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 hes just a regular amount of Italian. But it wasnt until later in my life that I realized that my dad wasnt 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. Theyre 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, theyre all very dramatic...
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And maybe they have to give pizza bread back to somebody in the Middle East.
Thank heaven Americans aren't such purists and I can have hamburger and onion, or sausage and black olives, or fresh tomatoes and capicola (or as we say gaba-GOAL) pizza!
That’s hilarious. But I guess things were regionally different - my Southern Grandmother always taught us to never go to someone’s house unexpected, but to call first and arrange a visit.
I have an American-American husband - he’s of Italian descent, but was always taught by his father that his Great Grandfather, who came over on ‘the boat’, was an ‘Italian Italian’; that his Grandfather was an ‘Italian American’; and that his father was an American Italian. After that, everybody is an American-American.
My husband’s father believed that all of this nominal identification with prior countries should end at the fourth generation.
But identification with ethnic FOOD apparently lasts forever. My husband won’t touch Fettuccine Alfredo - his entire family has an aversion to ‘creamy stuff’; but it’s my favorite pasta dish ;-)
Bkmrk.
Yum!
DITTO!
Don't know why but I have a major green thumb for basil. By the end of the summer my friends are tired of me giving it to them.
Wish I could do that for tomatoes.
Nonna!
“But it wasnt until later in my life that I realized that my dad wasnt uniquely a pain in the ass about food, and that most Italians are insanely tightly wound about their cuisine.”
Northern Italians are all azzholes.
I miss Italian Wedding Soup.
Pasta Fazul? not so much.
And for Eff’s sake people pasta in red sauce is not the height of Italian cuisine!
Where is the damn seafood!!?
Can't say that about any other place I've gone on vacation.
I had a great beef boli all the way for dinner.
Bolis and calzones are for oddballs like me who fold pizza.
I used to get so much grief from people.
The best kitchen of my childhood Was the culmination of “Whopper” (from Sicily) and “Desert” (from Lebanon)
24/7, 365, delicious Mediterranean things where at the taking.
Broccoli Rabe is Italian...
In the fall, I bundle my herbs with thin rubber bands or string and hang them to dry, and give the dried bunches as gifts at Christmas, tied with a nice ribbon, and maybe attached to a bottle of olive oil or balsamic. The dried sage is great to give the week before Thanksgiving, because it is so good with turkey. The dried parsley I eat every day, so I hog it for myself.
Well, as long as you consider it a pork treat and not pizza, it sounds delicious!
But broccoli rabe (rapini) on pizza is delicious and authentic, depending on whom you ask.
Take Broccoli Rabe (mostly leaves) heat olive oil, Sautee garlic, red pepper flakes and then the rabe..,
Wonderful fried Italian greens..
Ok, I looked through it for a while. I’ve seen people be much angrier about food. Most of them seem to be complaining about some chicken and pasta dish or confusing peppers and pepperoni on a pizza. A lot of them are insulting Americans calling them obese and diabetic.
A lot of Italians when they get older, get fat lol.. I’ve seen it first hand. They start pushing maximum density after they get married and live in house dresses that look like hospital gowns ;)
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