I love how Carlo keeps looking around before he takes a bite, even out the window into the parking lot to make sure no one sees this crime against Italy. 😂 By the way, I subscribed after watching just one of your videos. 👍 You guys are so adorable! Ciao!
I mean he’s definitely being dramatic but it’s funny, it’s for a video. I’ve been to multiple countries and Europe and had the same reaction to all kinds of advertised Mexican food.
I would love to see Carlo's reaction in full blown Italian with subtitles, I think it would be great to see his passion being outlet in a way where he is not constrained by the barrier of language.
It seems that he is holding back aloat most of the time. Wonder if it is only the language that holds him back. "It is fun to see his full blown reaction." Not sure. I don't know
This is what we love and admire about the Italian people here in Europe. They are fanatic about their food, and the rest of us get to enjoy it with them...
Food is food. If it taste good, then why whine about what it is called? Just eat the freaking thing and enjoy it for what it is. Even Italians have MANY ways to prepare the sauce and different ways to prepare spaghetti. There isn't ONLY 1 WAY to prepare the sauce, and noodles.
My cousin Giorgio from Italy knows Italian food like no other. When he came to visit, I took him to Olive Garden for a Tour of Italy sampler--chicken Parmigiano, lasagne, and fettuccine Alfredo. We had a great time, and the waitress even thought he was cute. Oh, he thought the food was shit.
@@OneJuan0633 As a Mexican born and raised in Mexico and still living here... I once was taken to a Taco Bell when I was visiting the US.... I am not sure if it is a good analogy, Olive Garden isn't THAT bad, right?
@@רננהשנקולבסקי ok but did you see where I said she doesn't share share her man? If he were our boyfriend..that would still be sharing. So no..not really...
It is a family foodie culture. The two are intertwined. The food is made with love, not haphazardly thrown together. This is what I love about Carlos! I loved in the beginning when he was pouting, "Sarah's being mean to me." Too cute.
@@Galexlol Americans aren’t “brainwashed lunatics” as a whole, trying to insult those of an entire country seemingly because you may not like their food makes no sense, and is childish. The food isn’t poison as well, if you don’t enjoy restaurants there are several other options, like cooking for yourself, and/or growing your own food.
I sympathize with Carlo. I lived in Southern Italy for almost 2 years. When I came back to the States, my parents took me to Olive Garden. My first reaction to the food was the same as Carlo's..."This is not Italian!". I ate it, but the didn't really enjoy it. The textures, the flavor, the combinations, they're all wrong. Italians do have a different relationship with food...Italians live to eat, but Americans eat to live. When an Italian eats truly good food, you don't need to ask if they like it, you just look at their face and their eyes. Americans have learned to accept poor quality food and pay good money for it. If it doesn't make them puke, then it's acceptable. The smell of pee...it's the carpet. It's not cleaned as often as it should. Any decent restaurant wouldn't have carpet to begin with, but they think a bare floor is a way to dodge an accident lawsuit.
Me too, I was born in Brazil and at six years of age, I went to live in the USA, stayed there for 2 years, I had a good experience living in the state of Georgia, but man, the food, honestly, is my worst memory living as kid in the USA, everything tasted bad, not even the fast food did for me, when I returned to Brazil, it was a blessing to be able to eat Brazilian food again, both for taste and for health. If I ever go back to the USA, I know that my challenge is going to find decent food to eat (note that I’m talking about a experience that happened in 2006, don’t know if the situation improved by now)
Hehe like going to an American Greek restaurant after living in Greece. Mostly has almost nothing to do with real Greek food. (There are a few exceptions, but not in Seattle where I live…)
I’ve been to Italy a couple of times, and I was almost crying at the wonderful flavours and textures of Italian cuisine. I cannot even explain how wonderful Italian food is , even eating in a train station in Italy out does any North American Restaurant. Europe ruined me for Canadian and American restaurants 🧑🏽🍳😘
My grandma was Italian. I miss her cooking so much. Lol She would have demanded to go to the back of the restaurant and shown the cooks how to make Italian food. 😆
I’m so thankful I live where there are mostly only Asian families running the Asian restaurants short of the chains and maybe a few “Chinese” take out places. There’s like 4 different pho places that are all exclusively run by Vietnamese people. It could still be not as authentic as even the Jamaican place near me is run by Jamaicans yet is very bland compared to what I’ve had elsewhere
I agree I am a Southern born American. We have our own unique tastes and way of cooking. But when I see a restaurant advertising down home country cooking I laugh because our vegetables DON'T come out a can.
I've been to many countries (very grateful and blessed) and in my lifetime of 30 years, I have never met better and more joyful people than italians. And if I could travel to one country for the rest of my life, it would be Italy. Absolutely love their culture, their food, the atmosphere - just everything. Make yourself a favor and book a flight to Italy. You will not regret it!
I'd love to settle down in Italy too but i think it'd be bad for me physically. The first month of me arriving there I'd just eat pasta, pizza and ice cream all the time and gain like, 50 lbs 😂
@@ColonelBloodyKurtz I don't know if you've been to Italy before but I feel like pasta and pizza outside of Italy is so much heavier than in Italy. They eat pasta a lot, but you don't see a lot of over-weight people. Their pasta is not drowned in heavy sauces but rather light. Same with the Pizza. When I go on vacation there, I eat Pizza and Pasta every day but not gain a single pound when I come back.
My family would go there and they get mad at me because I'd fill up on the breadsticks and salad and my mom would have to take my meal home cuz I would never eat the meal I just eat salad and the breadsticks I can't stand the Olive garden I don't like much of anything that they have
I was born and grew up in Canada, my parents were new immigrants from Asia and sent me to a preschool / group daycare where the food was cooked by one of the sweetest Italian nonnas. Little did I know, my first love in foods was authentic Italian before I even knew what it was. (I remember hating olives though as a toddler!) Let me tell you when they say that smells and flavours linger with your deepest memories because to this day in my adulthood I still recall what real Italian sauces and recipes taste like. Almost as if guided by a core instinct. I can understand why Italians are so proud of their true ways of cooking. Sometimes very well-made culinary dishes will trigger this deep nostalgia for those original, perfect flavours. Now as an adult who loves cooking authentic recipes in the manner for dishes across all cultures, I realize the amount of violence that North American casual dining inflicts on cultural dishes - and Italian food is no excpetion. I feel Carlo's pain and passion as a big enthusiast of Italian cooking.
Hello, former Olive Garden employee here: the Olive Carbonara sauce is actually alfredo sauce that's been cooked with bacon and probably one other ingredient. I'm glad Carlos said something about how weird the dish is; it was my least favorite item on the menu because the bacon taste was so weird with the rest of the flavors. Also, I don't know if this is a regional thing, but at my location, alfredo was hands-down the most popular sauce to the point where people would constantly ask for more even though their pasta was practically SWIMMING in the sauce.
@davidmatten8519 I had to look up what exactly goes into a true Carbonara, so forgive any mistakes in my reasoning, but here's my theory: - they want to save money on ingredients so they use stuff they already use for other dishes, like bacon and alfredo - people love alfredo sauce - like, REALLY, love the sauce - bacon is also probably cheaper/easier to find than guanciale or other kinds of "nicer" pork - Olive Garden nowadays is hell bent on coming across as "authentic Italian" while being as profitable as possible, meaning cheap stuff at higher prices.
@@a.b.cooper4807 Also, "Authentic" varies. For Instance... I had a Italian friend who insisted that Lasagana HAD to be made with Beschamel (FRENCH white sauce, BTW) I told him that I only layered it with sauce and ricotta. He informed me it was not authentic... yet you go on youtube, and watch Grandma Gina make it, and she makes it EXACTLY as I do. Come to find out, NORTHERN Italy makes it different than SOUTHERN Italy, and each one thinks the other is wrong.
