An Italian Tries the Olive Garden Menu

Hey guys, we just got the goods and today's a good day because we're gonna make Alessio try some Olive Garden. Are you ready Amore to see if you can find anything that you like? What I did to you guys, what I did to you. Are you ready? Let's go. You're gonna be blindfolded so that you can identify what you eat and see if you can taste if it's authentic. Oh okay, so if it's Italian you're gonna see. Yeah, you're gonna see if you can identify what the food is and then you're gonna give your rating. All right, all right. Oh my god, this is really good. I can't see nothing. Okay, here we go. This is your first plate. Okay. You want to take it with the smell or you want to just go straight into trying? Oh, it's here, right here. Smell sauce, American sauce. Okay, let me get some of your fork. You know, with the sense like you can see it's really intense. Because you have to use your... Oh my god, you got it, huh? I'm trying to get it on the fork, it's not so easy. Because when if you cut... Okay, it's a little bit of a big bite, so I'm sorry. No, okay, okay. So because if you cut it, I can smell more the flavors. It was too big of a bite, right? What the hell is this? This is why I want to do it blindfolded, because if you see it immediately, you're gonna be biased, you're gonna know what it is or what it's supposed to mean. With this, you have no idea, right? Wait. Okay, I figured out. Okay, what is it? A meatball. Yeah, you got it. My brain need to go to the back trauma, I see the back, back, back to New York. You can take off your blindfold and look at it now. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The smell, wow. Okay, I was smelling the sauce. Oh yeah, you got the sauce part. I didn't figure out it was a meatball in the beginning. The smell is overpowered, like the sauce smell, you can't smell anything else but tomato and garlic right now. I was thinking it's meat, it's meat, something, but what the hell is that? In the beginning, I would say like cannelloni, cannelloni, American cannelloni, because I was thinking, this is... What's your review? What's your rating? It's not a meatball. It's not a meatball. No Italian, no authentic. Zero. Zero? You wouldn't even like eat it if I put it in front of you. Let's say you don't have to rate it based on how authentic it is to Italian. You can say this is not authentic, but just based on the flavor and the mangiabile or immangiabile. Okay. Then you can give a rating. Mangiabile or immangiabile. This is a good rating instead to say one of the ten or zero of the ten. So mangiabile or immangiabile. Mangiabile. Mangiabile, okay. Excuse me, Tanya. Oh, wait a second. For wash my palate... This is for wash my palate. No, I cannot drink that. I cannot drink that tomorrow. I said mangiabile on my video. You said mangiabile, let's see. Too many years in America. Here's your next item. You want to take a smell or... Smell, smell. I want to smell. Okay. This is like fermented. Fermented. Honey. Indescribable. Okay, let me get you a... To me, it smells fermented, like beer, fermented stuff. Fermented? Yeah, fermented. You got any clues? Definitely, it's a soup because it have peas, right? Peas? Like, beasy? Beasy. There's no beasy. It's this constriction. You need another bite or you... We have peas. This is an Italian dish? Supposedly. Immangiabile. Immangiabile? Do you want to know what it is? Have beans. Tell me it can have beans? It has beans, yeah, but not beasy. Yeah, beans, potato. Can I see? I don't know. I don't know what is it. It's minestrone. Pasta ai fagioli? No, no, minestrone. That's what they call it. This is minestrone. Olive garden minestrone. I can only even taste the pasta, it's so squishy. It can go down. Immangiabile. So, is this anything like your minestrone in Italy? Are you joking? Can we... I bring it to Italy. I'm giving it to people. No, no people. It's not even close. I still regret to say che mangiabile is the first place polpette, but I was thinking, try to be nice. Here comes your next plate, Amore. Are you ready? I'm ready. Take a smell. Cheese. American cheese. Cheese. It's cheesy, this. Okay, I'm going to put some on here. I would say, if I was, like, I could be afraid. I'm not sure, because it's cheesy. Cannot be. It's hard to get on. Okay. It's way too cheesy, this stuff. Thoughts? Pasta with cheese, but this could be Alfredo. You know, I have no good experience in Alfredo. I know, you have bad experiences with Alfredo. Is that your guess? It is my guess. Okay, you want to see? Take off your blindfold. Spread it to me, Alfredo. Yeah, I got it! Immangiabile! Immediately, immediately. No, tell the truth. Immediately, straight in the road, with immangiabile. I knew it was you, my enemy, the enemies, the enemies. Cleanse the palate, cleanse the palate. Cleanse the fork, not the palate. Oh my goodness. There's something in here that smells bad. I don't understand. Listen, listen. It's really hard to find what could be smelled good, so don't worry. It's coming up. The polpette. I told you! Here's