For COTSBOE

[Janet]

I thought of you last night when I took an order.

Myself: So, Ms. X, where would you like to order from tonight?

Customer: Oh, Olive Garden. I'm Italian and I love Olive Garden. It's the only Italian restaurant I eat at!

And she made several other comments about being Italian and she loved authenticity best. :D I smiled to think of what you would say to this woman.

[ed]

[sputters indignantly on tony's behalf]

i doubt this woman would recognize a pignoli nut if buried up to her neck in them.

ed

[Mouser]

She's an American, and she loves oregano, basil, garlic, rosemary, and some small amount of hot pepper flakes spread on her tomato paste-based red sauce crap with crappy red table whine to drink along with whatever overprocessed pasta-substitute she has chosen and crusty white bread.

[carmachu]

That women needs to be beaten about the head with a stale loaf of Italian bread.....

Gods I hate Olive Garden.....

[Starhawk]

You know, I really LIKE tomato-paste-based red sauce crap.

That said... the real thing is the best. I was once on vacation @ the Gulf Coast of Florida and was taken to a "real" Italian restaurant -- as in, run by a family who spoke Italian first and English barely.

The food was like nothing I've ever had on this earth. It would almost be worth the plane ticket to take a day trip and eat dinner there again.

[COTSBOE]

That makes me want to cry.

She was probably a fifth generation Sicilian immigrant. They're notorious for thinking a can of Ragu with some Kroger brand dried pasta in a box and a crust of frozen heat 'n eat garlic bread is an authentic Italian meal.

[Stephane]

Sorry, I've been to Olive Gardens once. That's not italian cooking.