Posted on 11/17/2009 10:02:46 AM PST by Tamar Rush
No Sheep Eyes in the Spaghetti
No more goat meat on a stick!
That’s the word from Italy as“foreign” kebab is being kicked out of Italian cities, compliments of the center-right Government of Silvio Berlusconi.
The drive to halt Italians from eating hala foods has been described by the Left and leading chefs as “gastronomic racism.”
The ban began in the town of Lucca this week, where the council banned any new ethnic food outlets from opening within the ancient city walls. This move was aimed at the Muslim food stands that had cropped up throughout the countryside.
The crackdown on falafel and mooncakes has spread to Lombardy and its regional capital, Milan, which is also run by the centre Right. The antiimmigrant Northern League party brought in the restrictions “to protect local specialities from the growing popularity of ethnic cuisines”.
Luca Zaia, the Minister of Agriculture and a member of the Northern League from the Veneto region, applauded the authorities in Lucca and Milan for cracking down on nonItalian food. “We stand for tradition and the safeguarding of our culture,” he said.
Mr Zaia said that those ethnic restaurants allowed to operate “whether they serve kebabs, sushi or Chinese food” should “stop importing container loads of meat and fish from who knows where” and use only Italian ingredients.
Asked if he had ever eaten a kebab, Mr Zaia said: “No, I even refuse to eat pineapple.”
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“gastronomic racism.”
Now there is one for the books !
Idiot.
You don't accomplish that by banning muslim foods.
You do it by banning muslims.
Just a thought how about let the Italians deside on their own what they want to eat?
I actually like Middle-Easter food,
(I am Israeli of course)
i like Kebap too and i don´t feel like to become a muslim everytime i eat one ;-)
“What race”?
The Goat’s Head Soup race!
Holla if you like halal!
Totally bizarre. For me, if there has been one great thing about multiculturalism it has been the opportunity to eat so many different cuisines.
I’m a Southerner living in Pennsylvania and my favorite restaurant is an Afghani one. My favorite dishes there are the kabobs. I would be very unhappy with this decree.
Maybe they were also concerned about meat exports from Perm, Russia. (Yesterday`s Drudge report about a Jeffrey Dahmer Special Kebab)
Shalom l'hitraot, Tamar.
So what happens to the people that run these food stands if they cannot work? Do the go on welfare?
You don’t ban Muslims overnight. Even the Jews withstood for a season under Hitler.
It was cookbook!
Yeah...but just like trying to get rid of any vermin...like skunks...you get rid of one or a few and another comes right in to take its place.
You have to dry up their food supply. Then they'll move on.
Otherwise, all you can do is take off and nuke it from orbit.
"It's the only way to be sure."
“We stand for tradition and the safeguarding of our culture,”
Can you imagine a politician in 2009 America saying that?
(a heterosexual white Christian politician, that is)
I hope this courage is contagious......
This seems like a pointless move, good for nationalist symbolism but not much else. All those doner kebap and falafel shops wouldn’t exist if people weren’t eating that stuff. The problem with Muslims is not their food - a lot of middle eastern food is very good - it’s their culture and religion’s apparent incompatability with the modern western world.
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