Olive Garden's "Never Ending" Pasta Bowl...

[Pepsi90919]

what are you 900 lb

 

[GagHalfrunt]

$8.95 for pasta is a killer deal for the restaurant. It probably costs them less than a $1 for the vast majority of people that order it. Pasta and sauces are dirt cheap. Decent pasta is easily findable for $1 for 3 pounds and very good pasta is still $1 for 2 pounds. You can make a big pot of sauce for $2. Even with salad and bread sticks you can invite 3 friends over for dinner and stuff all four of you for about $3.50 combined rather than the $36 OG charges.

 

[Saint Michael]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Nothing beats fresh pasta at a real Italian restaurant. Certainly not the $1 for a pound, or $1 for 3 pounds at Walmart, or the $1 for 20 pounds that it costs Olive Garden.

Of course, you could always make your own pasta which is cheaper than $1 a pound. Tastes damn fine too. Flour and eggs.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: LiquidImpulse
i LOVE pasta, i should try this . i wonder if there is any Olive Gardens' in Canada though...

Uh... you know pasta is $1 a pound, easy enough to do it for yourself, and for cheaper.

Uh it's called going out once and a while...you should try it.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: LiquidImpulse
i LOVE pasta, i should try this . i wonder if there is any Olive Gardens' in Canada though...

Uh... you know pasta is $1 a pound, easy enough to do it for yourself, and for cheaper.

Uh it's called going out once and a while...you should try it.

No, it's called going out "once IN a while". You should try improving your grammar.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: LiquidImpulse
i LOVE pasta, i should try this . i wonder if there is any Olive Gardens' in Canada though...

Uh... you know pasta is $1 a pound, easy enough to do it for yourself, and for cheaper.

Uh it's called going out once and a while...you should try it.

No, it's called going out "once IN a while". You should try improving your grammar.

I repeat then, maybe you should go out once in a while too. Sorry grammar nazi...it was a phoentic typo...not a phrase I use a whole lot in written work.

kthxbye.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: LiquidImpulse
i LOVE pasta, i should try this . i wonder if there is any Olive Gardens' in Canada though...

Uh... you know pasta is $1 a pound, easy enough to do it for yourself, and for cheaper.

Uh it's called going out once and a while...you should try it.

No, it's called going out "once IN a while". You should try improving your grammar.

I repeat then, maybe you should go out once in a while too. Sorry grammar nazi...it was a phoentic typo...not a phrase I use a whole lot in written work.

kthxbye.

ROFL. How many times do you need to use a phrase to understand that it doesn't make any sense? I don't care how phonetic (there's no e next to the o) it is, a functioning brain would be able to comprehend that "once AND a while" doesn't have any meaning.

Oh, and to many of us, "going out" means something on a higher level than Olive Garden. If I want cheap pasta and sauce from a can I can make it at home, if I go out it's for something better. Got it?

Okay? Thanks, bye.

 

[Saint Michael]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: LiquidImpulse
i LOVE pasta, i should try this . i wonder if there is any Olive Gardens' in Canada though...

Uh... you know pasta is $1 a pound, easy enough to do it for yourself, and for cheaper.

Uh it's called going out once and a while...you should try it.

I have. Usually sucks. Even when it doesn't, I'd have to go to a restaurant better than some crappy faux-Italian chain.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: LiquidImpulse
i LOVE pasta, i should try this . i wonder if there is any Olive Gardens' in Canada though...

Uh... you know pasta is $1 a pound, easy enough to do it for yourself, and for cheaper.

Uh it's called going out once and a while...you should try it.

I have. Usually sucks. Even when it doesn't, I'd have to go to a restaurant better than some crappy faux-Italian chain.

Whats wrong with you people? Why can't you go to a place like Olive Garden and have a good time? Sure its not the nicest place. Sure its overpriced. But its still enjoyable.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Leros
Whats wrong with you people? Why can't you go to a place like Olive Garden and have a good time? Sure its not the nicest place. Sure its overpriced. But its still enjoyable.

This is Anandtech; it's a 100,000-person race to see who is the most miserable!

 

[Saint Michael]

Originally posted by: Leros
But its still enjoyable.

Nope. So long as people are being duped into buying mediocre food for exorbitant prices, all the while raving about how much they like the <insert generic swill>, I'll be both silently and vocally denigrating them.

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Nothing beats fresh pasta at a real Italian restaurant. Certainly not the $1 for a pound, or $1 for 3 pounds at Walmart, or the $1 for 20 pounds that it costs Olive Garden.

There are some Italian restaurants here in the North End of boston and one of them has a dish called "The Godfather". It is 5 lbs of pasta, with two 3" diameter meat balls, two sausages, 1 chicken parm, 1 veal parm, 1 eggplant parm, shrimp, mussels, scallops, calamari, and your choice of sauce (I usually go for fra diavolo sauce). 18$ served in a mammoth bowl.

Definitely worth it for dinner for a week

I certainly couldn't make anything near the quality for 18$.

