or Applebees for dinner was a big deal?Like dress up nice for dinner kind of big deal? I remember the food actually being good at one time, or is that just my rose tinted nostalgia glasses?
It is a big deal. You're eating out at a sit down restaurant with nice ambiance and comfortable aesthetic. If you just wanted food you'd go to fast food. Yes, you do dress up to go to these places because it's generally an occasion with friends or family.
I remember seeing people in suits and shit going to Red Lobster on Sundays.
No. My family aren't trash so we never went to those types of places.Anyone got that news article about an Olive Garden opening in Bumfuck, Iowa and getting a serious review like it was some high society eatery? That's what OP reminds me of.
>>22047458Probably cause they're getting out of church numbskull
>>22047509You're a cunt.
>>22047450That's not what oldfag means you retarded facebook-boomer tourist.
>>22047517I been here since 2005, faggot
Dunno bro I have a lot of weird memories that don't make sense.
>>22047516Your poor.
>>22047458I imagine now a days seeing a family wearing suits must cause a lot of seethe and emotional damage to others.
>>22047535Ayo. Figure it out. Die in a fire, person. Litty again, litty again.
>>22047556based
>>22047450Going out with the family for dinner was a nice thing to do. We dont do it anymore unless it's a birthday and it's not as fun. Being a kid made everything more fun. Nostalgia fags dont know this but its true.
>>22047509you're like this because you never made one friend while growing up
>>22047535you're illiterate
>>22047450>>22047565we never went out for dinner.we went out for breakfast.
>>22047450Didn’t dress up but I remember Olive Garden being a special meal, although that was possibly because we were lower middle class. I think we even did at least one birthday dinner there
>>22047450Yeah, used to get dressed to the nines to go to Shoneys.My dad would hit on the waitresses while blowing cigarette smoke at them.
>>22047450I remember "zuppa toscana" being the best soup I've ever had. I went recently and it was shit. The salad was mediocre too. The breadsticks were still good.
>>22047450Yeah. When I was like 12? I went to olive garden with my friend and his mom to a "fancy" restaurant. The bread sticks were good and everything else kinda sucked, except the soup. Never went back
>>22047556I miss my sober son.
>>22047450Those are shitty fucking chain eateries. Only an idiot would get dressed up for that. Don't forget your coupons!
>>22047509Really? That's hilarious. Where can I read it?"They call it Hospitaliano!"
>>22047450Olive Gardens lasagna lunch special is a good deal. I will go there on my lunch hour every week or two.
>>22047509I could easily rape you.
>>22048057Meet me in the O 'Garden walk in and we will see who penetrates whos orifices
>>22048058I don't work in an office, idiot
>>22048061Ill clean out your fucking cubicle
>>22048062Y-you too..
>>22048055Found it.https://www.grandforksherald.com/lifestyle/the-eatbeat-long-awaited-olive-garden-receives-warm-welcome
>>22047542>now a days
>>22048066Lol. Their insecurity stems from a semblance of self-awareness.
>>22048066Anthony Bourdain famously wrote "Anyone who comes away from this work anything less than charmed by Ms. Hagerty — and the places and characters she describes — has a heart of stone.This book kills snark dead." ; 'Ms. Hagerty' being the elderly lady who wrote that Olive Garden review.
>>22048088He also killed himself because he was a melodramatic faggot
>>22048116yeah, and you're a heartless faggot. so what? no one cares.
>>22048083>even has the shart stainperfection
>>22047450>Olive Gardenused to go weekly for lunch. Soup, salad & breadstix.. I would sub out the soup for a huge salad and they always threw in free dipping sauces for the bread. At the time was a good basic lunch for under $15. I was moved onto better lunch options, but still reminisce about "the garden" days and the og wait staff being so laid back and cool. Simpler times.
>>22048088I agree, I really enjoyed the article.
>>22047450My entire experience with italian food at home was spaghetti with a bottle of ragu sauce, canned ravioli and frozen lasagna, so olive garden on special occasions was actually very delicious.To be honest it's still nice. It's overpriced and proper italian food is so much better, but it's comparable to what you can make at home in a few minutes with ingredients bought at walmart.
>>22048158>My entire experience with italian food is with amerimutt feedgrim
>>22047556Lit Romney in the house
>>22047450Cant believe this dork fucked your mom op. MAD embarrassing
>>22048088After reading her review, I have to agree. It's refreshing to see a take on a chain from someone who didn't visit them often in their life. It's like listening to grandma talk about how her lunch went at ruby tuesdays.
>>22048088It's a shitty restaurant but that old lady didn't know any better as she mostly just stayed in her hometown most of her life. So I'm not gonna make fun of someone who doesn't know better.
>>22048120Least i aint sucking the cock of a dead coke addict
>>22047454Your heart's in the right place because proper restaurants deserve the attire but if you consider Applebee's the sort of place for that then you've lost the plot.>no man you don't get it back in the day Applebee's was-still not worth doing that for.
