missfee said:

ain't that the truth!
I don't like LJS, I'd rather have Captain D's but alot of people hate that too

Chipotle is the only chain restaurant I will eat at. (Anx, I think they put cilantro, salt, and lime juice in their rice to make it so good.) Oooh, and I used to eat at California Pizza Kitchen when I lived in Chicago---their tostada pizza is yummy!

Haven't eaten Micky D's, BK, Taco Bell etc for at least six years. I have a feeling I would get violently ill if I did, especially since I don't eat meat or fried things. Hell, even butter cream frosting makes my stomach a little queasy.

An Olive Garden opened up in the city near where my parents/fam still live and the people there think that place is the best thing since the hot comb. People fuckin' line up at 4:30pm to get in when it opens at 5pm b/c they don't take reservations. When I went back for my grandfather's funeral in February not only did I have to eat there with my parents, bro, sis-in-law & their kids, we had to eat at 5 fuckin o'clock! I was like--I don't even leave work until 6:30pm in New York. Five o'clock is like lunch time in NYC....11pm is dinner time!




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missfee said:

Never heard of O'Charley's. Guess I'm not missing much.

missfee said:

I thought you said it had no taste.

Anxiety said:

Oh! Hm.

Anxiety said:

Chicago. Diner.


I bought their cookbook recently. I need to actually try using it.

Anxiety said:

thai food is so overrated.

live4lust said:

HereToRockYourWorld said:

try living next to thai town and getting anything that's not thai. i am so sick of thai food at this point--l.a. is lousy with 'em.

live4lust said:

Maybe I could get sick of it eventually. But overrated?

What kind of food do you like?

HereToRockYourWorld said:

i like all sorts of things once in awhile, but I don't wanna eat the same foreign cuisine all the friggin time.



i could do with some more sushi places around here.

No matter what "flavor" pizza I ever order from Pizza Hut...they all taste the same

I like the breadsticks tho.

Leona's, Its a chain in Chicago and for the life of me I can't figure out why people go there. Its bland food, with i guess what people would call an Italian twist. But for some reason the place is popular.

I LOVE me some CPK!! The mushroom ravioli w/ garlic cream sauce & extra sauteed mushrooms is DIVINE

And the Thai Chicken pizza is good... & the mushroom... & the white pizza (I like to add shrimp)...

live4lust said:

i think sushi is a waste of money. it's pretty but i have never felt satisfied from eating it as a meal. it's basically an expensive snack for me. same with tapas. i need to eat real food when i'm hungry, not this overpriced barbie doll food.

lazycrockett said:

they make great food poisoning!

Anxiety said:

Hm. Have you ever had maki with tofu?

I've been on a veggie sushi kick lately. . . I freakin' love it. . .it's like eating poetry. . .

well I will admit that I love McDonalds! now...don't get me wrong that doesn't mean I eat there all the time cause I know it's NOT healthy but there's something about a cheeseburger happy meal that makes me...well...Happy!
It's probably more of a comfort food for me.
and there's alot of hate for Olive Garden, wtf? I like olive garden...no, it's not gourmet italian food but the 2 times I've eaten there it was good. It is mad popular though so it takes alot to get a seat.

Olive Garden. Positively disgusting.

Anxiety said:

aren't you a veggie, though? a vegetarian meal would never do the trick for me.

live4lust said:

man if you were my nutritionist i'd be dead within a week.

Anxiety said:

i'll send you my application.

I seem to notice that a lot of orgers don't like Pizza Hut.

LITTLE CEASER PIZZA = THE BG'S (THE BUBBLY GUTS)

live4lust said:

i'll just go back to leona's for dinner this weekend for another food poisoning fiesta, thanks.

Surprised nobody mentioned Dominos, easily the worst pizza in the country. Yes, Pizza Hut is pretty bad. Haven't ate there in about five years.

White Castle is great, but you have to be drunk.

KFC can be great when the Original recipe is cooked right and it is tender.

Olive Garden is stupid. You might as well open a can of Chef Boy-R-Dee and save some spending money.

Here is humorist Joe Queenan's take on Red Lobster:

"Red Lobster, I quickly learned, was a chain geared toward people who think of themselves as just a bit too upscale for Roy Rogers. Even while waiting in the gigantic anteroom of the bogus sea shanty I could detect a certain aura of proletarian snootiness because of the way people were looking at me and my son. While Gordon, age ten, and I showed up in nondescript t-shirts and shorts, the Red Lobster patrons were bedecked in their best windbreakers and their very finest polyester trousers.
"Next time, show some respect," Their expressions suggested. "after all, you are eating at Red Lobster. This aint some goddamned Wendys."
The Red Lobster menu consisted entirely of batter cunningly fused with marginally aquatic foodstuffs and configured into clever geometric structures. I immediately being to suspect that the kitchen at Red Lobster consisted of one gigantic vat of grease in which plastic cookie molds resembling various types of food were inserted to create a structural resemblance to the specific item ordered. This was the only way to determine if you were eating buffalo wings or crab cakes. Technically, my dinner--the Admirals Feast--was a dazzling assortment of butterfly shrimp, fish filet, scallops, and some mysterious crablike entity. But in reality, everything tasted like Kentucky Fried Chicken, even the french fries."

Anxiety said:

Waaaittt a minutue....is there a Leona's on Sheffield & Diversy or somewhere over there by DePaul and the brown line? I think that's the place my wallet was stolen! Do you order the food in a line and then they bring it to your table? If that's the place then fuck 'em...when my wallet was stolen, they knew who did it, I knew who did it, and they didn't even offer to comp my meal!

DevotedPuppy said:

Sheffied and Belmont is the Chicago location, though they have places through out the Chicagoland area. For the life of me I can't figure out why the place is popular. The Food is bland, the decor is boring, the staff could care less, and the place isn't all that clean. Melrose serves better food even if they hate the gays.

lazycrockett said:

as illness-free/flavorful dining in my area goes, i guess i'll just stick to the chicago diner. at least i know i'm not getting my french fries done in the same vat with veal nuggets or somesuch.

Paradisekiss03 said:

Or Olive Garden.