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Marilyn Hagerty, whose Olive Garden review went viral, age 99

Mark Roberts

Mark Roberts

She wrote the 2012 review of the Olive Garden in Grand Forks, North Dakota that went viral, giving her some measure of fame. The obit from the Washington Post shows that there was much, much more to her life. https://wapo.st/4gDJEcj

(I’m having issues posting today, so this may be a duplicate)

Edit: Although this is allegedly a gift article, WaPo puts up a paywall anyway. So here are the first five paragraphs out of a much longer article. Sorry.

She was still writing columns until last year.

When Marilyn Hagerty sat down to a late lunch at an Olive Garden in Grand Forks, North Dakota, on a chilly winter day in 2012, she had no inkling that her $10.95 chicken Alfredo would become one of the most important meals of her life.

The longtime newspaper journalist had been penning features and columns for the Grand Forks Herald for decades, keeping her loyal readers up-to-date with the latest on the local dining scene — a task Ms. Hagerty, then in her mid-80s, balanced with games of bridge. Her columns, called “THE EATBEAT,” much like Ms. Hagerty herself, were firmly grounded in the Midwest college town. For years, they went largely unnoticed outside Grand Forks and its surrounds.

That is, until the Olive Garden piece caught the eye of internet bloggers, who marveled at her unpretentious account of a culinary experience some might consider banal. The Alfredo, Ms. Hagerty wrote, was “warm and comforting on a cold day.” She turned down the server’s offer of a raspberry lemonade but said yes to the parmesan cheese. The restaurant, Ms. Hagerty observed, was appointed with “vases and planters” and “a fireplace that adds warmth to the decor.” The internet initially responded with snark to her descriptions of the “the largest and most beautiful restaurant now operating in Grand Forks.” Chef and author Anthony Bourdain sprang to her defense.

Ms. Hagerty took her subsequent brush with fame in stride and carried on writing into her 90s. She died Sept. 16 of complications from a stroke. Her son, James R. Hagerty, an obituary writer for the Wall Street Journal, confirmed her death. She was 99 years old.

Ms. Hagerty enjoyed the sudden attention, “but it wasn’t an ego trip,” said her son, who goes by Bob. Her subtle confidence and her “feistiness” only intensified the media interest, he added in a phone interview, recalling a moment when she told a reporter she was too busy with her bridge club and Sunday column to “read all this crap,” referring to the snarky comments and blog posts about her Olive Garden review.
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KilowattKat said:
I'm seeing three I don't know what is wrong this website lately...most pages take forever to load.
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Same here. Some pages hang in loading for over a minute, and posts sometimes time out and generate a connection message.
 
davideduardo said:
Same here. Some pages hang in loading for over a minute, and posts sometimes time out and generate a connection message.
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I wasn't even getting that. The bars that appear in the upper right corner upon posting, if posting isn't instantaneous, just disappeared. No message or other indication of failure.

This was on an iPad. Chrome on Linux seems to be fine, which is the reverse of what usually happens when there's inconsistent behavior across platforms.
 
radiofan2023 said:
🎵She’s once, twice, three times a dead lady…🎵

RIP Marilyn Hagerty. I remember that review and she was a good writer.
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Hopefully you'll be able to read the obit...or maybe the New York Times will post one sometime in the next month, though they are not the quickest with obits...and see how talented she was in dealing with people and in writing about them.
 
This smells like there's a hung process on Lance's RD server. The quickest way to clear that should be to shutdown the XenForo app and then reboot the host computer, then restart everything. But I'm not familiar with Lance's setup, so he might have a reasonable explanation for why he hasn't done that yet.

I had this happen a few times over the weekend. I also tried to do a search for something which took forever. That makes me suspicious that someone is doing searches that bog down the processor (or the OS, or all the other processes). It could be that the search function runs at too high a priority level and needs to be tweaked to run at a lower priority level than the rest of the board processes. (Or I could just be hallucinating again.)
 
Weiserguy said:
This smells like there's a hung process on Lance's RD server. The quickest way to clear that should be to shutdown the XenForo app and then reboot the host computer, then restart everything. But I'm not familiar with Lance's setup, so he might have a reasonable explanation for why he hasn't done that yet.

