/ck/ - Food & Cooking

yesterday's tour of italy thread died for this

I went to Italy and they ate nothing at all like that. The majority of people ate ravioli straight out of the can for 99% of their meals

>>20029848
pizza

I love going to the Garden and telling the waitress that I’ll be taking the Tour again. She always rolls her eyes and the people sitting near us roll their eyes too.

>>20029953
Gigabased
I'm just the same. But I at least order a 2nd entree for variety, mix the two on the same plate, then take leftovers home

>>20029960
>>20029953
>>20029848
I worked at OG. WTF is the tour?

>>20029848
>went to olive garden a couple months ago for the first time in at least 15 years
>get seated
>entire wing of restaurant smells like rancid parmesan cheese
>white trash family of 10, only kids and three obese women, seated in booth next to us
>entire meal composed of obnoxious kids screaming and throwing stuff at each other while obese women do nothing
>wife and I each get The Tour
>it's delicious
6.5/10 will probably go again at some point
>l

>get unlimited soup salad and bread sticks
>with a water
>ask for a round of bread sticks to go
>no tip

Devilish

>>20029965
I'm pretty sure it's one of their most popular items, I don't believe you

>>20029977
I know it's a food, but why would guests and the server be upset?

I bring my siciliane scopa deck with me every time I go On Tour and ask people to play but they just tell me to leave them alone.

>>20029852
Because they are all poor as shit. The west needs to hurry up and die

My GF always tells the waitress that she doesn’t need the menu, and the waitress says, “so you’ll be taking the tour?” and my GF nods her head and winks
https://www.tiktok.com/@katiemermaidhairxo/video/7187577956846357803

>>20030042
>GF

>>20029975
you have to order an entree for the unlimited soup salad and breadsticks

>>20030393
Not if you're Andrew tate

>>20030425
i will mail you a ghiradelli dark chocolate sea salt caramel bar if you make a video of yourself impersonating andrew tate and demanding free food at an olive garden

Thank god for Mama Stortini's. Who knew italian food could actually taste good?

>>20030493
I thought that was a Cabela's for a second

>>20029986
because this thread is just rehashing an old copypasta meme

>>20030035
italy is in the west

>>20029848
some kind of dish that is actually Italian

>>20029848
Pasta that isn't overcooked

>>20029848
I really like Olive Garden's chicken parm. It's always very crispy. Apart from their breadsticks, it's the only thing I really like from there.

>>20029960
>leftovers
I don't believe you

To the anon in previous threads who ordered the tour of italy and afterwards had a coworker mock him incessantly about being the "tour of italy guy" I haven't forgotten you

>>20030683
thanks bro, i haven't forgotten you not forgetting about me

>>20029953
The Tour of Italy is my favorite dish to order.
Every time we go to Olive Garden with the family I like to make a fun little event of it.
"pack your bags" I say to my wife "we're going on a tour!"
I grab my passport and head out the door.
We get to the restaurant in 10 minutes flat.
"WOW, Italy is a lot closer to home than I thought!"
When we get to the restaurant I ask the hostess "do I need to speak Italian here?" with a big grin. The hostess giggles and takes us to our table.
When we get seated at the restaurant the waiter takes our order.
"I'll have the tour of Italy" I exclaim. "Do you need to see my passport?" I say slyly. The waitress giggles and says she will bring out the breadsticks and salad soon.
The salad arrives and I get extra cheese on top per usual.
"starting off up north at the snow covered Italian Alps I see!" My wife groans but the waitress gets a giggle out of it.
The main course comes and it's just as beautiful as I remember it.
I grab my fork "Where do I even begin?!"
I take my fork and make airplane noises as I dive my fork down into the Chicken Parmigiana "Milan, you taste magnificent!"
"Next let's see Florence!" I direct my fork toward the signature Fettuccine Alfredo. It's like I can taste the culture without even seeing the city!
"Now for the grand finally, let's head down to Rome!"
My fork gobbles up the Lasagna Classico in seconds.
"Mama Mia! what a trip!"
We get the bill "wow a whole tour of Italy for only $14.99? what a bargain!"
The waitress seems pretty over it at this point but manages to crack a little smile as she takes my credit card. "Didn't even need to crack out the American Express! hah!"
As we leave I wave and exclaim "arrivederci!" to all the staff as we walk out the door.
What a great family restaurant.

