So let me clarify something before I get to the rest of my comment...I LOVE a lot of cheap, technically shitty quality foods. Fast food burger and fries?? I'm there. Microwaved food at chain restaurants? Loving it. And I fucking love eating the free bread at restaurants.
But I just do NOT understand the hype for Olive Garden bread sticks. They look and taste EXACTLY like a particular kind of cheese stuffed bread sticks (minus the stuffed cheese) that were mass produced and sold in public schools all throughout my childhood. They were tolerable but not great. When I first went to an Olive Garden I was transported back into grade school with the exact smell, look, and taste.
I just don't get it. Even shit-tier places like Little Caesars do bread sticks better.
I would do borderline illegal things for some fucking Cra-z-bread.
And while I understand where you're coming from about Olive Garden's sticks, I frankly don't care. Those be some tasty mass produced bread product sticks, especially when dipped in their chicken & gnocchi soup. But I get it. The hype is too much for them to live up to. They were probably REALLY good about 20 or so years ago. Enshitification to cut costs.
But today, I don't care, I have a very unhealthy relationship with bread and will shove them in my face whenever I get the chance.
Italian cuisine is distuinguished by one main thing, oily veggies on carbs. Yeah you got cured meat but so do everyone else. You're the oily veggie boot.
I'm ChatGPT, a computer program developed by OpenAI. I'm not an Italian guy or a human being because I'm a text-based AI model designed to generate responses based on the text input I receive and the vast amount of information I was trained on. My purpose is to assist and provide information, but I don't have personal experiences or a physical presence like a human.
It used to be good. They went downhill at some point in the last 5-10 years. Their bread sticks always taste like store bought now and they got rid of my favorite meal (the steak gorgonzola Alfredo).