 

[Journer]

i went for this the other day. i was sick so i could only eat two bowls. it is a good deal though. great food, good price. hell, i might go back tonite

 

[moshquerade]

don't be hating on the Olive Garden. they usually have cute young (Italian or Italian wanna-be) waiters, and that's the draw for me.

 

[rezinn]

I like their breadsticks. The rest of the food is sub par and just about anyone could make better for a fraction of the cost.

 

[TheSlamma]

Dehydrated pasta FTL

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: Leros
But its still enjoyable.

Nope. So long as people are being duped into buying mediocre food for exorbitant prices, all the while raving about how much they like the <insert generic swill>, I'll be both silently and vocally denigrating them.

You are an angry, angry man

Honestly, the Italian restaurants that I've tried in my area aren't much better, and would have cost almost twice as much for the amount of food I ate. That's quite sad, as this area used be a thriving Italian community!

Sure, I could saved more by eating from home, but that pasta bowl is a pretty good deal if you're hungry for pasta and want to eat out.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

ROFL. How many times do you need to use a phrase to understand that it doesn't make any sense? I don't care how phonetic (there's no e next to the o) it is, a functioning brain would be able to comprehend that "once AND a while" doesn't have any meaning.

Oh, and to many of us, "going out" means something on a higher level than Olive Garden. If I want cheap pasta and sauce from a can I can make it at home, if I go out it's for something better. Got it?

Okay? Thanks, bye.

Since you are now simply not getting it, let's repeat what you have probably heard OVER AND OVER again. Most of us are posting in passing, while doing other things. Occasionally as we are typing maybe we type a word we are hearing or whatever. We are not going back and proofreading our thoughts as anyone with a functioning brain should be able to decypher them.

It's the geeks that feel the need to point out the obvious and say 'neener neener neener it's THEIR not THERE in that instance' Whatever dude, I bet you are a blast at parties.

I hope if you are some sort of english major you have good ideas to write about rather than just knowing where to dot i's, cross t's, and the like. I did poorly in my english classes on the grammar/spelling/punctuation side of the homework as I really didn't give two craps. However, it was usually my papers that were discussed and some dude or chick like you cried a little about how could my paper be good when it had so many mistakes. At the same time these people wrote perfectly, but didn't have really anything to say. They'd always let you know though when you made a mistake. Does it give you a little giggle inside?

Since you are discussing functioning brains and comprehension, is all knowledge inherent? One may argue knowing how logic chips work should be clear to anyone, or how to bring down a 20 foot tree, or how to rebuild a rear end, or knowing latin.

YOU GO GIRL! Carry your red pen proudly!

lolz

 

[Gunslinger08]

Any time you post a thread about food, you're going to draw people out of the woodworks who hate whatever you're talking about. Just take a look at pizza threads. Jesus people.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
don't be hating on the Olive Garden. they usually have cute young (Italian or Italian wanna-be) waiters, and that's the draw for me.

[homer]

but nothing beats the perky cell phone women at BB or waitresses at Red Robin.

[/homer]

 

[Saint Michael]

Originally posted by: joshsquall
Any time you post a thread about food, you're going to draw people out of the woodworks who hate whatever you're talking about. Just take a look at pizza threads. Jesus people.

It's not our fault that Chicago pizza sucks, but it is your fault for claiming otherwise. Whenever people fight for probity there will always be people like you trying to spread poisonous deceit through the minds of men. It is my duty, nay, the duty of every honest man to fight that.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: joshsquall
Any time you post a thread about food, you're going to draw people out of the woodworks who hate whatever you're talking about. Just take a look at pizza threads. Jesus people.

And beer threads....

<EMO>NO, REAL BEER HAS TO BE STELLA!</EMO>

 

[Schfifty Five]

This thing is so good.

I went last week and I really want to go back again. You should only eat like half the first bowl (and all the meat if you added it) and only a small salad in the beginning.

Once you are on your 2nd bowl, still only eat maybe 50-75% of the bowl. At this point you can eat a little more salad. Try to limit yourself to 2 breadsticks max.

And before you leave, make sure you get a fresh new pasta b/c you can take that home to eat later haha.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: LiquidImpulse
i LOVE pasta, i should try this . i wonder if there is any Olive Gardens' in Canada though...

Uh... you know pasta is $1 a pound, easy enough to do it for yourself, and for cheaper.

You do realize that you get more than just a "pound of pasta" at Olive Garden?
You do realize that not all people are cheap asses and enjoy the eating out experience?

 

[Descartes]

On ATOT, there are a few certainties:

1) Any discussion of religion will turn into a flamefest
2) Any discussion of evolution will turn into a religious flamefest

and somewhere down the line...

#) Any discussion of OG will turn into a flamefest about how it's not real Italian food, etc.

Anyway, I tried the never-ending pasta bowl the other day after a coworker recommended it. It was decent, but I couldn't even finish one bowl . I tend to get bored pretty quickly, and I prefer smaller portions of different things. I've always enjoyed their alfredo sauce though.