People have no taste or culture

[Judge Smails]

At the risk of having people call me an elitist snob, I'd like to announce that I'm an elitist snob. Anyone else with me?

Example 1:
So, last night I got stuck going to a family birthday party for my 5 year-old niece. She likes pasta and she saw some Olive Garden commercials on t.v. so she asked to go there. Right away as we walk up to the place we see a throng of people standing outside - not a good sign. My wife goes in and they tell her it's an hour and forty-five minute wait!! And, I think that they were being over-optimistic and it would have wound up being over two hours.

Everyone's walking on eggshells trying not to upset my niece but I put my foot down and say there's no fucking way I'm waiting two hours to eat precooked food at the fucking Olive Garden - or words to that effect. So, we go down the road and eat at Outback. I know - it's still a chain but at least there was no wait and I got a nice bloody steak and at that point our dining options were slim and none.

It's always the same every time I pass an Olive Garden. What the fuck is wrong with people? I can understand if I was in Wyoming or North Dakota and people were jonesin' for Italian. But I was in North Jersey, literallly 5 minutes from NYC. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of the best Italian restaurants in the world (rivaling Italy itself) are at these people's disposal and they've got to line up at the fucking Olive Garden?


Example 2:
My wife and I were talking to some neighbor friends right after George Carlin died. It came up that he was scheduled to play The Borgata and I said how I wished that I'd had a chance to see him live before he died. This other couple tells us how they're going to Atlantic City and they had thought to get Carlin tickets but decided to go see Carlos Mencia instead "because he's sooooo funny." Yeeeech!

[RoseBlood]

I'm a spoiled snob so I can post here.. all I have to say is Carlos Mencia is NOT funny. He's annoying.. do da doo hoooooooooooo

[SatCam]

You ever think maybe they think the same about you? Like "How could people eat at those italian places in the city when we got the Olive Garden right here?" or "George Carlin? That guy isn't funny........!"

Perspective


:flush:

[RoseBlood]

I'm glad you didn't cave into the little 5 year olds desires. She has to learn life is full of disappointments. Wouldn't want her to turn into a spoiled brat who feels she's owed the world.

Outback > Olive Garden

[joethebartender]

Just the fact that dinner was planned at one of those places lets me know you got what you deserved. Choke on your "bloomin' onion" faggot!

[RoseBlood]

Just the fact that dinner was planned at one of those places lets me know you got what you deserved. Choke on your "bloomin' onion" faggot!

In his defense, the dinner was for the 5 year old. Do you really want to bring a 5 year old to a fine classy and expensive establishment only to listen to her throw a tantrum and waste her costly food? You should've watched Snoogans tips.

[Coach]

My favorite was when I went all out and cooked an authentic Italian Meal for my Co-workers in Montana..and one of them actually said: "This tastes NOTHING like at the Olive Garden, I can't eat this". Holy fuck, really? Maybe because it was REAL Italian Food! I knew then that I made a mistake moving there.

I also have a peeve about people not holding silverware right/arms on the table.

[instrument]

The greatest food in jerseys to be found on a twist back road on the side of some mountain in morris county.

Cheerio.

[ecobag2]

Testify!

[rick9669]

keep you kids in the theme /change restaurants thats what there there for. if im paying good money for a good meal i don't want to see some kid with a face covered in pasta picking its nose.. or yelling to goto the bathroom. of corse you neighbors like carlos mancia.....he's on tv isn't he....:blink:

[GreatAmericanZero]

At the risk of having people call me an elitist snob, I'd like to announce that I'm an elitist snob. Anyone else with me?

Example 1:
So, last night I got stuck going to a family birthday party for my 5 year-old niece. She likes pasta and she saw some Olive Garden commercials on t.v. so she asked to go there. Right away as we walk up to the place we see a throng of people standing outside - not a good sign. My wife goes in and they tell her it's an hour and forty-five minute wait!! And, I think that they were being over-optimistic and it would have wound up being over two hours.

Everyone's walking on eggshells trying not to upset my niece but I put my foot down and say there's no fucking way I'm waiting two hours to eat precooked food at the fucking Olive Garden - or words to that effect. So, we go down the road and eat at Outback. I know - it's still a chain but at least there was no wait and I got a nice bloody steak and at that point our dining options were slim and none.

It's always the same every time I pass an Olive Garden. What the fuck is wrong with people? I can understand if I was in Wyoming or North Dakota and people were jonesin' for Italian. But I was in North Jersey, literallly 5 minutes from NYC. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of the best Italian restaurants in the world (rivaling Italy itself) are at these people's disposal and they've got to line up at the fucking Olive Garden?


Example 2:
My wife and I were talking to some neighbor friends right after George Carlin died. It came up that he was scheduled to play The Borgata and I said how I wished that I'd had a chance to see him live before he died. This other couple tells us how they're going to Atlantic City and they had thought to get Carlin tickets but decided to go see Carlos Mencia instead "because he's sooooo funny." Yeeeech!

yeah thats all examples of hayseed white-trash behavior. I feel the same way whenever i hear people say they are excited to see the live action GI Joe movie thats coming out this summer

[joethebartender]

In his defense, the dinner was for the 5 year old. Do you really want to bring a 5 year old to a fine classy and expensive establishment only to listen to her throw a tantrum and waste her costly food? You should've watched Snoogans tips.

You're right and I just saw that she asked... I respectfully withdraw my "choke on it" comment.

[razorboy]

I know for a fact someone on this board has had Pizza Hut recently. Just saying.

[JerseyRich]

I just can't stomach any food from the Olive Garden. No flavour whatsoever.

Applebee's on the other hand. Now there's a fine eatery. I don't understand how people don't eat there every day! :wallbash:

[GreatAmericanZero]

the only time i ever had Olive Garden in my life was the leftovers that my parents took home when they went there and the food was so awful they couldn't finish it so they took it home.

[TjM]

I don't mind chains but I prefer the Longhorn

[Gvac]

It was my sister's birthday the other night so the entire family got together to go out to dinner. Her choice of restaurant? Some fucking faux-Italian chain in the mall.

I can't tell you how this galls me.

Like Smails said...here in northern NJ/NYC we have real, authentic Italian restaurants. Chefs who came from Italy and opened up a place to fulfill their life's passion and dream. And my sister wanted to drag everyone to a fucking mall, make us search for parking, walk across a lot on a winter night, and eat chain restaurant food?

I'm still livid.

Never again.

I support small business, not mall business.

[Sinestro]

the only time i ever had Olive Garden in my life was the leftovers that my parents took home when they went there and the food was so awful they couldn't finish it so they took it home.

You expect us to believe that? C'mon! Who eats their parents left overs after they eat out. Just admit you go there. We won't judge you.

[Sinestro]

If you really didn't want to go there I'm sure you wouldn't have gone. Think about it.



Please tell me you all weren't dress up to go eat at a Italian Mall joint.

[drjoek]

Have you tried the bread sticks and unlimited salad bowl!!

[yojimbo7248]

I think it is perfectly fine to criticize people for having crap taste in food, comedy, music, t.v. It's their responsibility to not take it personally. Sometimes I like to watch stupid movies because I am in the mood. If I tell a friend that I am watching Dumb and Dumber for the 150th time, he has every right to flip me shit. He could say I should be watching a Sundance documentary or a Bergman film but if I am in the mood to watch fart jokes, I'm going with Jim Carey even though I know it's crap. If I get upset and call him a snob, I'm in the wrong. If someone likes the boring, faux Italian crap they serve at the Olive Garden when they are five minutes from NYC, they need to have a sense of humor about it.

[DiabloSammich]

Not liking Olive Garden or Carlos Mencia does not make you elitist.

Living in Wisconsin and listening to Hawkwind? Elitist.










Sorry if that was too inside. I'm talking about epo. He's a creepy elitist.

[Sinestro]

Is Buca de Peppo considered a step above Olive Garden or is it in the same class as the Olive Garden?

[razorboy]

Is Buca de Peppo considered a step above Olive Garden or is it in the same class as the Olive Garden?

Lateral move.

[Judge Smails]

Since I put this in the Confessional I have another confession: the Olive Garden we tried to eat at I actually worked at for about two months when I was in highschool so I'm very familiar with their modus operandi. Most everything there is precooked. I remember big plastic trays of canneloni coming off the truck and going into the storage freezer. The sauce all comes premade in big plastic jars. If that's what you want to eat then just get yourself a frozen dinner at the supermarket and eat it in the comfort of your own home.

