Mooch To Promote “Healthy Eating” At Bottomless Pasta-Pit Olive Garden…
Because who doesn’t think “healthy eating” when they are gorging themselves on an endless pasta bowl?
(Politico) — First Lady Michelle Obama will help celebrate the second anniversary of the Let’s Move program at a Fort Worth, Texas-area Olive Garden next week.
According to the White House, the first lady will hold a roundtable discussion on February 9th at the chain with local parents who have made a commitment to healthier eating in their homes and communities.
While the Olive Garden is better known for its bottomless pasta, the appearance is due to a commitment by the restaurant’s parent company to offer healthier options for children. Darden, the corporation which owns Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Longhorn Steakhouse, signed a legal agreement last year to offer healthier side dishes and better food options for children’s menus.
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Mono-sodium Glutamate mmm mmmm mmmmm
Carbs are destroying this country. Stupid fat pasta-gulping Americans.
Don’t forget the endless salad and bread sticks.
Must have have been able to find a Chuck E Cheese
What is a “legal agreement last year to offer healthier side dishes and better food options for children’s menus.”? Can someone get a copy of that? Does it have any teeth?
I didn’t know that Olive Garden deep fried their food.
Four black women (two mother-daughter teams) just beat the living shit out of their waitress at a Red Lobster because they claim the order was wrong. I bring this up because Red Lobster being one of the chains Michelle is trying to make healthy for children.
http://www.fox2now.com/news/ktvi-caught-on-tape-women-beat-red-lobster-server-20120202,0,5226762.story
Imagine a meek white waitress trying to explain to these thugs about Michelle’s Rules and that their overweight daughters couldn’t get french fries as a side dish. She’d be in a coma.
Stopped going there when I heard the First Bitch had her hands in this. May have to nix Longhorne since they are owned by the same company.
Mooch, YOU don’t tell me what to eat. Ever.
Olive Garden! When you’re here, you’re fat-assed.
“have not”…..sorry,got all excited about Chuck E Cheese
Darden’s CEO is African-American. Queen Michelle holds domain over her people in position to bow for effect.
I would not be a bit surprised if there’s a “2012″ collection box in each Darden restaurant before the end of Spring.
Actually their bottomless soup and salad is a pretty good cheap tasty lunch deal. I make my own pasta.
Darden has seen a drop in sales since they ‘partnered’ with Mooch’s agenda. Too bad!
Oh gawd, she’s coming to Texas. Ugh.
I read a couple of weeks ago that since MOOch butted (and was welcomed) into their menus, that sales and customers are WAYYYYYYY down. Nobody organized it; people just don’t want to be told by that hypocrite what to serve, what they can eat.
Who cares?
boycott Olive Garden! it a fat ass house
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Olive Garden is apologizing for refusing to allow an 80-year-old Kiwanis Club member to display the U.S. flag at an Alabama restaurant.
The Kiwanis Club in the east Alabama city of Oxford had planned a banquet, but Marti Warren, of Anniston, said she wasn’t allowed to bring the flag or a banner into the building.
Warren, in a Fox News interview, said, “This is not my country. This is not my country I grew up with.”
@Paulzo
OG agreed to serve smaller more healthier portions to their customers at the first wookie’s request.
Doesn’t matter to me, I quit going to OG when they stated hating on the American Flag.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/olive-garden-american-flag-display-would-disrupt-the-dining-experience/
Call me racist, but the Red Lobster story is why people move out when blacks move in. You can take the woman out of the ghetto but you can’t take the ghetto out of the woman.
OG is owned by Darden. Mooch put the strong arm on them last Fall. Just one of many restaurant groups she has basically blackmailed into doing as she wishes them to. Making smaller portions that we pay full price for, removing items from the menus completely and insisting on specific calorie counts per item. The woman is literally dictating how businesses can operate and what we can or cannot eat.