Italian police is gonna control their videos and interrogate him in a dark room until he fesses up to have liked at least one of those things sold as "iTaLiAn" while abroad and at that point they're gonna deport him to USA straight away
OMG I had such a good laugh! My sister lives in Italy for long time with her partner, an Italian chef, so I can only imagine this situation could be even crazier with both of them :) Thanks for a good one!
I spent several weeks in Italy once, and I can sympathize with Carlo's reactions. Real Italian food might often be imitated, but I've never seen it duplicated!
I’m Dutch myself🇳🇱 and came to the States 6 years ago. Even though i love this country. Italy 🇮🇹 will always be my favorite. The people the food and just the country itself. Love how Carlo is trying the food and give his honest answer (like most Italians) do lol😃
6:40 Yes! Exactly. They present "Italian food" but it's not really truly Italian, so it makes others who are unaware think that it's authentic. But like Sarah said, it's not gross food. It's just not true Italian food.
I think Olive Garden is gross. I live in Texas where there are a bunch of them. I have been dragged there a handful of times and it’s just BAD. I would rather eat a decent “ Italian” tv dinner.
You ________never________ break the pasta or millions of italian grandmas will suffer and cry with the angels up in heaven ......well, actually breaking the pasta is acceplable _____only_____ if you have candele and you have to get them ready for cooking .....oh, and of course if you want to prepare spaghettini in brodo con la stracciatela when you have a bad cold in the Winter ...oh, and if you have the full sagne and you are the kind of person that likes sagne e fagioli well creamy so you need the mezze sagne ____________but apart from these cases________________ you never break your pasta ruclips.net/video/P4GOUZ1vo-U/видео.html
Back in the day, I met a man that was visiting Chicago, he was in the Italian army, and we became friends, so I showed him all around Chicago, and he acted just like this, like he took food soooo seriously, I miss him, he was sooo much fun, he's the reason why I take food seriously too this day☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️
5:55 Oh geez... "Asking for an honest opinion to ANYTHING Italian" is like asking to argue, but with "more passion". My wife's Italian, I don't do that. 😱😂 I've learned my lesson.
His reaction of disgust to many things is just like mine and my mom's.......food truly IS the centerpiece for Italian living closely surrounded by family and friends.
The food in Toscano is different than the food in Napoli. I always said Olive Garden has the spirit, if not the authenticity, of northern Italian food. They try, bless their hearts. The only thing I'll eat there besides the salad and breadsticks are the mushroom ravioli, they're not so bad. It's been so long since I've been, years, I'm not sure if they even serve them anymore. There is fettuccine Alfredo in Italy, it's where I learned to make it. From my Italian boyfriend's family who owned a restaurant, in Toscano about 35 years ago or so. I lived for many years in a small town on the beach by Pisa called Tirrenia. We don't have the same ingredients here so the closest thing I can find to make it here is heavy whipping cream, but it's still not quite the same or as good. I never saw these northern Italian dishes in Southern Italy. The further south you go in Italy the more sauces becomes tomato based. And sweeter. Alfredo isn't carbonara. At all. They should never go together. You'll never, ever going to find an Italian restaurant to satisfy him, trust me. Best thing you can do is learn how to cook how he likes it, which is how his momma cooks it. Take him to French restaurants . He'll never be satisfied with an Italian restaurant in America unless you find a restaurant whose recipes were brought from Italy generations ago.
Carlo massimo supporto per te e per quello che hai passato in quel ristorante. È una testimonianza di quello che un uomo italiano farebbe per la donna che ama. Saluti dall'Italia
Respect to carlo for always trying to find the best words to express himself! As a fellow non-native speaker I recognize his struggle :) Very entertaining! Thanks both
I would love to see a collaboration of you guys with Eva and Harper of Pasta Grammar. Eva and Carlo's reactions together to what we Americans accept as Italian food would be so entertaining!
I was thinking the exact same thing!! Eva and Carlo are both from Calabria, and they both react the same way to Harper and Sarah's American ideas about food.
Well that depends on where you go! My wife and I lived in Williamsburg, VA for a while, and it has a surprising plethora of mom and pop restaurants. We fell in love with them, and our date nights became trying a different mom and pop periodically. We found some amazing soul food, Asian, Dim Sum, seafood, and steak restaurants. And we found some awful ones. But we learned very quickly what to look for, and where to go. We've kind of become foodies since then, and we love finding places that treat their food with love and care. You can find some amazing restaurants if you know how and where to look. Ironically though, I am yet to find a good Italian restaurant. And we moved to Phoenix where the cuisine is.... eh, there's a couple decent restaurants out here.
Honestly he doesn’t look like a passionate food person but someone who doesn’t appreciate food at all. Somewhere, someone is picking food from a trash can and is thankful.
See, I actually liked hearing his thoughts. I was born and raised in Maracaibo, Venezuela, a part of South America that has a heavy influence of European immigrants but specially Italian immigrants, back in the day. My best friend and I always joked around getting the pasaporto to show you’re a true Italian. Anyways, I came to the US in 2014 and went to several Italian restaurants in the South Florida area (which supposedly has a lot of NY Italians that relocated), and the menus DIDN’T make sense to me. I hadn’t heard of Alfredo sauce either, why is the tomato sauce called “Marinara”, why is everyone telling me I NEED to get soup or salad BEFORE the pasta dish, never heard of Chicken Parmigiana before (although it’s tasty), why is bolognese or salsa bolognesa called meat sauce (salsa de carne) at first I thought the dish was going to come with actual chunks of steak or something… Why can’t I choose the type of pasta, it’s usually just spaghetti or fettuccine, I missed fusilli… There’s no frutti di mare pasta… Why does the lasagna come with ricotta. And then pizzerias have garlic rolls, which I later found out is leftover pizza dough wrapped, baked and drenched in garlic flavored oil.. But why. You’re already eating pizza, why eating the leftover dough, specially BEFORE the pizza. And talking about pizzeria, it is rather rare to find a place that has real, fresh mozzarella, basil or even oregano some times. You ask for basil and they look at you like you have 4 heads, and if they have it, they charge extra for it. So I feel your pain, Carlo, and I’m not even Italian, I’m Venezuelan.
Bolognese sauce in Italy is Ragù. Which is a sauce slowly cooked with meat. And Bologna is actually the name of the city where this typical sauce is from. Here in Bologna, we have this traditional paste which is called “Tagliatelle Al Ragù”, different from the similar American cousin “spaghetti alla bolognese”. I suppose they mixed spaghetti pasta and meatballs and create this new version. ☺️ I appreciate that they don’t pretend to call the meatball Ragù and the tagliatelle pasta spaghetti, but they actually offers you what they describe 🤷🏻♀️
Carlo having a meltdown at Olive Gardens is the most hilarious thing ever 😂 and when he was freaking out with the spoon they gave him lol. Like why did they give him a spoon lol how do you eat that thing on the plate with a spoon? Lol. Would love to see the video of his parents reaction
The spoon is for rolling your pasta. You pick up the pasta with your fork, then use the spoon as a surface to roll on. Italians don't use a spoon, they use the plate. I don't understand the need for the spoon either.
@@gnuffola1979 nel senso che so italiano da quando c'è stato lo sbarco dei mille, non so quale altro senso puoi vederci. ti dirò di più, pure gli amici usano il cucchiaio per fare il rotolino, non sarà "educato" ma siamo gente alla mano 😂 poi non è che se non ce l'ho non so mangiare un piatto di pasta lunga, per carità, si fa anche senza. È che veramente, tra tutto lo schifo visto nel video, il cucchiaio mi sembra proprio l'ultima cosa, pure l'avessero fatto mangiare con le mani...
My great grandparents were Genovese and Calabrian and taught my grandfather and father to make traditional dishes, including ingredients. Now I make salami and coppa, cheese and my own pasta, sauce, olives and wine. You can have authentic Italian food here, but you have to make it part of your lifestyle.
