We tried Olive Garden's new 'Italian nachos' - and they're actually weirdly good

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• Olive Garden has new "Italian nachos" on the menu.
• People's reactions are mixed - they're hardly Italian, but the idea is strangely intriguing.
• Amazingly, they're weirdly tasty and not as gross as expected.

Olive Garden is continuing its storied tradition of, well, redefining Italian cuisine with its debut of loaded Italian nachos.

Wait ... nachos? From Olive Garden? Yes, yes. A month into 2018 and its absurdities are just now beginning to unfold.

Olive Garden added these "nachos" to the menu last week, and they'll be available until April 1 - a sort of drawn-out pre-April Fool's joke, we can only assume.

The dish consists of fried lasagna sheets playing the role of chips - an interesting choice for an understudy, to say the least. Heaped atop them are cheese, a three-meat ragu, peppers, and a drizzle of alfredo sauce.

It's an audacious, pugnacious, and ostentatious move for a chain most beloved and reviled for its decidedly and unabashedly Americanized takes on Italian culinary tradition.

We managed to grab some in order to see just how crazy these "nachos" are, and more importantly, to find out if they're any good.

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