Someone Is Selling NFTs of Olive Garden Locations That They Do Not Own – Futurism

And you can mint a breadstick NFT for free, of course.Blockchain Casual

Because 2021 couldnt get much dumber, someone has begun minting Olive Garden NFTs even though they admittedly do not have any affiliation with any actual brick-and-mortar Olive Gardens.

Taking the generalized meme surrounding the fast-casual Italian chain to the next level, the person or people behind these Non-Fungible Olive Gardens admit on their site that, for now, purchasing one of the NFTS or becoming a franchisee, per the sites lexicon grants owners no rights or privileges in meatspace Olive Gardens.

In a list that blurs the line between satire and seriousness, however, the anonymous creator or creators known only as mossy list off the ways they plan to eventually merge the Non-Fungible Olive Garden Metaverse with the real world: the minting of 880 Olive Garden NFTs and unlimited breadstick NFTs, launching the worlds first Neverending Pasta Bowl on the blockchain, attracting celebrity influencers, creating an open-world Olive Garden RPG, releasing Scampi Sneakers and, finally, using the money from the NFTs to buy out Darden Restaurants, the infamous chains parent company.

While its pretty impossible to deduce from nonfungibleolivergardens.com whether or not mossy is for real or trolling, the site is nevertheless full of hilarious references and Easter eggs, including but very much not limited to the acronym-ized Olive Garden tagline WYHYF, short for the chains cheesy slogan, When Youre Here, Youre Family.

If youre interested in buying a newly-minted and randomly-selected NFT Olive Garden, youre out of luck: theyre all sold out, though you can buy one on resale markets, the website announcing the project noted. You can also mint a breadstick NFT for free, although mossy notes on the site that you will have to pay gas fees to miners, which is cryptospeak for the computers that make the NFT machine go brrrr.

Obviously, the concept of spending any money at all to own a fake Olive Garden franchise thats based on a meatspace Olive Garden (or a fake breadstick, for that matter) is farcical but then again, people pay millions for NFTs of pixel art headshots, Bored Apes, and pissed-off-looking lions, so who are we to judge?

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Someone Is Selling NFTs of Olive Garden Locations That They Do Not Own - Futurism