Question about Olive Garden

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Italian family here and I truly can't believe these responses. Terribly inauthentic. If you enjoy it, no problem. But could not be farther from authentic Italian food. Personally I can only do the soup, salad, bread sticks

Bullshit. The bread sticks are disgusting. I can't believe a real Italian would eat those.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not really Italian-American. Definitely not Italian.

How is it not really Italian American?

Most Italian-Americans don’t do all the cream sauces and “Alfredo.” The sauces are spicier, and we usually have some actual vegetables.

Not in my experience, and I'm from New Jersey.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not really Italian-American. Definitely not Italian.

How is it not really Italian American?

Most Italian-Americans don’t do all the cream sauces and “Alfredo.” The sauces are spicier, and we usually have some actual vegetables.

Not in my experience, and I'm from New Jersey.

Uh-huh. Vast majority of Italian immigrants to US are from Southern Italy - where white sauces are rare, sauces are thicker, slightly spicier than in Northern Italy - including in NJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you like it, eat it. It’s mediocre Italian-American food. The one thing that was unforgivable to me was the “breadsticks”. They felt and tasted like hot dog buns. It’s honestly not hard to do bread well - good bread will hide a multitude of sins, but bad bread is all I can really remember about that place.I’m sure my meal apart from that was fine.

I don’t understand why there is so much mediocre bread EVERYWHERE. By all accounts considering ingredients, oven and effort- chain grocery stores should be able to make a great sourdough baguette. Instead decent bread is only available at Artisan level grocery markets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Italian family here and I truly can't believe these responses. Terribly inauthentic. If you enjoy it, no problem. But could not be farther from authentic Italian food. Personally I can only do the soup, salad, bread sticks

WTF? No one said it was authentic. Wowwwww, you’re Itallllllian. That doesn’t give you license to make false claims. No one said anything of the sort.

[Anonymous]

Of course not. Still good, though.