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Lmao, I want to be Carlo’s friend so bad! All of his criticism comes from a good place and his reaction to the Alfredo with all the shit thrown in it was hilarious.
Thank you Carlo, for stating the obvious for us Mediterraneans, as we were shocked at the way wrong ingredients are used in certain dishes in America. As names were used badly, especially marinara, and we couldn't understand what alfredo was.
Carlo I feel you.. I will never forget that day when I was cooking spaghetti with tomato sauce, and my Thai girlfriend asked me to put eggs on top… my answer was “babe this is not a pad Thai!” 😂😂😂
@@shino8854 actually it’s not!! Mediterranean diet is the healthiest in the World. Cardiologists & Specialists are all in agreement about the health aspects of the Mediterranean Diet. All Research undertaken backs this up too. Do NOT compare Italian or Greek food served up overseas ( ie: U.S.A , UK and so forth) with the proper and authentic food cooked in these respective countries. Italian or Greek food in the U.S.A ( for example)is neither authentic nor healthy.
I'm a Sicilian-American that grew up cooking, it's some of my first memories - in the kitchen EVERYONE was playing some role, no matter the gender or age. When I got to junior high school I realized I was an aberration, because NONE of my friends knew how to cook and they all thought Italian food was either pizza and subs, or something exotic that you would go to a restaurant and pay LOTS of money for. To this day, I still find it odd that people go to a Italian restaurant like the Olive Garden to pay astronomical prices for something you can make easily at home. I remember the first time I made pasta from scratch for my friends one drunken night, and you would have thought I was an alien that beamed down from a UFO and used magic. I am now 51 and still have friends that don't know how to make something pathetically simple like a pasta with bolognese sauce. For that matter, even how to make a simple red sauce. Having said that, I HAVE gone to Olive Garden with friends and did enjoy a few things. Being Sicilian and not being overly acquainted with the mainland's cuisine outside of the standard few dishes, there had some dishes on the menu that I had never had or heard of and I didn't know if it was a "fake" Italian dish or an Olive Garden original. Anyhow, love the video, Carlo's responses and how much you two clearly love each other. Sarah, you look Italian-American. I'm new to the channel. Do you speak Italian with Carlo?
I'm Sicilian American but I missed out learning how to cook because of the misogyny surrounding it making me reject wanting to learn how to cook as a child. I wished my mother pressed me more on it. I'm trying to learn on my own now though but I can't even make pasta from scratch yet, I'm sure it's easy though...like 2 ingredients but I don't think I even have a big enough clean surface lol.
I love how he always seems afraid of offending the waitstaff. Like you can tell when someone walks by who he doesn't want to overhear his possibly insulting comments (though I have to say I find he's very careful not to be unnecessarily mean, which is also very endearing.) You two are very sweet.
It depends on each taste and traditions. If you present that to an old Italian saying "that's Italian" they will not gonna talk to you again 😂. Younger people are more opened about this type of food but also a lot of them will be like the older people. For us the food is really important, simple recipes, good, authentic and quality fresh food. I know maybe foreigners can't tell the difference just by word, they should really came here or see some true Italian recipes online and make them. The taste, the smell, the joy when you put that food in your mouth is unbelievable. I suggest you to watch some recipes in the "Pasta Grammar" channel. Eva is Italian but married with Harper, which is American and she teaches to all the viewer how to make Italian foods.
I love how my friend from Italy sends me these videos, since I live in America, and just like Carlo freaks the heck out what we Americans do to their food. I feel so bad, because I can't stop laughing at the video and her reactions 😂 it's the funniest thing I swear
To bad it’s hard to travel between Canada and the USA right now, because here in Toronto, there is an amazing Italian restaurant that makes the pasta fresh in front of you, then makes the sauce fresh and adds the veggies or meat that you like. It’s like eating at Nonna’s house. Everyone speaks Italian and it’s feels so warm and comforting.
A friend from the US once told me that if he ever comes to visit Italy he‘d order „Parmesan Chicken“ as it‘s his favorite Italian food. I still have no idea what‘s that supposed to be 🤷🏻♂️
I think he meant the so-called " chicken parmigiana" 😂 i think that it is some kind of Italian immigrant's recipe in the US that is supposed to replace the real Italian eggplant parmigiana
Carlito and Sarah ❤. I started saying. Fhing. His face when you said put the bread stick in the marinara 😂😂😂 love the “ good idea” for par king the family
Guys... I'm an Italian living in Germany... I'm a bit older than you but still quite young... Here in Germany I felt in love for a German girl (First and only one time I felt something like this that pushed me to change all my life for her) after 6 months she broke with me because she told that despite a strong feeling the culture and language differences were too much for planning a relationship... Anytime I see your videos I'm happy because you show how much are cute the cultural differences and how much they can build a strong relation based on the volition to live each other for the person, culture and language each one has... you are a message for other people and even if my story was super sad... watching your video I still have hope that persons can think, live and be like you
He should try Carrabas Italian Restaurant. For a chain, It’s much more Italian than Olive Garden. It was started by a real Italian Family that immigrated to the U.S.
Had a meal at Carraba's and found the food completely underwhelming. And by underwhelming, I mean terrible. On a positive note, the dining room was free of the scent of pee.
(4:08) Oh My God!!! I literally can't!!! "Wtf is that!!!" That's was so funny, I burst out laughing!!! I'm being serious and now my cheeks hurt!!! Oh My God that was hilarious how serious he was!!! I love Carlo #NoHomo. "Wtf is that" literally came out of nowhere.
There is fettuccini alfredo in Italy. It's in Rome. A place called Alfredo's. The difference is that the dish doesn't have cream in it. It's just fettuccini, butter and parmigiano-reggiano.
Be careful. We romans eat home fettuccine butter and parmigiano with two euros. Alfredo’s is doing a marketing operation to make you eat this recipe with 15 euros. Cunning.
@Joe Copa Perhaps you mean creamy pasta dishes, but not sauces. Most creamy dishes are just made with water starch and cooking skill. But you're not wrong, cream sauces are getting more popular in fancy cooking shows. We just dont use them as much.
From Italian heritage, and have never been able to bring myself to more than smh when passing an Olive Garden. Idk, it's some unwritten principle, and Carlo both confirms and reaffirms my aversion to it.
All jokes aside, Fettucine Alfredo is an actual Italian recipe, created all the way back in 1914 at the legendary Ristorante Alfredo alla Scrofa, of course it is wildly different from what the US may call an Alfredo, it involves only the Pasta, Butter, and some very good quality Parmigiano Reggiano, but yes it is absolutely Italian.
I'm italian, i'm 34 and I've never found it in all the restaurant around the state where I've been. 99% of my family and Friends doesn't even know what it is..
Butter and cheese, simply. No roman knows fettuccine Alfredo, because it doesn’t exist. We eat fettuccine butter and parmigiano, especially when we are sick. Alfredo’s is doing a marketing operation for tourists, cunning:15 euros instead 2 euros. Be careful.
Mentre loro la chiamano fettuccine alfredo e ci mettono aglio, crema e altri ingredienti molto italo- americani, che con l’italia c’entra molto poco alla fine, è una cultura completamente diversa
@@lisca.2000 l unica cosa sbagliata che fanno gli americani e spacciare queste ricette per italiane, perché se scrivessero Alfredo pasta americana non sarebbe un problema, farla passare per italiana è sbagliato
Love his reaction after his first bite... I know how it feels, as a Swiss guy going to a Fondue restaurant in Florida............. "Somebody is going to love this, don't know how"... LOL
1:19 food is how you show love or respect to someone. I learned that growing up as an Italian and then even more so when I got to be a student ambassador in Italy. Not only that but Italians take such care in the ingredients they choose. Food overall there just seems to be held at a much higher standard. The cheap five euro pizzas were better than the $20 pizzas I order at home. Everything always tasted fresher. And people make things with a purpose. …damn I miss Italy..
