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Title: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Kara on June 04, 2015, 12:21:14 PM
I've been watching a lot of "save my restaurant!" television lately because I enjoy watching people who own homes, are married, and have families cry about being failures because no one wants to eat at a restaurant that serves frozen food that's microwaved and more than anything it's reinforced my belief that no restaurant ever on Earth has ever served a good chicken parmigiana. But I am nothing if not a man of the people and so I put it to the people to decide... before I disregard your findings and purge you.
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Eel O'Brian on June 04, 2015, 12:24:35 PM
I cook an asskicking chicken parm
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Eel O'Brian on June 04, 2015, 12:25:22 PM
And no, that's why I learned to cook my own
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: studyguy on June 04, 2015, 12:26:27 PM
What's a chicken parm?
Is that the one where most restaurants take the McChicken patty off and throw cheese on it?
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Eel O'Brian on June 04, 2015, 12:27:55 PM
What's a chicken parm?
Is that the one where most restaurants take the McChicken patty off and throw cheese on it?


Sure
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 04, 2015, 12:30:04 PM
by itself, a prime chicken breast plus quality parmesan cheese fried in olive oil should be really fuckin' good as quick delicious staples go

reality is, though, as the man said: defrost the patty and dump leftover grated cheese and "marinara sauce" on it, sell it for $13.95 (with a side of overbaked bread stix, natch)
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Kara on June 04, 2015, 01:33:33 PM
I am nothing if not a man of the people

debateable

I roll my eyes out of my head when the classical music station plays Camille Saint-Saens (which it seemingly does every. single. day.) and I suddenly lose my democratic credentials. The game done changed y'all.
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Joe Molotov on June 04, 2015, 01:37:10 PM
I wouldn't know.
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Kara on June 04, 2015, 01:40:08 PM
On topic: I ate at an Italian place on Sunday and I'm fairly certain the chicken in my pasta had been frozen. It's bad days for my people in Anorexiafornia. :'(
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: ToxicAdam on June 04, 2015, 02:19:29 PM
There's two things I never order anymore, Chicken Alfredo and Chicke Parm. Because I am always disappointed.

Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on June 04, 2015, 02:20:35 PM
The answer is quite clear. Life is shit, and more than likely you'll never attain the best of anything. I have a good job, have money saved, have a beautifully neurotic cat, haven't been shot by the police or a fellow black man, know how to cook, etc. Yet across the board I realize I could be better in every aspect. I could have a better job/promotion, I could have more money saved, I could have a perfect cat, etc. Yet I'm not catching feelings because ultimately I'm on solid ground.

I apply the same to chicken parm. Yea, there's probably some racist Italian grandmother out there who makes perfect chicken parm. But I'll never meet her. I'm perfectly content to have solid chicken parm. Not the best, not the worse, not even middle tier - above average, a solid to good plate. That's what you get at Olive Garden. You can chase perfection all you want, but sooner or later you'll settle down with a decent woman, have average kids, buy a minivan, and enjoy the small things in life so much you don't even think about what could have been. Yea you could have married Jessica Alba and been a billionaire, but instead you have people who love you and little league baseball games to coach. And when your son hits the ball - it won't be a homerun or an RBI, just a hit that travels a couple feet - you'll be able to celebrate with a nice serving of chicken parm at Olive Garden.
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: studyguy on June 04, 2015, 02:22:53 PM
I do like those breadsticks.
(http://www.thebore.com/forum/Smileys/default/ohhh.png)

This thread has inspired me to go to Olive Garden tomorrow and order chicken parm.
Thanks guys.
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: ToxicAdam on June 04, 2015, 02:27:32 PM
If you're going to go to Olive Garden, just stick to the stuffed Chicken Marsala. It's their best dish.

Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Kara on June 04, 2015, 02:31:29 PM

I roll my eyes out of my head when the classical music station plays Camille Saint-Saens (which it seemingly does every. single. day.) and I suddenly lose my democratic credentials. The game done changed y'all.

