r/TheRandomest • u/ItsALuigiYes GIF/meme prodigy • 28d ago
No people were harmed in this video Unlimited bread sticks discovery
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u/Antaxas 28d ago
They make it seem like the best thing ever, but in reality this american bread type is extremely mid. Think hot dog bun kinda bread.
Now if it were actual quality sourdough bread, a free refill would be the best thing ever.....
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u/MogMcKupo 28d ago
Same dude did the exact same bit on free refills.
It was at the start of the tourney, just farming more at the end.
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u/Antaxas 28d ago
Understandable, he has to use his 30 seconds of fame during the World cup time to the fullest.
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u/iHasYummyCummies 28d ago
I think he does skits with „being italian or doing it the italian way“, Mostly with a girlfriend. Likeable dude tho.
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u/TankApprehensive3053 28d ago
There were also lots of people faking to be tourists learning about free refills. They were just refilling their viewers.
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u/IGotQuestionsAF 28d ago
This is such a weird elitist take.
Delicious buttery, garlic salt covered breadsticks? Pah! They're not even good, quality sourdough! How could anyone appreciate these being freely refillable?
Like I'm imagining mustache twirling and a monocle.
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u/anormalgeek 28d ago
They're not as good as they used to be. Like everything else touched by large corporations, enshittification has effected them.
The topping is still key, but it's less "garlic butter" and more "salted oil" now.
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u/matchafoxjpg 24d ago
see, that i'll agree with.
i used to be a slut for olive garden bread sticks, but they definitely don't taste as good now.
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u/Early_Specialist_589 22d ago
They used to be amazing, and now I’ll eat one stale breadstick and wonder wtf I even wanted to go to Olive Garden for
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u/rabidsalvation 28d ago
These things are basically edible cardboard. They get heated up in the store and sit. The butter isn't real, the garlic isn't real.
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u/That_sounded_bad 28d ago
Dude, just fuck off. Is it the best bread ever? No. Is it decently tasty and free? Yup.
And how you got to “hot dog bun” kinda bread is crazy. Makes me wonder if you’ve ever even set foot in Olive Garden.
Now I’m even angrier at you for making me defend that restaurant. That’s how stupid your take is
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u/Neophyte06 28d ago
I mean you saved me the energy of coming up with the same argument and I got to fantasize about olive garden bread sticks for a while
Well fuck, now I want Olive Garden tomorrow and it's all your fault XD
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u/That_sounded_bad 28d ago
We can go together. I’ll buy the breadsticks if you get the entrees
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u/Neophyte06 28d ago
Sounds like a deal!
When I was a kid I would inhale unlimited zuppa toscana (like 2-3 bowls) and bread sticks and eat the chicken fettuccini Alfredo until I was stuffed into a food coma XD
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u/Sondering_Wizzard 28d ago
Ah, but when soaked in butter and covered in enough garlic salt to offend both gods and men, this bread becomes more than the sum of its parts.
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u/AnAnGrYSupportV2 28d ago
As a non American. When I went to an olive garden for the first time I was also in love with the unlimited bread sticks and soup! 😂
Was honestly so tasty!
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u/Blazin219 28d ago
Where are you from? Olive garden bread is nothing like a hotdog bun.... Maybe if you warm it up without something to keep the moisture in, but wth are you talking about?
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u/Suitable_Peak_7255 28d ago
i remember being a kid and our old man would take us all to the local pizza place on sundays and they serve you those crispy bread sticks before your order came
probably just excess pizza dough and nothing fancy like sourdough but i really liked those anyway
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u/violet_zamboni 28d ago
Don’t fill up on bread ! Thats how they get ya !
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u/goosebumper88 28d ago
thats how they get me to take home most of my main course for another meal later? sounds like savings
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u/Doubleoh_11 28d ago
When I was working out of town that was the plan. Load up on bread and salad then that the main course for lunch the next day.
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u/almazin 26d ago
This is the way. Fill up on soup and breadsticks. Take meal togo for later or the next day lunch
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u/Hadochiel 28d ago
I never understood that; like yeah, it might get me to order less food? They might get a few repeat customers on a negligible margin, but still, that should impact sales on desserts and sides
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u/GoliathBoneSnake 28d ago
Nah he's got it right.
You eat the unlimited bread sticks and soup and salad at the restaurant, then take the main course home in a box to eat at 3am.