what you've got next. Got it? Oh my god. Okay. My god. Can I say it? Yeah, tell us what you think. What is this flavor? I think they put meat. There is meat inside of this, yes. It's a horrible taste meat. It's pretty flat here. Careful. I say lasagna, but I'm not sure. It could be cannellone, it could be something like that. It's lasagna! It's lasagna! Lasagna classico. That's what the name is. Lasagna classico. I know what was that terrible. Ricotta, spinaci. Spinaci, what is this? I don't know, I think it's an herb, maybe prezzemolo. It's a herb. I can't believe I guessed this lasagna. Like, I was thinking what could be Italian dish. So what's your rating? Like, you think it's immangiabile. Immangiabile, but it's not even close to Italian. Did you know that a lot of, like, most lasagnas in Italy don't have ricotta? I think a lot of Americans will be surprised by that if you're watching, because here we put ricotta in every lasagna. Yeah, and then you put this herb. What the hell is that herb? I think it's parsley. I don't know. No. You said it's immangiabile. It is immangiabile. I don't know if in the South Italy they do it with ricotta. North Italy is bechamel, and I want to say something. This is not just immangiabile. This is not even authentic, and I hope that you never think that this is Italian clothes. Okay. I go back to blind. I don't want to see that again. Inauthentic. My God. Inauthentic and immangiabile. Inauthentic and immangiabile. Now, this one's a little tricky. I have to figure out how I'm going to give it to you. Give it to me? Yeah. Oh, you give me clues, too. Yeah, a little bit of a clue. So it has to be a soup. All right. This... This is fish. Yeah. So I think I need to feed this to you. You ready? I'm going to give it to you. Cardboard? No. My was so dry inside. Let me give you a clue. The presentation, they have some lemon, some marinara sauce, and another mystery sauce that I don't know what it is. The shrimp. It has to be the shrimp. Like... Pick up your blindfold. Oh, if it's a polipo. Pick up your blindfold. Calamari? Calamari. See? I wasn't sure if to just dip it in the sauce, so I gave it to you by itself. It's cardboard. You just taste the fried... Like, when you eat it, you taste the fried, but this you cannot recognize. So I've never had calamari in Italy, but I remember eating it when I was younger, and it always was a very chewy texture. Is it supposed to be chewy? I don't remember. This is loaded in manzanita. This is like heart attack. Use it for heart attack. Like... Is this authentic? Okay. My God, Ragazzi. What do you eat here? I'm offended. Are you ready? Calamari. I was thinking it was shrimps. No, even shrimps. I think they spray the smell for the fish, because... Artificial? Artificial spray. No, it's not fish. When you taste it, Ragazzi, if you're blind... If you're blind, you cannot recognize what the hell is that. They spray some fish. All right. Let's see if you've got this one. My nose is the same. Please, don't do that. He refuses to smell. This one you eat with your finger. I cannot recognize what this is. Okay, okay. Go ahead and eat with your finger. See if you can pick one up. I can't do it. His lips are trembling. What is inside? It's cheesy stuff, but... Take off the blindfold. Yeah, I can recognize. Fried ravioli. I've tried it in my life. You've never seen fried ravioli? No. It's so popular here. This is my first time. Are you sure you don't have fried ravioli in Italy? We fried tortellini. You can't say everything is in mangiabile. I said the polpette was mangiabile. Wait, the calamari was in mangiabile? In mangiabile. Oh, you mean the polpette. The first thing. Maybe it's what I eat later. The meatballs. The meatballs. We're getting ready for your next dish. Take a smell. It's a soup. Because there's so much stuff that's coming in. Impossible to describe what is it. This is really hard to get on the utensil. The utensil. I think I need to feed it to you because... Oh, oh. Okay, ready? All right, there's a... Especially the flavors. You have any guesses what it could be? What is that crunchy stuff? I feel like I eat an animal. You want to take off your blindfold? Because I think there's no way you're going to guess what this is. Really, I'm scared in this one. Take off your blindfold. This is chicken shrimp carbonara. I'm sick. Oh, come on, Amadei. This is the animal I was tasting. The shrimp. My God, I know this shrimp. Oh, this is carbonara. It's chicken shrimp carbonara. Oh my God. I'm shocked. My mind is shocking. Chicken shrimp carbonara. When I saw this on the menu, I knew I had to get it because, first of all, you combine four things that should never go together. First, carbonara. Call this carbonara? With chicken, shrimp, and cheese. Peppers. Peppers. I don't know why. The famous peppers in the carbonara. You never put cheese on fish. You don't put chicken in pasta. You don't put shrimp in carbonara. And I don't even know if you can call this carbonara. Wait, if it's carbonara, that means there's pancetta in there somewhere, right? There