I really do not find Olive Garden to taste that terrible.
It isn't amazing food but I feel like I live in an alternate universe than all the people who find (most) chain restaurants supremely disgusting, especially when many of those exact people I know will gladly eat prepackaged snacks, fast food, or frozen meals in a pinch.
I can understand the argument the food is bad for the price or worse than other options, but I just don't get the argument that the food is unpalatable.
I really do not find Olive Garden to taste that terrible.
It isn't amazing food but I feel like I live in an alternate universe than all the people who find (most)chain restaurants supremely disgusting, especially when many of those exact people I know will gladly eat prepackaged snacks, fast food, or frozen meals in a pinch.
I can understand the argument the food is bad for the price or worse than other options, but I just don't get the argument that the food is unpalatable.
i swear to god and no one fucking listens
but during the fall they have the best god damned pumpkin pie cheese cake with gingerbread crumbs and caramel
it is heavenly and very delightsome
but oh nooooOOOooo olive garden is for the plebes we can't have this
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
I want a clone of me to constantly cook. This would be ideal.
yall see the feed of the guy in the tree in seattle
there's a feed now
whatever
I hear he threw an apple at the police
he's white so that explains why they didn't shoot him
(our police are terrible)
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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What the snake person did you just snake person say about me, you little snake person? I'll have you know I graduated top of my snake person in the snake person, and I've been involved in numerous secret snake person on snake person, and I have over 300 confirmed snake person. I am trained in snake person warfare and I'm the top snake person in the entire US armed snake person. You are nothing to me but just another snake person. I will wipe you the snake person out with precision the snake person of which has never been seen before on this snake person, mark my snake person words. snake person think snake person can get away with saying that snake person to me over the snake person? Think again, snake person. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of snake person across the snake person and your snake person is being snake person right now so you better snake person for the snake person, snake person. The snake person that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call snake person. You're snake person dead, snake person. I can be snake person, anytime, and I can snake person you in over seven hundred snake person, and that's just with my bare snake person. Not only am I extensively trained in snake person combat, but I have access to the entire snake person of the United States snake person and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable snake person off the face of the snake person, you little snake person. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little snake person comment was about to bring down upon snake person, maybe you would have held your snake person snake person. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you snake person. I will snake person fury all over snake person and snake person will snake person in it. You're snake person dead, snake person.
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular
Italian is garbage food.
How about we make something without using a tomato you gondola riding jerks
oh hmm a bunch of the branches from the top of the tree are broken off now
that is less funny that tree is iconic
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
Lol someone posted the most oblivious post to our neighborhood FB group and i am having a hard time reaisting the urge to troll.
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Dark Raven XLaugh hard, run fast,be kindRegistered Userregular
@Organichu I think at least for me it's exasperation at settling for the perceived safe option when:
- It's not the best flavor option for the style of food
- it's not cheaper
- it's not more convenient
- it's not as healthy
- it negatively impacts local industry
In a place like this, the only reason to give one of these bottom-tier chains your business is a comfort-zone issue that can be easily dispelled without resorting to snobbery... there are great local options for the same style of food, with comparable service, comfort, and convenience, with healthier locally prepared ingredients, if only people would give them a shot.
And yet they pour into Texas Roadhouse and Logan's and Chili's and Applebee's and Olive Garden to the point that the suburbs begin to see their local spots struggle to compete.
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
When people shittalk those who go to chain restaurants I'm not sure if the claim is 'you have bad taste, these other places have better food even though I know you disagree with that' or 'you make bad choices, you could have gone to a better local place, and its superiority is obvious and I assume you agree'
It feels like the latter is the criticism but only the former makes sense
If you're passing over a place that makes Homemade lasagna for bagged sauce and poorly cooked noodles, you have bad taste and I will silently judge you, like you would silently judge someone that ate a can of frosting for dinner.
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Blameless Cleric An angel made of sapphires each more flawlessly cut than the last Registered Userregular
having this job be a Yes would be so incredible right now.
Transforming.
I really need it to happen.
You'll get it
there's an Applebee's celebration in your future
I can feel it
Squeakel let his girlfriend talk him into going to Olive Garden. They spent nearly $50?
In Austin?
At the fking Olive Garden?!
during SXSW?!?!?!?!
"Blameless Cleric" boo your brother.
Oh...mygod...
I have to face this constantly how do people not understand this
Friend your bagel bites cost the same as two organic chicken breasts
Brother your olive garden cost the same as going to Gloria's I'll kill you
Don't you live in a dorm?
When I lived in a dorm, the big problem with thing like chicken breasts is that A: actual groceries were much farther than convenience stores and B: anything that could cook them would not be allowed.
I haven't ordered a pop in a restaurant in forever
water or booze
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Kids down. Going to a classical piano concert in an hour. Want to play league but wife wont let me cuz SIL is coming over in 30 min. Ugh i just wanna style on some noobs goddamit woman.
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TavIrish Minister for DefenceRegistered Userregular
Man I don't have the werewithal to care about how other people waste their money, especially given how much stupid shit I've bought from large video game developers.
