Comment by vundercind
2 years ago
There are frozen bags of heat-in-a-pan Italian dishes in the grocery store that cost half what Olive Garden does (so, the slightly-fancy frozen meals—there are even cheaper ones) and also taste quite a bit better (though still not great).
They used to at least be better than high-side-of-mid-tier frozen grocery store meals. Not anymore. Their continued existence confuses me.
Bertolli?
Heh, yeah, pretty much. Been better than Olive Garden for a decade or more, and cheaper.
I guess people just like the breadsticks that much (it is, admittedly, a lot more work to replicate those at home than the dump-frozen-bag-in-a-frying-pan process for beating most of their main dishes at home)