Olive Garden: American Flag Display Would ‘Disrupt the Dining Experience’
80-year-old Marti Warren thought she was doing a good thing a little over a month ago when she booked a local Olive Garden restaurant in Oxford, Alabama, to host a Kiwanis club awards banquet. The chapter president got a rude awakening the night of the gathering, however, when restaurant staff refused to allow her to bring an American flag inside the restaurant.
Warren, who lived through World War II and was later part of her local desegregation movement, said, “This is not my country. This is not my country I grew up with.”
The justly outraged Warren told WBRC-TV, “I was so angry. I felt like I had been slapped in the face”:
That slap came from the Oxford Olive Garden. One hour before the Golden K Kiwanis club‘s awards banquet the restaurant manager told Warren she couldn’t bring in their banner or even an American flag. “I said having known this earlier you can bet we never would have eaten here. And I said if we had time we would have gone to McDonald’s because we know they are American all the way through,” said Warren
In response, Olive Garden’s parent company, Orlando-based Darden Restaurants, said in a statement:
“Like all Americans we have nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for the American flag and everything it symbolizes. In fact, we periodically provide American flag collar pins to our employees to wear while serving our guests. We understand and appreciate the way some people have reacted to the situation in Oxford and we’re very sorry if this decision has caused them any concern. The Oxford Olive Garden does not have a private dining area. To be fair to everyone and avoid disrupting the dining experience for all other guests, they’re unable to accommodate flags or banners of any type in the dining room.”
But Warren says that’s not what the restaurant told her:
In fact she says they told her she’d be in banquet room three. And as for being in the way, they were seated in the back by the kitchen. “I resent that. I do resent that. I‘m about truthfulness and that’s not truthful,” said Warren.
While the American flag was not present during the Kiwanis club banquet, Warren urged the group to close their eyes, picture the most “beautiful” American flag and recite the pledge of allegiance.
Warren is not taking things lying down either. She has vowed to boycott Olive Garden along with all other Darden restaurants and has urged others to do the same.
“Word of mouth is powerful and if people find this out and decide not to patronage these places…it will hurt them in their pocket,” said Warren.
It is probably worth noting that just last month, Darden Restaurants agreed to partner with Michelle Obama’s “Partnership for a Healthier America” by cutting the calorie and sodium levels of menu items by 10 percent within the next five years and 20 percent within the next 10 years.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/olive-garden-american-flag-display-would-disrupt-the-dining-experience/
OK, when I read initially read the headline I had to throw up a little bit in my mouth. I read “bottomless” and Mooch and really got a bad image in my mind. But, now I see you are referring to their unlimited refills on spaghetti.
Hey Texas, don’t you have some surface to air missiles you can put on your borders to shoot down agressive,butt ugly sasquatches (chutes for the pilots and attendents of course)?
Used to go there every Saturday after work. Quit when they signed that stupid thing with the First Moose. We just make our own now. Helluva lot cheaper and better, too.
OK, between the flag nonsense and the Squatch patronage, adios OG, no big loss.
Just added another batch of restaurants to scratch off my list!
Next up, they’ll blame ringwingnuts for their decline in revenue.
OLIVE GARDEN CAPELLINI PRIMAVERA
Recipe By : The Olive Garden.
Serving Size : 4 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Pasta Vegetables
Copycat
Amount Measure Ingredient — Preparation Method
——– ———— ——————————–
1/4 pound Butter
1 1/2 cups Onion — chop
3/4 cup Carrots — julienne
12 ounces Broccoli florets — 1″ pcs
8 ounces Mushrooms — slice
1 1/4 cups Yellow squash; slice thin — and halve
1 teasthingy Garlic — mince
1 1/2 cups Water
1 tablesthingy Beef bouillon granules
1/4 cup Oil-pk sun-dried tomatoes — mince
1 1/4 cups Crushed tomatoes in puree
1 tablesthingy Fresh parsley — chop fine
1/4 teasthingy Oregano
1/4 teasthingy Rosemary — ground
1/8 teasthingy Crushed red pepper flakes
1 pound Fresh angel hair pasta — cook
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
Melt butter in a Dutch oven over medium heat.
