I've just recently learned that what I've always thought to be a cantaloupe is, in fact, a muskmelon!!! I am shaken to my very foundation.
Surely you've all noticed just how awful the food in Olive Garden commercials looks? C'mon! Even Domino's Pizza can make their shit look tasty in ads! And Olive Garden tries so hard to prove they're really Italian. Every TV commercial follows the same format. Some guy talking about his huge family: "When my REAL ITALIAN uncle Giancarlo comes to visit from ITALY, he always wants to eat REAL ITALIAN food. So we come to the Olive Garden where soup and breadsticks are free. Giancarlo loves their shrimp scampi chef boyardee fried chicken platter (insert picture of nauseating food). It tastes just like what his nana used to make in the Old Country." Or some such nonsense. Yucko.
Jul 22, 2005
my world torn asunder
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When I want real, authentic italian food, I go to the Olive Garden. It's just like the old country, my Italian relatives couldn't cook for shit, either. In fact, they were all institutionalized in their mid-teens. A lot of time they thought pasta was sentient, so they barely cooked it. But, hey, free soup and breadsticks.
wait a minute...that's a musk melon?
then what the f#@k is a cantaloupe?
The melon that is smooth and green is known here as honeydew. Oh...and apparently you have been living in a cave so be careful about your foundation! Heh! Here cantaloupe is smaller and the muskmelon is larger (duh) with a somewhat rougher skin or rind or whatever the heck you call the outside.
A cantaloupe is smoothly round, while a muskmelon sort of has lines, like it would if it were a basketball.
I so agree about the Olive Garden commercials. At the other end of the appetizing pictures scale is Red Lobster. Their commercials make everything look irresistable, so much so that once every two years, I walk in there, all zombie-like, and only snap out of my stupor when they set the plate of grayish, limp, overcooked fish before me. NOT at all like the commercials. Yuck.
Yeah, but at least it accurately portrays their medicre "authentic Italian" food. I've never gone there expecting anything stellar and been disappointed.
Hm. I though muskmelon and cantaloupe were interchangeable terms. I still feel uncertain about what's what, regarding melons and other things.
The Olive Garden is just another acompliss in the conspiracy towards obiesity....I'm mean really who needs to eat that much fucking food...SAY NO TO GLUNTANY!
I am not a fan of melon, and hate the olive garden.
I love melon and will eat it no matter what it's called!
I agree with you about the OG commercials. It's pricy for the not so good stuff you get. I can make it home for less money.
Yeah that commercial pisses me off, plus when you are there they never ask you if you want more breadsticks.
kevin- That's a good point; they might be authentic BAD Italian food.
monkeyking- I dunno. Something similar but lumpier, from what I read.
b2go- I thought those green ones were honeydews but if asked under pressure I'll mix them up for sure.
mlwhitt- When I hear 'OG' I think 'west coast gangsta rap' so trying to reconcile these 2 things is funny. Thanks for stopping by.
sumo- Thanks for clarifying! I'm gonna go eat some cantaloupe in my cave-home now.
suzi- Haha. Red Lobster cracks me up for some reason. But those commercials do look good. I feel the same way about V8, then when I finally drink one, yuck.
rpete- The one I went to apparently served shrimp to & killed someone who was severely allergic to the stuff and specified "NO SHRIMP!!!".
sara- I just don't know. I told you my world was shaken!
cody- Hi, thanks for dropping by. Hmm, so that's their dastardly plan! I would think though, to be effective, they need to make their food look edible.
katie- Little did I know this Olive Garden talk would stir such strong reactions in people! We all need to take a deep breath and eat some melon.
adrienne- I don't understand why they like to take a good classic recipe then add all this goofy crap to it until it looks nasty.
martini- That's just underhanded of them. I don't even remember if it's actual breadsticks or just Boboli.
vilefile- I'm sorry, the world is such a cruel place.
im also sorry to say that mcdonalds really isnt what its cracked up to be either.
...what IS this world coming to?
(i dunno about where you all are geographically, but the olive garden that i go to is pretty damn good)
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