| rick_h | cmaloney: <3 good to hear it went well. | 09:02 |
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| cmaloney | rick_h: Thank you. :) | 14:31 |
| shakes808 | morning | 14:38 |
| shakes808 | cmaloney: So what is the verdict of your CA trip? | 14:38 |
| rick_h | was it as cool as it seemed from the outside once you got there cmaloney ? | 14:42 |
| cmaloney | rick_h: Um... I twas wet | 14:55 |
| cmaloney | it was | 14:55 |
| rick_h | lol | 14:55 |
| rick_h | well /me sends all kinds of good luck wishes your way for it | 14:55 |
| cmaloney | and the traffic was as horrible in a suburban area | 14:55 |
| cmaloney | I'd hate to see it in LA or San Fran | 14:55 |
| rick_h | yea, it's not fun | 14:55 |
| * rick_h could never live out there | 14:55 | |
| cmaloney | I didn't see the Googleplex from where I was either. I thought it was like the eye of sauron or something | 14:56 |
| cmaloney | The sashimi out there was really good | 14:58 |
| cmaloney | WEnt to Pacific Catch and had poke | 14:58 |
| rick_h | yea, always love to get some sushi while out on the coast | 14:58 |
| rick_h | nice | 14:58 |
| cmaloney | when we were driving to Pacific Catch we went past a Chili's and for a moment I thought they were taking me to Chili's | 15:01 |
| cmaloney | not that it would have been bad, but we have three of them within a 30 minut edrive | 15:01 |
| rick_h | lol | 15:02 |
| jrwren | I haven't stepped foot in a chili's in at least 15yrs. | 15:02 |
| jrwren | I don't know why. It seems a reasonable alternative to applebees. :) | 15:02 |
| rick_h | yea, longhorn > chilis > applebees > wendys > McD | 15:03 |
| cmaloney | jrwren: depending on the location a chilis can beat applebees any day of the week | 15:03 |
| cmaloney | especially if you're just getting the tortilla-strip-chicken-thing | 15:04 |
| jrwren | is it? I'll remember this the next time my options are so limited. | 15:04 |
| jrwren | They were limited a few weeks ago in columbus and I ended up at applebees. it wasn't that bad. | 15:04 |
| cmaloney | We haven't been at Applebees in a long time. Last time we were in there was when it was within walking distance in Belleville | 15:05 |
| cmaloney | But then they opened up an O'Charley's (if I'm remembering the name correctly) and that was the end of Applebees for us | 15:05 |
| rick_h | yea, gave up on applebees like you did on chilis evidently | 15:05 |
| cmaloney | but it depends on the locations. There's a Chili's by us that we drive past to get to the one in Rochester | 15:07 |
| cmaloney | There's a Logans by us that goes up and down in quality as well. SOm times it's as good as Longhorn and other days where it's below Texas Roadhouse. | 15:10 |
| jrwren | oh, we had LONG given up on applebees, but... when the only ohter thing is mcdonalds... we give it a shot. | 15:17 |
| jrwren | I used to love Logans... I was young and foolish :) Not that its bad, its just... I liked it far beyond what it deserved. | 15:18 |
| cmaloney | jrwren: exactly | 15:18 |
| cmaloney | when you'r idea of steak is the chopped steak at Ponderosa then Logans is a step up | 15:19 |
| cmaloney | s/you'r/your/ | 15:19 |
| jrwren | lol. | 15:19 |
| cmaloney | That's where I learned the trick of ordering medium rare so it would at least have some pink in the middle | 15:20 |
| rick_h | lol | 15:20 |
| rick_h | definitely have moved up tastes over time | 15:20 |
| cmaloney | and then when JoDee and I were on a date at Outback I (apologetically) had to send the sirloin back because it was too rare for me. | 15:20 |
| rick_h | I used to love Olive Garden as a "nice night out" | 15:21 |
| Zimdale | "too rare"? | 15:21 |
| rick_h | now it's basically italian themed applebees | 15:21 |
| cmaloney | We just went to Olive Garden. They've stepped p their game | 15:21 |
| rick_h | have they? it went bad for a while | 15:21 |
| cmaloney | Yeah, they were pretty terrible for a while | 15:21 |
| jrwren | i went ot olive garden a couple yrs ago with the kid. tomato sauce isn't supposed to be that color. i don't know what they are server. | 15:22 |
| jrwren | *serving | 15:22 |
| rick_h | yea, the bread wasn't any good, the salad was slop, I cut it out of the approved dining list a while ago | 15:22 |
| cmaloney | I had cappelini pomodoro from Olive Garden a while back that was literally cafeteria spaghetti with some tomatos thrown on it | 15:22 |
| cmaloney | But I think they realized that Maggianos and Carabbas have literally eaten their lunch | 15:24 |
| cmaloney | so I'd put it back in rotation, but a probationary one | 15:25 |
| cmaloney | the salad is still a head of lettuce drowned in dressing with some cabbage thrown in for color. | 15:26 |
| jrwren | but... you can eat it forever. its unlimited salad. | 15:26 |
| jrwren | "More salad?" "How about some freshly grated parmasean?" | 15:26 |
| brousch__ | It's kind of interesting how my wife and I have moved from OG/Outback/Logans for date night to more local places too. | 15:50 |
| brousch__ | PArt of that is more restaurants opening near us | 15:50 |
| jrwren | oh man... took me a good 10s to know what OG was, because OG is original gravity to me and I didn't think you were near original gravity :) | 15:52 |
| cmaloney | brousch__ is a timelord. | 16:02 |
| brousch__ | I assumed that was universal | 16:03 |
| shakes808 | on subject ( food ) and off subject: https://tinyurl.com/h3oe7f7 | 16:06 |
| cmaloney | I doubt that will get that money | 16:09 |
| shakes808 | i hope not. and i hope that people aren't that stupid... but that is highly unlikely | 16:10 |
| cmaloney | I don't remember the exact way that works but I think there's a way for "joke" auctions like that to not have to pay | 16:10 |
| cmaloney | first off, it's foodstuffs, which I don't think are permitted on eBay (been a while since I was active there) | 16:11 |
| brousch__ | Crap. I should have auctioned my Michigan-shaped fish nugget | 16:11 |
| cmaloney | second-off I think there was an escape-valve that folks could trigger to not have to pay or some shit. | 16:12 |
| shakes808 | there was this a few years back: https://tinyurl.com/jn9tq76 | 16:14 |
| shakes808 | but if you want to be blessed EVERY TIME you eat a grilled sandwich: https://tinyurl.com/zyv77cb | 16:16 |
| cmaloney | http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/vmary_sandwich | 16:19 |
| cmaloney | I think the BBC had the best headline for that: made reference to the holy toast. | 16:21 |
| shakes808 | interesting | 16:26 |
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