Yep, eating is one of the best moments in life. We can hate someone's guts, wishing he gets hit by a bus, but we'll serve him the best dish we can regardless, because everyone deserves to enjoy a good meal.
@@nicoladc89 Plenty of people here aren't rich. Clearly you haven't been here or you only went to rich neighborhoods. I live in an area that looks war torn when there's no war with a 25% poverty rate. I know other places are worse in terms of overall statistics but there are just plenty of people here who are really poor.
I completely agree with Carlo. If there's a Buca di Beppo near you, try that chain out (I've been to one once; it had a bocce ball area). Or have him try deep dish pizza. (Thank you for the laughs in your videos!)
I went to a very diverse high school with students from around the world, and I am always grateful my first experiences with their food either came from visiting their homes or from them taking me to a restaurant where they confirmed that what we were eating was authentic because I get the frustration of people walking around thinking this or that is what people from that country really eat when its really not. It reminds me of my brother's wedding where his in-laws made food that allegedly was in honor of us, and though the gesture was sweet, I'd never heard of whatever they made and the meat was just terrible.
@@thesushifiend anglicized and shortened down at , Ellis Island : my original family name is , Tesoro - it means , Treasure in Italian - and , if you will note , I have been very respectful , despite your impoliteness
I love how Carlo keeps looking around before he takes a bite, even out the window into the parking lot to make sure no one sees this crime against Italy. 😂 By the way, I subscribed after watching just one of your videos. 👍 You guys are so adorable!
Ciao!
Haha so true.
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This series is golden, it's the best thing. ❤️ He's looking around so drastically, what if someone from his home town sees?!
Olive Garden IS a crime against Italy. It's so gross.
Same here. Watched 1 video had to follow you two
He’s loves you a lot if he’s able to overcome generations of Italian heritage to even enter that establishment
It's fake
@@Greg_3613 You're fake
All their videos are pre-planned and rehearsed. Why are you guys so guillable? She coaches all his responses.
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@@BLTKellys Not going that far.
I love the multiple times he looked like he was holding back strong emotion. Like he'd like to cry and start flipping tables at the same time.
Lol
Sarah: "It doesn't look bad..."
Carlo's Face: "Well it doesn't look GOOD!"
As a Mexican who was taken to Taco Bell , I can relate to Carlo 😂😢 our foods are part of who we are and our culture.
I love taco bell and real Mexican food and I'm Mexican American
Taco Bell is gross. It’s an insult to all food in general, not just Mexican
@@Kimster182 Just like Chipotle burritos. So wrong.
Mexicans don’t have a claim over anything with a tortilla and beans as theirs thousands of combos and cultures.
But taco bell does not claim to be an Indian chapatti store, it claims to be a Mexican taco store. It is neither.
Haha! Carlo's not dramatic, he's just Italian 😂 Us Europeans love our passionate Italian cousins. Don't ever change Carlo 😂👍 Great vid guys
I mean he’s definitely being dramatic but it’s funny, it’s for a video. I’ve been to multiple countries and Europe and had the same reaction to all kinds of advertised Mexican food.
Italy is in Europe
@@Ligierthegreensun then every italian is dramatic
@@pomponi0 sfortunatamente!
He must be Sicilian because he almost looks Middle Eastern.
Carlo is not dramatic, he is Italian 😁 That is the reason what makes Italian people special. Greetengs from Croatia ☺️☺️
Hello Croazia i live in Italy Trieste
@@soniap5708...I wish I did ❤😊🎉
Italians are proud, happy people 🇹🇯❤✌️🙏
I would love to see Carlo's reaction in full blown Italian with subtitles, I think it would be great to see his passion being outlet in a way where he is not constrained by the barrier of language.
It seems that he is holding back aloat most of the time. Wonder if it is only the language that holds him back. "It is fun to see his full blown reaction." Not sure. I don't know
This is what we love and admire about the Italian people here in Europe. They are fanatic about their food, and the rest of us get to enjoy it with them...
Snobby u mean
Food is food. If it taste good, then why whine about what it is called? Just eat the freaking thing and enjoy it for what it is. Even Italians have MANY ways to prepare the sauce and different ways to prepare spaghetti. There isn't ONLY 1 WAY to prepare the sauce, and noodles.
@@1flash3571 There indeed IS only one way to prepare carbonara...
@@eirejoseph no your wrong there's 100s of different recipes and people have different tastes.
@@cullenbohannon1408 if you enjoi different type of carbonara just don't call it carbonara, for us food is tradition and part of our coulture
My cousin Giorgio from Italy knows Italian food like no other. When he came to visit, I took him to Olive Garden for a Tour of Italy sampler--chicken Parmigiano, lasagne, and fettuccine Alfredo. We had a great time, and the waitress even thought he was cute.
Oh, he thought the food was shit.
Maybe it was better to take your Italian cousin to taste something different from a bad copy of his own culture 😣
@@Sim0sama yes lmfao, I assume it’d be like inviting a mexican over to check out Taco Bell
@@OneJuan0633 As a Mexican born and raised in Mexico and still living here... I once was taken to a Taco Bell when I was visiting the US.... I am not sure if it is a good analogy, Olive Garden isn't THAT bad, right?
@@farrex0 not sure, I’ve never had OG in my life nor am I Italian lol
@@farrex0 Said perfectly and I think you are correct.
At this point Carlo is OUR dramatic Italian boyfriend
I think Sarah would disagree.. She'll share him with us to a certain extent but she's not sharing sharing her man. Don't try her lol.
@@kels0jade6 that's why he's our boyfriend and her husband
@@רננהשנקולבסקי ok but did you see where I said she doesn't share share her man? If he were our boyfriend..that would still be sharing. So no..not really...
@@kels0jade6 it is meant to be a joke
@@kels0jade6 you must be fun at parties
It is a family foodie culture. The two are intertwined. The food is made with love, not haphazardly thrown together. This is what I love about Carlos! I loved in the beginning when he was pouting, "Sarah's being mean to me." Too cute.
He’s so adorably Italian and true to himself. You can’t help but smile.
Yeah he doesn't like the poison you eat everyday you brainwashed lunatics
@@Galexlol Americans aren’t “brainwashed lunatics” as a whole, trying to insult those of an entire country seemingly because you may not like their food makes no sense, and is childish. The food isn’t poison as well, if you don’t enjoy restaurants there are several other options, like cooking for yourself, and/or growing your own food.
Carlo is literally offended on behalf of all of Italy. His expressions of horror are hilarious!
"literally"
@@jamesmcinnis208 good one....
Of course! As a Portuguese it's the same for us. Food is our heritage and culture.
I sympathize with Carlo. I lived in Southern Italy for almost 2 years. When I came back to the States, my parents took me to Olive Garden. My first reaction to the food was the same as Carlo's..."This is not Italian!". I ate it, but the didn't really enjoy it. The textures, the flavor, the combinations, they're all wrong. Italians do have a different relationship with food...Italians live to eat, but Americans eat to live. When an Italian eats truly good food, you don't need to ask if they like it, you just look at their face and their eyes. Americans have learned to accept poor quality food and pay good money for it. If it doesn't make them puke, then it's acceptable. The smell of pee...it's the carpet. It's not cleaned as often as it should. Any decent restaurant wouldn't have carpet to begin with, but they think a bare floor is a way to dodge an accident lawsuit.
Agreed. :( I missed Italian food.
