Comment by rl3
2 years ago
>Watching private equity take over and subsequently destroy businesses is so frustrating!
I agree. I uh, hope they don't do the same thing to Olive Garden, or Applebee's. That would be tragic..
2 years ago
>Watching private equity take over and subsequently destroy businesses is so frustrating!
I agree. I uh, hope they don't do the same thing to Olive Garden, or Applebee's. That would be tragic..
The really sad thing is that both of those used to be not so bad. Not good, mind you, but at least palatable. Now they're just nasty.
You keep your hands off Olive Garden.
Olive Garden is garbage, why would I want to put my hands on it?
Only Olive Garden and Chipotle have managed to give me a stomach ache.
Someone in New Orleans (a town with a large Italian and specifically Sicilian population), left a one-line Yelp review of the one Olive Garden in the metro area (by the airport). "The 9/11 of Italian food"
Too late. How much worse can they get at this point?
Ah, American classism, where crap like McDonalds is OK, but pissing on Olive Garden and Applebees is a signal for "I'm not working class, I have taste".
Perhaps because the latter are associated with aspirational working class, which is to be mocked.
The upper middle class and higher going to coffee shops and restaurants targeting them and dialing the pretentiousness and crap fusion food and such to 11 is OK though, that's in high taste. And McDonalds is acceptable too, since it's seen as neutral.
> Perhaps because the latter are associated with aspirational working class, which is to be mocked.
No, what’s being mocked is the quality of the food. The “aspirational working class” in Europe has much better food options for even better prices—has nothing to do with classism and everything to do with the development of an American culture that ruined food in this country.
My grandparents grew up in rural Appalachia and what they prepared themselves and ate back then was much tastier and fresher than Olive Garden.
>No, what’s being mocked is the quality of the food
If that was the case the "quality of the food" would be mocked elsewhere, in tons of brands with crap quality. But those seem to be particular targets in the way that say McDonalds and other fast food or higher tier but still crappy brands are not.
Besides, most references/parodies I've seen (like online, on SNL, movies, and so on) always seem to mock the working class in that context (or the ignorant lower middle class), in some "lol, these people think they're eating fancy" - usually with stereotypes about their appereance and mannerisms to match.
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I'm classist I guess but McDonalds is really not OK unless I need some fries on a long drive.
But people can eat whatever they like/can afford/find convenient.
I mean, if McDonald's along with every restaurant in SoDoSoPa wanted to join Olive Garden and Applebees on a voyage into the sun, that wouldn't be a bad thing.
The fundamental problem is that all of these businesses are devoid of soul, and the majority of the profits don't go to the people working them.
>The fundamental problem is that all of these businesses are devoid of soul, and the majority of the profits don't go to the people working them.
That however is a problem of capitalism in general, not Olive Garden in particular.
And I'd say class snobbism against lower class "taste" (independent of unhealthy fast food vs fine cuisine, since for example something like In and Out is totally acceptable by the same people) is also a problem of capitalism.
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