I still like The Egyptian :yeshrug

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I'll still even take some of the Animaux over damned Vivaldi or the endless bombardment of Schuberts :yeshrug
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Inverno is top shelf. :bolo
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: toku on June 04, 2015, 02:46:10 PM
You are not a man of the people.
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Cheddahz on June 04, 2015, 02:51:59 PM
I had to go with the Karakand option
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Kara on June 04, 2015, 03:31:07 PM
I learned to play two classical instruments. 2 privileged 2 furious 4 u :smug

I only dislike stuff that's bad or has an easily discerned origin (we all know where you heard Clair de Lune for the first time). Request hours / donation drives are struggle.
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Brehvolution on June 04, 2015, 03:40:36 PM
What about veal parm? My favorite dish from an Italian place near me has eggplant on top of prosciutto on top of non breaded veal. Topped with sauce and cheese of course.

Chicken parm :hovmeh
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: studyguy on June 04, 2015, 03:59:30 PM
I fucks with orange chicken.
I don't give a fuck what bastard americanized microwave kitchen it came out of. :lawd
I see yall stanning Taco Bell on the regular so lets not front like there's a higher standard out here.
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: thisismyusername on June 04, 2015, 04:34:31 PM
That Blossom smiley. :bandaras

Voted the Karakand option.  8)
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Kara on June 04, 2015, 04:47:18 PM
You are not a man of the people.

Please, I read Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People, I think I know the qualities of a man of the people.
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: studyguy on June 04, 2015, 06:25:46 PM
I've never even heard of chicken parmigiana until this thread.

Be obsessed with meat, brehs.

When you boil it down, we're all meat breh.
:yeshrug

A nice fat ass is meat.
Some nice tits are meat.
A good steak is meat.
My dick is meat.
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A lot of it
:shaq
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I find no better substance on earth to be obsessed with than meat.
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Doesn't mean I'm gonna eat it all. Now that I read this back it sounds like I would.
Shit.  :-\ My point gets across fuck it.
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Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Joe Molotov on June 04, 2015, 06:40:47 PM
I've never even heard of chicken parmigiana until this thread.

Be obsessed with meat, brehs.

I'd never heard of you until this thread.
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Human Snorenado on June 04, 2015, 07:09:47 PM
I voted first option, but tbh I prefer eggplant parm, and the answer for that is: yes, Little Italy deli in Wilmington NC makes the 2nd best eggplant parm in the world. My friend's NJ-Italian mother makes the first best, but that family is buttfuckingly crazy, so it's easier to just visit Wilmington and get some there.
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Shaka Khan on June 04, 2015, 07:23:26 PM
There's two things I never order anymore, Chicken Alfredo and Chicke Parm. Because I am always disappointed.

This guy knows what's up
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Positive Touch on June 04, 2015, 07:51:38 PM
goddamnit you willingly eat something called soylent so I will hear absolutely no chicken parm badmouthing
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 04, 2015, 08:08:08 PM
esch: arroz con pollo. sketch chicken bits and canned mushrooms drenched in some random burrito sauce off the kroger shelf.

i'm a total stanley for it anyhoo :tocry
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Kara on June 04, 2015, 08:42:40 PM
goddamnit you willingly eat something called soylent so I will hear absolutely no chicken parm badmouthing

I'm not badmouthing the dish but the dish at restaurants. I could have just as easily picked spaghetti and meatballs (anything with a ragu that doesn't contain an unusual meat, really) or fettuccine alfredo.
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on June 04, 2015, 09:07:24 PM
chicken alfredo is usually okay. i'm not sure I've ever had a chicken alfredo that was either particularly good or particularly bad.
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Kara on June 04, 2015, 10:39:25 PM
Given the limited opportunities we have to dine out, selecting dishes that are OK (in best case scenarios) are major opportunity cost Ls. :goty2
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Positive Touch on June 04, 2015, 11:07:50 PM
I hear Big Jumbo's mom makes a pretty good parm.

not sure if trolling, but yes.... yes she does.
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: studyguy on June 04, 2015, 11:35:57 PM
I'm sorry guys I fucked up.
I went to Olive Garden and had a stuffed Chicken Marsala instead.