we go, the pancetta. No, it's chicken. There is pancetta. Oh my God, it's pancetta for real. Really? That's pancetta. So you have three meats in one pasta. You're speechless. I've never seen you not be able to formulate an opinion. Speechless in a bad way. I've never seen something disgusting in my life. So would Italians ever make anything like this? This is inguardabile and troabile. I eat that thing and it doesn't taste even. No, I gave you a little bit of everything. You had a piece of chicken and the shrimp, plus the pasta and the pepper. Oh, wow. You had everything in one bite. That's why I said it was so hard to put it on one fork. I said explosion of flavors, right? You're right. But not for that. I cannot taste chicken at all. I'm honest. I cannot taste chicken at all. The explosion of flavors was this sauce. Okay, I don't know what it was. Are we finished? No, no, we've got many more. My body rejects this stuff. I've never burp, burp so much time in my life. Your Italian body's rejecting it. Take a smell. Take a smell, amore mio. Here, another sauce. I'm not scared about this. You're not scared? No. Confused. Sorry. You're confused about this? I'm confused because I know what the salad is. Here's your... You're killing me. Meat is meat. Meat in the sauce? I need to check one thing for this one because I am so confused. Yes. Oh wow, be careful. That's a pretty... Substantial. Substantial bite, yeah. Chili. Italian chili. Italian chili. Okay, the thing is, it looks like chili. Go ahead. Go ahead. Carrot? It looks like chili, right? It's chili. But I'm about to tell you what it's supposed to be as soon as I confirm. This is pasta fagioli. But you cannot ruin a pasta fagioli. This is chili. It was more pasta fagioli the other one. Look at this. But the question is, this thing has tubetti pasta inside. Tubetti pasta? I don't see any pasta. Amore, they're wrong. This is the... Amore, there's only a few soups available and we already ate one and I have to go again. The other one was pasta fagioli, it wasn't pasta. No, that is confirmed minestrone, pasta fagioli, white and red beans, ground beef, fresh tomatoes, and tubetti pasta in a savory broth. And the minestrone is fresh vegetables, beans, and pasta in a light tomato broth. What are you going to win if you find the pasta? Somehow... The carrots. Okay, but we need to... Okay, the carrots. Degrading the carrots. Ragazzi, degrading the carrots. This is the minestrone. I think somebody messed up the pasta recipes. Because there's tubetti pasta in here. This is tubetti pasta. But they also have the other pasta. Yeah. But this, Amore, this is the minestrone. They said a light tomato sauce. Yeah, this, honestly... This is the minestrone. This is supposed to be pasta fagioli, but there's no pasta inside. Plus, they have ground beef and carrots. Tell everybody what pasta fagioli has in it in Italy, so they understand. So, fritto plus fagioli. And you put pasta. That's it. Simple, right? You don't have ground beef. That is chili. This is chili, yeah. That is chili, terrible chili. Like, they take a can, they open, and they said, Pasta fagioli. Let's go. You didn't answer, though. Is this... I think you're gonna like this one. This, you eat with your hands. Hey, what the hell is this? Osso bucco? Turn it, you're too wide. Turn it sideways, like that. I'm after chicken. You know, maybe this is Capitan Findus. Capitan Findus, where is this? It's fried lasagna. I'm on him! Fried lasagna? Yeah. Fried lasagna? Yeah. I don't think it's that bad, personally. It doesn't taste like lasagna. Okay, it doesn't taste like lasagna. It just tastes like... Cheese! Cheese. Fried lasagna! I think they gave us Alfredo dippings. Vai via! Dai, amore! If I see you eating that, give it to the neighbors, because they're eating everything. They're gonna be happy when we bring this stuff. Definitely. They're gonna say, oh my god, Oliver Gordon! Yeah, enjoy it. My god. All right. Fried lasagna. I'm shocked. I'm happy to be blind. Oh, this does not smell very good. Sorry. I haven't put it in front of you yet. My god. I go straight because my nose is like... It's dead. You can't figure anything out anymore. I have to get you a bite with... Vai! This has... This is called zuppa toscana. Ma no, ma dai! Ma what is this? Zuppa toscana. Ma what? Toscani! They're gonna be flip over! This has spicy Italian sausage, kale, and maybe potatoes? Yeah, potatoes and a creamy broth. Oliver Gordon honor. I buy you a ticket to go in Toscani. I'm not saying you need to do perfectly like that. I understand, but call this pasta toscana. Zuppa. Zuppa toscana. Thank you for the correction. You're welcome. Zuppa toscana. And what is this vegetable? Kale. And the meat? Salsiccia. Salsiccia? Salsiccia italiana. That was our last soup. I have to say, I feel like all three of those soups were confused. They don't know what they are. You want to skip the smell and you want to go straight to the taste test? Hopefully. Pasta al pomodoro. Almost. What the hell? Chicken? Classic pasta al pomodoro with spaghetti