Saute onions, carrots and broccoli for 5 minutes.
Add mushrooms, squash and garlic and squat for 2 minutes longer.
Add remaining ingredients, stir well and bring to a simmer.
Cook for 8 to 10 miniutes or until veggies are tender
and flavors are well-blended. Serve over cooked pasta.
Sprinkle Parmesan over the top and serve.
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MAKE YOUR OWN
HERE I WILL SAVE YOU A BUCK
The link I posted above also mentions the let’s move program
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2011/09/15/red-lobster-olive-garden-cut-calories-with-flotus/
Wouldn’t it be terrible if we discovered she is “influence peddling” as she goes merrily along acting like someone elected her to anything.
Sure hope she doesn’t get indicted for “misappropriation of funds”.
Olive Garden Spaghetti Carbonara
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Pasta Meats
Sauces
Amount Measure Ingredient — Preparation Method
——– ———— ——————————–
8 ounces Mushrooms w/stems — slice 1/4″
6 tablesthingys Shallots — mince fine
1/4 cup Rendered bacon drippings — or
Olive Oil
24 slices Bacon; ex-thick, cooked — slice 1/2″ strips
2 pounds Spaghetti — cook
4 tablesthingys Olive oil
2 teasthingys Parsley — chop fine
3 Grinds black pepper
Salt to taste
4 tablesthingys Parmesan — grate
3 cups LIGHT BECHAMEL SAUCE — hot
6 tablesthingys Butter or margarine
6 tablesthingys All-purpose flour
3 cups Whole milk
Add the reserved bacon drippings of the olive oil to a heavy skillet over
medium heat until fragrant, then add the mushrooms and shallots and saute
until they are golden, but not brown. Add thecooked bacon strips, stir well and
turn off the heat. Add the warm spaghetti and blend all ingredients
together thoroughly. Add the warm bechamel sauce, pepper, parsley and salt
and blend thoroughly. Serve immediately with Parmesan.
SAUCE-In a heavy non-aluminum pot, melt butter and add flour and cook on
moderate heat for 2 minutes, stirring constantly with a wire whisk. Do not
allow the roux to color more than blond. Add milk (no skim or low-fat) and
bring to just below the boiling point.
Remove from heat immediately and keep warm (180~).
Source: The Olive Garden.
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You got a recipe for charbroiled Wookie?
Quit going to OG when they quit serving veal–not PC. An Italian restaurant without veal is like a Chinese restaurant without rice. Bunch of assholes.
The refills will be slower now. It is healthier that way.
Last time I went to dinner at Olive Garden it cost me something like $18 just to get something other than a pile of poison dough with a sauce on it. Their salads are nothing but iceberg with a few onion curls and olives, with the worst dressing on the planet. Haven’t touched the breadsticks in years…..no, I won’t miss it, though I do like their soups – trust me, they are not on the conservative side of calories either. If they took all of the unhealthy things off their menu there might be 4 things left. I do like Red Lobster for a relaxing lunch now and then, but I can live without either. Now, if Mooch worms her way into Texas Land and Cattle Co., Texas Roadhouse (which isn’t based in Texas btw), or a host of others I’m done with them too.
1St Lady Michelle Obama is right about ” eating healthy ” in this country. These idiots on this weasel zipper site are weasels. Low life weasels now bashing our 1st lady.
You need to bash on Bush’s wife. She tried to promote reading in this country. But, yet she could not encourage her dumb husband to read.
Are you mad bc McCain’s raw bony skinny wife is not in the white house?
Boys and Girls can we say….. These GOPers are fat ignorant slobs. Ignorant is bliss to the Conservative party.
Stop stuffing your mouth. Put down that pork chop. Low life weasels
@allAmerican says:
i know your mother she was and still is no good,why do i say that
she crapped you out…..
have a nice day
@allAmerican,
You seem to have made a mistake.