It was delicious :fbm
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: bluemax on June 05, 2015, 12:04:30 AM
What's a chicken parm?
Is that the one where most restaurants take the McChicken patty off and throw cheese on it?

In experience it sure seems that way.

chicken alfredo is usually okay. i'm not sure I've ever had a chicken alfredo that was either particularly good or particularly bad.

Chicken alfredo at most places is like eating flavored glue.

goddamnit you willingly eat something called soylent so I will hear absolutely no chicken parm badmouthing

I'm not badmouthing the dish but the dish at restaurants. I could have just as easily picked spaghetti and meatballs (anything with a ragu that doesn't contain an unusual meat, really) or fettuccine alfredo.

There is a semi popular Italian place in Venice (California)  called C&O Trattoria that tells you on the menu it uses BARILLA products. Barilla is the shit that's like 1 step up from store brand. Somehow this place costs on average like $12+ for a dish you could make at home for less than $5.

http://www.cotrattoria.com/

http://www.yelp.com/biz/c-and-o-trattoria-marina-del-rey
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Kara on June 05, 2015, 12:38:58 AM
There is a semi popular Italian place in Venice (California)  called C&O Trattoria that tells you on the menu it uses BARILLA products. Barilla is the shit that's like 1 step up from store brand. Somehow this place costs on average like $12+ for a dish you could make at home for less than $5.

http://www.cotrattoria.com/

http://www.yelp.com/biz/c-and-o-trattoria-marina-del-rey

:dead :dead :dead

e: knowing LA it probably has an explicit dress code too :dead
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: bluemax on June 05, 2015, 01:22:08 AM
There is a semi popular Italian place in Venice (California)  called C&O Trattoria that tells you on the menu it uses BARILLA products. Barilla is the shit that's like 1 step up from store brand. Somehow this place costs on average like $12+ for a dish you could make at home for less than $5.

http://www.cotrattoria.com/

http://www.yelp.com/biz/c-and-o-trattoria-marina-del-rey

:dead :dead :dead

e: knowing LA it probably has an explicit dress code too :dead

Nah, but if you don't have more than 2 people they make you wait no matter how much seating they got.

You'll note from the reviews that everyone loves the garlic rolls, I swear that's the only reason people really want to go there.
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Kara on June 05, 2015, 02:22:12 AM
Consecutive episodes of Restaurant: Impossible with Italian restaurants. :neogaf

Maybe PD is onto something with this Olive Garden staning. :ohhh
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Purrp Skirrp on June 05, 2015, 02:34:02 AM
All you can eat buffet at the italian community center(http://i.imgur.com/eGoSwEC.png)
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: tiesto on June 05, 2015, 09:19:42 AM
I'm lactose-intolerant so I don't eat chicken parm but I'm sure at least one of the 2 million Italian restaurants (there's practically one on every street corner) here does a good job with it.
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: ToxicAdam on June 05, 2015, 09:32:29 AM
Consecutive episodes of Restaurant: Impossible with Italian restaurants. :neogaf

Maybe PD is onto something with this Olive Garden staning. :ohhh

Watching Restaurant:Impossible with a tablet is the best. While you are watching the show, you can google the place. Read all the horrible Yelp! reviews and then read about it's eventual closing 8-12 months after the show was there. It makes the "happy" ending they spin on every show seem even more tragic.

Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on June 05, 2015, 10:03:15 AM
is this a trick question?

oh nm i get it. the answer is no, there are hole in the wall places that have decent chicken parmesan or even 'chick parm' but any place that lists it as 'parmigiana' is the last option imho
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Kara on June 05, 2015, 10:35:15 AM
Consecutive episodes of Restaurant: Impossible with Italian restaurants. :neogaf

Maybe PD is onto something with this Olive Garden staning. :ohhh

Watching Restaurant:Impossible with a tablet is the best. While you are watching the show, you can google the place. Read all the horrible Yelp! reviews and then read about it's eventual closing 8-12 months after the show was there. It makes the "happy" ending they spin on every show seem even more tragic.

:lawd

:bow rich dad tips :bow2

When a small business gets in the hole on payroll taxes it's (in my limited experience) almost always an irreversible death knell as it demonstrates both bad cash flow and bad management at a fundamental level.
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on June 05, 2015, 11:26:34 AM
More and more I find myself aligning with vulvarai on things.
 :'(
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on June 05, 2015, 12:11:56 PM
:bow the consummate ascension that comes with perfect cishet self-despite :bow2

when no-one can hate you as much as you hate your tedious privileged self, you are truly free :noah
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Kara on June 05, 2015, 02:40:17 PM
More and more I find myself aligning with vulvarai on things.
 :'(

I am nothing if not a man of the people, despite what my americano drinking, Al Jazeera America reading detractors would have you believe.
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: ToxicAdam on June 05, 2015, 02:48:38 PM

When a small business gets in the hole on payroll taxes it's (in my limited experience) almost always an irreversible death knell as it demonstrates both bad cash flow and bad management at a fundamental level.

That show must be like accounting porn for you. All those businesses that don't even have a balance sheet or any idea what their food costs are.

For some of those businesses, the owners don't even have previous management or restaurant experience. What were you thinking?!



Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Steve Contra on June 05, 2015, 02:57:10 PM
People that get into restaurants with no restaurant experience :brazilcry
People that assume the hours they have to work are the hours the restaurant is open :neogaf
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Human Snorenado on June 05, 2015, 02:58:57 PM
People who start restaurants tend to be the "this is my dream, I'ma make it happen because reasons" type. No practical experience whatsoever. I dated a woman who was trying to open her own restaurant and I offered to help her come up with a business plan and she was all "oh I don't need one."

:gurl
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Steve Contra on June 05, 2015, 03:02:27 PM
I went to a popup for a restaurant opening shortly.  It was at a cool little spot and it was meant to create buzz and I like the people and all but I was sitting there like :whoo please pay me for the wine you bought before you go out of business
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on June 05, 2015, 03:14:34 PM
People who start restaurants tend to be the "this is my dream, I'ma make it happen because reasons" type. No practical experience whatsoever. I dated a woman who was trying to open her own restaurant and I offered to help her come up with a business plan and she was all "oh I don't need one."

:gurl
Thanks man.
I just emitted a loud "HA!!" and everyone's thinking I'm crazy (moreso)
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on June 05, 2015, 03:17:55 PM
Goodnight Squiddy.
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Steve Contra on June 05, 2015, 03:20:56 PM
Goodnight Squiddy.
goodnight, sweet squiddy, and flights of squiddy sing thee to thy rest
Title: Re: The Bore Votes: Has any restaurant ever served good chicken parmigiana?
Post by: Kara on June 06, 2015, 10:53:03 PM

When a small business gets in the hole on payroll taxes it's (in my limited experience) almost always an irreversible death knell as it demonstrates both bad cash flow and bad management at a fundamental level.

That show must be like accounting porn for you. All those businesses that don't even have a balance sheet or any idea what their food costs are.

For some of those businesses, the owners don't even have previous management or restaurant experience. What were you thinking?!

It is. The industries I primarily work with need to have a handle on costing correctly or they lose honest* large sums that are crippling, so seeing so many people who don't even know if a product is profitable blows my mind. :mindblown

http://m.hollandsentinel.com/article/20131217/NEWS/131219202

This place was so filthy that grease had seeped below the kitchen and destroyed the grout. :dead

*Essentially losses before interest, depreciation and amortization, though in a few unfortunate instances gross losses.