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Mayor of Bologna says he's sick of tourists ordering spaghetti bolognaise
UK DAILY MAIL ^ | 10 March 2019 | Leigh Mcmanus

Posted on 03/10/2019 12:23:11 PM PDT by dennisw

Mayor of Bologna says he's sick of tourists ordering spaghetti bolognaise in his city because the pasta dish 'doesn't actually exist'

Virginio Merola wants his northern Italian city to wash its hands of the dish He said it 'doesn't exist' and went as far as to call the pasta dish 'fake news' The 64-year-old democrat is leading his vehment campaign on social media

The mayor of Bologna is on a passionate crusade against spaghetti bolognese, condemning it as 'fake news'.

Despite it being famous the world over, Virginio Merola wants his northern Italian city to wash its hands of the dish.

He said it 'doesn't exist' and went as far as to call the pasta dish 'fake news'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Humor; Local News
KEYWORDS: bologna; communist; cookery; eussr; fumayor; italy; lasagne; mayor; merola; spaghettibolognaise; spaghettibolognese; tagliatelle; tortellini; virginiomerola
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To: dennisw
Hey! Atsa matta for you!!!


81 posted on 03/10/2019 3:00:45 PM PDT by CapnJack
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To: Yaelle

Alors!


82 posted on 03/10/2019 3:02:04 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: dennisw

It exists, idiot mayor.
Change the name of your town.


83 posted on 03/10/2019 3:02:07 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Rump meat isn’t fit for much either, until your slow cook it into pot roast or beef stew.


84 posted on 03/10/2019 3:04:11 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Twotone

fried bologna (with radial cuts to prevent curling ) covered with parmesan and served with garlic crusty Italian toast was a staple


85 posted on 03/10/2019 3:09:23 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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To: EnquiringMind
And while we are on this topic can someone tell me how it’s pronounced?Bolon-yeahs, or Bolon—aise???

Well, I looked it up on Google, as I should have done a few years ago. It is how I have pronounced it all along, but unlike my Italian friend pronounces it:

Bolon-yays

(in case anyone else wondered).

86 posted on 03/10/2019 3:14:51 PM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: bgill

good stuff... but if he doesn’t want people to order it, maybe it shouldn’t be on the menu


87 posted on 03/10/2019 3:26:47 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Twotone

bologna fried

Italian sombrero


88 posted on 03/10/2019 3:29:13 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: PAR35
Bologna is not one of the meats I want in my spaghetti sauce.

There's no bologna in spaghetti bolognese.

89 posted on 03/10/2019 3:44:00 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: dennisw

Sounds like an excellent marketing opportunity.


90 posted on 03/10/2019 3:58:22 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Political Junkie Too

Yes its carbon ara footprint is large


91 posted on 03/10/2019 4:02:06 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Larry Lucido

This looks recherous but their Franks are excellent

Koegel exercises (several dogs down the hatch) even I can do


92 posted on 03/10/2019 4:04:07 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: dennisw

The birth of the original Ragù recipe can be traced back to the 1700s. Alberto Avisi, cooked the first tomato based meat sauce with macaroni, in Imola, near Bologna.


93 posted on 03/10/2019 4:06:33 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: nascarnation

Although he’s been #MeToo blackballed lately
(And somehow Michael Jackson a bigger perv is not)
Batali and Lidias son made a great one at the Tarry Lodge
at the CT border.


94 posted on 03/10/2019 4:09:53 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: dennisw

Say it ain’t so !!!


95 posted on 03/10/2019 4:12:45 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: chuckee

Can you get Neapolitan ice cream in Naples?


96 posted on 03/10/2019 5:13:30 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: EnquiringMind

Northern Italy cooks crap. You want good Italian food you must go south of Rome


97 posted on 03/10/2019 5:14:47 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: dennisw

We prefer Pasta Putanesca...


98 posted on 03/10/2019 5:28:28 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: nascarnation
The best spaghetti bolognese I ever had was in London...although the restaurant was staffed 90% by Italians.

Just what I figured. You have English and Germans who liked the spaghetti bolonaise at home in Hamburg and London. So they figure it must be ten times better in Bologna Italy. Real autentico. But then on vacation they can't find any restaurant there that serves it and the mayor is pissed off too.

99 posted on 03/10/2019 5:32:28 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: dp0622

“Best meatballs were from grandma Rose would would spend hours on a saturday grating hard italian bread for bread crumbs for the meats on Sunday.”

Grating old bread for fluffy meatballs! That is hard core and respect to her!


100 posted on 03/10/2019 5:34:46 PM PDT by dennisw
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