Last week's Jonathan Gold article notwithstanding, Olive Garden's got a more serious problem on its hands as news broke in Florida that the restaurant served a 2-year-old sangria instead of orange juice.
]
The kid was rushed to the ER, but appears to be fine. In the meantime,
the chain cops to the mistake and the mother's hired an attorney. With this coming on the heels of a 15-month-old getting tequila in an Applebee's, is this the trend of something new and insidious, or just stupid, crazy mistakes by idiots? We shall see…but I hope it's the latter.
Follow Stick a Fork in it on Twitter @ocweeklyfood or on Facebook.
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.