What did I do to deserve this?

Lookie at the e-mail I just got?

One of the "Free Gifts" is a $250 gift card to...where?

You guessed it!

The Olive Garden!

Now, I have eaten in an Olive Garden twice, both were "hey, were are going out to lunch" functions and my voice was shouted down. It's not that the food is bad. It isn't bad. It isn't awful (which is the word I wanted to use, but hyperbole seems...silly. We are talking about Olive Garden.) but it isn't great. It is prepackaged faux Italian food from Orlando and developed by the original food minds at General Mills.

I know people who love Olive Garden. I also know people who think that Pizza Hut/Domino's/Little Caesar's is pizza and the people of Albany, who self select for this poll, believe that Olive Garden is one of the best Italian restaurants in the region, so...maybe I am the one who is mistaken?

No, I am not.