Posted on 09/16/2011 4:59:52 PM PDT by jimbo123
The First Lady has scored another victory in the battle of the bulge.
The CEO of Darden Restaurants, which owns eatery chains Olive Garden and Red Lobster as well as LongHorn Steakhouse and Capital Grille, said on Thursday the company will work to reduce fat and sodium by 10% over the course of the next five years and 20% over the next decade.
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LOL! I’m saving that one!
Hey, go yell at your husband first. Don’t tell us what to eat or do!
I still can’t forget that McDonalds stopped frying their fries in lard many years ago. Julia Child loved them and openly expressed her admiration for them.
Just Google “Red Lobster biscuit recipe” and you’ll find lots of recipes. They’re super simple to make.
BTW I still boycott all the sponsors who dropped Beck.
Well......Golleeeee!!!
Unbelieveably, they opened an Olive Garden on 8th Avenue here in New York - land of brilliant Italian restaurants. And sadly: I see tourists going into it! Come all the way to the Big Apple only to go to a Olive Garden!
Olive Garden is nothing but a carb overload anyhow. Might as well eat a handful of refined flour and drink a glass of water. About the worst thing you can do for your body.
true to a degree. Some things are naturaly salty. I make a mean pasta carbonera that has a good amount of pancetta and parmesian cheese. Both those things give a good amount of salt, even high quality branda of either.
I never really considered it Italian cuisine, but did enjoy the soup salad and bread stick lunch. Haven’t eaten there since we moved 8 years ago and now there isn’t one within 50 miles.
Red Lobster was always the pits, because all the fish and seafood is frozen, they use nothing local. To me that begs the question of what’s the point when you live on the coast and are surrounded by fishing and crabbing towns?
I love going into a local restaurant and know that when they tell me what is the catch of the day, not only am I pretty sure it is the catch of THAT day, I generally know that guy or gal who caught it!!
Actually, that was just kind of a general observation. I’ve never actually heard of Carrabbas. I assume it’s a chain? Don’t remember seeing them before around here. But I am hereby coining a new term for Olive Garden, Macaroni Grill, Old Spaghetti Factory, etc., “Italianish Restaurant”.
Not a fake job designed as a conduit for payola, but a real job that entailed actual work that produced something of value?
I almost never eat out. I can feed myself for two days for what a basic restaurant meal costs. And that way I know what is in what I eat.
I can’t imagine dropping in at Olive Garden and paying $20 for a plate of overcooked, insipid yuppie noodles.
The fact that Olive Gardens is a horn-sucking wimp, worshipping Wookie’s *** fat ***, makes it more likely that I’ll avoid crappy, overcooked noodles at completely smelly Olive Gardens.
I can’t emphasize my opinion more without exposing myself to banishment.
Good idea. I’ve accumulated a number of gift credits for Olive Garden but I’ve never had the inclination to use them. I hope they don’t expire, but I might as well cash them in (bringing my own condiments).
Not sure what the soup DeJour is, but they have it every day.
Private restaurants succumbing to gubmint pressure by serving smaller, overpriced portions of less tasty food!
A sure government fix to national obesity epidemic especially among the welfare and food stamp classes.
o. m. g. This woman is a genius... why didn’t anyone think of this before!
A humble Thank You, to our First lady of Low Fat, the Mother of all Menus
PS: What’s for dessert? PIE?
Yes indeed, and I got food poisoning at Red Lobster in the 70’s and haven’t been there since.
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