People are azzholes

modb1rd · March 2012

http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2012/03/08/olive-garden-review-in-grand-forks-n-d-newspaper-gets-ultra-serious/?tsp=1

salimoo · March 2012

How sO? It's hilarious. She's taking it in stride, too. Did you read the follow ip article?

KayRI · March 2012

That blog post is pretty condescending.

salimoo · March 2012

KayRI:
That blog post is pretty condescending.

Eh, I take anything on that site with a grain of salt. The review itself is hysterical, as are some of her other reviews. It doesn't look like she'll ever see it anyway. She's a busy lady!

Hagerty said her daughter, Gail Hagerty of Bismarck, urged her to read the Facebook comments about her review.

?I told her I?m working on my Sunday column and I?m going to play bridge this afternoon, so I don?t have time to read all this crap,? she said.

modb1rd · March 2012

whether or not she is handling it well, it doesn't change the fact that the blog post in condescending and that the people who started it, started it solely to make fun of her. Yes she is arguably putting herself out there by being the restaurant reviewer for the paper but it is just generally shitty.

oklagirl · March 2012

I'm on mod's couch for this one. This kind of stuff is why us liberal elitists get a bad name.

jens_a_ten · March 2012

I agree that it's d*ckish. So what if the old lady likes Olive Garden - a lot of people do. If you don't like it, well you can just *** off!

pantsparty · March 2012

There was a time that I thought Olive Garden was fancy. Now I live in an area with lots of independent restaurants and lots of people who look down on those who eat there. FFS. Not everyone knows about, cares, or can afford a Michelin rated restaurant.

modb1rd · March 2012

Now don't get me wrong. I come from a place where The Olive Garden is haute cuisine and I can walk to Michelin star restaurants now. If I had read this, I would have snickered and shown my husband, but I wouldn't have made fun of the lady in an online forum.

salimoo · March 2012

I've read the blog more closely and yeah, it's elitist and di ckish. But it sounds like pretty much every other blog on SFGate.

Her reviews, though, I maintain are hilarious. They're so earnest. I love her.

_Fenton · March 2012

I agree the SFGate is a little smug in stating the obvious, but I find the reviews hysterical. Not just because they're about Olive Garden, but because of her writing style. It reads like a diary entry. I don't see the big deal in general; inadvertent news story humor is one of my favorite genres of comedy. My friends who work in small market newspapers (I have several, due to majoring in journalism) will copy and paste articles from reporters at their own papers or ones they read in another publication and email them to us, mocking and laughing.

I can't read her restaurant reviews and not be tickled to death, so I guess I'm going to hell!

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