I miss the “but never zero” memes. Maybe I’ll start flooding lemmy with them personally.

The chances of a “missing” tourist’s body being found are also low, but not zero!

Have you ever been in Italy?
They take their food seriously…

I’m only even ~1/4 Italian by ancenstry, and I would have it out for somebody who did this at a proper Italian restaurant in the US.

Unacceptable chuckle-fuck behavior.

So like one of my favorite Chinese restaurants you would go to because the owner would always be going on an angry drunken rant. The food is good but the floor show is better

According to Borderlands 3, the life of a celebrity chef is mostly revenge killings.

Edit: Just saying find us a celebrity Italian chef… 😎

“No, this is a restaurant. And they are usually called olive orchards, not gardens. If you’d like to see one after your meal, I can give you directions to one nearby.”

exactly ahah

On top of that, I don’t think the average Italian would get the implication that “olive garden is better” from that phrase. They would understand it literally: this is not olive garden, this is Don Pasquale.

Always funny to see a bunch of them walking on their tour.
Running after the guide on their way to some sight and a look of panic when they can’t keep up in a crowd.
As if they’re in some war zone.
Expecting to get robbed at any moment or hearing Alah Akbar before someone blows himself up.

I’d guess lots of them just can’t fully internalize the fact that there are places worth going to that are close and safe to walk to. Outside of downtown areas in mid size American cities, going somewhere on foot could take hours and involve crossing streets not friendly (or sometimes illegal) to foot traffic. That sucks, and a lifetime of living that reality is hard for some people to move past.

You know the opposite can be said about people from Europe visiting America for the first time too. I remember years ago when I was in high school working at a gas station and a small town in Nevada. We had some Europeans show up in the middle of the night asking how far it was to San Francisco I told them it was another 12 hours from where we are currently at to be able to make it to San Francisco. They were absolutely aghast at the size and the distance because they had already driven from salt lake City where they had flown into. It took them hours to get to the town I was at and they could not believe it was another day’s driving to get to San Francisco. They looked at a map and they thought to themselves it’s only a little bit it’ll only take us a few hours to make it there. They thought they were going to be able to drive from salt lake City to San Francisco in just a few hours so they could check out the Golden gate bridge before driving back and catching their next flight. And they were far from the first people that I had met that made similar mistakes to that. America is absolutely massive in comparison. So it’s not a surprise that most Americans would look at something and say oh my God it’s going to take us forever to go from where the ship docks to anywhere we can actually do something. Because in America any place a ship docs is a really long distance from anywhere you can actually do anything. And most the time you can’t even walk through those areas because most of the time they are areas that are warehouse districts industrial districts things like that. So while Europeans love to make fun of Americans because oh no we can’t walk. We walk extremely far just to get to the areas that we’re at. Hell my kids when they went to high school their high school was exactly 20 miles from my front door to get to their high school. The junior high that my kids went to was 3 miles. The elementary school that my son goes to is a mile both directions. We still walk it we have no issues walking it.

There aren’t a lot of places in the US that have worthwhile places to visit within walking distance from an airport or harbor.

Armericans walking 400 metres?

Im Central American and that’s my fear about moving to Europe. I won’t be able to get the products from home as easily and cheap, will there be any good latin American food?

Your post from a few days ago put a bug in my head and now I’m rewatching GG too, thanks for that. Ironically, loudly comparing every restaurant in Italy to Olive Garden is a hell of a Sophia style troll move.

“lalaw” will never leave my brain

“Tastes like it could use a bit more pink slime. Have you tried adding more pink slime to them?”

“I’m an Oscar Meyer weiner kid”

It’s the opposite. They will just bring bread and olives to the table and then you find out that it was a $20 charge when you get the bill.

would we Americans even recognize a breadstick as such if it wasn’t a quarter high fructose corn syrup by mass??

We do! Some restaurants have inner gardens where you can eat and they are surrounded with olive trees. Italy and Spain are both countries that go very proud of their olive oil production!

The food in Italy was so amazing. Even after pasta, pizza, pasta, you never felt like you had a big ass ball of dough in your stomach. Way different ingredients than USA. USA sucks for food quality most of the time.

Him and Nick eating at Olive garden is one of the funniest videos.