{"id":232,"date":"2004-07-28T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2004-07-28T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-28T20:03:00","slug":"232","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

“There are 60,000 recipes in Italy”<\/strong><\/p>\n

USA Today<\/em> brings an Italian cooking expert to rate the food<\/a> at the Olive Garden restaurant chain<\/a>. (Ah, the typical strip-mall setting shown on the web site.)<\/p>\n

“This is bad. This is really bad,” Marcella says. She stares into the bowl. “This is Bolognese sauce?” She reaches for a menu in disbelief. <\/p>\n

“I must console myself,” Marcella says. She orders a Jack Daniel’s.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hat tip to Consumer Whore<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“There are 60,000 recipes in Italy” USA Today brings an Italian cooking expert to rate the food at the Olive Garden restaurant chain. (Ah, the typical strip-mall setting shown on the web site.) “This is bad. This is really bad,” Marcella says. 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