Your secret mental list of chain restaurants that you will not frequent

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As I didn't grow up withall of these chains, I have recently realized that I keep a mental list of places to avoid based on sources of information like the opinions of my peers, the location of franchises, and the sheer cruddity of advertising campaigns. So when I am starving and am on the 5 and I see those exit signs pop up with the logos on them, I still manage to avoid:

Jack In The Box
Carl's Jr
Del Taco
Sizzler
El Pollo Loco

there are some others but I can't remember them

Am I missing anything by never frequenting these places? What's on your list?

― Airtube (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

MCDonalds
Taco Bell
KFC
Olive Garden
Popeyes
And any Chinese restaurant

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Fuck Carrows.

― andy --, Friday, 1 April 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

All of them, really, though God forgive me, but I have actally been forced to eat at Chevy's.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

If "will not frequent" means "will only eat at if dragged there", then all of them.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

On second thought, I do eat at Burger Joint, Burgermeister, and In and Out sometimes and some of the local Mexican food chains.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

all fast-food places that traffic in grease, from KFC to Long John Silvers to McDonald's to Chinese - the smell alone makes me nauseous

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

if i tell, it won't be secret

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Most of these I don't even think of as restaurants. I guess if there's no waiters, i don't consider it one.

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

I'm the same oops, but I thought that everybody calls these places "restaurents" here!

I'm still learning you see

― Airtube (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

"restaurants"

― Airtube (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Shoney's and Ponderosa, due to being forced to go to them as a kid. I think my parents would choose a hotel by its proximity to a Shoney's.

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

oh god I HATE Ponderosa

disgusting

any Midwesterners ever eaten in a GOLDEN CORRAL?

― Airtube (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

I've eaten at Golden Corral! I must admit, I am a fan of their breakfast buffet on hungover Sunday mornings.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

you are fucking SICK

― Airtube (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

What's with the Chinese restaurant thing? Are there chains of bad Chinese I don't know about? I get great take out here.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

I have not eaten any good Chinese since moving here

what's your secret?

― Airtube (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

various people at various jobs have raved about Golded Corral. It was shortly after they raved about Celine Dion's line of jewelry, the new action blockbuster, [insert other crappy thing that millions of people inexplicably like], so I knew it was crap. I think they were just won over because it was a step up from OCB.

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

b-b-b-but Golden Corral isn't JUST crap in the way that McDonald's or Taco Bell is crap, it is actually so revolting that I can't believe it is sold as food!

― Airtube (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

There's got to be good Chinese in Oakland/Berkeley, adam, surely.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

find it for me. in Okalnd Chinatown maybe buy NOT in Berkeley, though I had a decent shrimp-fried rice thing from the Berkeley Bowl.

― Airtube (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Bennigan's. Haven't been there in 15 years though, so for all I know they could have some jean-creaming cuisine there now.

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

way to make it sound enticing

― Airtube (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

well I do work in advertising yanno

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

since when?

― Airtube (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

I WILL GO ANYWHERE - GIVE ME AN APPLEBEE'S RIBLET BASKET AND I AM HAPPY!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

previously frozen food, come to momma!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

ok so my mental instability prompts me to cut out various letters from newspaper inserts. you happy now? huh??

oh Applebee's. Add that to my list.

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure I don't want to go to any nice restaurants with oops, now.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 April 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

I had a Monte Cristo at Bennigan's the one & only time I went there. I ate it for FOUR DAYS. It was like that sandwich in The Simpsons, except it never turned green, and it came w/ jelly.

So, yeah:

- Bennigan's
- Applebee's (that commercial? w/ the football team in the rain? fuck that.)
- McD's (unless I break down & give in to the BAH DA BAH BAH BAH)
- Popeye's (for that one time I went to one to use their loo, & almost suffocated from the FRYER HEAT)
- Red Lobster (for the diverticulitis in you)
- Olive Garden (fuck an endless salad)
- any & all Chinese take-out places that serve GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICHES and FRENCH FRIES
- the D'Angelo's near the CCSU campus that's always out of A) meat or B) bread

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

you guys don't know how to live - giving up ENDLESS SALAD, FOREVER!? why!?!?!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

i eat at mcdonald's all the damn time, the fish filets are amazing and perfect.

but i try to stay away from the fake-upscale chains (PF Chang, Cheesecake Factory, etc). those are shit and for some reason totally deafening to be in.

― f--gg (gcannon), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

How widespread is Max n Erma's? For years I filed them in the Bennigan's/Applebee's/TGI's bin, but I think they're a cut above.

