- Ciao.
- So, ciao.
- Ciao, ciao. (laughs)
- I'm Stefano.
- And, I'm Roberta.
- And we are from Italy.
- We are from Bologna, the capital of pasta.
- Yeah, capital of Ragù, Lasagna--
- Mortadella, Tortellini, everything.
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We heard about Olive Garden.
- A lot about Olive Garden, like a lot of
Italians complaining about it.
- Pretty famous, yeah.
- So.
- Pretty famous in the opposite way.
(laughing)
- Never tried it, I'm pretty curious about it.
- Yeah.
- Because, I actually don't know what to expect, so.
- Yeah.
- I'm seriously curious about it.
- Curious.
There are things in the menu that doesn't even
exist in Italian language,
or Italian menus anywhere.
Like Fettuccine Alfredo.
- Or, yeah.
- What is this?
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I don't really know,
how I'm gonna swallow even a fork of it
without a quarter,
a liter, of red wine.
- Pasta looks gummy already to me.
- It's, of course it's gummy.
- And, that's the only thing I'm really afraid of,
is overcooked pasta.
- Yeah, but (mumbles).
- The smell is actually not that bad.
- No, no no no, I don't know it's smells like
the normal 'sugos' you buy at the supermarket.
- Yeah, the supermarket.
- Like this, what do we have to do mix it?
And the polpetta alone?
- No sauce, sì, sì, si, try the polpetta first.
- Okay, no you're right.
(mumbles in foreign language)
- Allora.
(mumbles)
- Mmm.
It's not bad, as I expected.
Really.
- No, actually.
- Well maybe weird the way you want.
- I expected it to be like really,
really worse.
But, it's not that bad.
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- Why are they shiny and oily like this?
- And gigante.
(laughs)
I can beat you with that.
(laughs)
- Don't play with your food.
- Bread is a really big deal in Italy.
Bread is a big deal.
We even fight between north and south,
of course.
Because southern is way better,
but okay.
- I'm greasy, like everywhere.
- Hmm.
- Yeah.
- Just the aesthetics.
Not crazy bad.
- Yeah, because it's--
- No.
- I really expected it to be--
- Really.
- is too bad, it's not.
- Anyone in Italy would be shocked by
the presentation of the dish.
But the taste isn't bad, really.
- No, actually no.
- The taste is not that bad.
(laughs)
- It is just ugly to see, actually.
That's the main problem, probably.
Everything is like double of the size
we have in Italy.
(mumbling)
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- Fettuccine is your thing.
- Yeah, actually Fettuccine is a Roman thing.
But, Alfredo is like,
I don't know,
the only Alfredo I've ever known
was a Cuban guy, actually, so.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I don't know what Alfredo will be in Italy.
- Alfredo must be some Italian guy,
that came over here and said,
"Okay, I can feed these guys whatever I want.
They're gonna eat it,
because my name is Alfredo."
(laughs)
And this is how the dish is born.
- Looks like two different pastas mixed together.
(laughing)
- Mm, there's garlic inside too.
- I don't know.
You think?
- I don't know.
Let's try it.
Basta!
Pasta.
Basta, pasta.
(mumbles)
This sound is, uh,
(laughing)
The sound that pasta should never make.
(laughs)
Like a squashy.
Mm.
(laughing)
- Like the pasta you get when you're really sick
and you got to stay at the hospital for a--
- Oh, no.
- Yeah.
- I would order it,
like, I would have done that, yeah for sure.
- Yeah, we would have tried for sure.
Because we were--
- For sure, too curious.
- So curious about the Alfredo.
- But, it stacks you know, well.
- It actually is.
- This gluey cream helps.
- This is actually better than the meatballs,
because, I don't know it's not,
much simple, looks like more proper.
Probably, I will get killed for
saying something like that when I get home.
- Yeah.
- But it's actually more Italian than the meatballs.
- Yeah, sadly.
- Proper.
- We have to admit that Alfredos are good.
Alfredo must have been a really cool guy.
- Knows what he's doing.
- We do worse things, guys.
- Yeah, yeah, totally.
I've eaten really worse things in my life,
so it's not that bad.
Better than expected,
for sure.
- Mm-hmm, definitely.
- For sure, yeah.
- And, I'm so ready to go there in person.
Without feeling shame,
and disrespectful to my home.
I don't wanna make my Nonna cry.
- No, they're not open minded like us.
- Yeah.
Believe me I have troubles even to bring her
to the restaurants in Italy,
because she's like,
"Mm, that's trash, we're gonna eat better at home".
And we're leaving everything,
and I'm feeling bad,
because this is really, you know,
a bad, bad thing to do in Italy.
- Yeah.
- Like leaving the food in the dish, like (exhales deeply).
- I hate that stuff actually, yeah.
- Sometimes, I don't know the cook
from the restaurant your in,
just comes from the kitchen with the dish telling,
"What went wrong?
What went wrong?
Why didn't you enjoy that?"
- Can happen to you in Italy.
- Yeah, like insulting you or angry at you
because you didn't finish your--
Definitely.
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