Braden's Infinite Tour of Italy

Why it surfaced

The site turns an absurdly persistent restaurant habit into a participatory dashboard: readers vote on pasta, sauces, second sauces, and toppings, producing a current leader of rigatoni with spicy Alfredo, meat sauce, and crispy shrimp fritta. Its long run of highly similar South Portland visits gives the project the accumulating gravity of a tiny personal epic.

An interactive tracker of one person's recurring Olive Garden meals, with menu voting, calorie counts, locations, and a visit history stretching back to 2024.