Olive Garden vs. Red Lobster

[Davidko19]

^ are you real or is this spam? Whoo goes to a mens fashion website and has their first post be about the OG? You guys are so good I cant tell anymore. Thats a lot of work to get me to go to that link

 

[kwilkinson]

Originally Posted by sunkissed89

Realistically, if you want a restaurant that doesn't use any chemicals, freeze any of their food, and has healthy portion sizes.... well, you need to eat somewhere outside of America.

This is so wrong it hurts to read.

 

[Nil]

Originally Posted by ratboycom

I find TGIF to be the worst of the Chain Crazy-****-on-the-Walls places, mega bland and not worth the paper the money I pay is printed on. .

This. Not to mention I have an ingrained prejudice against TGIF because way back when I was a young lad (5-6 or so), my parents took me to Toys R Us that happened to be conveniently located next to a TGIF. Turns out a man had just stabbed his wife to death on the steps of TGIF and I was able to get a good long look at her dead body laying on the sidewalk. It wasn't until I was maybe 19 when I first and last went there.

 

[bBoy JEe]

Wait... but didn't Guy Fieri help design the new menu at TGIF?

 

[gilwood]

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

This is so wrong it hurts to read.

I agree with him on the chemical part. It's hard to get meat that's not from steriod injected freaks of nature.

On a bright note: I went a restaurant in DC called Founding Farmers. It was a completely organic restaurant!! I haven't seen one like this in NY yet.

 

[Eason]

Olive garden wins for the salads, **** yeah.

 

[sonick]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

It goes against everything we know to be true about food. That a soulless corporate box with flash frozen, pre-cooked, portioned, pre-packaged foods can be "better" than the cuisine its actually imitating? I'm not saying that its not true... I'm just saying that its definitely the exception, and not the rule if true. I've eaten at The Olive Garden, and frankly, been relatively unimpressed. I found their sauce (the heart of Italian pasta IMO) to be bland. The Old Spaghetti Factory is my cheap italian/american knockoff restaraunt of choice.
Old Spaghetti Factory is ******* disgusting. I have never had Olive Garden but I cannot imagine anything being worse than OSF.

 

[sho'nuff]

i used to be a server at olive garden. this was back in 1993-94. wow. i had alot of fun. we were a bunch of losers though, after work, just go to the local joints shoot pool, drink, each one was chasing another, met my first gf, and etc. tips were good, or at least i thought it was good at that time, i had no other responsibilities being an irresponsible troubled 20 year old at that time

 

[unjung]

Originally Posted by sho'nuff

i used to be a server at olive garden. this was back in 1993-94. wow. i had alot of fun. we were a bunch of losers though, after work, just go to the local joints shoot pool, drink, each one was chasing another, met my first gf, and etc. tips were good, or at least i thought it was good at that time, i had no other responsibilities being an irresponsible troubled 20 year old at that time

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[sho'nuff]

haha looks like a good movie. i'll take a look at it soon

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

This is so wrong it hurts to read.
Is tapioca maltodextrin a chemical? Anyway, I agree with you, but I wouldn't expect somebody working at the Olive Garden to know much about food in the first place.

 

[kwilkinson]

Originally Posted by iammatt

Is tapioca maltodextrin a chemical? Anyway, I agree with you, but I wouldn't expect somebody working at the Olive Garden to know much about food in the first place.

I dunno about TM, but I don't think anyone in their right mind would consider things like Transglutaminase (activa) a chemical. Soy lecithin is safe too.

As long as it's not MSG, it's safe, right?

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

I dunno about TM, but I don't think anyone in their right mind would consider things like Transglutaminase (activa) a chemical. Soy lecithin is safe too.

As long as it's not MSG, it's safe, right?
Lecithin is actually pretty damn good for you. We put it in Owen's food.

 

[Girardian]

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[acidboy]

Originally Posted by Nil

This. Not to mention I have an ingrained prejudice against TGIF because way back when I was a young lad (5-6 or so), my parents took me to Toys R Us that happened to be conveniently located next to a TGIF. Turns out a man had just stabbed his wife to death on the steps of TGIF and I was able to get a good long look at her dead body laying on the sidewalk. It wasn't until I was maybe 19 when I first and last went there.

**** tgif... ate their burger once and they served me rancid meat... I mean REALLY rancid, like egg sitting for more than a day rancid. friend of mine also had salad in a tgif and the lettuce had an extra serving of dead worms.