This Twitter Account Devoted to Angry Italians Is My Favorite Place Online

The Cut ^ | JUNE 13, 2018 | by Gabriella Paiella

[Albion Wilde]

Yo! Gabbagool!

[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.

Same here, every trip north, south, Adriatic coast, Mediterranean coast, boot and toe, except for one time when we rented a car to drive across the "outback" in the center of Sicily, between Messina and Palermo, by way of Caltanisetta. We thought the food would be fabulously authentic at the little roadside stops, but it was awful after we left the populous east until we got to the outskirts of Palermo.

Then again, it might have been our budget to blame. That trip was a long time ago.

[mylife]

Lots of the old timer Italians make potato pizza with greens on it, And by God they use a Béchamel sauce, and hot Hungarian wax peppers.

You use what you got.

[Trillian]

LOL, a lot of people here don't like pineapple on pizza either.

[Albion Wilde]

Pasta Fazul? not so much.

Pasta è fagioli! Made here, or made in Italy? It's one of my favorites to make and to eat. Must use real cannelini beans, lots of garlic, wilted escarole with lemon, and ditalini or small penne. I love it as soup, too.

[Albion Wilde]

Tomatoes need the right kind of soil, lots of sunlight and LOTS of water. Test your soil ph and see it that’s the problem. One of my friends had good luck with chicken and goat manure from a local farm.

[Chaguito]

Reminds me of the French soldiers taunting King Arthur and his K-niggets.

[mylife]

My Mom’s is terrible, but she is Irish LOL

Sorry Ma.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“Outrage as only the Italians can whip up—over food. “

I’ve seen some pretty good food fights right here over beans in chili.

[CottonBall]

hilarious! thanks for the ping. i can hear my italian relatives lamenting the same thing, at the top of their voices and waves their arms about for emphasis

[Albion Wilde]

pasta in red sauce is not the height of Italian cuisine! Where is the damn seafood!!?

The best affordable Italian food on the east coast is not in NYC Little Italy, but in Philadelphia. Being right on a river a short hop from the ocean, there is plenty of seafood available and it is always offered at reasonable prices at the little neighborhood restaurants -- mussels, clams, various white fish, sea bass, scallops, shrimp, oysters, swordfish (pesce spada -- my favorite), tuna, you name it.

[mylife]

I’ll have the wedding soup ;)

[mylife]

You in Tx? LOL

[mylife]

Where can a guy get a Scungilli Salad? :)

[Albion Wilde]

Very interesting story! Very much like my neighbors when I lived in an Italian enclave in the city. I personally am a Celto-WASP. However, allow me to quote the English poet Robert Browning:

Open my heart and you will see
Engraved upon it, "Italy."

[CottonBall]

“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.”

Almost right - for a proper VPN (
Verace Pizza Napoletana) pizza, you must use DOP San Marzano tomatoes, hand crushed.

Kalamata olives and artichoke hearts as well as the fresh mozzarella and basil are sublime!!!!

Did i mention i installed my own Forno Bravo pizza oven? it’s my pride and joy! (see next post for pic - don’t feel like adding html to this one!)

[mylife]

We are mutts but this is where I grew up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TNq06JpR8o

[mylife]

Goddang confuser!

http://www.rullibrothers.com/

[CottonBall]

click on for bigger pic

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

No, LOL. As I recall Texans can have a strong opinion on the subject.