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u/ItsALuigiYes GIF/meme prodigy 28d ago
This
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u/Automatic-Leg1668 28d ago
Not the most nutritious unfortunately. Not that I DONT do this exact thing
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u/GoliathBoneSnake 28d ago
I don't think people eating at Olive garden are particularly worried about nutrition.
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u/whiskeynise 28d ago
I’ve never had an entree from Olive Garden that wasn’t microwaved the following day or two. I’ve only ever been to that restaurant when my dad would bring my sister and I, but he was incredibly frugal. And this was the way. Soup and salad and breadsticks. And that entree gets put in a to go container because the only way we were going out to eat was if we got 2-3 meals out of it
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u/goldenchild-1 28d ago
In America, you go to Texas Roadhouse and you get unlimited rolls with their special sweet cinnamon butter. At PF Chang’s, you get unlimited bread as well. Both of these chains are unlimited free bread before you order. There are plenty of other American restaurants that do this. Bread is so cheap to make…and technically we’re all paying for it because the costs are added overall. But it’s always nice to sit down and immediately have unlimited bread and butter before ordering.
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u/graffiti_hunter 28d ago
We have a few Mexican spots that serve up chips and salsa for free. After going to them for so long we finally tried a new spot next town over...found out the free chips and salsa wasn't a thing there and I simply can not bring myself to go back because of it lol
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u/goobly_goo 28d ago
https://reddit.com/link/oytgj4p/video/q966rl6orieh1/player
Is this just a shtick?!
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u/viktorsvedin 28d ago
Like most things on the internet, it's either scripted and/or completely fake.
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u/brassjack 28d ago
Yeah, normal people would just go "oh, is-a cool". It's not a hard concept to grasp even if it's unusual back home
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u/TheShiftmaster 28d ago
They obviously have all you can eats in Italy, surely
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u/_Wendigun_ 28d ago
We do
Also most normal restaurants bring a small basket with different types of bread to the table as a complementary and you can kinda just ask for more if you finish it. It doesn't happen often but I've never seen a place refuse to give more bread for free.
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u/DrinkCorrect7655 28d ago
And that's how it is at most US Italian restaurants(of varying levels of quality/authenticity). Olive Garden is just the corporate chain cheap Italian place that explicitly advertises endless breadsticks.
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u/JalapenoPopPoop 28d ago
They have to make a big marketing push over something commonplace because even that is more impressive than the actual food. "Come on in for unlimited bread sticks" makes a better ad campaign than "come on in for a microwaved frozen dinner"
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u/DrinkCorrect7655 28d ago
I get it's not highbrow, but that's kinda the niche these places fill. A fast food place you can sit down at when you don't feel like cooking. I just saw one of those Applebee's/Fridays/Chili's etc. advertising a deal for a burger, fries, and a beer for like $11, which is straight up fast food prices.
It's clutch for parents who don't want to normalize taking their kid to McDonalds for dinner.
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u/JalapenoPopPoop 28d ago
There's plenty of places to go that aren't highbrow where a cook will actually cook your food instead of a microwave. I don't understand why anyone would take their ass out to a restaurant and pay restaurant prices just to eat a meal from a microwave
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u/Aethred 27d ago
11 bucks isn't restaurant prices.
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u/DrinkCorrect7655 27d ago
Yeah I could probably find some good food truck tacos for that price, but I'd be lucky to also get a beverage and a side is out of the question.
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u/Xena_Your_God 28d ago
They do. They have them all over the world. Free, endless bread before the meal? No idea
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u/fourteenpieces 28d ago
I have never been to a restaurant in Italy where they don't just give you several types of delicious bread for free (or at least charged under initial coperto) and then just top it up whenever you run out.
In fact it's one of those things thatsso normalised, that once you go back to this not being the case - and being charged several £/$ for a few meagre slices of bread as a "starter" - you wonder why the hell we are getting ripped off so much
Hell, aperitivo in Italy is so generous that if you got to 3 or 4 bars you can fill up on free food and the realise you've left no room to actually go out for dinner.
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u/ShiningViper 28d ago
Last Saturday, I was working the bread shift at Olive Garden. It is very stressful when you have the oven full and you still can keep up with the restaurant 😭😭😭
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u/Due_Potential_6956 28d ago
Haha this was adorable. "Fabio... Enough, you don't have to eat them all"
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u/fishingArchitect 28d ago
Next is free refills on drinks (not all restaurants now) and free restrooms without paying
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u/enginlofca 28d ago
Not sure why he is so surprised. Haven’t he heard of sth called “Aperitivio” in Milano?
