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15201915 No.15201915 [Reply] [Original]

thoughts on olive garden's family style dining and fresh italian food?

>> No.15201926

>>15201915
I guess if you’re such a flyover that there is literally no actual mom and pop italian restaurant in your city then it’s ok

>> No.15201928

>>15201926
i would contest even this point by arguing that the amount you'll spend on any dish at olive garden could be spent at any grocery store getting better ingredients (especially better pasta) and making the dish yourself in literally the same amount of time it'd take to be served

>> No.15201934

>>15201915
>fresh
>Italian
>sourced from SYSCO warehouses
Anon I...

>> No.15203042

>>15201915
When you're here, you're family

>> No.15203141

European here what is the olive garden stereotype?
I know my boomer uncle and aint in Amerigggaa :DDD dine there and they are absolutely basic middle of the road normies

>> No.15203153

>>15203141
The whole inside is filled with olive groves so its like being in greece

>> No.15203154

Bootleg Fazolis.

>> No.15203165

>>15201928
then you miss out on the waitresses with dead eyes saying "tell me when" when they put cheese on your food

>> No.15203201

>>15203154
Bait.

>> No.15203246

>>15203141
It is low quality food that people love for some reason. It is mostly premade stuff that they just reheat.

>> No.15203263

>>15203201
No, it really is. It's like a ripoff overcharged version of Fazolis. Tour of italy is like what almost 20 dollars now, when you can get a ultimate sampler for less than half that and have unlimited breadsticks.

>> No.15203290

I want an asian gf

>> No.15203296

Its fucking gross, as are all of those "highway restaurants" whether they be Cheesecake Factory, Panda Express, Applebees, Long John Silvers, Chilis, etc. Its all disgusting and like >>15201926 said the only reason you should be going there, unless you're shitfaced and just want a cheap meal is because you like in Possum's Ridge, AK or somewhere else nobody has ever heard of.

>> No.15203323

>>15201915
They should just embrace their status and start installing drive thrus

>> No.15203333

>>15203296
Bury my heart at possum ridge

>> No.15203370
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15203370

I love Olive Garden soup salad and wine lunch is drunk housewife bff for meeting friends

>> No.15203381

>>15201915
shill

>> No.15204570

>>15203165
based

>> No.15204583

>>15201915
It’s damn good food and fuck anyone who shits on it for not being “authentic.” It is what it is and it’s a nice night for dinner.

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15204606

>list of people who their dicks sucked
This guy >>15201915
>list of people who didn't
Tryhard dumbasses in this thread that pretend to give a shit about "authentic Italian food".

>> No.15205558

>>15204583
Yeah, its cheap and overall good for what it is. I enjoy Olive Garden but I dont go there if I want authentic Italian food, I go there if I want olive hardcore garden

>> No.15205566

>>15201915
It's based
>take girl there
>they love it and gobble that shit up
>food is passable
>bill always like ~30 bucks

Compared to other stupid shit places women want to go who gives a shit.

>> No.15205573

>>15203141
You go there because it's a cheap date, and it basically ensures she will be happy.

>> No.15205633

>>15204606
italian food is just creative poorfag gruel

>> No.15205743

>>15205566
Simp

>> No.15205753

>>15205633
nothing wrong with that

>> No.15205754

>>15201915
I've only eaten there once in my wife with my ex-wife and her parents shortly after we got married. Never been inclined before or after.

>> No.15205798

>>15201915
I want to bloody them both up so hard it's irrational but needed

>> No.15205866

>>15201915
I'd love to get my dick sucked by both of them

>> No.15205900

>>15205633
italian food is simple food made with good ingredients

>> No.15205935

>>15205573
Are you dating poor single mothers on welfare?

>> No.15205938

>>15205900
Papa Johns.

>> No.15206489

whatever happened to Pasta Pass Anon?

>> No.15206696

>>15201926
Went to a family owned italian restaurant and asked to see the menu once. As I was looking through the overpriced garbage I noticed the owner speaking farsi to one of his cooks. I commented to him how I thought it was interesting that an Iranian man runs an Italian restaurant and he got hella fucking mad and started questioning who I am and what my dad does for work. I didn't mean to insult him, I am also Iranian and was just like surprised but he didn't appreciate it

That's my story with mom n pop italian restaurants

>> No.15206722

>>15206696
They have Italian restaurants in iran?

>> No.15206753

>>15206696
Was it in texas?

>> No.15206763

>>15201915
Wtf I love microwaved chicken parm now.

>> No.15206772

>>15206696
He's not Persian he was just saying he manages the restaurant eg iran a chess club in high school you dunce

>> No.15206818

>>15201915
I want an asian gf so fucking badly, bros.

>> No.15207325

>>15205900
>80% carbs
Ok hick

>> No.15207342

There are only 3-4 items on the menu that are worthwhile: chicken parm, chicken scampi, zuppa toscana... maybe the marsala. Literally all of them can be made cheaply and better-tasting at home.

>> No.15207353 [DELETED] 

>>15201915
They use enough salt to give an elephant a fucking stroke and they're disgusting

>> No.15207363

>>15206818
I saw an Asian girl at Walgreen's the other day and I almost said hi to her but I was too much of a pussy. I live in the middle of nowhere, Michigan so she was probably the only Asian girl in this Godforsaken shithole.

>> No.15207368

>>15201926
I live in such a small town the fanciest restaurant is a fucking Applebee's.

>> No.15207438

Why does the hwite guy have so much space between his eyes?

