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This Twitter Account Devoted to Angry Italians Is My Favorite Place Online
The Cut ^ | JUNE 13, 2018 | by Gabriella Paiella

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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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Food; Society
KEYWORDS: food; italian; italianfood; twitter
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To: HotHunt
If we're worried about cultural appropriation then the Italians have to give pasta back to the Chinese and tomatoes back to the Latin Americans.

And maybe they have to give pizza bread back to somebody in the Middle East.

21 posted on 06/13/2018 4:44:59 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Albion Wilde
I've seen many YouTube pizza videos. If anyone puts anything on any pizza besides a little tomato sauce, a sprinkle of olive oil, a few dollops of mozzarella, and a few sprigs of basil they are in for an Italian tongue-lashing.

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!

22 posted on 06/13/2018 4:49:56 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Albion Wilde

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 ;-)


23 posted on 06/13/2018 4:52:15 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jim 0216

Bkmrk.


24 posted on 06/13/2018 4:53:33 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Albion Wilde

Yum!


25 posted on 06/13/2018 4:54:53 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Albion Wilde
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.

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.

26 posted on 06/13/2018 5:02:04 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: minnesota_bound

Nonna!


27 posted on 06/13/2018 5:09:33 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Albion Wilde

“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.”

Northern Italians are all azzholes.


28 posted on 06/13/2018 5:10:14 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: Albion Wilde

I miss Italian Wedding Soup.

Pasta Fazul? not so much.


29 posted on 06/13/2018 5:14:22 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Albion Wilde

And for Eff’s sake people pasta in red sauce is not the height of Italian cuisine!

Where is the damn seafood!!?


30 posted on 06/13/2018 5:17:11 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: HotHunt

Filters can help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8xbGsaEnc0


31 posted on 06/13/2018 5:17:56 PM PDT by wally_bert (This is the message phone company. I see youÂ’re using our unit, now how about paying for it?)
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To: Albion Wilde
Visited Italy last month and I have to that at every place we ate, the food was excellent! From the fancy restaurants to the streetside shops, it was always delicious.

Can't say that about any other place I've gone on vacation.

32 posted on 06/13/2018 5:18:09 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

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.


33 posted on 06/13/2018 5:19:11 PM PDT by wally_bert (This is the message phone company. I see youÂ’re using our unit, now how about paying for it?)
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To: Albion Wilde

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.


34 posted on 06/13/2018 5:24:22 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Broccoli Rabe is Italian...


35 posted on 06/13/2018 5:25:43 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: lizma2
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.

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.

36 posted on 06/13/2018 5:31:40 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Trump is a real estate genius because he lives rent-free in so many heads.)
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To: outofsalt

Well, as long as you consider it a pork treat and not pizza, it sounds delicious!


37 posted on 06/13/2018 5:32:29 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Trump is a real estate genius because he lives rent-free in so many heads.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Broccoli is Italian. Pizza is Italian. Broccoli on pizza is an abomination.

But broccoli rabe (rapini) on pizza is delicious and authentic, depending on whom you ask.


38 posted on 06/13/2018 5:36:20 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Trump is a real estate genius because he lives rent-free in so many heads.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Take Broccoli Rabe (mostly leaves) heat olive oil, Sautee garlic, red pepper flakes and then the rabe..,

Wonderful fried Italian greens..


39 posted on 06/13/2018 5:36:32 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Albion Wilde

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 ;)


40 posted on 06/13/2018 5:36:42 PM PDT by Trillian
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