There are thousands of restaurants in this area and without fail the two that ALWAYS have lines out the door that I see are Olive Garden and Red Lobster. I'm not sure but I think they're owned by the same company which would make sense because they are both the worst Italian and worst seafood you'll ever taste.

They don't have chefs working there - they have microwavers. Reminds me of the scene in National Lampoon's European Vacation where they go to the fancy French Restaurant and they serve them microwave swill because they figure the stupid Americans won't know the difference.

[TheMojoPin]

I can only assume that the Olive Garden's popularity stems from the insane prices listed in the commercials, especially in times like this. Isn't something like $6.95 for all the pasta you can eat and free soup and bread? I know a bunch of friends and I went to OG back in my original college days because of that reason and even back then that one time was enough to never go back again. Same thing with places like Fridays and Ruby Tuesdays and such: been once...never again.

[midwestjeff]

Get on your high horses and ride faggots.

I get it , you are better than everyone else.

You and your authentic food are so fucking fantastic.

You "get" comedy.

The standards you set are an illusion.

You are simply finding reasons to divide yourself and make yourself feel superior.

So what? Some assholes like Carlos Mencia and the Olive Garden.

Kill your fucking ego.

[Sinestro]

Since I put this in the Confessional I have another confession: the Olive Garden we tried to eat at I actually worked at for about two months when I was in highschool so I'm very familiar with their modus operandi. .

So you admit to spitting and doing other stuff to peoples food. I knew it!!!

[Gvac]

Get on your high horses and ride faggots.

I get it , you are better than everyone else.

You and your authentic food are so fucking fantastic.

You "get" comedy.

The standards you set are an illusion.

You are simply finding reasons to divide yourself and make yourself feel superior.

So what? Some assholes like Carlos Mencia and the Olive Garden.

Kill your fucking ego.

I like the cut of your jib.

[CHUCKWAGONCOOK]

Get on your high horses and ride faggots.

I get it , you are better than everyone else.

You and your authentic food are so fucking fantastic.

You "get" comedy.

The standards you set are an illusion.

You are simply finding reasons to divide yourself and make yourself feel superior.

So what? Some assholes like Carlos Mencia and the Olive Garden.

Kill your fucking ego.
Here's a Fellow I can really wrap my head around.

[razorboy]

Get on your high horses and ride faggots.

I get it , you are better than everyone else.

You and your authentic food are so fucking fantastic.

You "get" comedy.

The standards you set are an illusion.

You are simply finding reasons to divide yourself and make yourself feel superior.

So what? Some assholes like Carlos Mencia and the Olive Garden.

Kill your fucking ego.

I'm an elitist for not having taste for shit? I can live with that.

[TheMojoPin]

I like the cut of your jib.

OK, cheese nazi.

[TjM]

Get on your high horses and ride faggots.

I get it , you are better than everyone else.

You and your authentic food are so fucking fantastic.

You "get" comedy.

The standards you set are an illusion.

You are simply finding reasons to divide yourself and make yourself feel superior.

So what? Some assholes like Carlos Mencia and the Olive Garden.

Kill your fucking ego.

:clap:

[SinA]

Olive Garden sucks, you should go someplace nice like Carabba's or Macaroni Grill.

[TjM]

Only one place I go for good pasta

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/1379/hulkhoganpastamania7124na4.jpg

[midwestjeff]

I'm an elitist for not having taste for shit? I can live with that.

No.
I would never call you an elitist because elitists get all giddy about being defined as such.

I would say egomaniac or soc.

Either way, we could discuss it over some Domino's pizza.

[Judge Smails]

Get on your high horses and ride faggots.

I get it , you are better than everyone else.

You and your authentic food are so fucking fantastic.

You "get" comedy.

The standards you set are an illusion.

You are simply finding reasons to divide yourself and make yourself feel superior.

So what? Some assholes like Carlos Mencia and the Olive Garden.

Kill your fucking ego.

Maybe I didn't make my point clear in my original post. I went for a lame elitist snob joke and for that I'm sorry. I don't know where in the "midwestjeff" you are, but as long as its not Chicago, and Olive Garden is all you've got, then more power to you. I guess its better than nothing.

I happen to like Chinese food from my local take-out place but I'm not going to pretend to believe that its authentic Chinese cuisine. I wish that I knew of a good Chinese restaurant that will let me order off of the non-white menu as was discussed in another thread.

My point is that I'm in the northeast. There are probably more people of Italian descent in this part of the country than in all of Italy and the quality of restaurants has already been discussed. There should not be a market for Olive Gardens anywhere from Boston down to Philadelphia.

[Dude!]

There should not be a market for Olive Gardens anywhere from Boston down to Philadelphia.

you're wrong

at olive garden
i'm treated like family

[TheMojoPin]

My point is that I'm in the northeast. There are probably more people of Italian descent in this part of the country than in all of Italy and the quality of restaurants has already been discussed. There should not be a market for Olive Gardens anywhere from Boston down to Philadelphia.

No kidding. It's not like people here are really talking about going out of their way to go somewhere "cool"...it's people who are inundated with non-chains or local chains all around them. It's not a matter of finding someplace nobdy else knows about...these places are everywhere in big cities.

[underdog]

There should not be a market for Olive Gardens anywhere from Boston down to Philadelphia.

My parents live on Cape Cod and their favorite seafood restaurant is Red Lobster.

People just like the taste of shit.

[yojimbo7248]

But how about the comedy? Is it all equal?

What if someone thinks that Dane Cook is a genius? Are you a snob if you say, no, he's not and there are far funnier and better comics out there?

[midwestjeff]

I don't know where in the "midwestjeff" you are, but as long as its not Chicago, and Olive Garden is all you've got, then more power to you. I guess its better than nothing

Ego.

[Gvac]

My problem with these chains is not even the quality of the meals. Obviously the food is somewhat palatable or they would not be as successful as they are.

My objection is more of a philosophical one. I honestly believe small businesses are important to a community, and this country as a whole.

The guy who was the head chef at one of my favorite local restaurants is a great guy and an amazing cook. He moved here from Italy 10 years ago, and even though he was doing well as a chef, he decided to risk everything and open his own place 2 years ago.

At first he struggled terribly. He has a wife and 3 small children, a mortgage, and the reputation of the restaurant he bought wasn't very good. It took a long time for him to prove himself and win back customers that were lost by the previous owners.

This man pours his heart and soul into his restaurant. He's there 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, cooking authentic Italian cuisine.

Given the choice of going to his little restaurant or an Olive Garden, I'll skip the chain every fucking time. But that's just me. I'd also rather have a homemade burger on the grill over McDonald's any day of the week, especially if the homemade burger helped support the little guy and not some multi-billion dollar corporation.

[oh_kee_pa]

alot of people are intimidated by NYC and authentic Italian...

I can't blame them for taking the easy way out... I live in Huntington Long Island... I can literally walk to 20 different non chain restaurants, but still have to fight w/ people to not take a 15 minute drive to Friday's/Applebees/Chilies..... its miserable, and alot of time I just give up...

the kicker... its no less expensive... its just less intimidating for people, and they are comfortable w/ what they know...

Same thing w/ Carlos Mencia... they "know" him and are more comfortable

[King Hippos Bandaid]

I thought mwjeff said kill your fucking epo

was loading my shotgun until I saw that it said ego



I am a Hippocrite, I will be a food snob at times,(Lugers, Nobu and many others such Ramsey , Batali Restaurants) but then I am drunk at mcdonalds eating horse meat, scarving down 2-4 dirty water dogs, eating at chains cause my wife wants to go


eating Jersey Pizza because it was close to my job because my name is Fatty Mclazy


my laziness has me eating awful crap because I dont want to travel to get it

[denko]

i live in southern NH, in a town right on the mass line so a lot of people come up here to do their shopping seeing as we in NH have no sales tax, as opposed to the 5% mass tax. because of this, and other reasons, it gets very "touristy" (for lack of a better term) and its fucking chain city. all piled on top of each other, chilis, unos, mcd's, burger king, wendy's... you name it. the overwheming presence of the chain resturants has KILLED almost all the small local establishments and it really sad. just liek yo say there are lines out the door at all these places while a decent place can barely survive. the only small places that do decent business are sub shops that deliver and breakfast joints, and even they have to battle with ihop, dennys, bickfords. its fucking ridiculous.

[Coach]

I just can't stomach any food from the Olive Garden. No flavour whatsoever.

