"Tim" wrote in message
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On Jan 20, 6:01 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message

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On Jan 20, 4:08 pm, HK wrote:





Tim wrote:
On Jan 5, 6:45 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is Here
wrote:

your statement is correct about a lot of things. Some people think
that Taco Casa is a mexican resteraunt! however I do like to go to
OliveGardenfor *REAL* Itallian food.... HA!
OliveGarden, the McDonald's of Italian....

Yes, but look what's cooking tonight?

http://www.olivegarden.com/recipes/r..._detail.asp?re...

I suppose that OG decided with all the fakers out there, they thought
they'd post their's so you could at least get it right...or wrong.

Olive Garden isn't haute cuisine, but it certainly is decent food at a
decent price. As someone who was born in and grew up in a city with a
huge percentage of recently immigrant Italian families, and as someone
who dated "extensively" many lovely Italian girls in my youth, I have a
taste for "real Italian food." There are several "Italian cuisines"
extant in Italy and in this country, and they are marvelously different
from each other.

I don't frequent Olive Garden but I have eaten there a few times over
the years, and I can't recall having a "bad meal." Was the food I
ordered and ate "genuine Italian," whatever that is? Surely not, but it
was "Italianate," as they say.

We have an immigrant Italian family in the area. They operate two
first-class family Italian restaurants, sort of like Louis Restaurant in
the Bronx (from Godfather I) but a little fancier.

Reggie, as usual, is demonstrating he doesn't know his ass from a hole
in the wall. For a guy who never discusses his life, his family, his
possessions, et cetera, he certainly has much in the way of criticism of
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Well, I never order their pasta sauce dish's like spaghetti or
ravioli. I figure I can eat Chef-boy-r-di out of a can at home. Not
imressive stuff, so I go with the more odd things that you just dont'
get anywhere.

I know what you mean by REAL italian food. In St. Louis there's an
area called "Dago Hill" in the late 1800's it was home to gobs of
italian immigrants and that's what the place is called even by the
italians.

There's several family run resturants there that have been in business
for many generations. When you go into the place and see pictures of
the Virgin and Crrcifix's on the walls, with "Mama" and Papa" still
speaking in destinctive accents, and the old traditional wine bottles
with globs of candle was dripped over them, you know you're in the
right spot. OG's be hanged. but I still like eating they're chicken
marsala....

What is "real Italian food"? Being married to a part Italian from the
Northern Italians, and having traveled somewhat in Italy, there are
different cuisines depending on region. The Northern / Swiss Italian's are
not as much into the heavy red sauces. And Chippino is a Genovese regional
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After ww2 isn't northern Italy now southern Austria?

Well, I dont' think many "Italian" resturaunts offer "Schnitzle"

The Northern Italy my wifes Great grandmother came from is actually 20 miles
into Switzerland. Lots of the Swiss-Italians immigrated to California. The
Susanville area and dairy farms on the Marin coast. Plus a few wine makers.