>>22048236>It's a shitty restaurant but that old lady didn't know any betterShe talks about times she'd eaten at a different olive garden in the past; there's no need for this silly hyperbole over what is a very straightforward and simple review. Literally all she had to say about the food was that it was warm and the portions were generous. It's a city of 50k people, it's not like the newspaper is going to have a bunch of new restaurants to review every week.
>>22048295>She talks about times she'd eaten at a different olive garden in the pastnta but sure sounds like she didn't really know any better.
>>22048300I'm having some difficulty imagining how you can be so insecure that you feel the need to work this hard at feeling superior to some grandma reviewing restaurants for a small town paper.
>>22048313If it sounds like someone doesn't know any better about a particular subject then it would be dishonest to say otherwise just to spare the feelings of a person you'll never meet who will never read your pathetic white knighting. That grandma probably knows better than me about a great many things, but clearly restaurants are not one of those areas. Don't know why pointing that out makes you so asshurt.
>>22048319nta but for me it's just because you seem like a cunt and are pretty insufferable.
>>22048313>I'm having some difficulty imaginingdoesn't surprise me
>>22048331cry about it, Ms.Hagerty.
>>22048319>That grandma probably knows better than me about a great many things, but clearly restaurants are not one of those areasWhy, because she wrote a vaguely positive review for a small town paper where she spent more time talking about the decor than the food? She didn't say it was some amazing culinary experience, literally all she said about the food was that it was warm and the portions were generous.It's insanely petty and small minded to see an old lady writing a review for a small town paper that boils down to>it was clean and the food was warmand feel the need to launch into some defensive meltdown over how much more cultured you are. What do you think the review should have looked like? I suppose she should have just shit all over the place, no matter than it's a small town in North Dakota with no other options?Her son was a journalist for the Wall Street Journal and I think it's safe to assume that she visited him in New York occasionally; it's not like she never set foot outside her town in her life. That same son said about this particular review, which gained a lot of fame among insecure guys like you,>"she doesn't like to say anything bad" in her reviews, and if her reviews mention the decor more than the food, "you might want to eat somewhere else".I'm not "white knighting" for anyone by the way, certainly not some dead woman, but the world is full of cunts like you and if no one steps in to let you know that you're being a cunt then you'll never learn any better, will you? This post is a public service.
>>22048349You're unironically having a true fullblown melty over a throwaway(and 100% true btw) comment about her obvious lack of restaurant taste. Like I said there are plenty of things she no doubt bests me in. Restaurants sure isn't one of them. I'll break down her review and make you understand:>the food was warmUsing "warm" for food, instead of something better like "roasting", "scorching", "sizzling", or "sweltering", or any other number of good words shows how she doesn't really think of food in terms of anything really. Makes it pretty obvious just how much she is missing in terms of both vocabulary and pallet.>the portions were generousCalling them "generous" shows how flyover religious shit seeps into stuff as innocuous food reviews. Like Olive Garden is some charity feeding the poor and the best thing you can say about it is that it was cooked and there was enough of it. Doesn't really say much about the food at all, does it, since everyone has warm and generous food.Then you go on to say that her review is just patently dishonest because she doesn't want to say anything bad. That itself makes it a shitty dishonest review, so it makes sense that you'd enjoy that because you're a shitty dishonest person. If you can't admit that a review that refuses to list the negatives is anything but crappy then I don't know what to tell you man.
>>22048369Why do incels always come out with cartoons of little girls when they get pressed? Imagine seething this hard over a decade old review from a dead old woman.Being a cunt is a choice, anon. You can stop any time you want.
>>22047450When I was in high school in the late '90s, in Davenport, Iowa, the Olive Garden (and we always included the "the") was where we took our dates and/or friends on prom nights, homecoming, etc. I always liked the Tour of Italy.
>>22048295It's not hyperbole at all, I know she had eaten at other Olive Gardens. I'm just saying she probably hadnt ever tried actual Italian food. And that's fine, but if all you know is Olive Garden then you'll think that's the best Italian food. Because you don't know any better. Nothing wrong with being ignorant, she is a harmless old lady. I appreciate her attitude. But Olive Garden is fuckin garbage.
>>22048369>pallet
>>22047450>the ultimate end of all white “men”Sad
>>22047450anyone else wish there was a nice place to eat at where you could eat in basically a loincloth? i want an animal but refined experience, to experience the tension between barbarism and civiliziAtion
>>22048379see>>22048349>Her son was a journalist for the Wall Street Journal and I think it's safe to assume that she visited him in New YorkYou are confusing a small town paper avoiding being openly rude to a corporation that chose to open a restaurant in a location where people have no other options with "ignorance".>if all you know is Olive Garden then you'll think that's the best Italian food.Not only did she not say anything like this; she didn't even say that it was good food. You're so desperate to be condescending that you're not even taking a few seconds to understand what's being discussed. The literal - we are using the dictionary definition here, not your zoomer brainrot definition - the literal only thing she said about the food itself in her review was>The chicken Alfredo was warm and comforting on a cold day. The portion was generous.That's it, that's the entire thing. The review is 16 paragraphs long and that's all she had to say about the food itself. That's not some ignorant old woman sucking Olive Garden's dick; that's a small town paper trying to give a vaguely positive review to a company that's probably a significant advertiser.If you weren't so desperate to feel superior over your deep appreciation of (lmao) italian food, you could read between the lines and realize that the fact that she spent the other 15 paragraphs talking about anything but the food means that she didn't think it was very good. That's as close as you're going to get to a negative review in a place where advertising revenue - ie her salary - is dependent on not completely alienating the largest restaurant in town.