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

PF Chang's is gross. Why do people clamor to get in the door? It's not good AT ALL.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

Hahahahaha, I love PF Chang. The waitresses are so flirty there.

― Airtube (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

I always enjoyed Red Lobster when I lived in Ohio, but you know, it probably WAS the best place in town.

― Airtube (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

CALIFORNIA xpost

― f--gg (gcannon), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

PF Chang's - the chinese restaurant where you have to ask special for vegetables to be included. WT...F?

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Are there chains of bad Chinese I don't know about?

Percentage-wise, only an insignificant amount of all Chinese restaurants in America are *not* bad. I fucking hate "Chinese" food. Unless it's actually Chinese food, which is very hard to come by.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

I don't do Arby's.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Seriously guys, I have never had a bad meal at PF ChanG!

xp - I used to.

― Airtube (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Also, Kenan would you please elaborate on what "actual" Chinese food might be?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

oh man, back when i ate meat and was poor, arby's had this like 5 sammiches for $5 deal.

like i wrote, i was poor.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Unless it's actually Chinese food, which is very hard to come by.

I guess I agree about bad Chinese food, but, unsurprisingly SF has loads of good Chinese.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

I like Applebee's too, Mandee. I would never take a date there or anything, but I love getting ridiculously overpriced blue drinks with friends.
x-post How can anyone hate Crab Rangoon? (not 'real' Chinese food) It is manna from heaven.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

I used to order Cordon Bleus from Arby's. I'm sure the place in France is thrilled with the association. Their beef n cheeses somehow taste better the next day, heated in the microwave. I cannot argue that the place is not gross.

xpost yeah 5 for 5 beef n cheddars in college!

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Any chain buffet restaurant: Ryan's, Golden Corral, Luby's, etc.

My grandmother loves Picadilly's, so I do go there with her. Fortunately, the nearest one is in Memphis.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

PF Chaing's is ok. A little overpriced and sometimes the portions are small, but I've never had a "bad" meal there either.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Kenan would you please elaborate on what "actual" Chinese food might be?

I know it when I eat it, which is not very often. It's kinda weird, and full of odd flavors that compliment each other unexpectedly. It's very exciting to eat. Unlike, say, Moo Goo.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

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Spinach! Je4nne, I'm jealous.

PP, such a hater! Are you sure your name isn't Reid Fleming?

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 3 April 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

McDonalds
Denny's
Sizzler
Red Lobster
KFC
Olive Garden

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 3 April 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Hardee's

― latebloomer: AKA Sir Teddy Ruxpin, Former Scientologist (latebloomer), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

Perkins
Applebee's. Though I often have no choice in the matter.
Little Caesars.
Pizza Hut as a restaurant sucks, works fine for delivery for me though.

"Trayce, most of America is now a shopping mall where we feed at the trough of corporate processed food"

which is why the premise of the thread kind of irks me, it's hard not to eat fast food when often its close to being your only option!

it is sad in a-merry-ca :-(

― latebloomer: AKA Sir Teddy Ruxpin, Former Scientologist (latebloomer), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

I used to go to Wendy's and order a Bacon-Double combo with a root-beer and put mayo on my fries. Now, I can't imagine my body tolerating such an experience. Does that mean I'm getting old?

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

probably. i want a salad now.

― latebloomer: AKA Sir Teddy Ruxpin, Former Scientologist (latebloomer), Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

Get one learning how to cook.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 3 April 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

McDonalds: egg and cheese biscuits in the morning--fantastic. Manna from heaven. Their coffee's not bad either

Pollo Loco on the banned list? that's just stupid

Johnnie Rocket's chocolate malt -- an elixir for your soul

― PickWhatsGood, Monday, 4 April 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

chain restaurant i like frequenting: ranch 1. a little pricey, but the food is generally fresh and relatively un-processed. and the fries are awesome. i'm told the regular grilled chicken sandwich has a lot of calories, but i'm not going to think about that.

― jody von oy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 4 April 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

Amory Subway gots spinach! I never noticed it before! (This thread made me hongry for a Krab & Mayo heartattack.)

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Monday, 4 April 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

shoney's

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 4 April 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

not much of a list

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 4 April 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

shoney's OTM...ewww!

