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The salad

>>6813813
>against my will

Underage detected

>>6813813
soup, salad and bread sticks.
its the only thing i get there

Buck up kiddo it's not as bad as these shitposters say

>>6813813
The zuppa toscana, everything else can rot in hell.

>>6813813
Shrimp scampi's alright

>>6813816
I wish that was my excuse for being forced to go...

>>6813813
I like their minestrone. Olive Garden is okay-tier, everything is just so goddamn oily.

Just order marinara pasta, you big crybaby.

>they got rid of their Chicken Vino Bianco and never brought it back

I have yet to figure out how to make that on my own.

>>6813813
Best shit is the braised beef tortellini

>>6813813
Soup, salad, and breadsticks. No other reason to go to that shithole.

>>6813813
Steak Gorgonzola Alfredo is good but vety heavy. Whatever their advertised special is is usually good

>>6813947
this

The salad is acceptable, the bread sticks are above average, and the soup will fill you up.

Plus good price for unlimited food.

>>6813947
>>6813967
I guess I will do this, what about the new bread stick sandwiches, are they just a meme? Can't be that bad.

>>6813813
Don't eat at Italian Applebees OP.

If you don't do unlimited pasta bowl when it's active then you hate eating.

>>6814039
They have activated pasta bowls??

>>6813813
bread sticks and salad are the only things they have anon

Get the personal pizza and a coke.

>>6813813
their tap water compares favorably with other restaurants in the area. I'd go with that.

>>6814040

Chicken parm, get the soup with the beans/beef in it as your side.

It tastes like any Italian food your family has ever cooked.

I think I get the parmesan chicken.

>has never been to Olive Garden
>already has a strong opinion that it is shit

Never change, /ck/.

>>6813813
Olive Garden is a decent restaurant. Salad, breadsticks and pasta. It's hard to order something that isn't decent.

My suggestion to you is to bring home a breadstick, then later tonight, lube it up and shove it up your ass. Stop being a faggot OP.

>>6813824
This. Good enough to make me replicate it at home a few times.

just pick whatever. i doubt you know what good food tastes like anyway.

>>6813813
Water

>>6815074
Ha! Rock.

Soup, salad, and breadsticks if they look fresh and not dripping grease. If you really want an entree, get one that involves no pasta. All their pasta is bland and mushy cafeteria-tier crap, exactly how their geriatric flyover base likes it.

>>6813816
>>against my will
>Underage detected
Not OP, but I used to go to Olive Gardens into my 30s when visiting my grandparents until they passed away, and have also gone to them with other grandparents attending a friend's kid's graduation or whatever. Not exactly "forced against my will", but just one of those things you go along with cuz some olds like it.

>>6815298
Seconding the avoidance of their pasta.
It really is bland and mushy.

So funny story about OG.

>be me
>have dead grandfather of Orthodox Jewish family
>whole family grieving

Now, some of the family is not really practicing Orthodox, including Cousin Fatfuck and myself.

>Cousin Fatfuck is youngest cousin of my grandmother's grandkids, and her bewuved.

Cousin Fatfuck begins throwing tantrum he's hungry after the funeral meal and that he couldn't eat anything there. He wants the immediate family (my brother, me, uncle, mother, aunt, other cousin) to go to Olive Garden with him. We all want to go.

>pull the cancer card

"Oh guiz remember when I had cancer a year ago? I totally don't have my old stamina."

I reserve this card for special occasions, and usually it works. But my asshole brother had to chime in, "Don't you work 60 hour weeks, anon?

Fuck you. You could have offered to drive my sick ass back to the hotel and we could be in our rooms now being normal introverts. My grandmother assures me that Cousin Fatfuck just wants to be with family and we don't have to eat. Guess what? Half the fucking people going can't eat there anyway. But Cousin Fatfuck is the baaaaaaaaaaaaaaybee of the family...

Does Fatfuck have shame? Nope. Some of us order drinks and a couple people get dessert. I had a Sprite because I felt nauseated. (Probably working myself into a spiteful hypochondria, but everyone deserved it for putting up with Fatfuck's shit.)

Fatfuck orders some big faggy cocktail with a shot on the side.

>then the fried lasagna

>ohnoyoudidn't.jpg

My grandmother makes loud comments that since Fatfuck is in the military, he's had to learn to accommodate goy eating habits. Yeah, whatever.

>here comes the dinner order:

A steak meal with potato and green beans, and a fettucini alfredo. With a beer and a shot, please.

He sucks his beer down and orders another. My uncle tells Cousin Fatfuck if he's going to suck down this shit, he should have just eaten fast food.

>cont

>>6813819
This.
This is the only choice you won't be woefully disappointed with.
You'll still be disappointed, but it won't hurt as badly as if you ordered a main.

>>6814039
God I wish they'd bring that back I love it

>>6815395

Cont. from this post.

Fatfuck is insulted; he could never eat that shit fast food! And our cruel uncle just wants him to starve, he says, horking down his steak while dipping it in an extra bowl of alfredo. My aunt looks like she's about to faint and my grandmother is getting teary-eyed with embarrassment.

My mother is enjoying the shit out of this moment as her wonderful children who work in law and medicine sit there just looking like little angels, at least compared to Fatfuck.

I begin to moan about not feeling good, because I'm ready to go to the hotel and if it takes guilt-tripping everyone to get there, fuck it.

>cue silent crying about being sad about grandfather and not feeling good

Fatfuck rolls his eyes and gets an Irish coffee and some big fucking chocolate thing. Someone asks if he can get it to go and he gets all verklempt and my grandmother jumps to his aid, saying not to rush him; he's had a hard day, too.