I had this happen a few times over the weekend. I also tried to do a search for something which took forever. That makes me suspicious that someone is doing searches that bog down the processor (or the OS, or all the other processes). It could be that the search function runs at too high a priority level and needs to be tweaked to run at a lower priority level than the rest of the board processes. (Or I could just be hallucinating again.)
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That's another weird thing. When I do a search on the site, it will just keep searching until it times out to an error page. However, if I submit it as an 'Advanced Search'', it comes up just fine.
 
Mark Roberts said:
She wrote the 2012 review of the Olive Garden in Grand Forks, North Dakota that went viral, giving her some measure of fame. The obit from the Washington Post shows that there was much, much more to her life. https://wapo.st/4gDJEcj

(I’m having issues posting today, so this may be a duplicate)

Edit: Although this is allegedly a gift article, WaPo puts up a paywall anyway. So here are the first five paragraphs out of a much longer article. Sorry.

She was still writing columns until last year.
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Very cool story!
 
Mark Roberts said:
Hopefully you'll be able to read the obit...or maybe the New York Times will post one sometime in the next month, though they are not the quickest with obits...and see how talented she was in dealing with people and in writing about them.
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The New York Times now has a pay wall as well. But here is one without....

www.cbsnews.com

Marilyn Hagerty, N.D. newspaper columnist whose earnest Olive Garden review went viral, dies at 99

Marilyn Hagerty, the North Dakota newspaper columnist whose earnest review of her local Olive Garden became a social media sensation, has died.
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com
 
KilowattKat said:
The New York Times now has a pay wall as well.
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Yes, but I can provide a gift link and it will actually work, unlike the Post's approach to what it claims are gift links.


KilowattKat said:
But here is one without....

www.cbsnews.com

Marilyn Hagerty, N.D. newspaper columnist whose earnest Olive Garden review went viral, dies at 99

Marilyn Hagerty, the North Dakota newspaper columnist whose earnest review of her local Olive Garden became a social media sensation, has died.
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com
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Thanks...her story deserves to be told.
 
Mark Roberts said:
Yes, but I can provide a gift link and it will actually work, unlike the Post's approach to what it claims are gift links.
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I don't like what WashPost is doing these days.

Until sometime in the past 1-2 months, it used to be that I could cheat the paywalls by selectively disabling javascript and stuff. But now I can do whatever, and they will only serve the first paragraph or so of a story. So it seems they've now devised a way to permanently lock out us "paywall dodgers" by serving lobotomized articles to all who aren't subscribed (even the web crawlers), and there now seems to exist – somewhere – a distinct, un-truncated (aka "old normal") version of each article that only paid subscribers are served.

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cc333 said:
I don't like what WashPost is doing these days.

Until sometime in the past 1-2 months, it used to be that I could cheat the paywalls by selectively disabling javascript and stuff. But now I can do whatever, and they will only serve the first paragraph or so of a story. So it seems they've now devised a way to permanently lock out us "paywall dodgers" by serving lobotomized articles to all who aren't subscribed (even the web crawlers), and there now seems to exist – somewhere – a distinct, un-truncated (aka "old normal") version of each article that only paid subscribers are served.

c
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It's a newspaper, and despite it's slight editorial change, it's still not completely pro-Trump, I don't care what some critics say. I'm a subscriber, and I can tell the difference. It's still something that has to be paid for. Buy it if you want to read it.
 
cc333 said:
I don't like what WashPost is doing these days.

Until sometime in the past 1-2 months, it used to be that I could cheat the paywalls by selectively disabling javascript and stuff. But now I can do whatever, and they will only serve the first paragraph or so of a story. So it seems they've now devised a way to permanently lock out us "paywall dodgers" by serving lobotomized articles to all who aren't subscribed (even the web crawlers), and there now seems to exist – somewhere – a distinct, un-truncated (aka "old normal") version of each article that only paid subscribers are served.

c
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So “paywall” actually means you have to pay to read their articles.
 
*sigh*

You're right, of course.

I actually had a subscription at one point, but cancelled it when I had a budget crunch and just never got around to resubscribing.

I suppose I should resubscribe to read WashPost. It's effectively mandatory now anyway, it seems.

c
 
Would Radio Discussions permit ongoing and persistent posting of links to something for sale? Because that is what a come-on post leading to a paywall is.
Perhaps policy here should be every post with a paywall link shall be posted in a "Marketplace" category.
 


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