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Florida bought more Pasta Passes from Olive Garden than almost any other state

 
Florida was the No. 2 state with the largest number of Olive Garden Pasta Pass purchases, an unlimited pasta pass for $100. Photo courtesy Olive Garden.
Florida was the No. 2 state with the largest number of Olive Garden Pasta Pass purchases, an unlimited pasta pass for $100. Photo courtesy Olive Garden.
Published Sept. 21, 2017

Floridians would like their bowls of pasta to never, ever end.

That is the lesson to take from this news that Olive Garden excitedly shared Thursday morning: Florida was the No. 2 state with the largest number of Pasta Pass purchases.

What is a Pasta Pass? Buy one for $100, and you get 8 weeks of unlimited pasta with all of the trimmings, plus soup or salad and breadsticks. The restaurant's promotion starts Sept. 25 and runs through Nov. 19, meaning the lucky passholders can come in and eat neverending pasta on those dates.

Never Ending Pasta Passes went on sale Sept. 14, and according to Olive Garden, it took less than one second for all 22,000 of them to sell out. So if you don't already have one, you can't get one. But you can still order the Never Ending Pasta Bowl, which runs for $9.99, at Olive Garden during the same two-month period.

Maybe start with a cavatappi noodle, then douse it with a creamy mushroom sauce (new this year!) and some meatballs. Or how about whole grain linguine topped with asiago garlic alfredo? Rigatoni with traditional meat sauce? Angel hair with five cheese marinara and grilled chicken for an extra charge? There's even gluten-free rotini!

Let's raise a noodle-cloaked fork to all these carbs, and a nod of respect to the No. 1 state for Pasta Pass purchases: California.