Applebee's on the other hand. Now there's a fine eatery. I don't understand how people don't eat there every day! :wallbash:
Ugh! I was a Back of house trainer for Applebees when they opened the first one in Jersey in Piscataway. The shit that people did back there...NEVER will eat at another one again.

[RoseBlood]

Ugh! I was a Back of house trainer for Applebees when they opened the first one in Jersey in Piscataway. The shit that people did back there...NEVER will eat at another one again.

Anyone want my Applebee's gift certificate?!?! :sad:

[~Katja~]

Since I put this in the Confessional I have another confession: the Olive Garden we tried to eat at I actually worked at for about two months when I was in highschool so I'm very familiar with their modus operandi. Most everything there is precooked. I remember big plastic trays of canneloni coming off the truck and going into the storage freezer. The sauce all comes premade in big plastic jars. If that's what you want to eat then just get yourself a frozen dinner at the supermarket and eat it in the comfort of your own home.

There are thousands of restaurants in this area and without fail the two that ALWAYS have lines out the door that I see are Olive Garden and Red Lobster. I'm not sure but I think they're owned by the same company which would make sense because they are both the worst Italian and worst seafood you'll ever taste.

They don't have chefs working there - they have microwavers. Reminds me of the scene in National Lampoon's European Vacation where they go to the fancy French Restaurant and they serve them microwave swill because they figure the stupid Americans won't know the difference.


That's disgusting.
If it has to be chain I will only eat at Carrabba's, at least you can watch them cook it fresh there. And their bread basket is actually delicious and comes with dipping oil instead of filthy butter

[~Katja~]

Anyone want my Applebee's gift certificate?!?! :sad:

Jeresey Rich, he eats there every day

[BlackSpider]

I've lived a couple of blocks from an Applebee's for the last 12 years.
Never been inside of one yet...

[midwestjeff]

My objection is more of a philosophical one. I honestly believe small businesses are important to a community, and this country as a whole.

I get that. I go through periods of adhering to this and periods where I have to spend the least amount of money possible. Sorry mom and pop, but walmart has you beat. And really, they already destroyed my family 25 years ago so I consider that fight lost. As for food, when I had to work in restaurants I always went for the privately owned ones. I like to meet the person that benefits from my hard work. I miss that feeling. But I would never act like the food was that much different. Then again, I am just a retard in the middle of the country and have no idea what good food is.


Same thing w/ Carlos Mencia... they "know" him and are more comfortable

Or maybe they just like him. Why does there have to be a condescending psychological dissection of these tards? They like the beaner guy. He is funny to them. He talks, they laugh. what is so impossible about that?

I thought mwjeff said kill your fucking epo
I love you KHB. Be ready in April. Once the Brewers raving starts I will be sounding the call to destroy Epo. I can't tolerate the "here we come" shit any longer. Back to the basement with the Brewers already. It's over.

P.S. This post sucks.

[Gvac]

I've lived a couple of blocks from an Applebee's for the last 12 years.
Never been inside of one yet...

Keep it that way.

I ate at an Applebee's once.

Never got so sick in my entire life. True story.

Diarrhea for days.

Same thing happened to my cousin. She now refers to it as Crapplebee's.

[midwestjeff]

Same thing happened to my cousin. She now refers to it as Crapplebee's.

She's funny.

Is she single?

[Gvac]

Sorry mom and pop, but walmart has you beat. And really, they already destroyed my family 25 years ago so I consider that fight lost. As for food, when I had to work in restaurants I always went for the privately owned ones. I like to meet the person that benefits from my hard work. I miss that feeling. But I would never act like the food was that much different. Then again, I am just a retard in the middle of the country and have no idea what good food is.

Are there any authentic BBQ joints where you live? Places with real Southern cooking?

Can you honestly tell me they're no better than Chili's?

[Sinestro]

Are there any authentic BBQ joints where you live? Places with real Southern cooking?

Can you honestly tell me they're no better than Chili's?

yea, Famous Dave's BBQ.

[TjM]

Keep it that way.

I ate at an Applebee's once.

Never got so sick in my entire life. True story.

Diarrhea for days.

Same thing happened to my cousin. She now refers to it as Crapplebee's.


I go to one a town over once in a while. Don't eat there but the bar is pretty decent

[Gvac]

She's funny.

Is she single?

Not married, but living with a guy.

I'll put in a good word for ya.

[TheMojoPin]

But I would never act like the food was that much different.

That's just nuts. There's not much difference between chain restaurants and a lot of those that are just local? Of course there are shitty local joints, but I don't get how you can say it's mostly the same across the board in terms of quality.

Or maybe they just like him. Why does there have to be a condescending psychological dissection of these tards? They like the beaner guy. He is funny to them. He talks, they laugh. what is so impossible about that?

Who said it's impossible? And where's the psychological dissection? It's usually, "Christ, that guy with the puppets sucks ass...how does anyone find that funny?" Why are people with what others perceive as shitty tastes and the things they like off limits? Fuck it, who cares?

[midwestjeff]

Are there any authentic BBQ joints where you live? Places with real Southern cooking?

Can you honestly tell me they're no better than Chili's?

I'm sure there are but am not a food critic so I don't really loook for places like that. There is a BBQ place downtown that is not a chain and it kind of sucks. I like it there, but the meat is drier than a Don Rigo.

My comparison was on the low end of the restaurant spectrum, the fast food stuff.
I did that shit in high school and the beginning of college.
But, I also lied. The place I worked in high school kicked the shit out of any other fast food place in town.

So, yeah, fuck Olive Garden in it's fuckhole. I have just been turned around.
People have no culture and I am one of them. We don't deserve to share the planet with the fancy east coasters. No sarcasm, I mean that. Death to us all.

[TheMojoPin]

Man, Jeff and sailor need to start hanging out.

[TjM]

I'm sure there are but am not a food critic so I don't really loook for places like that. There is a BBQ place downtown that is not a chain and it kind of sucks. I like it there, but the meat is drier than a Don Rigo.

My comparison was on the low end of the restaurant spectrum, the fast food stuff.
I did that shit in high school and the beginning of college.
But, I also lied. The place I worked in high school kicked the shit out of any other fast food place in town.

So, yeah, fuck Olive Garden in it's fuckhole. I have just been turned around.
People have no culture and I am one of them. We don't deserve to share the planet with the fancy east coasters. No sarcasm, I mean that. Death to us all.

I'm an east coaster but I'm not fancy I like Rolling Rock and Stoufers French Bread Pizza

[Gvac]

I'm sure there are but am not a food critic so I don't really loook for places like that. There is a BBQ place downtown that is not a chain and it kind of sucks. I like it there, but the meat is drier than a Don Rigo.

Impossible.

[TjM]

And occasionally my wife and I will eat at Bertuccies and like it. (No way in hell am I driving one hour to Boston from Foxboro for an overpriced fucking meal)

[midwestjeff]

That's just nuts. There's not much difference between chain restaurants and a lot of those that are just local? Of course there are shitty local joints, but I don't get how you can say it's mostly the same across the board in terms of quality.



Who said it's impossible? And where's the psychological dissection? It's usually, "Christ, that guy with the puppets sucks ass...how does anyone find that funny?" Why are people with what others perceive as shitty tastes and the things they like off limits? Fuck it, who cares?

Local can be better, see my last post. I made a mistake in saying otherwise. And most likely, I would hit a local place over a chain. But I don't begrudge anyone for doing differently.

That guy with a puppet sucks ass? Why bring Stugots into this?

And they are not off limits. The too cool shit just wears on me. And I am cunty this morning. I almost got fucked and now I have to wait until later. So, my sexual frustration is coming out as a defense of the common man. Just leave the tards to their Mencia. We get it, David Cross is so fucking hip. Or whoever. I don't even know who the kids are into these days.

[Kublakhan61]

Example 1: You do not look like a snob but instead you look like a selfish child. The girl is 5, it's her birthday and she was asked to pick the place out. You can't get in the way of that. One night of your life, two hours on a line... Sometimes you have to think outside of yourself. Two weeks removed from the situation and everyone who you would have complained to about how you had to wait would be sick of your story and it would fade from your mind. Just let the girl have her way on her birthday. Now the story your telling everyone is about how you triumphed over your niece... you don't look like a cool head here.

Example 2: Whatever, some people just don't have a taste for Carlin. You're not a snob in this case, you just have a different opinion. Mencia is shit, I agree.

