That's a spicy meatball
Posted on 06/13/2018 3:51:38 PM PDT by Albion Wilde
I like to joke that my dad is the most Italian man alive, but that would be inaccurate — he’s just a regular amount of Italian. But it wasn’t until later in my life that I realized that my dad wasn’t uniquely a pain in the ass about food, and that most Italians are insanely tightly wound about their cuisine.
Last year, I came across a Twitter account that exemplifies that attitude, and it quickly became one of my favorite places online. Italians Mad at Food (@italiancomments) is a treasure trove of, well, Italians mad at food. The creator, who is not Italian, combs the comments on Tasty and other viral recipe purveyors on Facebook to bring you the best (read: maddest) Italians the internet has to offer. They’re furious that American recipe sites have taken their beloved national dishes and spit out deranged remixes; one-pot pasta is particularly enraging for them, as well as anything cooked in a cream or milk-based sauce, but there are no limits to their anger. Crucially, they’re all very dramatic...
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Ping!
No; the one right there in the second paragraph of the OP:
Italians Mad at Food (@italiancomments)
Yes. We crossed in cyberspace.
Has the perfect Brooklyn accent.
I really, really hate American pizzas made with chicken and/or pineapple. It’s an abomination. So is the entire concept of tomato paste, and enough mozzarella cheese to stuff a mattress.
NO!
A proper Neapolitan pizza has olive oil and garlic on the crust, sprinkled with a few whole Roma tomatoes just mashed enough to let the juices run into the olive oil, a few one-inch dabs of fresh, white, unsalted mozzarella, and two or three fresh basil leaves. That is all. Baked in a wood-fired oven.
Okay, maybe a few oil-cured Sicilian olives.
THANK YOU!
Not Italian but grew up Catholic in Chicago were most of the other students in my Catholic school were.
LOVE ITALIAN FOOD!
About a year ago I thought why am I reading and using American food authors talking about Italian food when I could now get translated Italian websites.
Now I’m cooking better Italian, can read an Italian menu, planning my dream vacation.... Eat my way through Italy!!!!!
How true. The doorbell now brings dread to your life.
I’m eating a crispy crust BBQ pork “pizza” right now!
Yum!
PFL
That's the way to do it! I was starving for Italian pizza since the one and only Sicilian in our town moved his restaurant 25 miles away -- until an actual Neapolitan man opened a restaurant in a nearby town, ordered a wood-fired oven from Naples, and imports his flour and tomatoes from Italy. I'm happy again! Sometimes I go 50 miles to the nearest large city to eat fresh varieties of pasta from a Milanese guy who recently opened up. At home, I always keep a pot of fresh basil, and have a jar of semolina in my cabinet, imported olive oil, real Reggio Parmesan and fresh garlic.
Ew!
Cut into rectangles ;0
But, I am using my fingers and not utensils.
I thought we weren't allowed to do that under the cultural Marxists' PC rules.
I thought we weren't allowed to do that under the cultural Marxists' PC rules.
Pizza is Italian.
Broccoli on pizza is an abomination.
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