The chorus of the song Beans Taste Fine by Shel Silverstein:
After you've been having steak for a long time, Beans, beans taste fine. And after you've been drinking all that Chivas Regal, You're gonna settle for a quart of cheap wine. Well, the world is funny, and people are strange; Man is a creature of constant change. I said, after you've been having steak for a long time, Beans... dirty ol' beans taste fine!
Sorta sums it all up nicely, I think!
Signor V.
"For me, there's only my wife..."
"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
"It was a grass harp... And we listened."
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"
"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."
Re: Who in their right mind would go to Olive Garden?
[Re: Signor Vitelli]
#707692 04/01/1307:00 PM04/01/1307:00 PM
The chorus of the song Beans Taste Fine by Shel Silverstein:
After you've been having steak for a long time, Beans, beans taste fine. And after you've been drinking all that Chivas Regal, You're gonna settle for a quart of cheap wine. Well, the world is funny, and people are strange; Man is a creature of constant change. I said, after you've been having steak for a long time, Beans... dirty ol' beans taste fine!
Sorta sums it all up nicely, I think!
Signor V.
Very Cool.
Be Loyal, Be Loving, Be Quiet.
Re: Who in their right mind would go to Olive Garden?
[Re: pizzaboy]
#710073 04/11/1308:30 PM04/11/1308:30 PM
There's actually a big one in Times Square, but that's a tourist spot area. So it's to be expected. There's also a busy one on Sixth Avenue that I can't really explain.
Let's see....the next time I am in Times Square should I go to Tony's DiNapoli or Olive Garden ?
I'm sooo confused!
Don Cardi
Five - ten years from now, they're gonna wish there was American Cosa Nostra. Five - ten years from now, they're gonna miss John Gotti.
I occasionally go to OG but never order pasta there- Usually just soup and salad. My Sicilian wife is a great cook but we are older now and she can't cook so much anymore. I know what GOOD Italian food tastes like. In NY you can get good stuff all over, but here in Dixie you can't. All of our 3-4 Italian restaurants are owned by Greeks. I hate Pizza Hut and never go there. but as Pizzaboy said above, they are very successful businesses. The best pizza I had here was the time my buddy fed expressed 2 pizzas and a bucket of wings from LaNova in Buffalo NY, an alleged mob operation. We can't even get good Italian bread or a lot of the cheeses and meats that we love. I've been spoiled
Re: Who in their right mind would go to Olive Garden?
[Re: bigboy]
#745173 10/21/1301:26 PM10/21/1301:26 PM
I used to live in NY, so I've been spoiled. After that, I lived in a town with a very small Italian population. I had a lot of friends there that loved Olive Garden, so I decided to try it. After finally getting in on my 4th try (the line was out the door the first three times), I found the food better compared to many of the other local Italian places and cleaner, too. It couldn't compare to good Italian food from NY, but I was thousands of miles away, so that wasn't an option.
Remember the final scene from Goodfellas, where Henry talked about ordering spaghetti and receiving noodles mixed with ketchup? I've been to places like that and OG blows them away. And check out television shows, Kitchen Nightmares (Gordon Ramsay) and Restaurant Impossible (Robert Irvine). They rescue restaurants, and a decent chunk of them are Italian.
Check out this Italian restaurant in Pennsylvania. Jump to 10:30, where Gordon Ramsay tastes the food. Then jump to 23:30, where Chef Ramsay is so disgusted, he closes the restaurant down for health reasons. Tell me an Olive Garden wouldn't be an improvement!
You shit-kicking, stinky, horse-manure-smelling motherfucker you! If you ever get out of line over there again, I'll smash your fucking head so hard you won't be able to get that cowboy hat on. You hear me? Fucking hick. -Nicky (Casino)
Re: Who in their right mind would go to Olive Garden?
[Re: LittleMan]
#746161 10/29/1301:17 PM10/29/1301:17 PM
There is a place down here is Lafayette, LA, called Mike Aleisi's AKA Aliesi's Pizza. The guy moved here from Sicily some 30-40 years ago and opened up a restaurant. Needless to say 30 years later there is an Olive Garden, Carrabas, Johnny Carrinos, and other generic Italian places and this little business is STILL the most packed place and hands down best. Even in Louisiana if you have an authentic Italian that can cook, they will take it to the big chain restaurants every time.
"What are you cacklin' hens cluckin' about?!?!"
"Is that him?!? With the sombrero on?!?"
Re: Who in their right mind would go to Olive Garden?
[Re: LaLouisiane]
#749265 11/20/1301:20 PM11/20/1301:20 PM
I hate Olive garden some of the crappiest italian food I have ever eaten. I had a friend who went to NYC for about two weeks and during those two weeks he ate Olive garden every single day because " to worried and scared to try anything else". If I went to NYC I guarantee you that I will not be eating Olive garden.
If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone. ~ Michael Corlelone
Re: Who in their right mind would go to Olive Garden?
[Re: olivant]
#749267 11/20/1301:23 PM11/20/1301:23 PM
Being from San Francisco I'm spoiled when it comes to Italian restaurants. There are plenty of great ones. I'll always remember my first visit to an Olive Garden. I was in Richmond VA on business and our hosts were taking us out for an "Italian" dinner. After a week of hotel and cafeteria food (this was my first encounter with fried baloney sandwiches too) I was looking forward to a great meal. Visions of antipasto and linguine vongole danced in my head. As we drove up to the mall I was looking for the restaurant when my hosts declared "we're here" as we parked outside Olive Garden. I was disappointed but realized that this was probably what passed for Italian in Richmond VA. I knew that closer to and in DC there were some great Italian places especially in Alexandria. I really don't remember what I had but I do remember that we had a GREAT time. Good drinks, good conversation with people who would become good friends and isn't that what it's all about?