I'm going to Raleigh Times for lunch

pulled pork nachos >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shitty Olive Garden pasta

9/21/2009 11:15:54 AM

they have awesome guac

9/21/2009 11:22:35 AM

I don't think anyone can beat my guac but I'll give theirs a try

9/21/2009 11:24:47 AM

Olive Garden is great if you're dating a vegetarian.

They're pretty much limited to bottomless salad and free breadsticks, so you get out pretty cheap.

9/21/2009 11:32:21 AM

lemme check, but I think vegetarians might be able to eat pasta

not sure tho

9/21/2009 11:34:17 AM

Naw, pasta is made from puppy bones.

9/21/2009 11:35:27 AM

not with meat in it

9/21/2009 11:35:34 AM

we vegetarians eat nothing but fruits and vegetable.
we are all members of PETA\
we all tell you how sad it was that the animal you are eating was once a living,caring, loving thing

9/21/2009 11:36:11 AM

A vegetarian could get fat quick by wolving down multiple bowls of fettuchini alfredo

9/21/2009 11:36:43 AM

^fact

9/21/2009 11:37:16 AM

Olive Garden is But I always have to go there for lunch with clients. The nutrition information is appalling. The children's fettucini alfredo has 800 calories! That just seems wrong.

Thank god for their salad (hold the dressing) and minestrone.

9/21/2009 11:41:36 AM

Yeah if I get stuck at Olive Garden I just order the salad. At least that is good.

9/21/2009 11:42:31 AM

A bowl of pasta is usually worse for you than a cheeseburger


Only like 10 percent of the population realizes this

9/21/2009 11:43:19 AM

There are healthy pastas, but it's rare that you can find a restaurant with whole wheat noodles on the menu. And a serving size of pasta is much too generous in any restaurant.

Another thing to be careful about at Olive Garden (and most restaurants, for that matter) is SODIUM. You can easily consume twice your daily recommended intake of sodium if you're not careful.

9/21/2009 11:47:22 AM

i love the wolf web.

9/21/2009 11:55:33 AM

i ♥ fatties

9/21/2009 12:10:08 PM

9/21/2009 12:11:28 PM

ohay

9/21/2009 12:11:41 PM

thumper

9/21/2009 12:13:06 PM

lucy

9/21/2009 12:14:01 PM

Smoke some weed then go to olive garden. I bet you will be able to take advantage of never ending pasta bowl.

9/21/2009 12:15:05 PM

Hope you had fun at the game Saturday. I'm ready for the holidays with fam! Turkey Day at Sweet Tomatoes. That's my vote.

9/21/2009 12:15:09 PM

we had a blast! buck and aaron FINISHED a fifth of Maker's Mark while we tailgated. i was in charge of the most obnoxious guys out there

9/21/2009 12:16:06 PM

Ahaha NICE! Aaron is a good influence on bro.

9/21/2009 12:19:35 PM

the last time i ate bottomless pasta bowl it cost 6.95

wtf i saw the commercial and it's 9.95 now?

9/21/2009 12:50:50 PM

and i order 12.95

Quote :

"skip the neverending salad bowl & neverending breadsticks "

thats the most awesome part

BESIDES THE CHEESE WHICH MUST COVER EVERYTHING

"telll me when"

sits there


sits there

crickets

"im all out of cheese"


mmmm

Quote :

" There are only two reasons to ever visit The Olive Garden-- the Italian dressing, which they also happen to bottle, and the freshly grated romano cheese. Unlike most Italian restaurant chains, The Olive Garden doesn't keep a glass shaker full of powdered, clumpy, dry parmesan cheese on the table. They use a Zyliss Rotary Cheese Grater to provide heaps of moist, fresh, romano."

from the internet

[Edited on September 21, 2009 at 5:27 PM. Reason : per internet]

9/21/2009 5:22:18 PM

I hate that asshole on the commercial who knows what he's going to get, then the waiter tells him about the bottomless deal and he is all like "hold on" and his friends laugh

Matter of fact, all olive garder commercials suck

9/21/2009 5:23:46 PM

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"Unlike most Italian restaurant chains, The Olive Garden doesn't keep a glass shaker full of powdered, clumpy, dry parmesan cheese on the table. They use a Zyliss Rotary Cheese Grater to provide heaps of moist, fresh, romano."