100% ragione💖🇮🇹
To live a good life, you must eat good food. That's our culture
Me too, I was born in Brazil and at six years of age, I went to live in the USA, stayed there for 2 years, I had a good experience living in the state of Georgia, but man, the food, honestly, is my worst memory living as kid in the USA, everything tasted bad, not even the fast food did for me, when I returned to Brazil, it was a blessing to be able to eat Brazilian food again, both for taste and for health. If I ever go back to the USA, I know that my challenge is going to find decent food to eat (note that I’m talking about a experience that happened in 2006, don’t know if the situation improved by now)
Hehe like going to an American Greek restaurant after living in Greece. Mostly has almost nothing to do with real Greek food. (There are a few exceptions, but not in Seattle where I live…)
I’ve been to Italy a couple of times, and I was almost crying at the wonderful flavours and textures of Italian cuisine. I cannot even explain how wonderful Italian food is , even eating in a train station in Italy out does any North American Restaurant. Europe ruined me for Canadian and American restaurants 🧑🏽🍳😘
The Burger King at the Tenerife airport was the best BK I’ve ever had in my life. Just gotta go to Spain to get it 🤣🤣🤣
My grandma was Italian. I miss her cooking so much. Lol She would have demanded to go to the back of the restaurant and shown the cooks how to make Italian food. 😆
😂😂Carlo is not dramatic , the man is speaking facts when he says the food is important 🙏🏼🙏🏼
as Italian I can't say anything but "hell yeah!" xD
I’m vietnamese and I totally get where Carlo is coming from when I see some atrocity being done to Pho and other Viet dishes. Makes me cry inside. 😂
I love Vietnamese food here in the US but I can just imagine how amazing is in Vietnam, I wish to visit one day.
My favorite Vietnamese place has a wonderful broth in their pho; clear broth, amazing flavor. It must be phenomenal in Vietnam.
I’m so thankful I live where there are mostly only Asian families running the Asian restaurants short of the chains and maybe a few “Chinese” take out places. There’s like 4 different pho places that are all exclusively run by Vietnamese people. It could still be not as authentic as even the Jamaican place near me is run by Jamaicans yet is very bland compared to what I’ve had elsewhere
I agree I am a Southern born American. We have our own unique tastes and way of cooking. But when I see a restaurant advertising down home country cooking I laugh because our vegetables DON'T come out a can.
I’m with you. Real tears.
The food they brought Carlo was big enough to feed an entire family.
Merica
It was 20$, it better had been big.
@@spasmicwaves 20$??! What lol
@@spasmicwaves A pasta dish in my area costs $35. Just for one dish.
@@keynesianeconomics4113 Jesus, in Italy costs 13-15 dollars in a medium-good restaurant, and 20-25 if you go in a super expensive one
I love how chill she is and how intense he is lol
You two are too adorable! You put smiles on people’s faces. More people need to subscribe.
I've been to many countries (very grateful and blessed) and in my lifetime of 30 years, I have never met better and more joyful people than italians. And if I could travel to one country for the rest of my life, it would be Italy. Absolutely love their culture, their food, the atmosphere - just everything. Make yourself a favor and book a flight to Italy. You will not regret it!
Thanks 🥰
He has a right to be ashamed and disgusted, Italian food is beyond delicious in Italy.
I'd love to settle down in Italy too but i think it'd be bad for me physically. The first month of me arriving there I'd just eat pasta, pizza and ice cream all the time and gain like, 50 lbs 😂
@@ColonelBloodyKurtz I don't know if you've been to Italy before but I feel like pasta and pizza outside of Italy is so much heavier than in Italy. They eat pasta a lot, but you don't see a lot of over-weight people. Their pasta is not drowned in heavy sauces but rather light. Same with the Pizza. When I go on vacation there, I eat Pizza and Pasta every day but not gain a single pound when I come back.
@@SoulinTheBowl That does sound nice, I might visit
Carlo’s expression 😂 says it all. Yeah, Italian American here and the only thing I like from Olive Garden is the bread and salad.
African American here🙋🏽♀️…. And the salad is the best thing they have IMO.😥
My family would go there and they get mad at me because I'd fill up on the breadsticks and salad and my mom would have to take my meal home cuz I would never eat the meal I just eat salad and the breadsticks I can't stand the Olive garden I don't like much of anything that they have
Me too, the salad is all right.
Mexican-American here and I remember loving their breadsticks and salad much more when I was young. Now I'm not so impressed.
I only like the salad.
I was born and grew up in Canada, my parents were new immigrants from Asia and sent me to a preschool / group daycare where the food was cooked by one of the sweetest Italian nonnas. Little did I know, my first love in foods was authentic Italian before I even knew what it was. (I remember hating olives though as a toddler!) Let me tell you when they say that smells and flavours linger with your deepest memories because to this day in my adulthood I still recall what real Italian sauces and recipes taste like. Almost as if guided by a core instinct. I can understand why Italians are so proud of their true ways of cooking. Sometimes very well-made culinary dishes will trigger this deep nostalgia for those original, perfect flavours. Now as an adult who loves cooking authentic recipes in the manner for dishes across all cultures, I realize the amount of violence that North American casual dining inflicts on cultural dishes - and Italian food is no excpetion. I feel Carlo's pain and passion as a big enthusiast of Italian cooking.
As an ITALIAN..ur comment is truely appreciated.Grazie mille
Hello, former Olive Garden employee here: the Olive Carbonara sauce is actually alfredo sauce that's been cooked with bacon and probably one other ingredient. I'm glad Carlos said something about how weird the dish is; it was my least favorite item on the menu because the bacon taste was so weird with the rest of the flavors. Also, I don't know if this is a regional thing, but at my location, alfredo was hands-down the most popular sauce to the point where people would constantly ask for more even though their pasta was practically SWIMMING in the sauce.
That's quite funny, in Italy the only places where you can have pasta with Alfredo sauce are the hospitals.
Current Olive Garden employee here, I can confirm and agree with all of this 😂
Why would they call it Carbonara, then, rather than something else? Or make Carbonara?
@davidmatten8519 I had to look up what exactly goes into a true Carbonara, so forgive any mistakes in my reasoning, but here's my theory:
- they want to save money on ingredients so they use stuff they already use for other dishes, like bacon and alfredo
- people love alfredo sauce
- like, REALLY, love the sauce
- bacon is also probably cheaper/easier to find than guanciale or other kinds of "nicer" pork
- Olive Garden nowadays is hell bent on coming across as "authentic Italian" while being as profitable as possible, meaning cheap stuff at higher prices.
@@a.b.cooper4807 Also, "Authentic" varies. For Instance... I had a Italian friend who insisted that Lasagana HAD to be made with Beschamel (FRENCH white sauce, BTW) I told him that I only layered it with sauce and ricotta. He informed me it was not authentic... yet you go on youtube, and watch Grandma Gina make it, and she makes it EXACTLY as I do. Come to find out, NORTHERN Italy makes it different than SOUTHERN Italy, and each one thinks the other is wrong.
I love his passion for food! That's how it should be! If we cared more about what we ate, we'd be a lot healthier of a society.
He is not particulary passionate about food. He is only italian.
I absolutely agree.
👏👏👏👏👏👏
Or a lot fatter!!!! Lol
@@alfa4ever that is part of it indeed. Hehe
Is Carlo even allowed back to Italy after this ??????
Probably not! 😂
Italian police is gonna control their videos and interrogate him in a dark room until he fesses up to have liked at least one of those things sold as "iTaLiAn" while abroad and at that point they're gonna deport him to USA straight away
@@areswalker5647 they're gonna torture him with breaking spaghetti right in front of his face
He should.
No
OMG I had such a good laugh! My sister lives in Italy for long time with her partner, an Italian chef, so I can only imagine this situation could be even crazier with both of them :) Thanks for a good one!
I spent several weeks in Italy once, and I can sympathize with Carlo's reactions.
Real Italian food might often be imitated, but I've never seen it duplicated!
Well, if you grew up with an italian nonna, it's much easier to do
@@cromorno8749 Excellent point!🤣
you're not really trying to imitate anything when you put that amount of cream into a carbonara dish
@@jamessanders145 Yes, that was disgusting! I've had real carbonara and it looked absolutely nothing like that! It's really a very simple dish!
