Olive Garden = D+

[MrAngryFace]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44515517#44515517

OG Defense Force Assemble!

[Phoenix Dark]

The thread title is deceptive. That video doesn't say Olive Garden is a D+ restaurant; that, of course, would be ridiculous. It says their healthy options are limited...which is fine with me. Not everything has to clean my colon. Sometimes I want a Big Mac, regardless of the consequences. And sometimes I want a nice Italian meal, priced within my budget. Served in an environment where I can chill out and feel at home.

I know the "herp a derp you can't have a good meal unless it's $20 and covers 3 centimeters of the plate herp a derp" brigade will be here soon. Laugh it up cigarillos, I've got free breadsticks

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it's not the food, pd, it's the trash that occupies their seats

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and the food, too

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[T234]

I'd much rather eat Fazoli's than Olive Garden.

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well there goes my theory

[MrAngryFace]

D+

[Barry Egan]

The same guy who gave mcdonalds a B+ and called the double quarter pounder a healthy choice gave olive garden that D+.  That really puts things in perspective.

[MrAngryFace]

McDonalds has protein!

[Mr. Gundam]

D+ is generous.

[etiolate]

He only seems to care about calories. I don't care if its less than 500 calories if it still gives me painful intestinal action.

[lennedsay]

D+ is generous.

Like their breadsticks amirite?!

[Barry Egan]

He only seems to care about calories. I don't care if its less than 500 calories if it still gives me painful intestinal action.

Exactly.  Most of the items there were loaded with corn syrup and carbs but they were low in calories so A-!

[T234]

well there goes my theory

If you're gonna start ragging on me, I'm gonna start mentioning the fact that I can afford real heroin (not that I do it, but I can) and that you can only afford a cheap synthetic substitute only fit for recreational use by dirty poors.

[MrAngryFace]

well there goes my theory

If you're gonna start ragging on me, I'm gonna start mentioning the fact that I can afford real heroin (not that I do it, but I can) and that you can only afford a cheap synthetic substitute only fit for recreational use by dirty poors.

[Human Snorenado]

well there goes my theory

If you're gonna start ragging on me, I'm gonna start mentioning the fact that I can afford real heroin (not that I do it, but I can) and that you can only afford a cheap synthetic substitute only fit for recreational use by dirty poors.

Thor

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a bow and a laugh, really?

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agreed

[MrAngryFace]

This thread wouldnt have happened if OG didnt exist- it tears us apart

[Joe Molotov]

More like

Olive Garden = ::::::::::::D~~

[benjipwns]

She was all shocked at it getting a D+ but her guess was only slightly higher with a C-.

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Chick-Fil-A minus. 

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[TEEEPO]

I know the "herp a derp you can't have a good meal unless it's $20 and covers 3 centimeters of the plate herp a derp" brigade will be here soon. Laugh it up cigarillos, I've got free breadsticks

this past week,
2x four dollars for two pork and cheese pupusa's
1x seven dollars small pho with all the fatty shit
1x seven dollars chinese style fried chicken w/ rice + free tea mother fucker

[MrAngryFace]

yeah fuck dennys

Why do you hate Dennys? Is it because it could kill you? Cars can kill you....Olive Garden can kill you, why Dennys? Dennys is awesome- that dude would give Dennys an A+ cause they sell plain oatmeal.

[MrAngryFace]

I dunno if Perkins has any allies here

[recursivelyenumerable]

I haven't eaten at Olive Garden since I was 14 or so but I vaguely remember sort of liking it then. I mean, it was at least a C.

[MrAngryFace]

Ill eat Olive Garden- if one of my friends wants to go ill fuckin go cause half of eating out is eating out with someone you dont hate. Eating out alone is shitty- even if its someplace decent.

[Human Snorenado]

I will eat at Olive Garden if I have to I suppose.  Their food isn't like Applebees bad or anything, they just use too much salt on pretty much everything.

[MrAngryFace]

Really the worst things about Applebees are the dri...woah deja vu

[Himu]

i haven't eaten at olive garden in YEAAAARS

[Trent Dole]

BREADSTICKS

[Diunx]

You guys are obsessed with this place, if they ever open here I will have no choice but to go there thanks to all the free Bore publicity.

