Haven't had the whole Bloomin Onion experience for a while, and it was a good way to start the gluttonous Gilbert Arizona restaurant fest. Typical timeline: after fighting for a spot in an overfilled parking lot, push through the huge crowd standing (hardly enough seats) in the hot lobby to hear that it will take 30-40 minutes to be seated, then try to stay awake while sitting among people staring at the wall and kids running around. Finally get seated and given cavernous Diet Cokes (standard) and bread (I forgot about their dark pumpernickle) and the inevitable deep fried onion, plus a few other things. Taking so long to get the actual meal, the appetizers inevitably take up too much stomach space....finally the main meal, getting a second wind and scarfing it down with the 4th Diet Coke refill and toward the end feeling a strange distention in the abdomen that you try to ignore. Got fish but yet still feel like I ate something covered in oil. SInce it was 3 hours, passed on any giant desserts this time. How do people do this more than every year?