[Gvac]

I'm an east coaster but I'm not fancy I like Rolling Rock and Stoufers French Bread Pizza

I'm not fancy either. Trust me. I hate haughty taughty joints where people pull up in their 90K cars and eat meals that wouldn't fill up a 3 year old.

And there's nothing wrong with Rolling Rock or Stouffer's French Bread Pizza.

If you are going out, though, I'd rather see you support a sole proprietor than a conglomerate.

[TjM]

Local can be better, see my last post. I made a mistake in saying otherwise. And most likely, I would hit a local place over a chain. But I don't begrudge anyone for doing differently.

That guy with a puppet sucks ass? Why bring Stugots into this?

And they are not off limits. The too cool shit just wears on me. And I am cunty this morning. I almost got fucked and now I have to wait until later. So, my sexual frustration is coming out as a defense of the common man. Just leave the tards to their Mencia. We get it, David Cross is so fucking hip. Or whoever. I don't even know what the kids are into these days.

Porn.com my friend

[~Katja~]

Example 1: You do not look like a snob but instead you look like a selfish child. The girl is 5, it's her birthday and she was asked to pick the place out. You can't get in the way of that. One night of your life, two hours on a line... Sometimes you have to think outside of yourself. Two weeks removed from the situation and everyone who you would have complained to about how you had to wait would be sick of your story and it would fade from your mind. Just let the girl have her way on her birthday. Now the story your telling everyone is about how you triumphed over your niece... you don't look like a cool head here.

Example 2: Whatever, some people just don't have a taste for Carlin. You're not a snob in this case, you just have a different opinion. Mencia is shit, I agree.

true about the first part, I wonder why they did not call in advance? You can call in a reservation... cause I don't think a 5 year old has the patience to wait for 2 hours yet.

[TjM]

I'm not fancy either. Trust me. I hate haughty taughty joints where people pull up in their 90K cars and eat meals that wouldn't fill up a 3 year old.

And there's nothing wrong with Rolling Rock or Stouffer's French Bread Pizza.

If you are going out, though, I'd rather see you support a sole proprietor than a conglomerate.

I see your point there and I do when it comes to Pizza and chinese because there are local places where I live. Problem with dinner places is it's mostly chains around here

[midwestjeff]

I'm an east coaster but I'm not fancy I like Rolling Rock and Stoufers French Bread Pizza

You're a fancy son of a bitch.

Don't try to tell me any different.

[TjM]

Example 1: You do not look like a snob but instead you look like a selfish child. The girl is 5, it's her birthday and she was asked to pick the place out. You can't get in the way of that. One night of your life, two hours on a line... Sometimes you have to think outside of yourself. Two weeks removed from the situation and everyone who you would have complained to about how you had to wait would be sick of your story and it would fade from your mind. Just let the girl have her way on her birthday. Now the story your telling everyone is about how you triumphed over your niece... you don't look like a cool head here.

Example 2: Whatever, some people just don't have a taste for Carlin. You're not a snob in this case, you just have a different opinion. Mencia is shit, I agree.

I'm so hip I only listen to Lewis Black (Ok I like Ron White too)

[TjM]

You're fancy son of a bitch.

Don't try to tell me any different.

True. I did leave out the part where I eat the FBP off fancy china and drink the RR out of thousand dollar crystal

[ecobag2]

I've lived a couple of blocks from an Applebee's for the last 12 years.
Never been inside of one yet...

I'm laughing b/c I went there with the family recently and really liked my burger. I leaned over to her and said "that burger place in Cambridge thinks way too much of itself".

[Gvac]

Problem with dinner places is it's mostly chains around here

This is what scares me most about moving down south. I'll be relocating to Knoxville Tennessee later this year and when I went to check it out this past summer all I saw where chains. EVERYWHERE.

I'm sure once I'm down there I'll find some good local places, but I was astounded at how many Applebee's, Chili's, Olive Gardens, etc. were there. It seemed like 3 of each in every town I went to.

[TjM]

This is what scares me most about moving down south. I'll be relocating to Knoxville Tennessee later this year and when I went to check it out this past summer all I saw where chains. EVERYWHERE.

I'm sure once I'm down there I'll find some good local places, but I was astounded at how many Applebee's, Chili's, Olive Gardens, etc. were there. It seemed like 3 of each in every town I went to.

Scarier still I don't even live in the south and this is happening. We have some great local restaraunts but they are mostly high priced places

[midwestjeff]

The first time I headed west, when I was 19, I had my heart broken.

I was in AZ seeing the same bullshit I had grown up with in IL.

The final dagger was a Cowboy-ish Ford Truck commercial on a hotel TV in San Diego.
San Diego was supposed to be another world. But we're all the fucking same.
Ever since then I have spent my time typing really shitty and useless long posts on Saturday mornings that are a bit of a window into my psyche. But who peeks in windows anymore?

I went to school in Olympia and everyone's the same.
We look the same
We talk the same.
We even fuck the same.

Yeah, I just quoted Hole. Fuck it.

[TjM]

Since we are talking local VS chain I need a ruling on this. I live and grew up in Mass my whole life. Dunkin Donuts is a chain but it was founded in Quincy mass. Am I still going local?

[disneyspy]

we had a Roma's open up here,we went for the ribs,its an italian joint,had crappy new york style pizza instead

[Gvac]

The first time I headed west, when I was 19, I had my heart broken.

I was in AZ seeing the same bullshit I had grown up with in IL.

The final dagger was a Cowboy-ish Ford Truck commercial on a hotel TV in San Diego.
San Diego was supposed to be another world. But we're all the fucking same.
Ever since then I have spent my time typing really shitty and useless long posts on Saturday mornings that are a bit of a window into my psyche. But who peeks in windows anymore?

I went to school in Olympia and everyone's the same.
We look the same
We talk the same.
We even fuck the same.

Yeah, I just quoted Hole. Fuck it.

HAHAHA!

10 years ago I landed in Copenhagen, Denmark. I was so excited to be seeing ancient Europe and decided to walk from the airport to town. As I came over the hill the very first thing I saw on the cobblestone street was a 7-11. The very next sight? A Burger King.

True story.

Oh well.

Thank God for progress, eh?

[disneyspy]

what do they call a quarter pounder in amsterdam?

[midwestjeff]

what do they call a quarter pounder in amsterdam?

Edited. Ooops. I fucked up the reference. I have no culture.

[TjM]

what do they call a quarter pounder in amsterdam?

A really good fucking high

[sailor]

Man, Jeff and sailor need to start hanging out.

please. no matter where i eat or what music i listen to i could never be as uncool as you mid-west scum.

[underdog]

i live in southern NH, in a town right on the mass line so a lot of people come up here to do their shopping seeing as we in NH have no sales tax, as opposed to the 5% mass tax. because of this, and other reasons, it gets very "touristy" (for lack of a better term) and its fucking chain city. all piled on top of each other, chilis, unos, mcd's, burger king, wendy's... you name it. the overwheming presence of the chain resturants has KILLED almost all the small local establishments and it really sad. just liek yo say there are lines out the door at all these places while a decent place can barely survive. the only small places that do decent business are sub shops that deliver and breakfast joints, and even they have to battle with ihop, dennys, bickfords. its fucking ridiculous.

You must live in Salem.

[TjM]

As an aside when it comes to breakfast foods I will only eat at local greasy spoons. I don't think there is one "chain" breakfast place that makes a decent breakfast and I don't fuck with breakfast

[DonInNC]

This is what scares me most about moving down south. I'll be relocating to Knoxville Tennessee later this year and when I went to check it out this past summer all I saw where chains. EVERYWHERE.

I'm sure once I'm down there I'll find some good local places, but I was astounded at how many Applebee's, Chili's, Olive Gardens, etc. were there. It seemed like 3 of each in every town I went to.

Take a drive to the Front Porch in Cosby. Mexican food, bluegrass music, and usually a little something going on in the parking lot.

[sailor]

10 years ago I landed in Copenhagen, Denmark.

what do they call a quarter pounder in amsterdam?

people have no geography skillz.

[disneyspy]

people have no geography skillz.

im goin to NJ and hunt you down

[denko]

You must live in Salem.

why yes, as a matter of fact.

[midwestjeff]

why yes, as a matter of fact.

Witch!

[TjM]

Witch!

Wrong Salem

[midwestjeff]

Wrong Salem

Defending the guilty, huh?

Witch!