>> No.15207513
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>>15203042
but i dont want to be a part of this family anymore

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15207529

It's supreme, Italian food perfected. Meatballs can live in their world of deluded narcissism, they've been outdone.

>> No.15207999

>>15205935
No, I'm entertaining company on my own merit so the location of the date doesn't matter so much and Olive Garden is a good cheap option with hearty food.

>> No.15208460

>>15206753
Could have been anywhere desu, when you go to a mom and pop Italian restaurant you have a four in seven shot of it being run by Iranians. The chance goes up to six in seven if it's a pizza place.

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>>15201915
It gets a pass from me for having my favorite dessert of any chain restaurant

plus those free salad/breadsticks are pretty good

>> No.15208523

Be honest, when's the last time you went to an Olive Garden and have you ever brought it up as a suggestion or just went along because everyone else was going?

>> No.15208532

>>15207363
Nah, there are a bunch in Ann Arbor.

>> No.15208558

>>15201926
What’s with the over glorification of small businesses on this board? You guys seriously suck small business dick until it opens another store, then you demonize it as a chain. Pretty fucking gay.

>> No.15208562

>>15208523
It’s a toss up between Olive Garden and Buddy’s every time I visit my uncle in MI. Mostly because they’re rather unadventurous and their kids really really like Olive Garden for some reason, and as a guest I just go with whatever they have planned.

They pull in high 100K-low 200K a year with no real debt, so really at this point I think they actually like the Chicken Scampi they order every time.

>> No.15208586

>>15207325
>afraid of carbs
Imagine being this much of a faggot. There’s literally nothing wrong with carbs and you’d know that if you didn’t take nutrition advice from facebook or meme diets.

>> No.15208613

>>15208523
I ordered for take out years ago. I didn't feel like cooking.

>> No.15208923

>>15208532
Oh, guess I'll move there. I looked it up and my town (somewhere in Barry county) is like 97% white.

>> No.15209208

>>15208558
I think there's a major backlash against these theme chains because the generations younger than boomers and older genxers realise it's just prepackaged SYSCO crap that they microwave and serve to you in a chjntzy, plastic decor. You can literally buy the same garbage in the frozen foods section of walmart for 10% of the price. The younger generations are much more astute in recognising bullshit scams.

>> No.15209215

>>15208558
Anything that is able to scale massively will cut costs and mass-produce however possible, you might as well go buy a frozen dinner and microwave it. There is zero chance the food at a big chain is made with love or by anyone who enjoys cooking. Are you retarded?

>> No.15209635

>>15208558
>What’s with the over glorification of small businesses on this board?
Because nobody can say it's shit since they don't have it

>> No.15211081

They just opened one out here in Hawaii. Sadly it's probably the best Italian we can get out here on the islands.

>> No.15211129 [DELETED] 

>>15209208
>The younger generations are much more astute in recognising bullshit scams.
Ironically this is true for everything but politics, they are gullible idiots in that sector. They want to abolish the Constitution and govern all their actions in light of of getting virtue signalling points.

>> No.15211141

>>15211081
Italian food is too easy to cook at home. There's no reason for quality Italian restaurants to exist, so they don't.

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>>15211141
Nah. I recognize my limitations. I have lived in Sicily and would pay for someone to make the things I had out there.

>> No.15211163

>>15211162
It's the ingredients you want, not the chef.

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>>15211129
>Ironically this is true for everything but politics
Especially if /pol/ is regarded as representative of Millennial/Zoomer politics. The posters there are literally retarded.

I'm sure trumpcucks see Olive Garden as AUTHENTICO!!

>> No.15211202

>>15201915
last time I ate there I got the fettuccine alfredo and there were globs of still frozen sauce. that was the end for me, fuck that place

>> No.15211287

>>15206722
>>15206753
California, but not LA

>> No.15211307

>>15211198
lolwut? stfu retard

>> No.15211313

>>15203290
been there, they're as frigid as moscow in winter, not worth

>> No.15211366

>>15211313
Still haven't figured out you're bad at sex, huh? Sad.

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>>15201915
every time going I've gotten food poisoning.

>> No.15211391

>>15206696
This is extremely common, lower class brown people like indians, iranians and such pretend to be more marketable brown people like italian or spanish all the time.

>> No.15211399

>>15211366
white girls seem fine with what i got, so i won't complain

>> No.15211450

>>15208523

Olive Garden is poorfag/flyover shit i wouldn't be caught dead in one over sheer embarrassment. Thank God I live in a place where you can throw a rock and hit an actual restaraunt and not some corporate soulless chain freezer food.

>> No.15211473

>>15211450
You eat feces encrusted food prepared by retards, and you brag about it

>> No.15211715

i think olive garden consistently makes the worst fettucini alfredo ive ever had. ive eaten it as a kid, as a teen, as an adult, and it has always tasted like shit. i'll be honest, fucking fazoli's alfredo is somehow more edible than theirs.

>> No.15212631

>>15208558
Stop being such a zoomer faggot. Smaller restaurants are typically less automated/engineered so more things are made from scratch or are just plain fresher. By the time the restaurant is big enough to spread to other locations, the owner's kids take over and fuck it up by putting a bunch of SYSCO shit on the menu/recipes.

>> No.15212744

This shit was actually amazing and I'm sad they took it off the menu.

>> No.15212748

>>15201915
>fresh italian food
It's all boil in bag or prepared by "Chef Mic"

>> No.15212755

Why is it so god damn expensive? Pasta is literally one of the cheapest foods. Now thinking about all Italians restaurants good or bad, are over priced as hell