― latebloomer: strawman knockdowner (latebloomer), Monday, 4 April 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

after like 10 bad experiences in a row: IHOP

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 4 April 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

I like Denny's and IHOP, though I like Denny's a LOT more because their food is more reasonably priced. There's not a single Hardee's or Sizzler in town, nor do I really remember ever seeing those chains. Red Lobster is ok but not my favorite place to go. Olive Garden helped introduced this city to the concept of nice-looking Italian restaurants and I still like their food. (Better that than yet another helping of Mexican/Tex-Mex.) Pizza Hut is good if you go to the more suburban/rural locations; oddly enough, the more central the Pizza Hut location here, the greasier and nastier the pizza from the Pizza Hut tastes. Little Caesar's isn't half bad and is a rather good thing if you take advantage of the monthly customer appreciation day special. El Pollo Loco might taste good to someone who wasn't reared on the food I was raised on, but if you've always had authentic versions of that which El Pollo Loco is attempting to sell, you recognize just how terrible that food is. We've ONLY JUST NOW gotten our very first Johnny Rocket's (and it's at a location that makes it clear that it's for the tourists, i.e. the Riverbloodywalk). Subway's bread smells really suspect, but in a real pinch their subs will do. I really like Burger King's breakfast menu items. Etc., etc., etc.

Basically, it's fast food and those so-called "bad Chinese restaurants" (though the ones I go to are actually really good!) that ends up delivering me from a pit of endless Mex/Tex-Mex/barbecue options. God, there are times when I would rather choke on my own vomit than have another breakfast taco or another helping of carne guisada or another serving of rice and beans or another tortilla, even if it's homemade. I guess that's why I appreciate fast food a lot more; because this food isn't a part of my heritage, hasn't been made for me at home an innumerable amount of times, isn't something my grandparents even KNEW how to make, I feel more at home with what you guys consider sub-par variations of those themes than you guys might.

Ok, end of outburst. Me go disappear once more.

― I am that unhip, naive nobody you always avoid. (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 4 April 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and Chipotle. Fantastic. And owned by McDonalds. Don't you just hate that your fucking hypocrites???!!!!????

― PickWhatsGood, Monday, 4 April 2005 06:04 (twenty years ago)

Spunkinburger.

ok, so i made it up, but if it DID exist.. no fucking way!

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 4 April 2005 07:20 (twenty years ago)

Aw, poor Cracker Barrel, I love its cornbread and molasses so much...

no, not poor cracker barrel. it's disgusting! and a large percentage of their vegetable dishes either have meat in them or are cooked with meat items, which is totally pointless. lukewarm canned veggies aren't going to be improved by dumping some grade d ham bits and grease over them.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 4 April 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

lukewarm canned veggies aren't going to be improved by dumping some grade d ham bits and grease over them. Uh...that's the only way to improve lukewarm canned veggies. Just because you may not eat meat doesn't mean there's "no point" in cooking vegetables with meat. That's how one cooks vegetables. There's almost no vegetable known to man that isn't improved by cooking it with a ham hock. Hello!@

― PickWhatsGood, Monday, 4 April 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

it depends on what you find palatable, i suppose.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 4 April 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

I guess Cracker Barrel mostly just has a place in my heart because it's where my family would always go on road trips (and then we'd pick out tapes to switch out and get maple candy from the gift store).

I used to think Subway was the greatest, until I had a job really close to one and ate there all the time. Then one day the white tomatoes and ick lettuce shreds really got to me. That said, I like mine with jalapenos.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 4 April 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

My wife just got back from running some errands and brought me a Sonic fresh lime slush. Mwah!

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

David R. way upthread mentioned Bennigan's Monte Christo sandwhich, which as a young dude I thought tasted great! but i had one for old time's sake recently (well, 4 years ago) and it was disgusting! never again. i did have my first underage beer at Bennigan's, though. it was a beck's dark. and i just had one, so as not to push my luck.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

It seems surreal to me that Bennigan's used to be the hep place to hang out. It reminds me of how T.G.I. Friday's was the place to be at in Memphis back in the early seventies. That was where this album cover's photograph was taken:

http://www.bluedark.com/images/bigstarradiocity.gif

I'm not trying to sound too-cool-for-school, but I'm having a hard time picturing Applebee's as the ultimate meat-market.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

ok all the mcd's haters still need to at least recognize the brilliance of the dollar menu. i mean you can get like a double cheeseburger, mcchicken sandwich, side salad, fruit and yogurt parfait and 2 apple pies for like not even 6 bucks! which is like the price of ONE hardees burger w/ fries. (1 monster burger alone tops 6 bucks i think)

― chepa food,, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Is it fair to assume that items that cost $1 at US McDonalds are the same items that cost 99p at UK McDonalds? If so, it's an Apple-scale rip-off!

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

America's farmers are subsidized by the government. We pay for it in TAXES.

― absolutego (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Who do you think *our* farmers are subsidised by?