>take a tour of Italy
>lots of screaming black kids

>>20030793
God fuck you.

>>20030793
Horrible yet hilarious pasta

>>20031115
Haha, pasta

>>20030496
Have you had the hot ham.samdwich at Cabela's? Unironically one of the best things you can eat at a bait store.

>>20030892
I take it you haven't been to Italy recently?

>>20030042
I like country songs like this one about how rednecks don't need the menu when they go to the Olive Garden. they instinctively know they want to take the tour. Three olive garden classics all on one plate! Chicken Parmigiana, Lasagna Classico and their "signature" Fettuccine Alfredo.

"And then mama said, 'let's go to the garden and take the tour' and step daddy said 'no you will cook for me you alcoholic bitch' and mamma shot step daddy with a .38 special and we all went to the garden and told the waitress we'll all be taking the the tour, and, oh, we all took the tour, and, my lord, it was so, delicious...oh my lord, it was so delicious"

>>20030793
Underrated

>tour d'italy
>tomatos

wat

>>20032104
Oh, shit up. Just shut up! Bla bla bla tomatos are from the new world bla bla murica bla. Shut up! So what if they did come from the America-S, specifically SOUTH America. It's not like you did anything of value with them in your whole miserable lives. You simply plucked them from the vine like the degenerated apes you are. It took the Italian mind, scion of Roman emperors, with the soul of all of Europa, to spin the raw straw into the gold you sadly writhe to emulate and fail every single day. You worm. You hairy moth's caterpillar, a flea on a dog. The only contribution that the flat American skull has given the world is a plastic cheese, and American cuisine is nothing more than putting said "cheese" on anything and everything, even soup. That's right the air in merikea is so polluted it causes Koreans to put cheese in ramen. Disgusting!

Picking up a whole or half sheet of Tiramisu from Olive Garden is actually a pretty good deal. Their Tiramisu is pretty good and usually significantly cheaper than specialty bakeries. (works out to less than $5 a slice. It is also a nice dessert to pick up for holidays since it isn't the typical (in the US).

>>20030793
kek <-- this one
kek
kek

>>20029848
the Giro d'EATalia for those in the know

>>20031112
type that again without crying, chud

>>20029953
thats fucking hilarious. I've only been to olive garden once, but I'll give this line a shot to see if anyone dies inside.

>>20029848
>what more could you need
ice cream

Old Spaghetti Factory >>> Olive Garden

>>20032252
Get Tiramisu instead!>>20032167

>>20032272
Organ Grinder >>> Old Spaghetti Factory >>> Olive Garden >>> Fazoli’s

>>20029848
>the tour of italy
1550 calories

>>20032573
Organ grinder seems like a better name for a taco place.

>>20032573
>A confluence of factors caused the demise of the company, among them financial troubles unrelated to the restaurant suffered by Paul Forchuk in the late 1970s, the failure of the Denver location due to drug activity, and failure of Earthquake Ethel's (a Portland nightclub that was part of the Forchuk/Hedberg partnership), the decline of 82nd Avenue businesses as I-205 was opened in 1982, and the opening of a Chuck E. Cheese's in the mid-1980s a few blocks away.[
lmao imagine being a pizza place and losing to chucky cheeses

>>20031922
checked

>>20032634
Don't go throwing shade, anon. If there's one thing Charles Entertainment Cheese knows, it's how to throw together the platonic ideal of a hot, melty slice of 'za.

>>20029852
why would you lie on the internet

>>20029848
Chicken

>>20034267
It's true. I'm Italian and we live off of cans of the Chef

>>20030793
>>20029953


Thanks anons, it's Christmas eve, i'm a bit anxious about the year to come and this is the most wholesome laugh i've had in a while.

Totally chuffed. Cheers!