and meat sauce. Spaghetti ragu. Yeah. Spaghetti ragu. If I need to say something, it's mangiabile. We got one! Aspetta, aspetta, calma. You can put the polpetto on top and eat it. Aspetta, calma. It's mangiabile in comparison to the other one. I'm curious, how's the cook of the pasta? Because just looking at it, it's looking rough. It's rough, it's mangiabile. But you said it was fungiabile. No. If this was something I need to go Olive Garden, I was taking this pasta. And the polpetta. And then regret to say it, because it's mangiabile. But yeah. Oh yeah, wow! I can't wait! Another pasta. Great menu, Olive Garden. Great menu. I tried to get the most authentic. Yeah, wow, you know wrong one item. I need to work on this one for a second. Oh, you need to starve. Oh, you starve garlic so bad, Amore. Don't starve this stuff. Here you go, here's your fork. No. Forza, forza! It's here. My god, I smell it from the starving. Can you hear me? Oh my god, it smells terrible. It doesn't smell very good, it's true. My brain is pitching a chicken, a flat chicken. I need to pile it. That's why I'm going to do like this. Yep, hold on, go, yep, you got it. Chew, Amore. Are you going to spit? Amore, do you need to spit? If you need to spit. I go. You're going to spit? No, I go for the people. What flavors are you getting? I already said, manjabella. No. My brain refused to recognize this. Okay, do you want to see? Wait, maybe it's a cannelloni. This is. I see the tortellini, alfredo, and chicken. Exactly, it's chicken tortellone alfredo. Chicken tortelloni alfredo. When I was thinking to arrive to the bottom. Oliver Garden, surprise! It's always a surprise. It's like to be at Disney. You go with expectation and coming surprises, surprises. Your brain is full of surprises. Like, whoa, so happy to be here. Tell everybody why you're surprised about this. Wait, I have to. Did you just fart? Yeah, I have to. I mean, never. My Italian body is upsetting. Guys, he never farts. As that just happened. Makes me really concerned for what's going on inside of you right now. I can't, I can't, I can't. I can't eat other stuff. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, people. You're hot, you're sweaty. Oh my God, my body is over. It's over. Oh my gosh, Oliver. I'm over. Game over. You want to know my opinion? Yeah, I want to know. What I need to say about this. Well, first, tortellini never goes in alfredo. No. The traditional way to eat tortellini is in a broth. In a broth, always broth. But you can eat it with panna. Panna. Yeah, but it's insulting it with panna if you go to a really good restaurant. Never put chicken on pasta. Never. Any other rules here? Never give it to Italy. The neighbors are going to be happy. Just taking a little video so that people can see what you're eating next. I need a fork and... No, hands. Garlic. This is the breadstick. Oh Lord. This is insane. I'm concerned for you. His body is actually rejecting the spoon. What I need to say? It's a bread with garlic. Heavy. I mean, let's say this. Super garlicky. This, if you time for Halloween, if you need to go in Transylvania, eat a little bit of this. I was thinking you were going to say this is a good thing to give out at Halloween. Like for the trick-or-treaters. No. It's for people who don't be eating from Dracula. It's super garlicky. It is very garlicky. It's true. Also with the hands. Oh, smell dessert. We have to do dessert. Yes. They call them fried Italian donuts in the menu. Recognizable. 100% recognizable. This is American. I eat better. It's cardboard, okay? But respect the other items. It's mangiabile. Mangiabile! Looks so much sugar there, but... Nice. Your menu at Olive Garden is spaghetti with meat sauce, with polpette and frittelle. No, I know what's by the frittelle. But you said it was mangiabile. No, it's mangiabile for the people. I'm talking about for the people that have a great stomach. Wait, I need to burp again. No, I guess I can't. Ma che bontà! No, no, no, no, no, no. Cioccolato. Ciao. Tiramisu! What is the liquid? I think it's the coffee or the chocolate. Should be coffee. I have to say, guys, I don't know why here in the U.S. the tiramisu is always so liquidy. I hate it here. Before I met Alessio, I hated tiramisu. And then you made me a real tiramisu and it didn't have all that watery, liquid coffee running all over the place and I loved it. But here, the tiramisu is so liquidy. I don't think it's authentic tiramisu. In my opinion, too. Just looking at it. I tried to save it, but it's immangiabile. Con tiramisu! Yeah, the final piece. Nothing authentic. I think, yeah, we've learned that there's nothing authentic at Olive Garden. We knew that already. We don't find America today. The ingredients, the quality is really low. Scusa. I can't. I can't believe your body is really physically rejecting this. That says everything right there. Is that Alessio's Italian body can't handle this. So that tells us all that we need to know. Nice. Constantly. Hope you guys enjoyed. To the next taste test. If I survive. If he survives. Ciao!