[TjM]

:laugh:

[Recyclerz]

At the risk of having people call me an elitist snob, I'd like to announce that I'm an elitist snob. Anyone else with me?

...


I hear you Judge. Two weeks ago I had ordered a bottle of 2004 Jean Claude Chatelain Sauvignon Blanc "Les Chailloux" Pouilly Fumé and the "sommelier" (or so he claimed) brought out a 2006! So naturally, once I tasted the difference I threw the contents of the glass at him, slapped in the face with my cashmere-lined gloves and had him fired on the spot.

I mean, don't you hate when that happens? It is so infuriatingly frustrating when the proletariat fail to understand that what I like is that to which they should be aspiring.

[Kublakhan61]

And Scene!

[TheMojoPin]

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[Gvac]

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[GreatAmericanZero]

You expect us to believe that? C'mon! Who eats their parents left overs after they eat out. Just admit you go there. We won't judge you.

when i was poor i'd eat just about anything i found in my parents refrigerator. free food, not too much of a stretch in believability.

[Friday]

I worked at a Macaroni Grill for a few months after graduating college. Sometimes we would eat there on a night of since the food was pretty decent.
So one night we are having dessert and I taste something salty and tender in my tiramisu.
It was Meat.

there was MEAT in my TIRAMISU.

I have never eaten at a Mac Grill since.


(but i can still write my name upside down with crayons. :) )

[~Katja~]

I worked at a Macaroni Grill for a few months after graduating college. Sometimes we would eat there on a night of since the food was pretty decent.
So one night we are having dessert and I taste something salty and tender in my tiramisu.
It was Meat.

there was MEAT in my TIRAMISU.

I have never eaten at a Mac Grill since.


(but i can still write my name upside down with crayons. :) )

I never eat desert when I am out... now I know why

and is that something they do there? like a signature thingy??? I have never eaten there.

[west milly Tom]

This thread is a great example of what jerk offs people can be behind a keyboard. Liking the olive garden and hack comics don't make you a bad person. Because you consider yourself cultured you feel better than the ham and eggers, above in some way cause of your vast knowledge of wines. I'd love to hear you spout this trash at the morning meeting in my shop. Eat me.

[disneyspy]

This thread is a great example of what jerk offs people can be behind a keyboard. Liking the olive garden and hack comics don't make you a bad person. Because you consider yourself cultured you feel better than the ham and eggers, above in some way cause of your vast knowledge of wines. I'd love to hear you spout this trash at the morning meeting in my shop. Eat me.

you forgot to add you buncha artsy fartsy faggots

[underdog]

This thread is a great example of what jerk offs people can be behind a keyboard. Liking the olive garden and hack comics don't make you a bad person. Because you consider yourself cultured you feel better than the ham and eggers, above in some way cause of your vast knowledge of wines. I'd love to hear you spout this trash at the morning meeting in my shop. Eat me.

I trash people's tastes and their liking of comics in person all the time. And I do it in my warehouse, so your tough guy act doesn't hold any fucking water.

Also, I know dick about wine, but I can still tell that Carlos Mencia is a fucking hack and not funny.

[santino]

i won't go to olive garden if i can help it. there's just too many good italian restaurants out there for the money.

i do like the outback, but haven't been to one in years.

[hammersavage]

I'm not about to read this whole thread, but there's no better place on Earth than an Outback Steakhouse. No rules, just right.

Anyone who likes Carlos Mencia just has a different sense of humor than I could ever have but god bless em.

[underdog]

I'm not about to read this whole thread, but there's no better place on Earth than an Outback Steakhouse. No rules, just right.

Outback has gotten worse every time I've gone there. I love Bugaboo Steak House.

[hammersavage]

Outback has gotten worse every time I've gone there. I love Bugaboo Steak House.

Say it to my face

[TheMojoPin]

I'd love to hear you spout this trash at the morning meeting in my shop. Eat me.

Why would we be in your shop? It's run by a commoner!

[TheGameHHH]

im sorry but nobody can deny the awesomeness that is the Outback's Aussie Cheese fries.

http://www.ourtown50.com/OBaussiecheesefries.jpg

i just jizzed in my pants

[underdog]

Say it to my face

Hot.

[TheMojoPin]

im sorry but nobody can deny the awesomeness that is the Outback's Aussie Cheese fries.

http://www.ourtown50.com/OBaussiecheesefries.jpg

i just came a little in pants looking at that

Mmmmmm, so good...weren't they ranked like the deadliest fast food you can get? Something along those lines...

[hammersavage]

Seriously I'm fuckin' starvin now

[DiabloSammich]

Why would we be in your shop? It's run by a commoner!


Leave him alone.

He run's the tightest ham and egg shop in the tri-state area.

[TheGameHHH]

Mmmmmm, so good...weren't they ranked like the deadliest fast food you can get? Something along those lines...

yea.....like 4 years running now. and if they think thats gonna deter me from eating them then they are mistaken.

[TheMojoPin]

yea.....like 4 years running now. and if they think thats gonna deter me from eating them then they are mistaken.

I'd always swich up that ranch stew they provide wih some chunky blue cheese.

[DiabloSammich]

Outback has gotten worse every time I've gone there. I love Bugaboo Steak House.


I will swear on a stack of bibles that Outback gives my shit a amazingly distinctive odor.


Seriously, if I woke up from a coma with no recollection of the meal I had the night before, I would know it was Outback before the turd hit the water.


Not saying this a bad thing, just stating a fact.

[TheGameHHH]

I'd always swich up that ranch stew they provide wih some chunky blue cheese.

never thought of that.....im so doing that next time i go.

[west milly Tom]

I trash people's tastes and their liking of comics in person all the time. And I do it in my warehouse, so your tough guy act doesn't hold any fucking water.

Also, I know dick about wine, but I can still tell that Carlos Mencia is a fucking hack and not funny.



Not an act. And you're the exception I guess. Carlos Mencia does blow but he has a huge following. Stop with the my taste is superior. I assure you, its not.

[disneyspy]

i like red lobster but dislike mencia,i dont know where i fit in this thread

[TheMojoPin]

Seriously, who hides their pop culture opinions? If someone brings it up around me and involves me in the discussion or asks me what I think, why wouldn't I be honest if I think it sucks?

[CofyCrakCocaine]

I thought mwjeff said kill your fucking epo

was loading my shotgun until I saw that it said ego



I am a Hippocrite, I will be a food snob at times,(Lugers, Nobu and many others such Ramsey , Batali Restaurants) but then I am drunk at mcdonalds eating horse meat, scarving down 2-4 dirty water dogs, eating at chains cause my wife wants to go


eating Jersey Pizza because it was close to my job because my name is Fatty Mclazy


my laziness has me eating awful crap because I dont want to travel to get it

This post gave me seven different layers of douche chills.

[CofyCrakCocaine]

This is what scares me most about moving down south. I'll be relocating to Knoxville Tennessee later this year and when I went to check it out this past summer all I saw where chains. EVERYWHERE.

I'm sure once I'm down there I'll find some good local places, but I was astounded at how many Applebee's, Chili's, Olive Gardens, etc. were there. It seemed like 3 of each in every town I went to.

I spent the better part of this decade near the Penna/Maryland border and I can tell you definitively that you are not going to be enjoying too many juicy steaks at restaurants. I relearned how to appreciate the delicacy of BK chicken tenders in that time.

[CofyCrakCocaine]

HAHAHA!

10 years ago I landed in Copenhagen, Denmark. I was so excited to be seeing ancient Europe and decided to walk from the airport to town. As I came over the hill the very first thing I saw on the cobblestone street was a 7-11. The very next sight? A Burger King.

True story.

Oh well.

Thank God for progress, eh?

Colin Powell gave a speech where I was at one time years ago. The dumbed down basic point of the speech was to say how good it was that malls and chain stores were surfacing all over China. I'm no fan of rioters, but you can feel some tinge of respect for the mobs in the Middle East every time they frag a McDonalds. A tinge.

[TheMojoPin]

Colin Powell gave a speech where I was at one time years ago. The dumbed down basic point of the speech was to say how good it was that malls and chain stores were surfacing all over China. I'm no fan of rioters, but you can feel some tinge of respect for the mobs in the Middle East every time they frag a McDonalds. A tinge.

Though the bittersweet reality is that that kind of Western commercialization spreading in the Middle East is almost certainly the most potent weapon to actually combat extremist rhetoric.

[CofyCrakCocaine]

Though the bittersweet reality is that that kind of Western commercialization spreading in the Middle East is almost certainly the most potent weapon to actually combat extremist rhetoric.

