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Endless Torment and Breadsticks

Endless Torment and Breadsticks

by Adam on June 5, 2014 at 12:00 am
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  1. wingspin
    wingspin
    June 5, 2014, 8:07 am | # | Reply

    Hooters for lunch it is!!! …but I have to point out Endless Salad and Eternal Spook have the same number of letters – Coincidence?

    • verypeeved
      verypeeved
      January 1, 2016, 5:55 pm | # | Reply

      I. THINK. SO!

  2. diechotomy
    diechotomy
    June 5, 2014, 8:10 am | # | Reply

    Olive Garden has a salad bar? I haven’t been to one in a long time.

    • scorpst
      scorpst
      June 5, 2014, 10:50 am | # | Reply

      Mine doesn’t.

    • Adam
      Adam
      June 5, 2014, 12:32 pm | # | Reply

      I’ve actually only ever been to one Olive Garden, and that was ages ago. I thought they had ’em. I just remember being pretty grossed out by their lasagna.

    • PeterW
      PeterW
      June 5, 2014, 6:56 pm | # | Reply

      All the ones I’ve been at have a great big bowl of salad plomped on the table. And if your party eats all of it, they’ll give you another.

      I rather like those salads. I think it’s an oil and vinegar dressing, with, to my recollection, croutons, pepperoncini, cheese, and onions (I don’t like the onions).

  3. Bookworm
    Bookworm
    June 5, 2014, 10:51 am | # | Reply

    I just went to OG, and mine has no salad bar — just a big bowl of salad that’s passed around the table. It’s good, though.

    I’d be happy to die in a garden — olive or otherwise.

  4. Rhea
    Rhea
    June 5, 2014, 11:44 am | # | Reply

    Maybe you could throw soup around….

    I do advise seizing the salad bar before any food fight starts.

  5. qka
    qka
    June 5, 2014, 12:35 pm | # | Reply

    Your ghost could always cause mischief in the bar.

  6. Andy
    Andy
    June 5, 2014, 10:37 pm | # | Reply

    Elprum! Elprum! ELPRUM!

  7. Pantea
    Pantea
    June 6, 2014, 4:22 am | # | Reply

    This one was for insiders. First I took “Olive Garden” literally and didn’t get the joke. So there is a restaurant chain called Olive Garden… It doesn’t seem to be a part of American cultural invasion… yet 😉

  8. Ian Osmond
    Ian Osmond
    June 6, 2014, 6:10 am | # | Reply

    Pantea — consider yourself lucky. It’s not BAD, exactly — it’s just not GOOD. I ate at one once, because my father had a gift certificate someone gave him.

    We all agreed afterward that, if you got a gift certificate to Olive Garden, well, that was about the right price point. I would eat there for free, or if someone else liked it and wanted to go there, but it’d never be my main choice.

    One nice thing about living in the Boston area is that there aren’t many Olive Gardens, because we have so many GOOD Italian and Italian-American restaurants that the ecological niche is already filled. Similarly, we don’t have a single Red Lobster (another chain restaurant, which I think is owned by the same restaurant group, who do seafood. To the same level — not bad, but not good, either).

    • Pantea
      Pantea
      June 19, 2014, 3:29 pm | # | Reply

      Thank you for the explanation! 🙂 Somehow I can’t consider such chain restaurants as “real” restaurants. It’s like calling McDonald’s a restaurant. I have an antiquated mindset, I guess 😉

  9. C1dancer
    C1dancer
    June 6, 2014, 6:34 am | # | Reply

    I guess Chef Boy A Z (spelling?) hss the monopoly on pasta letters, otherwise ghost bug could use the plate as a white board or, even better, a ooji (spelling again) board.

  10. Jeff Clough
    Jeff Clough
    June 6, 2014, 7:43 am | # | Reply

    Olive Gardens are pretty much everywhere out here in the Western part of the U.S. My step-son worked at one for a few years and sort of got my wife hooked on them. For me, they’re kind of “meh”. Don’t hate ’em, don’t love ’em for sure. The food is unbelievably full of fat and calories. Lots of butter and all that.
    Authentic Italian or Italian-American food is hard to come by out here. Now, Mexican food, on the other hand…we got plenty of that! And Asian food too. Again, there’s good and bad. Pretty much expect bad if you’re going to a chain restaurant of any sort.

  11. StoneMaven
    StoneMaven
    June 6, 2014, 10:09 am | # | Reply

    Olive Garden, Chili’s, Applebees – all bastions of American mediocrity when it comes to food. They’re marginally better quality and one large step up on the $price$ chain from a McDonalds.

  12. Izzie
    Izzie
    June 16, 2014, 6:51 pm | # | Reply

    Floating breadsticks? Why not floating kitchen utensils?
    Salad bar posession? Why not stove posession?
    Writing in pasta noodles? Why not on a paper pad waiters use and put it on someone’s food?

  13. BRBill
    BRBill
    August 27, 2016, 1:15 am | # | Reply

    I’m gonna really be upset when I catch up with this series.

    re: Olive Garden (West Coast) the waitress asked “how’s the coffee”? I said “weak” The lovely lass ripped it out of my hand and for three years more or less remembered me. I always got a decent cuppa after that.

    She remembered me and fer dam sure made a extra dime or twelve…..

    This comic is the only one in which I read the commentary.

    Top hole mate.

  14. Thisfox
    Thisfox
    September 5, 2016, 4:53 pm | # | Reply

    It took me a read of the credits to realise that “Olive Garden” is a shop, not a farm where people grow olive trees. *facedesk* Must be a yank thing, we don’t have that shop over here.

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