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[wombat]

(I visited their website, it looks like Italian food, only more shiny)

Italian food only less... Italian, really.

[Ben-San]

It's a chain restaurant of mass-produced Italian and Italianesque food. It occupies an ecological niche that's above outright fast-food joints like McDonald's but below a "real" restaurant.

Bensington Butters is not the only player with tastes below his station. Ray does not even realize he has his own kind of Hunt's.

[CortJstr]

It's a chain restaurant of mass-produced Italian and Italianesque food. It occupies an ecological niche that's above outright fast-food joints like McDonald's but below a "real" restaurant.

Bensington Butters is not the only player with tastes below his station. Ray does not even realize he has his own kind of Hunt's.

He thought it was his birthday, asshole!

[littlefallsmets]

Outback Steakhouse is to prepared meats as Olive Garden is to spaghetti dishes as Red Lobster is to seafood.

[CortJstr]

Outback Steakhouse is to prepared meats as Olive Garden is to spaghetti dishes as Red Lobster is to seafood.

If you badmouth Alice Springs Chicken I'll cut you. It's a chicken breast with some kind of mild spice rub covered in mushrooms, bacon, and two kinds of cheese. It's full of congealy goodness.

[lprkn]

It's a chain restaurant of mass-produced Italian and Italianesque food. It occupies an ecological niche that's above outright fast-food joints like McDonald's but below a "real" restaurant.

Bensington Butters is not the only player with tastes below his station. Ray does not even realize he has his own kind of Hunt's.

But you forget, "When you're here, you're family!"

[Golfhaus]

I like Olive Garden. Is it "real" Italian? Probably not. Britney Spears isn't real music either, but I like some of her songs.

And I don't in front of my wife if I can avoid it. Apparently I do it in my sleep sometimes, though. She knows it's bad when I cut one, smile in my sleep, and then there's a rustling as the dogs crawl out from other the covers.

[Doc]

If you badmouth Alice Springs Chicken I'll cut you. It's a chicken breast with some kind of mild spice rub covered in mushrooms, bacon, and two kinds of cheese. It's full of congealy goodness.

Alice Springs chicken?
Really?
That's pretty random.

[CortJstr]

Alice Springs chicken?
Really?
That's pretty random.

A lot of the things on the menu have random place names in front of them. The menu also used to have translations for things like "joey" and "tucker" on the back.

[jaydub]

Tina is well acquainted with the charms of the Olive Garden.

[linnea]

Hi!

What is this "Olive Garden" of which you speak?  No olives please, I'm British.

(I visited their website, it looks like Italian food, only more shiny)

J

In my humble opinion, I think that you should be glad that you don't know what Olive Garden is. It is shitty, low-tier faux-Italian food for suburbanite families with ten gazillion poorly behaved children that they don't even lift a finger to discipline whilst other restaurant patrons are showered with marinara and overcooked pasta flung by the Little Darlings.

[side_show]

I for one love the Olive Garden.  I don't consider it authentic Italian.  I mean, I've had quality Italian, and Olive Garden is not that.  But I love it.  There's a nice level of consistency.  It's the only chain restaurant the SO and I ever eat at actually.  Not that often, maybe four or five times a year.  I was thinking the last time we were there that I don't think that I've ever been to the Olive Garden without "That's Amore" playing over the sound system.  Infact, once, when we spent more time than usual there, they played it twice, and I briefly pittied the poor staff, but then I didn't care because there was a huge pile of carbs.  When you go there you know exactly what you're getting - it's incredibly safe.  Your pallet won't be challenged.  You can order a stupid drink with an Italian name, that would never be found in Italy and is made mostly ice cream and booze.

[littlefallsmets]

Actually, yeah, I find Olive Garden to be pleasant enough fare as well, if your dining choices are limited to the kinds of places where they give you a big ugly vibrating beeper and then you wander around in the Borders next door for twenty minutes until it vibrates.

It is... just in no way remotely Italian.

Too many blue-eyes and blondes in their commericals, fer God's friggin.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I too am coming out pro-olive garden. Cmon Linnea, that was some harsh words. They dont pretend to be a gourmet italian ristorante. They are honest about their endless pasta bowls and traditional family favorites. In a world where LFM and I meet in meatspace and avoid politics, wed dine at the olive garden.

Also, does anyone else here live near a Cheesecake Factory? Damn they are good at what they do. And the cocktails aint nothing to shake at either.

[littlefallsmets]

In terms of desserts and drinks, I quite enjoy The Factory. In terms of other things, eh. S'okay.

But if you've got "Cheesecake" in your name, you're admitting that dessert's your strength, I guess.

I imagined you raising a shield, such as in the 300, and screaming at the sky:

"Tonight, we dine in OLIVE GARDEN!"

And I was totally agreeing with you.

On non-political matters, there are probably many things we agree upon.

I'm a huge fan of titties, for one. For two, also. Two's even better, really.