Yup. (that was my educated highly superior argument)

[IamFogHat]

At the risk of having people call me an elitist snob, I'd like to announce that I'm an elitist snob. Anyone else with me?

Example 1:
So, last night I got stuck going to a family birthday party for my 5 year-old niece. She likes pasta and she saw some Olive Garden commercials on t.v. so she asked to go there. Right away as we walk up to the place we see a throng of people standing outside - not a good sign. My wife goes in and they tell her it's an hour and forty-five minute wait!! And, I think that they were being over-optimistic and it would have wound up being over two hours.

Everyone's walking on eggshells trying not to upset my niece but I put my foot down and say there's no fucking way I'm waiting two hours to eat precooked food at the fucking Olive Garden - or words to that effect. So, we go down the road and eat at Outback. I know - it's still a chain but at least there was no wait and I got a nice bloody steak and at that point our dining options were slim and none.

It's always the same every time I pass an Olive Garden. What the fuck is wrong with people? I can understand if I was in Wyoming or North Dakota and people were jonesin' for Italian. But I was in North Jersey, literallly 5 minutes from NYC. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of the best Italian restaurants in the world (rivaling Italy itself) are at these people's disposal and they've got to line up at the fucking Olive Garden?


Example 2:
My wife and I were talking to some neighbor friends right after George Carlin died. It came up that he was scheduled to play The Borgata and I said how I wished that I'd had a chance to see him live before he died. This other couple tells us how they're going to Atlantic City and they had thought to get Carlin tickets but decided to go see Carlos Mencia instead "because he's sooooo funny." Yeeeech!

Part of your evidence that people have no culture or class is that a five year old wanted to go to Olive Garden?
Oh boy...

[west milly Tom]

i like red lobster but dislike mencia,i dont know where i fit in this thread


http://i40.tinypic.com/21eyfds.jpg

[sailor]

I worked at a Macaroni Grill for a few months after graduating college. Sometimes we would eat there on a night of since the food was pretty decent.
So one night we are having dessert and I taste something salty and tender in my tiramisu.
It was Meat.

there was MEAT in my TIRAMISU.

I have never eaten at a Mac Grill since.


(but i can still write my name upside down with crayons. :) )

you sure you didn't order the trifle?

[disneyspy]

http://i40.tinypic.com/21eyfds.jpg

what the hell is that?

[Annie Waits]

not all people are exposed to the same things in life, i pretty much started going out to non-chain restaurants when i started dating my chuckwagoncook cuz he knows his food and i absolutely don't...and yes I enjoy the non-chain restaurant more now but if I'm going out with other people who are not exposed or open-minded about different foods then okay i'll just go with a sure shot....olive garden!

[EffMeBoobs]

A friend of mine admits she likes chain restaurants because it's familiar and she's scared of trying new things or restaurants she doesn't know. She said she can go into any AppleBee's and order what she likes and it'll taste the same no mater where she is. Understandable, but I don't agree. Chains are bland, boring and gross.

[Misteriosa]

De gustibus non est disputandum

that being said, i have never gotten so sick as when i ate from the one and only time i ate at the olive garden. i think i may have actually gotten food poisoning from that swill. never again.

(does the latin phrase make me elitist?)

[Dirtbag]

I wish I had the options you guys do. The local joints around here, even the ones that do have pretty good food, are complete shit holes. We just got an Olive Garden about 3 years ago (I still haven't been there) and its probably the "nicest" restaurant in town.

Oh, and what the hell is tiramisu?

[Gvac]

A friend of mine admits she likes chain restaurants because it's familiar and she's scared of trying new things or restaurants she doesn't know. She said she can go into any AppleBee's and order what she likes and it'll taste the same no mater where she is. Understandable, but I don't agree. Chains are bland, boring and gross.

Is your friend Fez's mom?

[Misteriosa]

I wish I had the options you guys do. The local joints around here, even the ones that do have pretty good food, are complete shit holes. We just got an Olive Garden about 3 years ago (I still haven't been there) and its probably the "nicest" restaurant in town.

Oh, and what the hell is tiramisu?

yummy...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Tiramisu_Fanes.jpg

Tiramisu (Italian: Tiramisù / Veneto: Tiramesù, IPA: [tirame'su]) is one of the most popular Italian desserts. It is made of savoiardi dipped in espresso and layered with mascarpone cream cheese and zabaglione.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiramisu

[EffMeBoobs]

Is your friend Fez's mom?

If Fez's mom is pregnant and hates jews, then yes!

[west milly Tom]

what the hell is that?


So you forgot what prunes looked like from this morning?

[GregoryJoseph]

If Fez's mom is pregnant and hates jews, then yes!

Hmmm....

[disneyspy]

So you forgot what prunes looked like from this morning?

oh,i thought it was a pic of someone that ate an angry blueberry pie

[RoseBlood]

oh,i thought it was a pic of someone that ate an angry blueberry pie

:huh:

[west milly Tom]

Also one of the best breakfast sandwiches in Hoboken comes from a roach coach parked 1 block up from the path station. Its 3.25 for a ham egg and small tea. Half a block away from there is a deli where it is considered more up underdog's alley. An inferior sandwich with a small tea costs $6 and change. Stay classy San Diego.

[disneyspy]

:huh:

pip pip mate,wusnt jibber jabberin bout anything but what goes into the loo

[sailor]

pip pip mate,wusnt jibber jabberin bout anything but what goes into the loo

mr t is a limey?

[underdog]

Not an act. And you're the exception I guess. Carlos Mencia does blow but he has a huge following. Stop with the my taste is superior. I assure you, its not.

My taste is superior. I like to eat Count Chocula and foie gras.

Also one of the best breakfast sandwiches in Hoboken comes from a roach coach parked 1 block up from the path station. Its 3.25 for a ham egg and small tea. Half a block away from there is a deli where it is considered more up underdog's alley. An inferior sandwich with a small tea costs $6 and change. Stay classy San Diego.

I go to a locally owned deli 4 days out of my work week. The meat is cut as you order it. It's amazing.

It's a zillion times better than Subway or D'Angelos, and basically the same price.

But I guess that makes me elitist because I'd rather get a better meal for basically the same price at a locally owned place.

[west milly Tom]

My taste is superior. I like to eat Count Chocula and foie gras.



I go to a locally owned deli 4 days out of my work week. The meat is cut as you order it. It's amazing.

It's a zillion times better than Subway or D'Angelos, and basically the same price.

But I guess that makes me elitist because I'd rather get a better meal for basically the same price at a locally owned place.



First off count chocula and fois gras got me laughing good.

Next, I'm all about the local joints. In most cases, if you know your local market, you can get fresh stuff 20x better and more cost effective than hitting a chain place. Agreed? What I'm saying is its seriously a form of bigotry in my mind, to elevate yourself even in your own mind, because they like chain restaurants and shitty comics over Lugar's and David fucking Cross. Your 'fine' taste don't make you better than anyone else.

[underdog]

What I'm saying is its seriously a form of bigotry in my mind, to elevate yourself even in your own mind, because they like chain restaurants and shitty comics over Lugar's and David fucking Cross. Your 'fine' taste don't make you better than anyone else.

What makes me better than everyone else is my ravishing good looks and my amazing timing.

[west milly Tom]

What makes me better than everyone else is my ravishing good looks and my amazing timing.



Agreed, I've got wood just thinking about it.

[TheMojoPin]

What I'm saying is its seriously a form of bigotry in my mind, to elevate yourself even in your own mind, because they like chain restaurants and shitty comics over Lugar's and David fucking Cross. Your 'fine' taste don't make you better than anyone else.

That's actually not any kind of bigotry at all.

Why do you care so much what people like and don't like? It's just stuff. People bust each other's balls over it. Whoopedee-doo.

[west milly Tom]

That's actually not any kind of bigotry at all.

Why do you care so much what people like and don't like? It's just stuff. People bust each other's balls over it. Whoopedee-doo.



Have you made it your mission in life to bother me, cause if you did mission accomplished.

This was done for me, but ill bite.
It is bigotry to announce your superiority to others because they're not as 'cultured' as you are. Check out a Websters sometime my budday.

[grlNIN]

I don't know if it's been brought up but whatever. I grew up in an Italian household and therefore know how real Italian food tastes but i do go to Olive Garden once in a blue moon because i like their soup/salad thing. I know what to expect when i get there, one because it's Olive Garden and two because it's right down the street from a mall.