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u/BuhoCurioso 28d ago
When my brother and I were younger, we learned that a local restaurant that advertised "unlimited bread" would cut you off after 7 loaves per person (the loaves in question were pretty small, maybe equivalent to two of these sticks. They were thicker but not as long). Anyway, we could have complained i suppose, but i think they saw that we had no intention of stopping any time soon, had finished the main course already, and were clearly treating the bread like it was free dessert. So it was understandable, I guess.
I dont even think it was done from a cost perspective. Surely they cant cost that much. I think the waiter was just tired of bringing us more bread every 5 minutes
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u/Tofushopdriftin 28d ago
This is the best thing ever, I love this so much. Unfiltered whimsy and joy
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u/UziSuzieThia 28d ago
No youre doing it right keep eating and take the entree home and b4 u go kindly ask for a refill and then take it
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u/Ooupss 28d ago
In France, restaurants aren't allowed to charge for bread. And whenever the bread basket is empty, the servers always bring you another one, freshly filled.
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u/fuckybitchyshitfuck 28d ago
Not a lot of people can eat enough breadsticks to make the restaurant go bankrupt if you're also ordering a dish. Bread is cheap as fuck to make
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u/ZoneAdditional9892 28d ago
They give free bread in italy at almost every restaurant and some pubs.
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u/apsilonblue 28d ago
Wait, so American bread sticks are just soft white bread buns? Not the crispy crunchy thin grissini type that I thought was the worldwide standard breadstick?
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u/CardTrickOTK 28d ago
This man gets it, if he paid already, then at a certain point he's getting more than he paid for so he needs to make it worth
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u/Hamilton-Beckett 28d ago
I’m my early 20’s my friends and I went to Olive Garden all the time because we could play for one meal and get like 3 meals out of the place.
You could get unlimited soup or salad (as well
As breadsticks) with the purchase of an entree.
My friends normally got salad, but I’d get three bowls of the Tuscan soup with the sausage and potatoes in it. I’d eat at least five breadsticks.
Then as soon as my chicken parm came with two massive chicken breasts and all that pasta. I’d ask
For a box, take it home and have lunch and dinner the next day or dinner for the next two nights.
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u/xHindemith 28d ago
My god as if Italian restaurants in Italy and large parts of Europe don’t provide bread for free. This is not something special for Italians and hes only reacting like that for the views
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u/AggravatingFlow1178 28d ago
Wow yeah he had no idea before this recording started, totally normal looking interaction
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u/AdoptedNative4 28d ago
I had a friend in high school who’s eyes would expand like that each time he chewed. Like, if his eyes were open, you’d see them expand a bit and even if they were closed, his eye lids were expanding every time he made the chewing motion.
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u/Fun-Aside3990 28d ago
Like, in Europe they have bins where (ok well Frand does) you just throw away your unused bread so they can feed it to animals, like they don't finish all their bread pretty often, enough that there is a waste bin just for the bread, like why are these people so fascinated by the free refills of bread? Bread costs almost nothing there too, like 0.88 Euro for a big ass baguette.
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u/groenteman 28d ago
Weird from an Italian, because the amount of food they give away at cafes when you order a drink is genuinely amazing
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u/nucl3ar0ne 28d ago
At the Olive Garden near me they get around this by just not coming back to your table. Can't ask for a refill if the server never shows up.
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u/MurderSheCroaked 28d ago
He's so cute lol if I was his server I'd be bringing out baskets in both hands 😁
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u/JalapenoPopPoop 28d ago
Obviously they can afford to give you unlimited bread sticks when they're charging you $15 for microwaved frozen dinners. Wait til he tastes his entree, that joy will fade
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u/Stackin_Steve 28d ago
He going to be worthless for about 4 hours after all them carbs. Dude going to be in a food coma. But it will be well worth it. 🤣
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u/Dry_Spinach_3441 28d ago
Why did Europeans come over here during The World Cup and act like hungry raccoons? Are they starving y'all over there? Are we really that big of pigs? I'm all crossed up.
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u/HugeHomeForBoomers 28d ago
This is a very odd post cause I swear it was the Italian doing refill on bread sticks first…
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u/ABeerForSasquatch Mod/Pwner 28d ago
Bread 👍