There's your first problem. With pretty much every city now having good local Italian restaurants, I don't know why you would bother going to a shitty chain like the Olive Garden. Hell, even Macaroni Grill is slightly better and also uses fresh cheese.

9/21/2009 6:20:32 PM

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"With pretty much every city now having good local Italian restaurants, ."

Since you've been to good local italian restaurants in pretty mcuh every city, why don't you make an american guide to italian eating since every olive garden everywhere is always packed. Seems like lots of money to be made.

and for now you can tell me the ones in the Memphis, tn and Miami (with the exception of Miami beach$$$) areas since they lack Italians and have Italian restaurants ran by hispanics. Large citites like New York and LA are the only places I've been and visited lots of good local Italian restaurants. In most cases, especially around here, all you get is taste of the can at local places. Outside of food cities, chains dominate.

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"I don't know why you would bother going to a shitty chain like the Olive Garden."

Personal opinoin. I love olive garden (although its not the best italian i've ever had, I don't even order true Italian food-I get spighetti, pizza, lasagna, talapia) Only a few restaurants off the top of my head have better salad and they were both five star steakhouses. I assume the rest of the people that pack olive garden (Always like a 45 minute wait ALWAYS) go there for reliable consistency. Its not the best but you know its gonna be good. Trying new Italian restaurants usually results in a fail since theres so many of them, they're so easy to run and 90% of them are chef boy ar dee quality. So what if OG doesn't grind the tomatoes on site. Its good, simple and they have some of the best salad and breadsticks around.

Its not like people go there because its cheap either. Most local italian restaurants are about hte same price or cheaper.

9/21/2009 6:54:45 PM

Olive Garden attracts the same sorts that go to places like Carrabba's. There will always be a market for people that like sub par food.

And really, no good local Italian in the Triangle? Really?

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"have Italian restaurants ran by hispanics."

Who do you think works in the chain Italian places?

9/21/2009 6:58:49 PM

i dont just hate olive garden, but ever since my wop of an ex left me i hate everything italian.

9/21/2009 7:04:14 PM

Hispanics running a place and working there are two different things. Any chain is ran corperately and just duplicated on site. nobody likes sub par food. people like what they think is good. if they like sub par food then sub par food tastes good. Granted, some people are afraid to try new things so there could be a better restaurant nearby but they will go to olive garden because its a name they know and trust will be good no matter where they go.

I'm not in the triangle which does have some good but not great ones. When I was in Wake Forest, Olive garden was the best thing within a reasonable distance. There was a pretty decent one downtown that closed early and had awful salad. I rahter give up the slight quality on my entree to have good salad and bread. There was also a good one in cary ~an hour from my home...the better quality not quite worht the drive even if they had great salad, didn't.

The only phenomenal Italian I've had was in little Italy and a fancy place I frequented in LA people say isn't even Italian. Miami beach has a few overpriced italian hits that are slightly better than OG.~25 an entree.

9/21/2009 7:10:13 PM

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"nobody likes sub par food."

If that were true, McDonald's would have been out of business ages ago.

9/21/2009 7:12:29 PM

prefers...I hope you knew what I meant and were just swinging if not you are a lost soul and I will pray for you either way. If five guys offered the same price and had a drive through everyone would prefer it to mcdonalds. RELATIVE. Mcdonalds isn't low quality food RELATIVE to its opponents(burger king windys.

Olive garden isn't cheap or and you have to wait.


your points so far
-olive garden is bad but they get business because there is a large market of people just looking for bad food

-there are great unique italian restaurants in pretty much EVERY city

-(every city "now having" is how you put it which also means unique italian restaurants are some sort of new phenomenon sweeping the nation replacing chains forever

-most og employees are hispanic and by working there influence the menu, style, and flavor of the entire chain

-no understanding of categories and food classes. People eat lunch at mcdonalds as opposed to the angus barn therefore people prefer sub par food.

[Edited on September 21, 2009 at 7:26 PM. Reason : supa size me]

9/21/2009 7:25:08 PM

I find your trolling to be sub par as well

9/21/2009 7:31:16 PM

lame cop-out for getting owned

9/21/2009 7:38:35 PM

Quote :

"skip olive garden entirely"

9/21/2009 8:49:03 PM

so i was wondering how this got 3 pages....

then i read the thread and figured it out...

9/21/2009 8:50:46 PM