"Mike Beede" > wrote

> "Nancy Young" > wrote:

>> Actually,
>> the pasta I've had there was so mushy it gave me the creeps.

> I haven't been to Olive Garden in around ten years. When
> I went there way back when, it was not particularly cheap
> and very puzzling-they make their own fresh pasta, then clearly
> held it on a steam table until it was mushy.

Is that what they do. I didn't know how they managed to
make such an unpleasantly textured pasta. It's not as if I
expected or demanded perfectly al dente pasta. This was
just nasty stuff.

> Maybe it's gotten
> better since then, but I don't think the chances are high enough
> for me to check.

When people have decided that's the place to meet, I order the
soup or the artichoke/spinach dip. Even so, it's been a long time
since I've been there, so I really don't know if they've improved.

It's pasta, seems like a restaurant whose specialty is pasta would
try to get that right.

nancy