>excuse myself to vomit in the bathroom

The waitress brings the check. So then Fatfuck says, "Why don't we all split it?" I refuse and walk out after giving the waitress $5 for the shit she endured.

Fatfuck screams at me as we ride back to our grandmother's house together that I'm so selfish. Uncle jumps dead in his ass that Grandmother is exhausted and so is everyone else.

I haven't spoken to Fatfuck since that night.

Anyway, totally go to Olive Garden. Great family place or for a date. :)

>>6815431
/ck/ is not the best at writing stories i see

>>6815395
>>6815431
Your entire family sounds awful, and that "story" made me hate you, too bad the cancer lost.

>>6815431
>>6815395
Please don't tell stories ever again. Or post.
You sound every bit as insufferable as the rest of your family.

>>6813813
omission pale ale

>>6815395
>>6815431
Oy vey!
What a crazy dinner party!

>>6815395
Great blog, can I subscribe?

OP here, I got the chicken parm breadstick sandwich. Pretty disgusting/10 l, America should be ashamed of this establishment.

>>6817848
how was the breadstick bread?

>>6813813
Most of the food there is actually decent. If you compare it to real Italian food it can't compare but nothing on the menu is actually bad tasting

Except the pizza. The pizza is total crap and is one of the few times I've been to a chain where there was something I just didn't want to eat at all. Usually that stuff is tested with so many groups of people in labs that its supposed to be atleast edible to most of the population.

>>6817942
Meh, like a toasted/dried out version of their normal breadsticks. I hate myself.

>>6817848
You idiot you ordered the absolute wrong shit there.

THIS IS A COMPREHENSIVE /ck/ APPROVED LIST OF SHIT TO ORDER AT OLIVE GARDEN WHEN YOU GO AND IF ANYONE HAS EVER WORKED THERE THEY WILL CONFIRM:

1. Alfredo or Marinara to dip the breadsticks in
2. Salad
3. More Salad, the salad is good. No, it's not fucking incredible. It's good salad. Much like the other items here that's the point, it's not shitty like some of their menu items.
4. Zuppa Toscana
5. Minestrone Soup
6. Any of their alfredo pastas
7. Obviously the breadsticks. Bread with butter and salt is still good in 2015.

And that's about fucking it. The make your own pasta thing is ok as well because they make a lot of the sauces in the place contrary to popular opinion but the rest is fucking nonsense.

If you ordered anything other than the above you got what you deserved which is nonsense.

And frankly going to Olive Garden for any other reason than getting roped into it or getting a gift card from some misguided person, etc. is nonsense.

>>6813837
This, everything was greasy as fuck, I think im gonna get sick.

>>6815395
So, curiosity. If you believe that an omnipotent creator designed this world for us to live on... Why do you think he would draw the line on your behavior at the fucking deli aisle?

>>6817848
Wow you fucked up bad OP. I'm glad your dinner was terrible.

Next time don't start a thread asking for advice on what to order if you're just going to be a fuccboi faggot and order off the kids menu anyway.

>>6818129
It wasn't on the kids menu tho

It was a part of lunch combo thing with salad and bread sticks

w/e at least I didn't pay for it

>>6815431

What a terrible story. I guess Jewish families suck as much as I thought. Glad I am white instead.

>>6813813
I like the chicken gnocci and minestrone soups. They're filling and unlimited. One of those plus the breadsticks is pretty cheap too.

>>6818329
too late, hopefully I'll never have to go back.

>>6818058
Not him but kosher, halal, and even Hindu dietary restrictions are more meant to help society at the time they were given. For example, Israel is an area with little water and greenery, pigs would destroy that and thus aren't kosher although the reason given is that God says so, why would people back then think that greenery would be destroyed by pig grazing? They'd ignore the ruling but since they think God said it they accept it. Hindus and cows just has to do with the fact that if you kill a cow you only eat once but can turn the milk into dairy products and eat many times. Tl;dr all the dietary laws had a reason when they were given and now remain as tradition.

their chicken marsala is -ok-

>>6813813
Glass of ice water

they used to have veal canalonis where it was part red sauce and part white sauce.

Really good, but they no longer have it on the menu.

>>6813813

Olive garden being terrible is a ridiculous meme. Olive Garden is overpriced, salty as fuck, and--gasp!--inauthentic, but it's totally fine and edible and good. Soup/ salad/ breadsticks is glorious.

Last time I went to olive garden I got the steak and chicken shit that were bite sized (was around 10 or something, so cant really remember). Shit was way too salty so I told the waiter and the chef got pissed at me apparently.

>>6821399
>chef
Do they have a prime minister of microwaves or something? Or do they always pretend the chef is mad to make it seem authentic?

>>6813813

It's all shitty.

The McDonalds of Italian food... with a pretentious pseudo-upscale facade.

Nothing but microwaved entrees, iceberg lettuce salads, freeze dried alfredo sauce, overcooked pasta, marinara consisting basically of ketchup.

Sometimes they offer a taste of a new wine and it always tastes like a blend of Welch's grapejuice and vinegar. Their beer list is obviously macro brew after macro brew. The best it gets is Sam Adams or Blue fucking Moon.

I heard that they segregate where people sit based on what they are wearing, in order to make people in each section feel comfortable and order more crap.

I fucking detest OG.

Water. Ask for a bowl and a spoon. Just spoon it out and pretend it's a really thin soup. Chances of it being shitty are 1%.

>>6821417
Since this thread is ancient I assume it's just /ogg/ now.

The unlimited salad is fine and dandy. I don't remember anything else, so it couldn't have been great. I think I had the taste of Italy sampler.

>>6822018
>facade
I think that's what I hate most about it. Carrabas isn't too authentic but they at least don't have all reheated frozen garbage food and a ridiculous atmosphere.