I have not experienced chain food being nearly as awful as is claimed here, bad local restaurants can be significantly worse than chain food, and chain places still tend to have surprisingly good appetizers and dessert (which is frozen at many local favorites). Stressing about somebody going to a chain just seems so pointlessly judgmental.
When people shittalk those who go to chain restaurants I'm not sure if the claim is 'you have bad taste, these other places have better food even though I know you disagree with that' or 'you make bad choices, you could have gone to a better local place, and its superiority is obvious and I assume you agree'
It feels like the latter is the criticism but only the former makes sense
If you're passing over a place that makes Homemade lasagna for bagged sauce and poorly cooked noodles, you have bad taste and I will silently judge you, like you would silently judge someone that ate a can of frosting for dinner.
I am not defending people who have bad taste. Like I said, that sort of criticism makes sense. What I'm saying is that a lot of the time this sort of complaint doesn't even accuse the chain food diner of having bad taste. It does the whole polite fiction thing where either 1) 'why wouldn't you go to a better place', where it assumes the diner agrees that the local place is better and doesn't allow for otherwise. What I mean is, a chunk of these criticisms go with an implied [we both agree that chain food is so bad] so why would you get chain food, instead of you have bad taste for liking chain food. Or 2) sometimes people do the hilarious thing of 'hub I guess your local Olive Garden is better than the ones I've been too, I can't believe they got it right somewhere... (Instead of just confronting that the person has bad taste)
Who are these people who are passing over cheap, quality restaurants for chain food (barring a rare hankering), as opposed to people who arrive in (conference town) and just want something guaranteed to be decent at a guaranteed to be decent price without any effort?
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there's a feed now
whatever
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
It isn't amazing food but I feel like I live in an alternate universe than all the people who find (most) chain restaurants supremely disgusting, especially when many of those exact people I know will gladly eat prepackaged snacks, fast food, or frozen meals in a pinch.
I can understand the argument the food is bad for the price or worse than other options, but I just don't get the argument that the food is unpalatable.
the other team scored two goals in a minute
fucking hate football
don't do it man, this lasagne betrayed me
perfect top, bechamel just starting to go gold
cold bottom layer
i swear to god and no one fucking listens
but during the fall they have the best god damned pumpkin pie cheese cake with gingerbread crumbs and caramel
it is heavenly and very delightsome
but oh nooooOOOooo olive garden is for the plebes we can't have this
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
Alright.
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I hear he threw an apple at the police
he's white so that explains why they didn't shoot him
(our police are terrible)
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
But the clonecest would be fantastic.
How about we make something without using a tomato you gondola riding jerks
that is less funny that tree is iconic
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
carbonara
white sauce is the light
Ideally the clone would just want to cook
Oh...mygod...
I have to face this constantly how do people not understand this
Friend your bagel bites cost the same as two organic chicken breasts
Brother your olive garden cost the same as going to Gloria's I'll kill you
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
fuck you buxton fc
i hope you and the rest of Derbyshire are happy
- It's not the best flavor option for the style of food
- it's not cheaper
- it's not more convenient
- it's not as healthy
- it negatively impacts local industry
In a place like this, the only reason to give one of these bottom-tier chains your business is a comfort-zone issue that can be easily dispelled without resorting to snobbery... there are great local options for the same style of food, with comparable service, comfort, and convenience, with healthier locally prepared ingredients, if only people would give them a shot.
And yet they pour into Texas Roadhouse and Logan's and Chili's and Applebee's and Olive Garden to the point that the suburbs begin to see their local spots struggle to compete.
If you're passing over a place that makes Homemade lasagna for bagged sauce and poorly cooked noodles, you have bad taste and I will silently judge you, like you would silently judge someone that ate a can of frosting for dinner.
It's absurd when you can both get water and eat at an actually good restaurant
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
Don't you live in a dorm?
When I lived in a dorm, the big problem with thing like chicken breasts is that A: actual groceries were much farther than convenience stores and B: anything that could cook them would not be allowed.
there is no joy in derbyshire
water or booze
oh well, onward and upward
other bets had me come out on top anyway but 275 woulda been nice
I want a clone for emotional support.
But infants aren't good at that.
I have not experienced chain food being nearly as awful as is claimed here, bad local restaurants can be significantly worse than chain food, and chain places still tend to have surprisingly good appetizers and dessert (which is frozen at many local favorites). Stressing about somebody going to a chain just seems so pointlessly judgmental.
I am not defending people who have bad taste. Like I said, that sort of criticism makes sense. What I'm saying is that a lot of the time this sort of complaint doesn't even accuse the chain food diner of having bad taste. It does the whole polite fiction thing where either 1) 'why wouldn't you go to a better place', where it assumes the diner agrees that the local place is better and doesn't allow for otherwise. What I mean is, a chunk of these criticisms go with an implied [we both agree that chain food is so bad] so why would you get chain food, instead of you have bad taste for liking chain food. Or 2) sometimes people do the hilarious thing of 'hub I guess your local Olive Garden is better than the ones I've been too, I can't believe they got it right somewhere... (Instead of just confronting that the person has bad taste)
Multiplicity was a movie I watched