>>20031890
what’s the point of making every country the same shitty place

>>20034384
To destroy western civilization

>>20029848
>what more could you need
a bullet

>tour of italy
>lasagna
Ok
>Fettuccini alfredo
Does not exist in italy
>chicken parm
Does not exist in italy

>>20034782
Lasagna is british

>>20034802
But you can order it in restaurants here. The other two don't exist.

>>20029848

I know is a meme Italians mad at food but what the actual fuck are you guys even doing oversees, is one of the simplest cuisine in the world how the fuck you fuck it up that badly

>>20034802
UK lasagne sums up British cuisine very well. Slop that is boring, over-expensive,and unhealthy.

>>20030425

But if you're Andrew Tate you have to live in a depressing warehouse next to an airport in Romania, where you nurse your ravaged bunghole after dozens of screaming gypsies had their way with it.

>>20029848
>Don't like lasagne
>Don't like chicken parmo
Pretty sure I need a lot fucking more than this.

>>20030793
You don’t deserve to take the tour. The tour is serious business, not something to make fun of

>>20035679
That's a pretty small amount of food for a grown man, I'd say. Hope you got enough breadsticks and a dessert afterwards.

>>20035696
You can ask for a “double tour” you get twice the amount, or you can add other menu items a la carte

>>20035728
thanks

>>20035728
>you can order two of a thing and get two of it
bless us with more wisdom please

>>20029848
I miss alfredo. I live in a c'untry where you just can't get alfredo

>>20038297
>bless us with more wisdom please
You know your mother? Well I sure do know her. One time I ordered a “tour” to go and I went over to your Mom’s house and put the chicken parm on one of her titties, the lazagne on the other titty, and the fettuccine Alfredo on her vadge and a-hole. Then I had my labradoodle eat it off of her. She was in pure ecstasy. She said she couldn’t wait to do it again but I never contacted her after that.

how does /ck/ do it?

>>20029848
>Olive Garden’s tour of Italy
A challenger appears. The Mama’s trio (chicken parmesan, lasagna bolognese, & fettuccine alfredo) from Romano’s Macaroni Grill

>>20039561
I make my own “mama’s trio” at home. Chicken parm

>>20039561
>>20040512
Fettuccine Alfredo

>>20039561
>>20040512
>>20040514
Lasagne. Just microwave all three. Your very own “mama’s trio” at home all by yourself with no one to bother you and all kinds of good stuff on youtube to watch while you eat your “mama’s trio” and no one will bother you by texting, or calling, or knocking on your door, and if you are still hungry you can have a second trio

>visited Reno, NV a couple of months ago
>i'm British, first time in the states.
>Meet some friends at Olive Garden, first meal that isn't on a so looking forward to a proper meal
>but I have heard about it online and kind of have an idea of it being bad food
>like, 15 year olds take their crush here on a date kind of bad
>we get shown to our seats by one waiter who then disappears for 15 minutes
>another irritatingly cheerful server comes up and takes our orders
>order the tour of italy
>he congratulates me on what a great choice i made
>feel slight tinge of disgust at this simpering teenager who has to perform like this to try to get a tip
>breadsticks are kind of great though, theyre more like skinny hotdog buns with salt on them, i had like 4
>food arrives
>no matter what they ordered has a mix of basic tomato sauce with too much sugar in it, or molten yellow cheese goo
>i look down at my microwaved lasagne, microwaved fettucine alfredo (not from italy) and soggy microwaved chicken nugget with melted cheese on top
>lasagne is bland and sugary
>fettucine just tastes like bland milk
>chicken milanese isnt a proper schnitzel with breading, its a reformed flat nugget like from mcD's
>everything has the same tomato sauce with no flavour
>finish everything it was ok but my shits are awful the next day

The worst part is my wife is italian from Turin. She thought everything was awful except the calamari and the breadsticks. We went to NYC later though and she loved the pizza so at least that gets a pass

Also we have a similar chain in the UK called frankie and benny's. I think americans would like it.

Tl;dr Olive garden should just do breadsticks

>>20040631
>we have a similar chain in the UK called frankie and benny's. I think americans would like it
No thanks. For me, when in London, it’s any Aberdeen Angus Steakhouse I come across