I get why you'd be annoyed at the caliber of the food being presented to eat for the night, i understand why you would find waiting in line for less than desirable food for potentially 2 hours bullshit.

I don't get, however, how you felt you had the right to upstage a 5 year olds birthday in order to bypass your own grievances with life and why you thusly ended up at the fucking OUTBACK of all place.

You traded hot shit for cold shit on that move.

[RoseBlood]

Maybe i'm missing something cause I haven't read the whole thread but I don't see anyone really trying to act superior to anyone, everyone has their preferences and things they will or won't compromise on.. why take another's preference personally?

[Friday]

you sure you didn't order the trifle?

:laugh:

http://i.cdn.turner.com/v5cache/TBS/Images/Dynamic/i23/friends_episode130_337x233_032020061511.jpg

[west milly Tom]

I take it personally when people down others for not being cultured enough. Its weak, and only serves to divide. There's a reason that there was a 2 hour wait at the olive garden and its not because everybody there is uncultured.

[grlNIN]

I bet it's for the free salad/bread stick refills.

I know that's why i go because i'm a cheap heathen.

[RoseBlood]

I take it personally when people down others for not being cultured enough. Its weak, and only serves to divide. There's a reason that there was a 2 hour wait at the olive garden and its not because everybody there are uncultured.

well if anyone said what you say they said then pox on them i say!
otherwise, some are more picky about where they eat, others about the clothes they wear, my point is we all have our thing.. i dont look down on anyone for eating at the olive garden, cause i'm sure for any person i'd look down upon, there's always others who could find something to look down on me. i just hope no one's letting their sensitivities get the better of them by putting words into peoples mouths which are really just their interpretations. i dont know what i just said.

[west milly Tom]

well if anyone said what you say they said then pox on them i say!
otherwise, some are more picky about where they eat, others about the clothes they wear, my point is we all have our thing.. i dont look down on anyone for eating at the olive garden, cause i'm sure for any person i'd look down upon, there's always others who could find something to look down on me. i just hope no one's letting their sensitivities get the better of them by putting words into peoples mouths which are really just their interpretations. i dont know what i just said.



You're a good egg.

[grlNIN]

i dont know what i just said.

Something along the lines of "i just got a car and it's probably better than yours, suck it, peon"



:]

[underdog]

but I don't see anyone really trying to act superior to anyone

You must have missed this (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=76910).

Its weak, and only serves to divide.

Aren't you an Ann Coulter fan?

[hammersavage]

I eat there because apparently when you're there, you're family I was told.

[underdog]

I eat there because apparently when you're there, you're family I was told.

That's why I avoid the Olive Garden. I've been molested enough.

[west milly Tom]

You must have missed this (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=76910).



Aren't you an Ann Coulter fan?



Right, She is not classy enough either.
Elitist.

[underdog]

Right, She is not classy enough either.
Elitist.

You were complaining about people dividing, or whatever. That's all she does.

[hammersavage]

She's just an evil twat bag.


I speak of Ann Coulter, not the fine, spoiled young lady who was referred to in the link.

[Judge Smails]

I don't know if it's been brought up but whatever. I grew up in an Italian household and therefore know how real Italian food tastes but i do go to Olive Garden once in a blue moon because i like their soup/salad thing. I know what to expect when i get there, one because it's Olive Garden and two because it's right down the street from a mall.

I get why you'd be annoyed at the caliber of the food being presented to eat for the night, i understand why you would find waiting in line for less than desirable food for potentially 2 hours bullshit.

I don't get, however, how you felt you had the right to upstage a 5 year olds birthday in order to bypass your own grievances with life and why you thusly ended up at the fucking OUTBACK of all place.

You traded hot shit for cold shit on that move.

I'm going to respond to this post in order to explain myself (and its nothing against you but apparently a couple of people have questioned my need to "upstage" my niece). I guess sometimes I don't explain myself clearly enough - maybe because I try to go for a joke instead of getting into all of the boring little details of what actually happened.

Here goes - we went to Olive Garden for my niece. I hate it and my wife hates it but we did it for her. Everyone was hungry including my niece and my two kids. I'm a fucking adult and, if worse came to worse, I could have waited four hours if need be. But there was NO WAY the kids were going to make it two hours to eat. Everyone knew this but no one wanted to say it because they were afraid of upsetting my niece.

Meanwhile there we stood outside of Olive Garden while we could have been on our way somewhere else before THAT wait got longer. So, being a take-charge guy I said what everyone else was thinking. 5 year olds don't understand the difference between 2 minutes and 2 hours. I really wanted her birthday wish to work out for her but it was not going to happen. So we decided to go somewhere else. Believe me they were all going to decide that eventually I just nudged them along.

By then we were in the middle of the dinner rush and anywhere we went was going to be having an increasing wait. It so happened that Outback was just down the road. Anyone who has kids knows when they are reaching their breaking point and my kids were getting there. Two hours was out of the question.

Also, I just skimmed the thread and have seen what I have wrought and I'm regretting causing this clusterfuck. Sorry if I have offended anyone. If you enjoy Olive Garden or Red Lobster or Carlos Mencia or Larry the Cable Guy or whatever then enjoy it. There's a thread on here about how hack Billy Joel is. Guess what - I happen to like Billy Joel but I also understand why everyone thinks he's hack and to some extent agree. I even posted in that thread making fun of him. I guess Billy Joel is my Olive Garden but I realize it and don't call anyone an egotist who points out the obvious to me. You may like Olive Garden's food - that's personal taste but I don't see how you can't see my point that it has close to nothing to do with authentic Italian food.

[RoseBlood]

Something along the lines of "i just got a car and it's probably better than yours, suck it, peon"
I am turned on everytime you type those words. :wub:

You must have missed this (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=76910).
Ok, you got me. I'm most certainly better than you underdog. :tongue:

I eat there because apparently when you're there, you're family I was told.

That's why I avoid the Olive Garden. I've been molested enough.
Next time tell them you refuse to be seated in the back room again. :sad:
She's just an evil twat bag.
I speak of Ann Coulter, not the fine, spoiled young lady who was referred to in the link.
I can't even stand to look at a picture of miss. twat bag.

[west milly Tom]

You were complaining about people dividing, or whatever. That's all she does.



Right, you can't hold weight here so you bring in some politics. Got it.

[underdog]

Right, you can't hold weight here so you bring in some politics. Got it.

I was just poking holes in your argument about being against "dividing".

You're just pissed because you have horrible taste.

[A.J.]

A friend of mine admits she likes chain restaurants because it's familiar and she's scared of trying new things or restaurants she doesn't know. She said she can go into any AppleBee's and order what she likes and it'll taste the same no mater where she is. Understandable, but I don't agree. Chains are bland, boring and gross.

That's pretty much the only reason I'll eat at a Chili's, Craplebee's or Friday's when I'm here or somewhere else overseas. I'll try the local food IF it doesn't have ingredients I don't like.

[west milly Tom]

I was just poking holes in your argument about being against "dividing".

You're just pissed because you have horrible taste.



I summise that our tastes are probably quite similar, especially with the fresh cut meat stuff you posted before. I just think the ol' I'm cultured and you're not stuff gets a little played out here.

[RoseBlood]

*waves crapplebee's gift card around*
no takers? that bad huh? i can't even give this thing away.

[west milly Tom]

I'm going to respond to this post in order to explain myself (and its nothing against you but apparently a couple of people have questioned my need to "upstage" my niece). I guess sometimes I don't explain myself clearly enough - maybe because I try to go for a joke instead of getting into all of the boring little details of what actually happened.

Here goes - we went to Olive Garden for my niece. I hate it and my wife hates it but we did it for her. Everyone was hungry including my niece and my two kids. I'm a fucking adult and, if worse came to worse, I could have waited four hours if need be. But there was NO WAY the kids were going to make it two hours to eat. Everyone knew this but no one wanted to say it because they were afraid of upsetting my niece.

Meanwhile there we stood outside of Olive Garden while we could have been on our way somewhere else before THAT wait got longer. So, being a take-charge guy I said what everyone else was thinking. 5 year olds don't understand the difference between 2 minutes and 2 hours. I really wanted her birthday wish to work out for her but it was not going to happen. So we decided to go somewhere else. Believe me they were all going to decide that eventually I just nudged them along.

