Originally Posted by
cordelli
I'm guessing that anybody who believes Olive Garden offers better Italian food then what is available even at a highway rest stop in Italy (which totally blows away 95% of the Italian food available in the US for example) is coming in on the low end of the taste bud scale

Based on my experience, I have to disagree with this one. Maybe we have eaten at different Italian highway service plazas, but my experience has been nasty food sitting under heat lamps.
Other than that, however, I agree that food in Italy is great.