Where did you go in Italy? ☺️
I hope you tried some good restaurant not only the tourist traps 😣
I’ve never seen a man go through so many emotions in one sitting😂😂
I’m Dutch myself🇳🇱 and came to the States 6 years ago. Even though i love this country. Italy 🇮🇹 will always be my favorite. The people the food and just the country itself. Love how Carlo is trying the food and give his honest answer (like most Italians) do lol😃
6:40 Yes! Exactly. They present "Italian food" but it's not really truly Italian, so it makes others who are unaware think that it's authentic. But like Sarah said, it's not gross food. It's just not true Italian food.
I think Olive Garden is gross. I live in Texas where there are a bunch of them. I have been dragged there a handful of times and it’s just BAD. I would rather eat a decent “ Italian” tv dinner.
I kinda feel bad for Carlo. I'm sure he's traumatized by our customs; breaking the pasta in half, eating at Olive Garden, etc. 😆
are you sure, that's it.
@@henrycuilan yea that's it
Breaking the pasta can be YOUR custom. We dont want it
@@vincentsirianni5145 it is thank you and I didn't say that it should be yours. Have a nice day.
You ________never________ break the pasta or millions of italian grandmas will suffer and cry with the angels up in heaven
......well, actually breaking the pasta is acceplable _____only_____ if you have candele and you have to get them ready for cooking
.....oh, and of course if you want to prepare spaghettini in brodo con la stracciatela when you have a bad cold in the Winter
...oh, and if you have the full sagne and you are the kind of person that likes sagne e fagioli well creamy so you need the mezze sagne
____________but apart from these cases________________ you never break your pasta
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Back in the day, I met a man that was visiting Chicago, he was in the Italian army, and we became friends, so I showed him all around Chicago, and he acted just like this, like he took food soooo seriously, I miss him, he was sooo much fun, he's the reason why I take food seriously too this day☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️
Stop lying you just want his Italian sausage in your mouth.
Have you tried to get back in touch?
@@corinneskitchen yeah we friends on Facebook
I like Carlos, but his wife is too harsh, rough for my taste.
As an italian, i can feel Carlo. He is not dramatic at all, he is just italian
5:55 Oh geez... "Asking for an honest opinion to ANYTHING Italian" is like asking to argue, but with "more passion".
My wife's Italian, I don't do that. 😱😂 I've learned my lesson.
The way Carlo said “What the fuck is that” 😂😂😂
His reaction of disgust to many things is just like mine and my mom's.......food truly IS the centerpiece for Italian living closely surrounded by family and friends.
When she said it doesn't look bad (about the carbonara) the look he gave was deadly serious. 🤣🤣🤣 I have to go to Italy in the next year 😍
The food in Toscano is different than the food in Napoli. I always said Olive Garden has the spirit, if not the authenticity, of northern Italian food. They try, bless their hearts. The only thing I'll eat there besides the salad and breadsticks are the mushroom ravioli, they're not so bad. It's been so long since I've been, years, I'm not sure if they even serve them anymore.
There is fettuccine Alfredo in Italy, it's where I learned to make it. From my Italian boyfriend's family who owned a restaurant, in Toscano about 35 years ago or so. I lived for many years in a small town on the beach by Pisa called Tirrenia. We don't have the same ingredients here so the closest thing I can find to make it here is heavy whipping cream, but it's still not quite the same or as good. I never saw these northern Italian dishes in Southern Italy. The further south you go in Italy the more sauces becomes tomato based. And sweeter.
Alfredo isn't carbonara. At all. They should never go together.
You'll never, ever going to find an Italian restaurant to satisfy him, trust me. Best thing you can do is learn how to cook how he likes it, which is how his momma cooks it. Take him to French restaurants . He'll never be satisfied with an Italian restaurant in America unless you find a restaurant whose recipes were brought from Italy generations ago.
Carlo massimo supporto per te e per quello che hai passato in quel ristorante. È una testimonianza di quello che un uomo italiano farebbe per la donna che ama. Saluti dall'Italia
Literally died laughing when he said “wtf is that”
Dude same! XD
His Italian mafia side came out
Respect to carlo for always trying to find the best words to express himself! As a fellow non-native speaker I recognize his struggle :)
Very entertaining! Thanks both
at 4:08 i absolutely lost it.... WTF is that ???? lmao!!!!
I would love to see a collaboration of you guys with Eva and Harper of Pasta Grammar. Eva and Carlo's reactions together to what we Americans accept as Italian food would be so entertaining!
Totally!
Oh emm gee that would be both awesome and hilarious!!🤣👍
I was thinking the exact same thing!! Eva and Carlo are both from Calabria, and they both react the same way to Harper and Sarah's American ideas about food.
Thinking the exact same thing. With subtitles so we don't miss anything 😂❤
Sarah: it’s normal, get it!
Carlo’s search history: How to make your wife understand you
100th like!!!🤗🤗🤗
Or maybe “how to understand your wife and her crazy culture “ lol
Well Carlo has the right attitude. I wish us Americans treated our food with the same care.
Well that depends on where you go!
My wife and I lived in Williamsburg, VA for a while, and it has a surprising plethora of mom and pop restaurants. We fell in love with them, and our date nights became trying a different mom and pop periodically.
We found some amazing soul food, Asian, Dim Sum, seafood, and steak restaurants. And we found some awful ones. But we learned very quickly what to look for, and where to go.
We've kind of become foodies since then, and we love finding places that treat their food with love and care. You can find some amazing restaurants if you know how and where to look.
Ironically though, I am yet to find a good Italian restaurant. And we moved to Phoenix where the cuisine is.... eh, there's a couple decent restaurants out here.
Southern Americans from the deep south are very passionate about their food.
Honestly he doesn’t look like a passionate food person but someone who doesn’t appreciate food at all. Somewhere, someone is picking food from a trash can and is thankful.
See, I actually liked hearing his thoughts. I was born and raised in Maracaibo, Venezuela, a part of South America that has a heavy influence of European immigrants but specially Italian immigrants, back in the day. My best friend and I always joked around getting the pasaporto to show you’re a true Italian.
Anyways, I came to the US in 2014 and went to several Italian restaurants in the South Florida area (which supposedly has a lot of NY Italians that relocated), and the menus DIDN’T make sense to me. I hadn’t heard of Alfredo sauce either, why is the tomato sauce called “Marinara”, why is everyone telling me I NEED to get soup or salad BEFORE the pasta dish, never heard of Chicken Parmigiana before (although it’s tasty), why is bolognese or salsa bolognesa called meat sauce (salsa de carne) at first I thought the dish was going to come with actual chunks of steak or something… Why can’t I choose the type of pasta, it’s usually just spaghetti or fettuccine, I missed fusilli… There’s no frutti di mare pasta… Why does the lasagna come with ricotta. And then pizzerias have garlic rolls, which I later found out is leftover pizza dough wrapped, baked and drenched in garlic flavored oil.. But why. You’re already eating pizza, why eating the leftover dough, specially BEFORE the pizza. And talking about pizzeria, it is rather rare to find a place that has real, fresh mozzarella, basil or even oregano some times. You ask for basil and they look at you like you have 4 heads, and if they have it, they charge extra for it.
So I feel your pain, Carlo, and I’m not even Italian, I’m Venezuelan.
in Miami there are some original Italian restaurants now and some of them are pretty good. but owned by Italians not Americans
@@toffonardi7037 Please, start dropping names
@@virginiabyron for pizza: Fratelli la bufala and Sorbillo. For food “hosteria romana”
The biggest mistake here is finding close-to-authentic Italian food in Florida lol
Bolognese sauce in Italy is Ragù. Which is a sauce slowly cooked with meat. And Bologna is actually the name of the city where this typical sauce is from.