By then we were in the middle of the dinner rush and anywhere we went was going to be having an increasing wait. It so happened that Outback was just down the road. Anyone who has kids knows when they are reaching their breaking point and my kids were getting there. Two hours was out of the question.

Also, I just skimmed the thread and have seen what I have wrought and I'm regretting causing this clusterfuck. Sorry if I have offended anyone. If you enjoy Olive Garden or Red Lobster or Carlos Mencia or Larry the Cable Guy or whatever then enjoy it. There's a thread on here about how hack Billy Joel is. Guess what - I happen to like Billy Joel but I also understand why everyone thinks he's hack and to some extent agree. I even posted in that thread making fun of him. I guess Billy Joel is my Olive Garden but I realize it and don't call anyone an egotist who points out the obvious to me. You may like Olive Garden's food - that's personal taste but I don't see how you can't see my point that it has close to nothing to do with authentic Italian food.



Elitist.

[hammersavage]

I don't care what people like. I like what I like and they can eat Burger King every day until they die for all I care.

Except music. People have terrible taste in music.

[Judge Smails]

Elitist.

ham n' egger

[RoseBlood]

I don't care what people like. I like what I like and they can eat Burger King every day until they die for all I care.

Except music. People have terrible taste in music.

I'm watching/playing your You Tube Music Video post.. it makes me happy :happy:

[hammersavage]

That page almost made my computer light on fire its so crowded.

[RoseBlood]

That page almost made my computer light on fire its so crowded.

yeah.. which is why i'm surprised it worked this time.. i usually avoid that thread because it freezes everything up on my comp.

[underdog]

I summise that our tastes are probably quite similar, especially with the fresh cut meat stuff you posted before. I just think the ol' I'm cultured and you're not stuff gets a little played out here.

I think most of it is just hyperbole. I doubt most people who have posted in this thread think they're more cultured or better people than other people.

I also think people who live in places I hate wonder how someone could ever live where I do. It's the same thing. It's just perception and taste.

[TheGameHHH]

I think most of it is just hyperbole. I doubt most people who have posted in this thread think they're more cultured or better people than other people.

I also think people who live in places I hate wonder how someone could ever live where I do. It's the same thing. It's just perception and taste.

no, its just once Ronnie stops talking that way on air then people here will follow suit.

[underdog]

no, its just once Ronnie stops talking that way on air then people here will follow suit.

Eh, I see people calling Ronnie "too cool for the room" here a lot.

[Dirtbag]

Eh, I see people calling Ronnie "too cool for the room" here a lot.
The only thing I think Ron's being a douche on is his complete disregard for anything animated. While I'm guilty of watching a lot of childish stuff (I just bought the Powerpuff Girls complete set. Yes, I'm both five years old and a faggot) not all 'cartoons' are just for kids.

[TheGameHHH]

Eh, I see people calling Ronnie "too cool for the room" here a lot.

im not about bashing Ron, i dig the guy a lot. but for every one person you see calling him too cool for the room i see about 6 sucking his cock like theres no tomorrow.

[west milly Tom]

The only thing I think Ron's being a douche on is his complete disregard for anything animated. While I'm guilty of watching a lot of childish stuff (I just bought the Powerpuff Girls complete set. Yes, I'm both five years old and a faggot) not all 'cartoons' are just for kids.



I watch more cartoons than shows with real people.


Night fellow late nighters.

[grlNIN]

I'm going to respond to this post in order to explain myself (and its nothing against you but apparently a couple of people have questioned my need to "upstage" my niece). I guess sometimes I don't explain myself clearly enough - maybe because I try to go for a joke instead of getting into all of the boring little details of what actually happened.

Here goes - we went to Olive Garden for my niece. I hate it and my wife hates it but we did it for her. Everyone was hungry including my niece and my two kids. I'm a fucking adult and, if worse came to worse, I could have waited four hours if need be. But there was NO WAY the kids were going to make it two hours to eat. Everyone knew this but no one wanted to say it because they were afraid of upsetting my niece.

Meanwhile there we stood outside of Olive Garden while we could have been on our way somewhere else before THAT wait got longer. So, being a take-charge guy I said what everyone else was thinking. 5 year olds don't understand the difference between 2 minutes and 2 hours. I really wanted her birthday wish to work out for her but it was not going to happen. So we decided to go somewhere else. Believe me they were all going to decide that eventually I just nudged them along.

By then we were in the middle of the dinner rush and anywhere we went was going to be having an increasing wait. It so happened that Outback was just down the road. Anyone who has kids knows when they are reaching their breaking point and my kids were getting there. Two hours was out of the question.

Also, I just skimmed the thread and have seen what I have wrought and I'm regretting causing this clusterfuck. Sorry if I have offended anyone. If you enjoy Olive Garden or Red Lobster or Carlos Mencia or Larry the Cable Guy or whatever then enjoy it. There's a thread on here about how hack Billy Joel is. Guess what - I happen to like Billy Joel but I also understand why everyone thinks he's hack and to some extent agree. I even posted in that thread making fun of him. I guess Billy Joel is my Olive Garden but I realize it and don't call anyone an egotist who points out the obvious to me. You may like Olive Garden's food - that's personal taste but I don't see how you can't see my point that it has close to nothing to do with authentic Italian food.

= You should have avoided all of that by telling your niece that starving kids around the world wouldn't even subject their bodies to the onslaught of internal degradation that Olive Garden would cause, we're going to eat grade Q steaks at Outback you little twerp, stuff it!


I hope you realize my first post wasn't meant to be any kind of attack or deconstruction of your ethical or moral oppositions, such as chain restaurants. I also did not read the in-fighting that started on page 2 because i can't be bothered to read the replies of some of the animals that post on this board and eat at TGIF.

[boosterp]

Here in Texas we have many great steak houses and wonderful Italian places. Olive Garden sucks ass and any place here that does not sell a good Texas raised steak not frozen sucks ass too.

We know our steak and thankfully the Italians that moved near where I am at and in west Houston know what they are doing.

[sailor]

Eh, I see people calling Ronnie "too cool for the room" here a lot.

i think it's only me.

[El Mudo]

My fiancee and I can barely afford to eat out at all these days between paying the bills (she mostly cooks or her mother cooks for us) but when we do, we try avoid going to chain places since she's familiar with Baltimore and knows some really cool restuarants. We do eat at Cheeburger Cheeburger frequently though...

As far as the whole high/low culture thing, I could care less myself where other people eat or what they prefer. I tend to get viewed as being "negative" a lot by people because I don't really eat/like/listen to a lot of things that are "popular" am pretty blunt about it.

I just want to experience as many things as I can while I still am able to. I don't want to keep eating at chains all the time, because that's boring to me. How am I going to learn about anything if I just keep going to the same places and not trying new things or going to places ive never been?

[El Mudo]

This can also refer to sports....I get labeled as a "nerd" or a "snob" or a "guy in mom's basement" because I am someone who really appreciates baseball science, particularly sabermetrics.

Its not that I think i'm better than you because I think batting average and RBIs are stupid stats that are meaningless for the most part, its that I really love baseball and I want to learn more about it.

[TheMojoPin]

Have you made it your mission in life to bother me, cause if you did mission accomplished.

This was done for me, but ill bite.
It is bigotry to announce your superiority to others because they're not as 'cultured' as you are. Check out a Websters sometime my budday.

That's not bigotry.

One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

If you're applying one's tastes towards food or clothing or pop culture to that definition, I hope you did some yoga ahea dof time to handle the streeeeeeeeeeeeeeetch.

We all have friends and family where we think their tastes in whatever suck. That doesn't make us "intolerant" of them. Maybe it makes us "intolerant" of their tastes, but that doesn't mean it jumps all the way to hating the person. That's ridiculous. Saying this is "dividing us" is just melodramatic.

[TheMojoPin]

This can also refer to sports....I get labeled as a "nerd" or a "snob" or a "guy in mom's basement" because I am someone who really appreciates baseball science, particularly sabermetrics.

Its not that I think i'm better than you because I think batting average and RBIs are stupid stats that are meaningless for the most part, its that I really love baseball and I want to learn more about it.

No, that really does make you a better baseball fan. Say it loud and say it proud.

[drjoek]

This can also refer to sports....I get labeled as a "nerd" or a "snob" or a "guy in mom's basement" because I am someone who really appreciates baseball science, particularly sabermetrics.

Its not that I think i'm better than you because I think batting average and RBIs are stupid stats that are meaningless for the most part, its that I really love baseball and I want to learn more about it.

nerd