FOOD NEWS
The Way Olive Garden Serves Its Pasta Is A Huge No-No In Italy
By Erin Metz
While Olive Garden fans love the good deals on never-ending pasta bowls, others turn their noses at the pasta dishes with globs of sauce stacked on top of dry pasta.
Per Food Network, restaurants in Italy would never serve patrons pasta dishes without mixing the sauce together, as this allows the chef to control the ratio of sauce to pasta.
It is also taboo to pair together any pasta shape with any sauce. Long, flat, ribbon-like pasta is best with meaty sauces, while thicker pasta is best with light sauces.
Olive Garden disregards the relationship between pasta and sauces, allowing customers to build their own pasta dishes, something you're not likely to see at an Italian restaurant.