On Sunday, October 12, 2014 12:17:16 PM UTC-5, George L wrote:
> Becca and I were on a short road trip and we decided to have lunch at an
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> Olive Garden. I hadn't been to one in over 20 years.
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> I was surprised... the food was pretty good! I had pasta and a 5 Cheese
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> sauce with Italian sausage. The sauce was fine... and the sausage was
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> excellent. Salad and bread "sticks" were also good.
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> We prefer to eat in local places when we can rather than the large chain
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> restaurants, but this turned out to be much better than I expected.

We ate at an Olive Garden for the first time a few years ago because someone gave us a gift card. Gah, it was horrible. First, they made us sit on some dumb bench seating next to a bunch of strangers. What the hell was up with that? And the "food", yikes. I'm not a picky eater by any means at all, but this stuff was just awful. And it had come straight out of a microwave. They seemed to spend a lot of time trying to get people to buy their shitty wine. And the Dago music blaring out of the ceiling was a bit over-the-top. Nope, never again. I'm glad you had a nice experience there.