Here in Bologna, we have this traditional paste which is called “Tagliatelle Al Ragù”, different from the similar American cousin “spaghetti alla bolognese”. I suppose they mixed spaghetti pasta and meatballs and create this new version. ☺️
I appreciate that they don’t pretend to call the meatball Ragù and the tagliatelle pasta spaghetti, but they actually offers you what they describe 🤷🏻♀️
I about DIED when he started cursing after finding out it’s a spoon in the pasta 😂😭
Carlo having a meltdown at Olive Gardens is the most hilarious thing ever 😂 and when he was freaking out with the spoon they gave him lol. Like why did they give him a spoon lol how do you eat that thing on the plate with a spoon? Lol. Would love to see the video of his parents reaction
The spoon is for rolling your pasta. You pick up the pasta with your fork, then use the spoon as a surface to roll on. Italians don't use a spoon, they use the plate. I don't understand the need for the spoon either.
@@goombapizza6335 no spoon for Rolling pasta please
@@gnuffola1979 am italian and use the spoon all the time 😂
@@Drestlin sei italiano in che senso?
@@gnuffola1979 nel senso che so italiano da quando c'è stato lo sbarco dei mille, non so quale altro senso puoi vederci. ti dirò di più, pure gli amici usano il cucchiaio per fare il rotolino, non sarà "educato" ma siamo gente alla mano 😂
poi non è che se non ce l'ho non so mangiare un piatto di pasta lunga, per carità, si fa anche senza.
È che veramente, tra tutto lo schifo visto nel video, il cucchiaio mi sembra proprio l'ultima cosa, pure l'avessero fatto mangiare con le mani...
My great grandparents were Genovese and Calabrian and taught my grandfather and father to make traditional dishes, including ingredients.
Now I make salami and coppa, cheese and my own pasta, sauce, olives and wine.
You can have authentic Italian food here, but you have to make it part of your lifestyle.
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His faces are everything 🤣. They just made me subscribe to your channel.
Lmao, I want to be Carlo’s friend so bad!
All of his criticism comes from a good place and his reaction to the Alfredo with all the shit thrown in it was hilarious.
His face when she says “it doesn’t look bad” spoke a thousand words. Hilariously LOL
I LAUGHED SO HARD WHEN HE TRIED THAT STRANGE PASTA, as an Italian I had same reaction lmao I totally understand Carlo's reaction
These two should go on a dinner date with the Pasta Grammar couple.
Carlo and Eva together in the same room would be exponentially Italian 😂🤣🖤
Harper and Sarah finding ways to prank their lovely Italian significant others would be a dream video 😂
I second this!!!
I'm afraid Eva and Carlo might ride off in the sunset and live happily ever after.......and Harper and Sarah would just make a cute couple together.
This needs to happen
Thank you Carlo, for stating the obvious for us Mediterraneans, as we were shocked at the way wrong ingredients are used in certain dishes in America. As names were used badly, especially marinara, and we couldn't understand what alfredo was.
Love everything about these two if you ever feel down listen to these two and you will laugh and feel better
Carlo I feel you.. I will never forget that day when I was cooking spaghetti with tomato sauce, and my Thai girlfriend asked me to put eggs on top… my answer was “babe this is not a pad Thai!” 😂😂😂
Thai food is healthier than Italian though.
@@shino8854 hold my Mediterranean diet
@@shino8854 Thai food, is too sweet in America.
Find yourself a nice Italian girl 😆.
@@shino8854 actually it’s not!!
Mediterranean diet is the healthiest in the World. Cardiologists & Specialists are all in agreement about the health aspects of the Mediterranean Diet.
All Research undertaken backs this up too. Do NOT compare Italian or Greek food served up overseas ( ie: U.S.A , UK and so forth) with the proper and authentic food cooked in these respective countries.
Italian or Greek food in the U.S.A ( for example)is neither authentic nor healthy.
I'm a Sicilian-American that grew up cooking, it's some of my first memories - in the kitchen EVERYONE was playing some role, no matter the gender or age. When I got to junior high school I realized I was an aberration, because NONE of my friends knew how to cook and they all thought Italian food was either pizza and subs, or something exotic that you would go to a restaurant and pay LOTS of money for.
To this day, I still find it odd that people go to a Italian restaurant like the Olive Garden to pay astronomical prices for something you can make easily at home. I remember the first time I made pasta from scratch for my friends one drunken night, and you would have thought I was an alien that beamed down from a UFO and used magic.
I am now 51 and still have friends that don't know how to make something pathetically simple like a pasta with bolognese sauce. For that matter, even how to make a simple red sauce.
Having said that, I HAVE gone to Olive Garden with friends and did enjoy a few things. Being Sicilian and not being overly acquainted with the mainland's cuisine outside of the standard few dishes, there had some dishes on the menu that I had never had or heard of and I didn't know if it was a "fake" Italian dish or an Olive Garden original.
Anyhow, love the video, Carlo's responses and how much you two clearly love each other.
Sarah, you look Italian-American. I'm new to the channel. Do you speak Italian with Carlo?
She is Italian-American, but I think speaks only a few words of Italian.
I'm Sicilian American but I missed out learning how to cook because of the misogyny surrounding it making me reject wanting to learn how to cook as a child. I wished my mother pressed me more on it. I'm trying to learn on my own now though but I can't even make pasta from scratch yet, I'm sure it's easy though...like 2 ingredients but I don't think I even have a big enough clean surface lol.
I love how he was instantly so down to prank his parents hahaha. The fist bump made it.
I love how he always seems afraid of offending the waitstaff. Like you can tell when someone walks by who he doesn't want to overhear his possibly insulting comments (though I have to say I find he's very careful not to be unnecessarily mean, which is also very endearing.) You two are very sweet.
The hubby looks like he's horrified with Olive Garden's existence
I'm horrified by their existence and I'm not Italian
Olive Garden is for stupid people
@@J_D_B4379 Nah
I love it, thank you Carlo for being honest and informing us what real Italian food is
I love that he accepts that some of it actually tastes decent. In my experience most Italians, French, Spanish, etc. wouldn’t do that
It depends on each taste and traditions. If you present that to an old Italian saying "that's Italian" they will not gonna talk to you again 😂.
Younger people are more opened about this type of food but also a lot of them will be like the older people.
For us the food is really important, simple recipes, good, authentic and quality fresh food.
I know maybe foreigners can't tell the difference just by word, they should really came here or see some true Italian recipes online and make them. The taste, the smell, the joy when you put that food in your mouth is unbelievable.
I suggest you to watch some recipes in the "Pasta Grammar" channel. Eva is Italian but married with Harper, which is American and she teaches to all the viewer how to make Italian foods.
I think Carlo has found his calling. He needs to open a REAL Italian restaurant.
As someone from an Italian family, I can feel Carlo’s stress levels 😂
Same!! Lol.
I love how my friend from Italy sends me these videos, since I live in America, and just like Carlo freaks the heck out what we Americans do to their food. I feel so bad, because I can't stop laughing at the video and her reactions 😂 it's the funniest thing I swear
I adore Italian food, I truly feel for the guy, Italy has some of the best cuisine in the world, it shouldn't be messed with.
If I am having a bad day, i just come home and watch carlo and sarah….then i am filled with joy again…lol…
To bad it’s hard to travel between Canada and the USA right now, because here in Toronto, there is an amazing Italian restaurant that makes the pasta fresh in front of you, then makes the sauce fresh and adds the veggies or meat that you like. It’s like eating at Nonna’s house. Everyone speaks Italian and it’s feels so warm and comforting.
