Olive Garden appreciation thread

[Allenberg]

All you can eat breadsticks/salad/soup for six bucks...hell yeah! :D

[matcom]

1. yeah, great food

if you like fake EYEtalian.

it's the Hardees of sit down restaurant chains

[Shell Beau]

2. True, but they do have a good salad!

:9

[matcom]

5. its 'special' lettuce

;)

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. I'd rather eat Mighty Dog

[MissMillie]

4. I've never been to a Hardees

and, not being Italian, I can't vouch for what is authentic and what isn't.

I've never had a bad meal at Olive Garden.

[underpants]

12. westernthickburger.com is down REPEAT the website is down

DAMN!

[DS1]

11. No way, FOO

That's Sizzler :D

[Celeborn Skywalker]

19. It tastes good to me.

Of course I live in NM where real Italian is not to be found anywhere.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

6. If I ever hit powerball, I'm going to napalm ALL Olive Gardens

What they serve and call "Italian food" is utter HERESY! :grr: :nuke:

[Mutley]

7. Their entrees are blah, but their breadsticks rock!

Mmmmmmm!

[Texasgal]

8. YUUUUUCK!

I'd rather sniff my dogs farts than eat at the Olive garden. :puke:

[ghostsofgiants]

9. I haven't been to the Olive Garden in like, FOEVER!

[Allenberg]

10. Elitists!

:silly:

[Arugula Latte]

13. Nooooooooooooooo!

Oh, the humanity! :nuke:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

14. It is the most comfortable restaurant in town

big chairs that roll around!

[chat_noir]

15. Olive Garden and Red Lobster - very red companies

Parent company, Darden Restaurants, are big supports of the Repubs

http://www.buyblue.org/node/757/view/summary


http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:sdRSlz-ZK1UJ:www.tpmcafe.com/author/maximus7+Olive+Garden++Republican&hl=en

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:uF67fnOyxjcJ:bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2004/12/_politics_shopp.html+Darden+Restaurants++Republicans&hl=en

[Allenberg]

16. Eh..not that big a deal to me.

Anywhere that serves delicious lunch...works for me.

Are there better Italian joints out there...sure. I'll take tasty cheap lunch wherever I can get it.

[Chan790]

17. My brother used to wait tables at OG.

He hated the people that came in, 5 or 6 to a table, and then all ordered the unlimited soup, salad and breadsticks. You'll never work harder than that table and these are the worst tippers in the restaurant world. (15% of $5.99 is less than $1 and more than 50% of them don't tip at all.) If you get the unlimited S,S and B-sticks and your server has to refill anything twice (ie. a Soup and a breadsticks)...be kind, tip 35%-50%.

$2 or $3 isn't going to break you and they'll remember you for life. They also tend to remember the non-tippers and trust me...you don't want to be the non-tipper.

[RumpusCat]

18. Going to the Olive Garden was 'going out for a good dinner'

When I was a kid and in the suburbs, lol. Well, either Olive Garden or Outback Steakhouse (bloomin' onions, mmmmm!). Now I live in NYC where I'd probably get beaten with a Zagats for liking Olive Garden but sometimes I have a craving for the predictable food of my youth.. shh, don't tell!

[donheld]

20. You can have your Olive Garden

I'll try to find blue restaurants.

[name not needed]

21. Italy should bomb us for that monstrosity.

[bigwillq]

22. Olive Garden sucks.

IMO. :puke: