas.

I still really enjoy getting a big group together to go out to Bucci de Beppo.

macaroni grill!

all of these places are like 1500 cals a meal though. at minimum. its sad bc some of them are yummy.

WheelsFellOff wrote:Never been. I expect all chain restaurants to be "good" (unless they're aiming on the fast/cheap side of the triangle) because if they weren't they'd have failed before expanding to my area.

Most chain places are solidly mediocre. Good enough. Most of all, they're consistent and reliable from location to location. You know what you're getting if you're out of town looking for a place to eat. You don't have to risk eating something really, memorably bad.