Olive Garden never ending pasta pass - 7 wks all you can eat $100

[MongGrel]

We have people from upstate NY come down here to visit now and again, my mother-in-law used to gripe about no real Italian restaurants.

But we've located a few over time.

 

[Phoenix86]

 

[K1052]

7 weeks? That's 35 business days. If I worked nearby an OG, that would be a great deal. 35 cooked lunches for $100?? That's less than $3 per lunch. No one says you have to gorge yourself on every meal. A couple breadsticks, and each day get a different small serving of pasta, and a soda. I can't imagine how OG can do it. Just plan your other meals (dinner and breakfast) to have a bit fewer carbs.

I too think OG sucks compared to homemade Italian meals. But if you don't think a meal at OG is worth $3, you're a troll or an idiot. (Do lasagna and eggplant parm count as pastas?)

That also assumes no tip for each of those 35 meals. Reading sodium contents alone is also enough to make my heart start palpitating.

 

[OutHouse]

You get a discount to a heart clinic?

eat the salad and soup instead?

 

[OutHouse]

sounds like a great gift for a parent to give their kid in college.

 

[alkemyst]

My Italian wife agrees.

They emigrated from Roma, some of the family not that far in the past actually.

I used to make a white clam sauce for Linguine, might have to try that one out.

Haven't in awhile and have to make it for myself, the Italian wife doesn't like clams, go figure.

Well, she's half I guess, she must not have inherited that part

This makes no sense without dates.

Everyone in America especially Florida has old country ties.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

If I had 100k to spend I'd buy them all and pass them out to homeless people. I know a bunch would get pawned off but it a good way to feed someone for several weeks and I hate how Dardin restaurants complains about health care and worker wages.

 

[MongGrel]

This makes no sense without dates.

Everyone in America especially Florida has old country ties.

As I've said before, I care less what you think.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

My Italian wife agrees.

They emigrated from Roma, some of the family not that far in the past actually.

I used to make a white clam sauce for Linguine, might have to try that one out.

Haven't in awhile and have to make it for myself, the Italian wife doesn't like clams, go figure.

Well, she's half I guess, she must not have inherited that part

Probably because she's from Rome. Not much fresh seafood there at all. Find yourself a girl from Venice

 

[alkemyst]

Probably because she's from Rome. Not much fresh seafood there at all. Find yourself a girl from Venice

Very true. So many people speak about their SO's nationality that probably had the emigration happening 100 years ago.

My ex-wife and I met her first year here in the US from Japan when she just turned 40.

People would try to say things like "if you have been to JAPAN lately you would know". She'd sort of laugh and ask what Prefecture? The reality though was she heavily traveled Japan (and Australia, S. Korea, and Hawaii).

Stating someone one knows is from just a country so therefore they know all things about that country is simply IGNORANT.

 

[Insomniator]

Olive Garden is maybe the worst restaurant I've ever been too. I went years ago with my father and we were both literally laughing at the place and the food. I went back a few months ago because my GF was bugging me (she likes lame chain food) and it was even worse than I remembered. The chairs are on wheels lol... the chicken parm I got was definitely worse than even your average frozen version... the pasta was somehow both overdone and stuck together...

It could literally be free to eat there and I wouldn't even go once a year.

 

[alkemyst]

If I had 100k to spend I'd buy them all and pass them out to homeless people.

Best reply to an ATOT thread than I have heard in a while.

People hate my 'charity' posts since they think it's 'bragging', but I can guarantee if I ever end up extremely wealthy I will be making extreme donations as well.

Because I am not wealthy and already do. I have had to really cut back lately due to some increasing life demands I am facing.

 

[alkemyst]

Olive Garden is maybe the worst restaurant I've ever been too. I went years ago with my father and we were both literally laughing at the place and the food. I went back a few months ago because my GF was bugging me (she likes lame chain food) and it was even worse than I remembered. The chairs are on wheels lol... the chicken parm I got was definitely worse than even your average frozen version... the pasta was somehow both overdone and stuck together...

It could literally be free to eat there and I wouldn't even go once a year.

Like many franchises some are better than others.

My fiancee and I ended up at an Olive Garden a few months ago since it was next to the hospital we were at.

The meal was decent esp for the price. The main problem was the table next to us was having a wedding reception and it was overly loud and kids were running / screaming / acting up because their parents were ignoring them.

 

[MongGrel]

Very true. So many people speak about their SO's nationality that probably had the emigration happening 100 years ago.

My ex-wife and I met her first year here in the US from Japan when she just turned 40.

People would try to say things like "if you have been to JAPAN lately you would know". She'd sort of laugh and ask what Prefecture? The reality though was she heavily traveled Japan (and Australia, S. Korea, and Hawaii).

Stating someone one knows is from just a country so therefore they know all things about that country is simply IGNORANT.

*edit* And some others are ignorant intentionally, and I won't bother trying to have an actual conversation with.

 

[alkemyst]

And some others are ignorant intentionally, and don't bother trying to have an actual conversation with.

this makes no sense.