>>22048405ranjeet you literally shit on the street. dining out at olive garden really isn't that bad.
>>22048410>The review is 16 paragraphs long and that's all she had to say about the food itself.>writing other nice things is as close as you're going to get to a negative review when Olive Garden is writing her checksThat just sounds like a an awful lying review meant to mislead people. Tell me how it's not, please. Or just pretend that actively lying to your neighbors for the sake of a corporation is good, actually. You pick.
>>22048414I will buy your “wife” and your daughter. Because your masters view me as more useful than you. Cope
>>22048428>That just sounds like a an awful lying review meant to mislead people. Tell me how it's not, please.If you go to Olive Garden you will get a generous portion of warm comfort food. If you're going to claim that this isn't a fair and accurate statement then you're a lying cunt.
>>22048431No, lying is writing an intentionally misleading review that makes a shitty restaurant look better than it is because their advertising dollars pay your salary. That's textbook dishonest for greedy motives. I get that you just want to spite other anons like a contrarian fag so you'll defend this review in any way possible, but this is pathetic.
>>22048437not him but I don’t think you understand small town America
>>22048437Oh look at you, deflecting already. There's nothing misleading about the review which is why your pussy ass didn't respond to what I actually said.>If you go to Olive Garden you will get a generous portion of warm comfort food.Is this true or not? I think you know it is which is why you're trying to move the goalposts. Are you really so insecure that you need to engage in this level of disingenuous shit just to condescend to some dead old woman who wrote a fluff piece for a small town newspaper in North Dakota 15 years ago? Get your priorities straight, son.
>>22048452Are you this guy >>22048410Because I'm replying to you like you're this guy since I replied taking issue with a point that he specifically made.
>>22048459>still deflectingI accept your concession. Now go touch some fucking grass and stop being such a retarded contrarian over this sort of petty nonsense.
>>22048480I'm legitimately just asking you, because what you said would be fucking retarded if you're the guy who wrote that other post that I was responding to, which is why I replied to you to begin with. Not every single post has to be an epic internet debate tactic, some things can be information-seeking questions for clarification, my terminally online friend.
>>22048083It's really weird to think this guy and Terence Crawford, P4P #1 boxer in the world at one time, both drank the same tap water growing up.
>>22048483>STILL deflectingThis is unhealthy behavior, kid. You asked a very simple and straightforward question>>22048428>Tell me how it's not, please.and I gave you a very simple and straightforward answer>>22048431>If you go to Olive Garden you will get a generous portion of warm comfort food.and now you've bizarrely spent 30 minutes doing everything you can to avoid addressing it.It's ok to be wrong, man. Like you say, not every single thing has to be some epic internet debate. Just take the loss, close the thread and move on. This weird larp about how you're just "asking questions for information-seeking clarification" is bizarre and embarrassing.
>>22048484The United States of America is a vibrant nation. It’s easy to imagine, given that they share a nation.
>>22047450I didn't grow up poor so I can't relate to your post
>>22048066If olive garden were this important to my town I'd probably become a seething chudcel too. No wonder they're like that
>>22048446>city folk just don't understand small town americaMaybe these retarded bigots who are afraid of everything should learn to understand the rest of the world?
>>22048410Don't care, seeing you seethe is all the reward I need. She's dead anyway, she doesn't care about your arguments. Olive Garden is shit. Perhaps she should've said it wasn't very good instead of just dancing around the issue. I value directness. >>22048498You're arguing with someone else now. So desperate to white knight, so desperate to be "right", that you're just whining at random anons who weren't involved in the conversation. Keep on going anon, it's very funny seeing you get this assblasted because I said Olive Garden is shit.
>>22048484Top fucking kek I hadn't thought about that beforeCrawford really is a standout person and boxer when you consider his surroundings where he grew up. Shame he wasn't more active though; his fights were pretty exciting usually.
>>22047450Too expensive for the slop you get.
>>22048268You mentioned two totally different places. Applebee's is a loud bar that has food. Olive garden has walls that separate people and keep the noise down and is more of a sit down restaurant you come with family or a nice occasion.
>>22048578>being a braindead retard that punches things is "standout"Athlete worship is so pathetic
>>22048708OP mentioned both but neither are worth dressing up for.
>>22047450>dressing up for applebees?never happens
>>22048577nta but you seem like a cunt, maybe even a thundercunt.
>>22048268>>22048708You're both fucking tranime chimo perverts. Just get along.
