One of my fundamental theories of pizza is that you should never eat pizza at a restaurant that doesn’t specialize in pizza.
If their pizza isn’t good enough to be their headliner and major breadwinner, it can’t be that good, right?
I enjoy eating at Olive Garden, but because of the aforementioned policy, I’ve never tried their pizza, although I’ve seen them served at other tables and they look pretty good.
Today, I broke with policy and gave it a try.
They serve one size pizza and the price doesn’t change for 1 to 4 toppings, so I went with sausage and pepperoni.
As with virtually everything at the Olive Garden, my dinner included salad and breadsticks before the pizza arrived.
I ate too much salad and too many breadsticks.
Then the pizza arrived and I have to tell you, it isn’t good. Sauce, cheese, toppings all were uninspiring, but worst of all was the crust. Cooked? Yes, but that’s the only thing I could say for it. Soft and bready, it just couldn’t be considered a pizza crust.
In fact, when I reached the outer edge I knew why: It’s a breadstick made into a crust.
You can’t just re-purpose any old dough and expect to make a pizza.
Pizza dimensions were not given on the menu, but by the scientific napkin measure this was a 10″ pizza.
Cost: $9.95, Cost per square inch $0.13 (0.127)
Conclusion: Don’t go for the pizza.
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