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02-15-19 | 08:04 PM
#101
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02-15-19 | 09:01 PM
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02-15-19 | 09:29 PM
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We eat at Olive Garden occasionally. Good tossed salad and bread sticks, decent soups, flavored Ice Tea. Staff is OK. What's the beef ...
02-15-19 | 11:55 PM
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02-16-19 | 05:27 PM
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02-18-19 | 07:44 AM
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02-18-19 | 08:40 AM
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02-18-19 | 08:41 AM
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02-18-19 | 08:48 AM
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Out of curiosity, do you still go there sometimes?
Emotional associations with food/places are powerful things. One of the reasons it's a bad idea to insult people's tastes--you never know whether you're really insulting their memories.
I'd probably still go to Shakey's Pizza if there was still such a thing around here just because of the childhood associations..
02-18-19 | 08:56 AM
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02-18-19 | 09:03 AM
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Out of curiosity, do you still go there sometimes?
Emotional associations with food/places are powerful things. One of the reasons it's a bad idea to insult people's tastes--you never know whether you're really insulting their memories.
I'd probably still go to Shakey's Pizza if there was still such a thing around here just because of the childhood associations..
Emotional associations with food/places are powerful things. One of the reasons it's a bad idea to insult people's tastes--you never know whether you're really insulting their memories.
I'd probably still go to Shakey's Pizza if there was still such a thing around here just because of the childhood associations..
I also have fond memories of Shakey’s Pizza, especially the one on Sunset Blvd., in Hollywood California.
There was a piano player and Mom loved to request The Entertainer, from the movie The Sting (Mom was a huge Paul Newman fan). It got to the point that when he saw us walking in, he would stop whatever he was playing and start up with The Entertainer. I think that Dad was mildly jealous of the piano player.
There was also the time that my brother, his high school football player friend and myself were asked to leave because we were eating everything in their lunch all you can eat menu. Those were the days.
I took my college sweatheart, and now wife, on one of our first dates to Shakey’s. I accidentally bit into a hot pepper and my face turned crimson red and I sweated profusely...my wife couldn’t stop laughing and I knew right there and then that I had to marry her.
Alas, as you mentioned, there are now only a handful of Shakey’s around. Sad times.
You are absolutely correct about those powerful connections and why it is usually not a good idea to insult people’s choices of eateries.
Now, how about the scent of a freshly opened box of crayons...Nirvana!
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02-18-19 | 09:53 AM
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I think you can correlate the "sticky table test" just walking in, with the smell of old grease and overloaded venta-hoods, lingering odors of a fish fry or bbq smoke or other things depending. Cooked, not raw ingredient odors of course. If I smell MSG I'm out though, that's a full stop..
02-18-19 | 11:32 AM
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MSG is ok if they don't go overboard with it. Those that do, the offenders are mostly Chinese food places IME, you can smell it just like after you have a dish that's overloaded with it.
02-18-19 | 12:23 PM
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questions....
There are a couple of things here that puzzle me, first being, why certain people feel the need to trash “Olive Garden” and folks who dine there.
Secondly....does the OP have nothing better to do than be a “Johnny on the spot” art critic?
Go ride your bike....
Secondly....does the OP have nothing better to do than be a “Johnny on the spot” art critic?
Go ride your bike....
02-18-19 | 12:46 PM
#118
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I don't trash Olive Garden. I just state the fact that my whole family got food poisoning from eating lunch at the Kennesaw, Georgia location a few days before Christmas 2005. It's not my business if people eat there.
02-18-19 | 12:58 PM
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Well, the bikes are real, but it's fake advertising.
So my wife and I are traveling and decided to have dinner in an Olive Garden restaurant. Below is a wallhanging picture that was next to our table. I think it’s supposed to make the viewer think it’s an old world (Italian) setting. I think it’s staged. Those bikes look as if they’ve never been ridden...not the bikes that old Italian guys would be tooling around the town on. I've been there and the old guys tool around on old bikes that are well-use, dirty, rusty, etc.
So my wife and I are traveling and decided to have dinner in an Olive Garden restaurant. Below is a wallhanging picture that was next to our table. I think it’s supposed to make the viewer think it’s an old world (Italian) setting. I think it’s staged. Those bikes look as if they’ve never been ridden...not the bikes that old Italian guys would be tooling around the town on. I've been there and the old guys tool around on old bikes that are well-use, dirty, rusty, etc.
Food snobbery, bike snobbery, other snobberies are just expressions of ego, which characteristically desires to puff itself up by making others out to be inferior.
I lived in Italy for a while, and have had a couple of very Italian girlfriends. The photo looks pretty Italian.
As for OG: They can't possibly all be the same. The quality of the food would vary with location, management, and employees.
Food snobs are, along with journalists, the lowest form of humanity. The lowest.
Last edited by BillyD; 02-18-19 at 05:18 PM. Reason: Politics
02-18-19 | 01:02 PM
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It boosts their ego; sad.
02-18-19 | 01:05 PM
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02-18-19 | 02:15 PM
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02-18-19 | 02:56 PM
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No drink is that good! Quick search says that's the highest calorie shake in the U.S. among chains.
Cold Stone Creamery used to have a 2000 calorie one, but it looks like they cut it back.
02-18-19 | 06:46 PM
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02-18-19 | 10:35 PM
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