Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Haven’t eaten Red Lobster in twenty years. I can’t believe I thought chain restaurant seafood from Asia was good. Now I only eat local seafood at the coast or do with out. Why are these large companies able to stay in business after filling bankruptcy?
I never ate there, but holy cow in high school and even into college Olive Garden was the bomb. Eventually I learned about real food and decades later dated a girl who was still in that food mode. Well of course us dating improved her food taste but she still had that memory of how great OG was.
We were on a trip one time and the small town we stopped in had like fast food or Olive Garden. I relented and said fine, it can't be THAT bad, not as bad as McDonalds or Del Taco or whatever other dumb choices we had (e.g. no Carl's and this was when they were still good).
OMG. It was worse than I expected, by a lot. [Edit: And she agreed, profusely. She couldn't believe it.] She apologized for doubting me and a few times well after too LOL.
These national chain places, I just don't get AT ALL. Yet they are still going strong because Americans apparently wouldn't know decent food if it fed itself to them, overall.