Please drop the restaurant name! :)
I have never been to nonna’s house
@@tonymarselle8812 noona means grandma
A friend from the US once told me that if he ever comes to visit Italy he‘d order „Parmesan Chicken“ as it‘s his favorite Italian food. I still have no idea what‘s that supposed to be 🤷🏻♂️
I think he meant the so-called " chicken parmigiana" 😂 i think that it is some kind of Italian immigrant's recipe in the US that is supposed to replace the real Italian eggplant parmigiana
Chicken with parmesan cheese
It's an Italian American version of Eggplant Parmigiana.
lol, so true. No such thing as chicken parmesan in Italy. An American invention
Why do Americans put CHICKEN EVERYWHERE???
Carlo when he saw spoon in his pasta: 🤯🤌🏻
He's right: try to eat spaghetti with a spoon! It's impossible!
Carlito and Sarah ❤. I started saying. Fhing. His face when you said put the bread stick in the marinara 😂😂😂 love the “ good idea” for par king the family
Guys... I'm an Italian living in Germany... I'm a bit older than you but still quite young... Here in Germany I felt in love for a German girl (First and only one time I felt something like this that pushed me to change all my life for her) after 6 months she broke with me because she told that despite a strong feeling the culture and language differences were too much for planning a relationship... Anytime I see your videos I'm happy because you show how much are cute the cultural differences and how much they can build a strong relation based on the volition to live each other for the person, culture and language each one has... you are a message for other people and even if my story was super sad... watching your video I still have hope that persons can think, live and be like you
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I also love how his only positive comments were the bread is good and "You could eat this" when it came to the pasta🤣🤣🐓
He should try Carrabas Italian Restaurant. For a chain, It’s much more Italian than Olive Garden. It was started by a real Italian Family that immigrated to the U.S.
I robbed carrabas lol fuck that shithole
He should try sbarro too :D
Had a meal at Carraba's and found the food completely underwhelming. And by underwhelming, I mean terrible. On a positive note, the dining room was free of the scent of pee.
(4:08) Oh My God!!! I literally can't!!! "Wtf is that!!!" That's was so funny, I burst out laughing!!! I'm being serious and now my cheeks hurt!!! Oh My God that was hilarious how serious he was!!! I love Carlo #NoHomo. "Wtf is that" literally came out of nowhere.
Just him getting so worked up about a spoon was the best part for me 🤣
but for real why they come with a spoon??
There is fettuccini alfredo in Italy. It's in Rome. A place called Alfredo's. The difference is that the dish doesn't have cream in it.
It's just fettuccini, butter and parmigiano-reggiano.
Io sono di Roma...ma la pasta al burro e parmigiano me la faccio a casa
Be careful. We romans eat home fettuccine butter and parmigiano with two euros. Alfredo’s is doing a marketing operation to make you eat this recipe with 15 euros. Cunning.
That's what we eat when we're sick.
@PL4stik1991 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Joe Copa Perhaps you mean creamy pasta dishes, but not sauces. Most creamy dishes are just made with water starch and cooking skill. But you're not wrong, cream sauces are getting more popular in fancy cooking shows. We just dont use them as much.
Olive Garden - fake italian food.
As taco bell is fake Mexican food.
Both are a damn shame. But tasty 😋
I wouldn't say they're fake. They're just americanized.
@@noobhealz402 "Altered" it sounds better.
@@nariko47 I agree.
Carlo and Sarah - fake reaction channel
Chipotle or on the Border is more comparable to Olive Garden tbh
He is beyond adorable. Personable as cute. Love you Carlo. My Aunt is Italian and I see so many similarities.
I appreciate how passionate Carlos is with Italian food. Maybe upload a video of him cooking his favourite carbonara one day?
Sarah after listening his "comment that below":
Second 1: (tries to keep her cool)
Second 2: (ohh f..k it) WHAAAAAT?
From Italian heritage, and have never been able to bring myself to more than smh when passing an Olive Garden. Idk, it's some unwritten principle, and Carlo both confirms and reaffirms my aversion to it.
:21 When Carlo said "authentic", I thought he said 'al dente'. 😂 😍I love his accent!
All jokes aside, Fettucine Alfredo is an actual Italian recipe, created all the way back in 1914 at the legendary Ristorante Alfredo alla Scrofa, of course it is wildly different from what the US may call an Alfredo, it involves only the Pasta, Butter, and some very good quality Parmigiano Reggiano, but yes it is absolutely Italian.
I'm italian, i'm 34 and I've never found it in all the restaurant around the state where I've been. 99% of my family and Friends doesn't even know what it is..
Butter and cheese, simply. No roman knows fettuccine Alfredo, because it doesn’t exist. We eat fettuccine butter and parmigiano, especially when we are sick. Alfredo’s is doing a marketing operation for tourists, cunning:15 euros instead 2 euros. Be careful.
Si chiama pasta all’alfredo e sarebbe la pasta in bianco, fatta mantecando acqua di cottura con burro e parmigiano, un piatto della tradizione romana
Mentre loro la chiamano fettuccine alfredo e ci mettono aglio, crema e altri ingredienti molto italo- americani, che con l’italia c’entra molto poco alla fine, è una cultura completamente diversa
@@lisca.2000 l unica cosa sbagliata che fanno gli americani e spacciare queste ricette per italiane, perché se scrivessero Alfredo pasta americana non sarebbe un problema, farla passare per italiana è sbagliato
"I havannna spoona", you got my like with that one.
So adorable the way he pronounces certain words.....I was shock....ed 😂
Love his reaction after his first bite... I know how it feels, as a Swiss guy going to a Fondue restaurant in Florida............. "Somebody is going to love this, don't know how"... LOL
1:19 food is how you show love or respect to someone. I learned that growing up as an Italian and then even more so when I got to be a student ambassador in Italy. Not only that but Italians take such care in the ingredients they choose. Food overall there just seems to be held at a much higher standard. The cheap five euro pizzas were better than the $20 pizzas I order at home. Everything always tasted fresher. And people make things with a purpose. …damn I miss Italy..
It sucks that Americans don't have the choice to access such fresh food cheaply because of our corporate overlords
@@corinneskitchen Yeah, this is a little dramatic for a rich country like US.
Yep, eating is one of the best moments in life. We can hate someone's guts, wishing he gets hit by a bus, but we'll serve him the best dish we can regardless, because everyone deserves to enjoy a good meal.
@@nicoladc89 Plenty of people here aren't rich. Clearly you haven't been here or you only went to rich neighborhoods. I live in an area that looks war torn when there's no war with a 25% poverty rate. I know other places are worse in terms of overall statistics but there are just plenty of people here who are really poor.
@@corinneskitchen I repeat, this is a little dramatic for a rich country like US
I completely agree with Carlo. If there's a Buca di Beppo near you, try that chain out (I've been to one once; it had a bocce ball area). Or have him try deep dish pizza. (Thank you for the laughs in your videos!)
Love Buca di Beppo. Haven’t been there in years though.
My fav restaurant 🤩
My 2nd year of nursing school just started and i could already feel the stress hahah. Watching your videos just relaxes me and it makes my day! 😂
I went to a very diverse high school with students from around the world, and I am always grateful my first experiences with their food either came from visiting their homes or from them taking me to a restaurant where they confirmed that what we were eating was authentic because I get the frustration of people walking around thinking this or that is what people from that country really eat when its really not. It reminds me of my brother's wedding where his in-laws made food that allegedly was in honor of us, and though the gesture was sweet, I'd never heard of whatever they made and the meat was just terrible.
THIS JUST MADE MY DAY 😄🤍 LOTS OF LOVE SARAH AND CARLO!!
5:50 thinking of busting into that kitchen to teach em 😂
As a PROUD ITALIAN Man , I can honestly say that not only is "olive garden" not ITALIAN , it isn't even food ! ! ! #VivaItalia4ever🇮🇹
Never heard of an Italian with a name like Mike Yates….
@@thesushifiend anglicized and shortened down at , Ellis Island : my original family name is , Tesoro - it means , Treasure in Italian - and , if you will note , I have been very respectful , despite your impoliteness
I really had to laugh outloud, several times, with Carlos' "comments down below".