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

ok i have nothing more to sya but im REALLY fcking hungry so what should i get at wnedy's in a half hour when i get off work. i'm not familiar w/ their menu outside of the double bacon cheesburger i order every time i go there (tho i did get that chicken sandwich thing they'v been advertising; it was overpriced)

― the omniptopteron, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

s1ocki, I found an album at the Goodwill today called "Your Daddy's Moustache"! Maybe that's what your pal at the restaurant kept going on about.

OMG!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

I find french fries pretty revolting anymore, so if I go anywhere fast-foodish, I have to find a place that will sub a salad or baked potato or something. Wendy's is pretty good for that.
I'm also occasionally seduced by the McDonald's breakfast — if you're gonna to unhealthy, might as well go big.

I hate Hardee's, though. I also find Quizno's pretty lacking.

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

the one thing i go to mcdonald's for anymore is the egg mcmuffin. so simple, so perfect, so comforting. perfect on a really cold day.

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

i've tried making my own at home and it's just not the same.

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

i hear that jody, but i've found the trick is to do it really unnaturally. like just nuke the hell out of it. microwave the egg in the bottom of a wet coffee cup - add one slice of processed cheese, and i've even found that same kind of small circular ham slices. it's actually pretty close.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

I still mostly avoid all fast food outside of the occasional In-N-Out Burger, but I have to admit a hankering for the scary deep fried stuff at Chick Filet.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

no! they're creepy christians!

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

I don't tend to have a huge problem with chain restaurants--they are not the first place I would pick, but if nothing else is available there is usually something edible, if not delicious to be eaten. Even so, sixth-sense bristled at my mom's suggestion to eat TGI Fridays today, but we went anyway.

Can anyone here convince me that restaurant does not = a modern torture chamber? The midget host with the childlike voice, the chipper rapping and dancing bboy server, the flahing lights that made me feel like I was going blind . . . . I literally could barely see the whole time I was in there . . .

Maybe I should have ordered the burger but I thought it would be more healthy to get the Chile Verde Chicken Enchiladas. I have never tasted food that was so obviously frozen then thawed in the microwave before (except for food my mom has served me, ha ha) . . . . and there were no fesh produts on it . . .. no lettuce, cheese, sour cream, tomaotes, everything was just a tepid yellow blob of fit-for-space-flight chicken with a sickening hint of lime. I couldn't even tell what was the chicken and what was the tottilla.

Even the ice tea made me nautious. I stopped eating about half way through the meal. I thought my mom's fish and chips would be better--how can you mess that up? But the battered fries and fish both tasted equally indistinguishable--I have never tasted such bland fried food in my life. I went out to the car early to lie down--my mom strangely had no problem with her meal, and struggled with eye and stomach problems for the entiretly of the 45-minute drive home--in short I wished I were dead. I got home and slept it off and have now recovered, but what is that? I haven't been that sick in ages.

Is there anything redeeming anyone here can say about TGI Fridays?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

No. You have been to the last level of hell. Would you like a moist towelette?

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)

macaroni grill .... i have decided that the food there just sucks. i used to respect it. not really any more.
m.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

I like it!

― Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

burger king has taken itself off the list, no matter how shitty their service/food is.

― lemin (lemin), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

TGIF had the best fries anywhere when I would eat there about 10-15 years ago. I've learned to get grilled meat sandwiches when I go to places like these, harder to fuck up, and if they cut corners it's obvious.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

1. Angus Steak House
2. Aberdeen Steak House
3. Any other Steak House with a red colour scheme and a branch close to Shaftesbury Avenue.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

those places look fucking vile

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

I've only had TGIF once. Never again.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

tgif's food is palatable enough. actually it varies by location. the one down the road from my college was pretty good, but when i went to the one in times square about five years ago, yecch.

i like pizzeria uno, but i haven't been there in years.

― brody the country girl dalle (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

I've learned to get grilled meat sandwiches when I go to places like these, harder to fuck up, and if they cut corners it's obvious.

i just keep thinking of the scene in fight club ... "may i advise the lady against getting the clam chowder?"

― brody the country girl dalle (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

I haven't been to macaroni grill for years, but I liked it back then and surely it has to be better than olive garden.

― ()ops (()()ps), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

yeah... it's probably better than og... but we've gone twice recently and both times it was ass. og can make a good pitcher of sangria. pasta e fagoli + salad + sticks = splendid meal.
m.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

pasta e fagoli + salad + sticks = splendid meal.

it's not a good meal unless it's pronounced pasta FAZOOL!

― brody the country girl dalle (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

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