I don’t get it. I’ve been doing this for 30-40 years. Why all of a sudden now?

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Marilyn Hagerty, octogenarian food columnist for the Grand Forks Herald and viral internet celebrity.

On Wednesday, Hagerty wrote a review of Grand Forks’ newest restaurant, a “long-awaited” Olive Garden. Her review has had hundreds of thousands of hits in about two days, on a site where stories tend to traffic in the thousands.