Red Lobster, the poll

[steve2470]

Your opinion.

Inspired by this: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/blog/brinkmann-on-business/os-red-lobster-announces-location-of-new-headquarters-20140806,0,4379725.post

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[CBGLuthier]

1. Irrelevant

I prefer local food made fresh at restaurants owned by people in my community. They could have the finest food in the world at the lowest prices and I still would never eat there. The last chain place I ate at was 5 guys and I can find better burgers at half a dozen places in town.

[MineralMan]

2. Red Lobster split off from Olive Garden so they could promote

breast-feeding in their restaurants.

[steve2470]

4. oh no you did it now !

[Rhythm]

6. ...and using cornflakes to bread their fish

[steve2470]

7. ......

[steve2470]

8. or their chicken !

[MineralMan]

9. I have it on good authority that Red Lobster only uses

hanko-panko to bread their fish. I cannot confirm that, since I only eat grilled fish there. Accusations of cornflakery are exaggerated, I believe.

Disclaimer: I have eaten at Red Lobster on two or three occasions, so I'm clearly biased in favor of that fine dining establishment.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

28. I think I ordered chicken the last time somebody took me to a Red Lobster.

It was post-BP, and there was no way I was eating seafood I couldn't verify the sourcing on, no matter what sort of breading was used...

[MineralMan]

36. Red Lobster has never used gulf coast shrimp.

Vietnamese, Chinese and Thai, but not Gulf. I'm almost certain.

[Coventina]

21. And free circumcisions on weekends!

[steve2470]

22. lawdamercy you done mashed the nuke button now lol nt

[steve2470]

3. food is ok...

but my palate is half-dead.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Duh! Bigfoot of course. nt

[closeupready]

10. WAY too salty, portions are small.

Overpriced.

[darkangel218]

11. OP, youre in Orlando, right?

If so, I assume youre familiar with the RL on East Colonial Dr. The most horrible RL I ever been to. The crab legs were dry and on pieces, meaning they were probably leftovers from previous costumers.
Stay away from that Red Lobster. I now go to Clermont or Disneyworld Downtown if I want seafood.

[steve2470]

12. yea I'm here

The way RL has been going, it may be extinct by the time I think of it again.

[darkangel218]

13. BTW, Wesh 2 just announced the new Red Lobster headquarters will be

In Downtown Orlando.

[steve2470]

14. yep same as the OP article nt

[ohnoyoudidnt]

19. Do you ever make it out toTitusville.

I live right by Orlando and drive there to Dixie Crossroads for seafood.

[steve2470]

20. nope, haven't been there in probably 25 years nt

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

26. Mmmmm....

LOVE Dixie Crossroads. Only place I'll eat rock shrimp

[ohnoyoudidnt]

34. oh yeah

And their corn fritters. Lots of corn fritters.

[steve2470]

16. bumps for yucks nt

[badtoworse]

17. I cook my own lobsters

It easy and cheaper than getting a lobster in a restaurant. As for chains, Bonefish Grill and Legal Seafood get my vote.

[Jamaal510]

18. 42. nt

[ohnoyoudidnt]

23. The last time I was at the Red Lobster near me,

aside from the crappy food ( I was outvoted by the group), few inebriated adults at the table next to us where shoving seafood into their young toddlers mouth who then puked all over the table. They wiped off his mouth and continued to feed him the same crap and talked about how puking before going to sleep can help prevent hangovers.

[steve2470]

24. hm bon appetit lol NOT nt

[hunter]

25. People have invited me to eat there.

I'm okay with that, especially when they are paying!

It's not my first pick. There are too many awesome local restaurants waiting to be explored.

I learned this from my dad. He avoids chain restaurants, motels, and conventional modes of traveling.

For every horror I've experienced in his company, as a kid and as an adult, (century old straw mattresses with bugs, the "runs," the melodramatic exclamations of prostitutes in the night, what had to be one of the worst public toilets on the planet used by crawling puking drunks, hookers, and public masturbators...), there are dozens of gems yet undiscovered by more conservative travelers; places that make the Red Lobster look like a sad imitation of an authentic eating and drinking establishment.

[avebury]

27. For those who can't get the real stuff

in the authentic environment.

[petronius]

29. Last time I went to RL, there was a guy wearing a solid gold shirt

and Google Glasses, complaining about the lack of porn on the big screen TVs. Also, the 'lobsters' were GMO and the waitress got mad when I used the muzzle of my machine gun to point to things on the menu. So I left without tipping...

[Niceguy1]

30. I like olive garden better

Bed ides..nobody ever had good thingsvto say about restaurants on du... lots of food snobs here.

[conservaphobe]

31. I have only been once and would like to go again some day. nt

[Blue_In_AK]

32. We don't have Red Lobster in Alaska;

therefore, I have no opinion.

[steve2470]

33. count your blessings, they can't massacre your Alaskan King crab ! nt

[Blue_In_AK]

35. Yes, we go local when we want King crab

or I just boil them up myself.