[Cheebo]

You guys are obsessed with this place, if they ever open here I will have no choice but to go there thanks to all the free Bore publicity.

Because PD a long long long time ago called it a high class place to take a girl for a fancy date when it is basically fast food italian food.

[Brehvolution]

And sometimes I want a nice Italian meal, priced within my budget. Served in an environment where I can chill out and feel at home.

[Cheebo]

I actually went there once a few months ago. The one by PD no less to pick up dinner for my and my gf and I assumed I would see PD there making small talk with the waitresses while chowing down on a breadstick but alas he was not in sight.

[Great Rumbler]

I went to Olive Garden a few weeks ago.

Unlimited pasta, soup, and breadsticks. 

[Brehvolution]

Zuppa Tuscana + breadsticks =

[Diunx]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44515517#44515517

OG Defense Force Assemble!

Holy shit those burritos look like sex!

[tiesto]

Aren't there any good mom-and-pop Italian restaurants by you guys or am I just spoiled living in the tri-state area?

[Cheebo]

Aren't there any good mom-and-pop Italian restaurants by you guys or am I just spoiled living in the tri-state area?

Tons by PD and I. Downtown Ann Arbor is probably the best place for non-chain nice resterants in the whole state.

But how can you deny commericals like these?
[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

[Great Rumbler]

Aren't there any good mom-and-pop Italian restaurants by you guys or am I just spoiled living in the tri-state area?

I've got at least 3 in the area I live that are as close [or closer] than Olive Garden, which is why I visit OG very rarely.

[Mr. Gundam]

Ill eat Olive Garden- if one of my friends wants to go ill fuckin go cause half of eating out is eating out with someone you dont hate. Eating out alone is shitty- even if its someplace decent.

I'd go if someone really wanted to. The only Olive Garden in Seattle went out of business a few years ago. Kinda surprised me since it was always busy.

[Phoenix Dark]

Aren't there any good mom-and-pop Italian restaurants by you guys or am I just spoiled living in the tri-state area?

Tons by PD and I. Downtown Ann Arbor is probably the best place for non-chain nice resterants in the whole state.

But how can you deny commericals like these?
[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

There's a real nice looking one on Carpenter, but I haven't been to it. iirc there's a Starbucks near it

[Cheebo]

I know what you are talking about. I have seen it but never gone either.

[Positive Touch]

Aren't there any good mom-and-pop Italian restaurants by you guys or am I just spoiled living in the tri-state area?

there's tons of italian places where i live, unfortunately nearly all of them are italian-american places i.e. meat, pasta, and a shitton of sauce & cheese.  it's good when yr drunk but otherwise i'm just like damn can i get a nice italian meal for under $15?

also i won a 25$ gift card to either olive garden or red lobster.  r u guys jelly?

[bork]

Some years ago, I went to Olive Garden with a group of friends  There were 8-10 of us total.  The waitress came by and took everyone's order without writing anything down, then brought the free salad and breadsticks.  I never got anything that I ordered, and the waitress disappeared for a while.  When she finally came back, I told her that I never got anything, and her mouth fell open.  "I'm sooooooooooo sorry!!  I forgot to put your order in!  What did you want?" she said.  But we had to go to a movie, so I told her to forget about it and that I ate the salad and breadsticks instead.  Everybody gave her low/no tips and we left.

Only been back there once since then, since my wife wanted to go there.

Aren't there any good mom-and-pop Italian restaurants by you guys or am I just spoiled living in the tri-state area?

This is what I do if I want some Italian food or any other food, really.  Chain restaurants don't compare.

[Mupepe]

Fuck you guys with good mom and pop places around you.  Houston has great food if you want to travel inside the city.  But anywhere outside the 610 loop is 90% chains and fast food.  Bleh.

[Great Rumbler]

I ate some Tex-Mex from a local place a few days ago. It was AMAZING.

[cool breeze]

his criticism of Chipotle is the large portion size 
 

Aren't there any good mom-and-pop Italian restaurants by you guys or am I just spoiled living in the tri-state area?

Tons by PD and I. Downtown Ann Arbor is probably the best place for non-chain nice resterants in the whole state.