Michelle Obama is no lady.
@Chicken_Shitte
I was aware that Darden made a deal with the devil, err….with a Wookie, and the 4th quarter revenues were way down as a result. However, the article indicates that a legal agreement exists. Huh? I’d like to know the content of that agreement.
Also, I will not return to OG because of the Wookie factor.
I will not spend a dime in any of these eateries in the future
Screw the health freaks I HATE WHEAT GERM and VEGETARIAN INDIAN WORD FOR VERY POOR HUNTER
I won’t spend any of my money at these tainted by squatch slop houses.
I don’t need that beast to tell me how to eat.
I have so many things to boycott now….Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Longhorn Steakhouse, George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Sharon Stone, Alec Baldwin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Will Smith, Melanie Griffith, Susan G. Komen Fund……….
dba…vagabond trader says:
February 3, 2012 at 4:21 pm
Actually their bottomless soup and salad is a pretty good cheap tasty lunch deal. I make my own pasta.
It was a good, cheap tasty lunch but the last time I went to one – in Greensboro, NC the lettuce was brown, my favorite soup was watered down, the service sucked. It was not my choice of venue as I stopped eating at Darden Restaurants when MichelleAntoinette butted in and they kow-towed to her “rules”. I can stand to lose a few pounds but NO ONE tells me what to eat. BTW – for a tasty lunch special, try Carabbas. Food is much better.
@myrtle:
Thanks, haven’t been to OG in ages, and didn’t know Mooch was sticking her snout into their menu. No mas!
When is that “woman?” coming to TX? If we’re lucky, we’ll have a nasty line of storms move through during its visit. Golf ball hail right on top of that OG… I don’t think there’s a tornado big enough to suck her up, though.
Call your local Olive Garden and ask if they started the First Wookie healthy eating menu.
That prodigious booty on FLOTUS was gained with a combo
of DNA …….AND a shitload of BBQ wings. Why does she seem
bent on keeping me from getting mine? “Svelte” and “regal”
fly out from the MSM press typewriters. I see Grace Jones,
with a bit larger headlights, hippier hips, and the (to me)
general gawkiness….{and a built-in scowl that must keep
Bam….UP! (or else)……late at night }.
A Masai warrior, while herding his cattle, once told me that
that a tall wife needs too much expensive cloth to cover
her body properly. He had a pin-up shot of Barbara boxer
in his Kudu-skin wallet. I learn much about humanity
by traveling the globe,
Wasn’t there a report about Darden serving halal meat and not informing customers ?
Rumor is mooch wants warning labels on foods containing corn syrup,high sugar,salt,fat content along with picts of obese people.
Nevermind alcohol,food, drug addictions,the unemployed,prisoners,welfare queens,illegal immigrants and masses of illegitimate kids.Pasta,fries and sugar raises health care costs according to the all knowing FLOTUS.
Could the problem actually be people are lazy,irresponsible or over indulging and causing their own health problems ? If the muslims don’t kill you the corn syrup will ?
Dear allAmerican,
Waaaaaaaaa! Waaaaaaaaa! Waaaaaaaaa! Waaaaaaaaa!
What are you going to do after we clean house in November?
Who will you get to tell you how to live your life?
Are there no OG’s in say, Virginia ?
Oh [forehead slap} will I never learn ? She must have at least one, if not more, fundraisers nearby..
She is so frugal, she even saves the campaign’s money.. She also thinks we are all morons, but that’s another story for another day.
I’m shocked that I’ve lived to be 64 without Mrs. “O”‘s assistance – please get out of my life – AND my White House!
God bless America, our troops, Israel, and decent fellow humans everywhere, including the womb.
Boycott OLIVER GARDEN,LONG JOHN SILVERS,PIZZA HUT,7-11 and all others that ban their emploies from exersing their 2nd amendment rights
I can eat whatever I want and they can sell it to me if I want to buy it.
FU.