Apparently, I am an elitist snob for not liking faux-Italian food.

I haven't taken part in either of the other threads; but is clearly perfectly okay to start a new thread about it, as the calling-out flamebait thread is still up and unlocked. There were a few untoward posts in the first thread. That is true. Okay, I do think it's madness to eat at Olive Garden while in New York, but hey -- whatever floats your boat, I'm not gonna call you an idiot.

Yes, there were a few untoward posts in the first thread. But the SECOND thread was started for NO REASON other than to attack people. And attack they did. Several posters took it upon themselves to slander as an elitist anyone who dared have an opinion. It's some of the most disgusting and disgraceful behavior I've seen on this board.

And such behavior is becoming more and more common.

I'm sure this thread will be locked. Not the vicious, nasty thread which precipitated it, but this one will be. That's the way it goes. Go ahead and get your shots in while you can. At least then I'll know whom to add to my ignore list.

I don't have the time or patience for this bullshit.

I got called an elitist and some goof put me on ignore.

:evilgrin:

to stop yourself from responding to the bait. I'm guilty.

well here are some of DU's finest trashing Radio lady's place to dine.

haruka3_2000 (1000+ posts) Sun Jun-18-06 03:29 AM
Response to Reply #1
5. Wow...people eat at the Olive Garden?
I seriously thought that was a myth. I guess it's true though.

asthmaticeog (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-19-06 03:46 PM
Response to Reply #1
11. Seriously?
There's like three dozen brilliant Italian places on Mulberry between Canal and Broome, and you're suggesting the Olive Garden?

alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-19-06 04:03 PM
Response to Reply #1
14. OK, let's review
Edited on Mon Jun-19-06 04:05 PM by alcibiades_mystery
You were in New York City, and you ate at the fucking OLIVE GARDEN??? Are you fucking shitting me? You're making a joke, yes?

alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-19-06 04:15 PM
Response to Reply #16
18. There's no excuse for the Olive Garden
It's as bad as suggesting Pizza Hut. Maybe worse, since the value is so much worse.

ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-19-06 04:29 PM
Response to Reply #16
20. Or anywhere else for that matter
This is a place where the cuisine is part of the vibrancy of life...I just...I...this makes me so sad.

ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-19-06 04:08 PM
Response to Reply #1
15. Are you fucking serious!?!?!
Just shoot me in the face!

alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-19-06 04:14 PM
Response to Reply #15
17. I saw a comic once
He was making fun of the Olive Garden commercials that had the Italian relatives visiting, and the American family takes the old Italians to the Olive Garden. The comic's line was great. It was something like "What happened? Did they run out of fucking Chef Boy-ardee at your local supermarket?" That's about the speed of it. Oh, wait for it. If you insult the Olive Garden on these boards, you are immediately labelled an elitist (I was once called a Republican because I know what everyone with a lick of exposure to Italian food and culture knows: that the Olive Garden is utter shite, and not worth a third of the price). Now, if you live in some bumfuck suburb where the only "Italian" place is the Olive Garden, you can be marginally forgiven, although in that case I'd suggest a good Italian cookbook or two, and you can make food 100 times as good for a third of the cost. But to eat at the Olive Garden in New York City is the height of philistinism, yes, I said it, rube fucking central. You can get a much better Italian place at half the cost within five minutes travel in any direction. It should say "FOOD FOR SUCKERS" on the door.

ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-19-06 04:28 PM
Response to Reply #17
19. I can't disagree with you there
For the money you would have an AMAZING meal in any number of legendary establishments.


ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-19-06 05:08 PM
Response to Reply #27
28. Is that what I'm doing?
I'm saying that the Olive Garden is fast food with waiters and there are better places to eat here. I was never saying anyone had bad taste and I resent the implication that I would.

That being said I'll "give it a rest". Thanks.


Real nice. I hope you all proud of yourselves. Radio Lady deserved none of your VITROl.

But Olive Garden sucks.

I couldn't give a fuck less. Hell, I'll say it again.

And you call yourself a LIBERAL?

Please define it.

I might say to ChavezSpeakstheTruth that any Grateful Dead album is a depository of festering wank-scabs, but that doesn't mean I hate his guts or want to hurt his feelings. I just want to express my profound aesthetic disagreement. :) And self-righteously knocking people for "hip" tastes isn't any better than self-righteously knocking someone for "unrefined" tastes.

You can't see that?

Where is the word "idiot" used there?

:shrug:

I'm not going to spend time reading the thread that caused all this because I don't think it's worth the energy... but both sides are kind of making me laugh.

;)

:eyes:

:sarcasm:

I thought flames were for GD or Religion/Theology, not the Lounge. This place is pathetic tonight.

*sighs*

Oh, and I'm not going at you, whoisal--I, too, do not like "Italian" food.

;)

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Maybe it's time to let it go. Everyone.

You just thought that Olive Garden was really good Italian food, didn't you?

:rofl:

Now it's all coming together.

Why should I like it?

Now who's being a snobby elitist?

:rofl:

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Aych Oh Oh.

:rofl:

x(

:D

in which KitchenWitch was seriously trashed. I just took part in her thread about food snobs, and was having fun doing it until other people jumped from trashing her in one thread to another and started trashing her there. Thank God/Allah/Whoever that thread was not locked. Some of you don't even realize that you could have shut the hell up and gone on to something else, and a lot of you don't use common courtesy in disagreeing with someone without insulting them.

They certainly deserve the effort, yeah? :)

Kettle, meet ignore.

:rofl::rofl:

All, I'm laughing my ass off over here. This is all so pathetically funny, and I don't even know why.

:rofl:

:hide:

Your willingness to embrace cheap and highly suspect alcoholic beverages takes you right back out of the realm of elite snobbery.

:puke:

I would never waste my time eating at the Olive Garden in NYC.

:rofl:

Then you must be a TRUE progressive! * pats you on the back* :eyes:

Flamewar.