FOOD NEWS
It's Ironically Hard To Find Olives At Olive Garden
By Alexander Billet
Olive Garden's menu has always been fairly diverse, but one ingredient that's almost entirely absent from the menu is olives.
Food writer Helen Rosner noted, "The omission is intentional, though the irony is not. It's a simple matter of marketing: People don't like olives."
She wrote that there were two places where olives could always be found in the chain restaurant: martinis and salads, which are required to include exactly two black olives.
Still, Rosner recounted a conversation with a server who said that about half her tables either ask for the olives to be left out of the salad or leave them uneaten.
In the English food parlance, olive gardens don't really exist, as olives are cultivated in groves. Undoubtedly, anyone who takes the name literally is bound to be frustrated.