Olive Garden, Red Lobster to slash fat and salt; Michelle Obama declares healthy 'breakthrough'

NY Daily News ^ | 9/16/11 | LINDSAY GOLDWERT

[jimbo123]

The First Lady has scored another victory in the battle of the bulge.

The CEO of Darden Restaurants, which owns eatery chains Olive Garden and Red Lobster as well as LongHorn Steakhouse and Capital Grille, said on Thursday the company will work to reduce fat and sodium by 10% over the course of the next five years and 20% over the next decade.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Hubby and I went to an Olive Garden one Fri night in a very small town in Georgia. That is about all there is there. So we went when they were having the Endless Pasta bowl and it was disgusting. There probably wasn’t one person standing in line outside that weighed less than 200 lbs. Seriously, one guy must have been pushing 600 lbs. So we gave each other the ‘I wonder if there is any food left’ look and we were disappointed. There was!!!

I ordered something not on the all-you-can-shovel-in-your-mouth, pig trough menu and my cappelini was cooked to the consistency of mush. And I didn’t want to send stuff back so I brought it to our dogs who like their pasta cooked until it disentigrates when it hits the plate.

I guess my point is that if Olive Garden wants to make their food healthier, they should just shut their doors.

And shame on anyone who thinks that listening to a wookie is a good idea. Especially one who doesn’t practice what she preaches IN HER OWN HOME and looks like she is pushingat least 225.

[LucyT]

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[fatnotlazy]

I don't particularly like either restaurant so it really doesn't matter to me. While I do like to eat out sometimes, the fact is that it really isn't healthy to do so all the time. Instead of government dictating to restaurants how to prepare their food, how about we take responsibility for what and how we eat. Once again we have abdicated control of and responsibility for our own lives to the state.

[Dawgreg]

Oh shucks! I was going to boycott these places but since I won’t eat at them anyway I guess the point is moot. Bummer....:(

[kevao]

Does this mean Red Lobster will only be serving fresh-water fish from now on?

[Sequoyah101]

The wife is going to have to find a another new place to eat ‘cause we are not going to any of these EVER again.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Don’t boycott - it wastes your own time and they can’t track the data. WRITE a letter/e-mail to the sponsor/advertiser’s Marketing Director! I’m a national network tv producer; trust me on this; Letters are “GOLDEN HARD ACQUIRED FREE DATA”! Yes, doesn’t much help “after the fact” but you’ll very likely influence their future decisions (like a vote up against the libs screaming the opposite case).

[tsowellfan]

Not sure if it’s related but Burger King’s Whoppers are not as good lately. Something’s been altered. I’ve noticed this within the last 2 or 3 months.

[tsowellfan]

Red Lobster did not survive in Portland, Maine. To go to a Red Lobster in Maine is like going to the Olive Garden while in Rome.

[denydenydeny]

I just shake my head when I see people going to RL anyway. I have always been baffled by the ever-present long lines for RL’s frozen crab and lobster. Pretty much any local non-franchised seafood restaurant will be infinitely better.

[Lazlo in PA]

LOL. I haven’t ate at any of those two dumps since I had -200 in my bank account and needed to take a broad out to dinner. My new concern is that my favorite local restaurant will follow suit in this nonsense to fit in with the big chains. MSG and Butter are my friends.

I used to vacation up in Gloucester before the economy turned and we would buy lobsters off the dock in Cape Anne and boil them up at the campsite and drown our new found gold in butter. As long as the Gov’t doesn’t make that illegal, I will survive. At this point, I am concerned it will become illegal.

[Absolutely Nobama]

So this is how it ends, eh ?

[little jeremiah]

Basically the 0bama administration is a protection racket and shakedown operation. Like the Mafia only much, much more insidious, powerful and hateful. At least the Mafia members have a few redeeming personal qualities; I do think they like their mothers.

[cricket]

Do they get waivers from Obama care too?

Please God, make these people go away. . .far away; so that they leave America alone. . .

Liberal Madness, on a slippery slope. . .

[autumnraine]

This is just like McDonalds doing that hiring binge a few months back. They hired like 50k people, and got Obamacare waiver.

[autumnraine]

This is just like McDonalds doing that hiring binge a few months back. They hired like 50k people, and got Obamacare waiver.

[autumnraine]

Wendy’s still salts, they just use sea salt now.

[bgill]

Darden Restaurants got an ObamaCare waiver

I'll scratch your back and you scratch mine type of deal. Red Lobster has been off my list for years and Olive Garden has recently joined it so good to know I made the right decision.

[AnAmericanMother]

I'm pretty sure the encampment was farther up the hill, around Vinings Mountain and the railroad. Canoe is at the old Hardy Pace ferry landing. The Confederates had constructed a pontoon bridge there, but it was cut loose before the union troops arrived. I believe the feds retreated and crossed lower down, closer to the railroad, where the river is shallower. I'm pretty sure they advanced further south, more or less along the path of Marietta Boulevard.

Our street tracks the old fortifications to the north of the river, beside the railroad (Vinings Station), that were abandoned by Johnston before the siege of Atlanta. You can still see the old shoupades and gun emplacements - one's right above us on the hill.

I had 3 gg grandfathers and a dozen cousins in, and I assume (if they are numbered among the blessed) they protect me from any creepiness hereabouts. Besides, we had the house blessed.

Sorry you don't like Canoe, but that's more room for the rest of us. De gustibus and all that.

[rodguy911]

I wonder if moochell eve smiles, never seen it yet,what a beoach,do as I say not as I....