But how can you deny commericals like these?
[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

my favorite part of that commercial is six seconds in when they almost let a black person speak

when it finally happens, it is to copy the white man
[youtube=560,345]cENBEap90CE[/youtube]

[Mr. Gundam]

Fuck you guys with good mom and pop places around you.  Houston has great food if you want to travel inside the city.  But anywhere outside the 610 loop is 90% chains and fast food.  Bleh.

Sounds like most of America.

CITY LIVING
SUBURBAN BIG BOX CHAIN SPRAWL

[Mupepe]

 

Well the thing that makes Houston shittier is that outside of like one square mile, it's one big fucking suburb.  I technically live in the city but it's just an aging suburb.  Houston proper is about a 50 mile diameter of sprawl (sans the 1 or 2 square miles of downtown area).

[Mr. Gundam]

Omaha is the same way. After vising there for the last 8 years, I'm still not used to "nice places" being in strip malls.

I live in an urban village in Seattle. It's really nice parking my car on Friday and walking everywhere all weekend.

[Mupepe]

 

Houston at least creates fake urban areas for nice restaurants.  Most of the really good restaurants are in one of 3 areas in Houston...

Downtown (real downtown Houston)
Town Centre (a fake urban living area South of Houston in one of Houston's richest suburbs)
City Centre (Same as above except it's to the West of Houston near the fastest growing suburb)

a one bedroom 700 sq ft apartment is around 1700 dollars in town centre or city centre.  Tons of lamborghinis and shit around there too.  But it's so fake that I couldn't fathom living there.  They're both right off the highway and consist of pretentious cobbled roads and shit.  Bleh.  Nice to visit though.

[Great Rumbler]

There's some places like that in Dallas. One is well north of downtown and features all the cobblestone roads and blocky buildings you'd expect from a real city center, but it's abutted on one side by a major tollroad and one the other by huge corporate campuses.

[Mr. Gundam]

There's some places like that in Dallas. One is well north of downtown and features all the cobblestone roads and blocky buildings you'd expect from a real city center, but it's abutted on one side by a major tollroad and one the other by huge corporate campuses.

We get those manufactured retail/residential communities outside in the suburbs. The urban village I live in became part of Seattle back in the late 1800s. Very different and full of urban density alongside single family homes that have been there forever.

[Dickie Dee]

Arcade Fire's The Suburbs was about when they lived in Houston. True story.

[Mupepe]

There's some places like that in Dallas. One is well north of downtown and features all the cobblestone roads and blocky buildings you'd expect from a real city center, but it's abutted on one side by a major tollroad and one the other by huge corporate campuses.

We get those manufactured retail/residential communities outside in the suburbs. The urban village I live in became part of Seattle back in the late 1800s. Very different and full of urban density alongside single family homes that have been there forever.

I really want to move to a real city

Arcade Fire's The Suburbs was about when they lived in Houston. True story.

Not sure if serious.  Never heard the song so I don't know.

[MrAngryFace]

I was talking to someone at work, and I pretty much said that I dont think the 'trash food' of my youth will ever not be a part of me. I fucking LOVE a bowl of hamburger helper, a trip to Dennys, or a log of Summer Sausage. I know its full of bullshit- but goddamnit MEMORIES N SHIT DELICIOUS

[Mr. Gundam]

I never had Hamburger Helper as a kid, but every once in a while when my wife is out of town for work I'll make a box of it. I know it's bad for me but man is it good like once a year.

Arcade Fire's The Suburbs was about when they lived in Houston. True story.

Not sure if serious.  Never heard the song so I don't know.

Serious. Lead singer and his brother (also in the band) grew up in Texas.

[Mupepe]

Denny's
Meatlover's scramble

Hamburger Helper

Mac and Cheese

McDonalds

Fuck yeah!

Edit: Hamburger Helper warmed up the next day 

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[Dickie Dee]

Arcade Fire's The Suburbs was about when they lived in Houston. True story.

Not sure if serious.  Never heard the song so I don't know.

well the whole album, just a random meaningless fact i thought i'd shoot out.

Edit: I'm like that with shitty food and Kraft Dinner, I know it's awful but can't help myself.

[MrAngryFace]

Cheesy Hashbrown Hamburger Helper is like the most awful for you delicious wtf foodstuff ever