Olive Garden’s Unlimited Pasta Pass Is Back, And It’s Bigger Than Ever

Shove over, Christmas, this Thursday is the most wonderful time of the year.

The Olive Garden Pasta Pass is back.

For a mere $100, which you’d otherwise spend on something dumb, like buying a nice gift for your parents, you can treat yo’ self to an unlimited amount of OG pasta (with toppings!) for seven weeks. According to the Pasta Pass Frequently Asked Questions (or PPFAQs, to the fans), you also receive complimentary Coca-Cola drinks to wash down the carbs with more carbs.

And boy, is it a lot of carbs and calories. “Last year, we saw our Pasta Pass holders use their passes an average of 28 times over the seven-week promotion, often bringing along groups of friends,” Olive Garden’s executive VP of marketing Jose Duenas told Bloomberg. Only 28 times? Wimps.

The magical Pasta Pass goes on sale Sept. 15 at 2 p.m. EST. Good luck trying to get one, though: last year, Willy Wonka’s golden tickets — if Willy Wonka was an Italian guy named Giuseppe and the golden ticket was printed on a breadstick sandwich — sold out in exactly one second. Conspiracy theorists were not happy. In 2016, however, Olive Garden is “increasing the amount of Pasta Passes in circulation to let more guests take advantage of never ending pasta! We will be offering 21,000 passes in the online sale.” (There will also be an auction, with proceeds going to Feeding America.)

Let the saucy countdown to Thursday begin.

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When you’re here with a Pasta Pass, you’re an obese family.

(Via Olive Garden)