Red Lobster vs. Olive Garden

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Oh Jesus, just stop.



It's not cute.



I've had Lasagne at Tony's. You won't find a dozen Italian restaurants better in the nation. Maybe not a half dozen better.



Lasagne is lasagne. You can have better sausage, or a higher cailber of ricotta, here and there. But it's not like steak or BBQ where time, place, preparation and secret recipe makes all the difference.



It's a baked pasta dish, not a Dutch master painting.

Pasta, sauces, meats, cheeses, and ratios all play a role in a great lasagna. You're clearly not a huge fan of lasagna (that's OK) if you think a lasagna is a lasagna is a lasagna.

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

I feel sad for you.

So deprived and illiterate.

Hope you expand your culinary horizons.

What does this even mean? The question is whether you'd rather have OG or RL. I'd go RL because it's pretty easy to make really good snow or king crab. I've been to RL many a time and had ****ed up shrimp; crab is a safer bet (I prefer crab to lobster, but lobster is relatively safe there, too). OG is pretty dependent on the cooks. Been there way too many times with overcooked or stuck-together pasta.

And to the poster that said RL for their stuffed mushrooms: Those are pretty good! OG's stuffed shrooms are pretty tasty, too.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

You're clearly not a huge fan of lasagna (that's OK) if you think a lasagna is a lasagna is a lasagna.

I love Lasagne. But part of what I love about it is that even pretty 'bad' lasagne is pretty ****ing good. And anybody passingly competent at lasagne as a major chain sit-down restaurant is going to do a really decent job.

Another thing that varies wildly in quality compared to lasagne is pizza.

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

What does this even mean?

I was satirizing your snobbishness about lasagne. Seafood is yet another thing that varies 100x as much in quality. Yet in successive posts you demean me for my lasagne peasantry and then say 'crab is crab, even at RL'

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

I love Lasagne. But part of what I love about it is that even pretty 'bad' lasagne is pretty ****ing good. And anybody passingly competent at lasagne as a major chain sit-down restaurant is going to do a really decent job.



Another thing that varies wildly in quality compared to lasagne is pizza.







I was satirizing your snobbishness about lasagne. Seafood is yet another thing that varies 100x as much in quality. Yet in successive posts you demean me for my lasagne peasantry and then say 'crab is crab, even at RL'

Seafood varies greatly, yes, especially fresh vs. frozen (pretty much everything but fresh catch at RL is frozen). Crab - snow and king anyway, as referenced in my post - mostly comes from the same region and is mostly (all, I think) frozen. There's a world of difference between a lasagna and steaming some frozen crab. Crab is pretty hard to **** up unless you over-season it or overcooked it. It's simpler and has fewer points of possible failure. I've had frozen snow and king crab in my house from a shitty steamer that was as good as any crab I've had at RL. It just isn't hard.

Of course this is all just my opinion, which I would think on a message board would be obvious without specifying.

I wasn't demeaning your opinion, stop being so dramatic.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

I wasn't demeaning your opinion, stop being so dramatic.

I'm not just talking about me, but you need a little self-awareness. I'm saying this out of love.

It's easily a 1/2 dozen times a week you tell someone their cooking or eating choices are 'unacceptable' for some reason or another.

I try to be easygoing generally. Today it just struck me particularly wrong. If I was too harsh, I apologize.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

I'm not just talking about me, but you need a little self-awareness. I'm saying this out of love.

It's easily a 1/2 dozen times a week you tell someone their cooking or eating choices are 'unacceptable' for some reason or another.

I try to be easygoing generally. Today it just struck me particularly wrong. If I was too harsh, I apologize.

Taking this out of here. Sending a PM.