When you’re here, you’re family. When you go home and get in the pool, you’re floating around on ridiculous looking giant tortellini.
Olive Garden is now offering something so crazy I legit thought this had to be a parody. A goof. The famous Italian restaurant chain is selling pool noodles through their website, except they look like actual noodles. Replica pasta, giant, big enough for adults to float on.
@olivegarden via Instagram
@olivegarden via Instagram
Except, would you?
Do you love your rigatoni that much you want to be seen floating on it? (Or…in it?) I guess…maybe? I mean, they do give it an inviting name.
The Relaxin’ Rigatoni Pool Noodle, for a mere $40.
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@olivegarden via Instagram
Also on their pool noodles menu (see what I did there?) is fettuccine. This is how Olive Garden is describing these pool items on social media.
“The “Floatin’ Fettuccine” is a flat float perfect for lounging, while the “Takin’ It Easy Tortelloni” and “Relaxin’ Rigatoni” feature open seating areas and hollowed-out middles, respectively.
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@olivegarden via InstagramOlive Garden’s pasta shaped rafts
Each float comes with a complimentary “first course” item, such as a salad-inspired floating drink holder or a breadstick-adorned bucket hat.”
Or you could settle for the soup-er summer vibes tote bag. Yes, these ridiculous floating pasta shapes even come with these accessories.
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@olivegarden via InstagramYou can order these starting Monday June 30.
Here’s the link with more information on how to look insane, eh, oops, I mean on how to get these cool things?
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@olivegarden via Instagram
But I’m sorry, isn’t this a bit ludicrous? Or is this just a party I’m not invited to?
Does anyone love Olive Garden so much that they want their swimming pool filled with these things? If a drone passed over the picture it took could look like you’re lost in a giant bowl of pasta, like something out of “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.”
@olivegarden via Instagram
@olivegarden via Instagram
Hey, if you want to spend $40 to get inside inflatable rigatoni that’s between you and your pasta god. But even after I’ve seen multiple news reports on this and even when I am looking at it on their own site I’m having a hard time believing this is real.
@olivegarden via Instagram
@olivegarden via Instagram
Were Italian-Americans demanding this blowup merch? Or have we taken whimsy and flown it too close to the sun?
Although then we’d have overcooked fettuccine. And would that even float?
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@olivegarden via Instagram9 Most Popular Favorites at Olive Garden You Need To Experience
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