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All-Time Great [88555]
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Speaking of restaurants, how did Outback
Sep 16, 2021, 12:14 PM
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become the most UDP steak house. I ate there a few times in the early 90s in Augusta, liked the concept and the food.
Now, on Friday and Saturday nights, there are mobs of UDPers in Naples willing to wait 2 hours for a table.
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Become? It's always been***
Sep 16, 2021, 12:16 PM
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This is a surprise?
Sep 16, 2021, 12:30 PM
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That so many Americans are drawn to a concept based on celebrating a nation that started as a penal colony, I mean?
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All-Time Great [88555]
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I know. Like Georgia.***
Sep 16, 2021, 12:33 PM
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"did somebody say Penile Colony???" - TXTF***
Sep 16, 2021, 12:34 PM
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For sure. I always order the Alice Springs Dicken.***
Sep 16, 2021, 12:52 PM
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I don't think I've ever had a good meal at Outback
Sep 16, 2021, 12:47 PM
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It's worse than Applebees as far as I'm concerned. Applebees at least has good fries.
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Orange Immortal [65180]
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Disagree, but on-brand for someone who had their wedding
Sep 16, 2021, 12:47 PM
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catered by Golden Coral.
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After dealing with Pam at Clemson, I would have rather them
Sep 16, 2021, 12:51 PM
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catered it than the Aramark nazis.
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I actually know a couple that had Carabba’s cater their wedding
Sep 16, 2021, 12:58 PM
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Her favorite restaurant of all time.
They were one of those weird couples where he was like 90 lbs soaking wet and she had an extra 90 lbs to share
They weren’t necessarily UDP, but she loved that place that much
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I'm sure I've had worse.
Sep 16, 2021, 12:59 PM
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It's sorta funny, but I bet it wasn't terrible.
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Amazing how quickly chains like that went out of style
Sep 16, 2021, 12:55 PM
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Back in the mid-2000s, the Outback in Anderson was the place to go for a nice dinner. The wait was like 2-3 hours on Valentine's Day. I remember back in high school in the late 90s-early 2000s, Outback was sort of a special place to go out on a Friday. By the late 2000s or early 2010s, going to Outback was almost a joke.
The Chili's on campus was also a big deal way back when. By the time I'd moved to Chicago in 2011, we were all making fun of the tourists who would go to the Chili's downtown.
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I think the Chili's on campus was a big deal because you
Sep 16, 2021, 1:05 PM
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could get beer there at the time.
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Oculus Spirit [41146]
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There’s an outback at MCO
Sep 16, 2021, 12:59 PM
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Right near the gate that I flew from a couple of times.
I only drank and didn’t eat, 9:30 AM is way too early for a blooming onion and Alice springs chicken
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pretty sure it means that Naples residents are dumb***
Sep 16, 2021, 1:02 PM
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FloriDUH***
Sep 16, 2021, 1:29 PM
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Naples is Big Ten south. More so than SC
Sep 16, 2021, 1:33 PM
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or NC.
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Especially after they added Rutgers...***
Sep 16, 2021, 2:35 PM
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No, SWFL more Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin...***
Sep 16, 2021, 2:55 PM
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Apologies... I was speaking Florida in general, not Naples.***
Sep 16, 2021, 3:03 PM
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Yea, 95 goes from NE to FL east coast.
Sep 16, 2021, 3:39 PM
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75 goes from MW to FL west coast.
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Makes sense...***
Sep 16, 2021, 4:33 PM
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That chain has been on a steady decline for many years....
Sep 16, 2021, 1:18 PM
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For a chain, their steaks, and specifically their salmon, were decent. The portions and quality have gotten really bad now. Wife-of likes to push to go there because she likes lobster tails and it's one of the few places you can get them. She has finally come around to my opinion that that place sucks.
On the other hand, we've gone to the Longhorn in Anderson a couple of time lately and that place is much better than I remember it being.
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Grilled Chicken and Strawberry Salad... It's a go. You can
Sep 16, 2021, 2:43 PM
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get the Strawberry Salad and a good appetizer and it makes a meal.
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I got a $25 Outback gift card as a reward for 25 years at
Sep 16, 2021, 2:31 PM
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the job...
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I'll be the odd one out on this one...
Sep 16, 2021, 4:47 PM
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About a month ago I was tired of eating everything, and even more tired of cleaning up after cooking. So we ordered Outback.
Delivered, it was $30 for 2 salads, 2 baked potatoes, and a sirloin my wife and I split. Maybe we caught them on a good day, but the salad was fresh, the baked potato was perfect, and the steak was perfectly cooked. It could be cut with almost a butter knife: very tender and a perfect red center. Excellent. After dinner, I threw all the stuff in trash and didn't have to clean anything but my hands.
Best $30 I've spent this year.
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