Aaaaaaah, hilarious!
When an American puts pineapple on a pizza, an Italian dies. One minute of silence for this disgrace! We say 'no' to violence against pizzas.
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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If I hadn’t already eaten...I’d be on my way to our favorite little Italian restaurant right now.
LOL! I’m largely a Celto-WASP also - with a little bit of French. German, and Italian Princess thrown in.
I think of myself as an American of Euro-Mutt extraction ;-)
Very much so on rules Tx rules but not so much in regular life.
Lots of Beaners in Tx :)
The ones in Italy or the ones here? I think mostly here.
Speaking of Italian-Americans, here is one of my favorites, Sal Valentinetti. Check out his uncle, sitting offstage with Nick Cannon!
See how this works? Everyone loves food.
Yes; and people tend to stay attached to the food that they grew up eating.
I know adults who still eat their childhood-favorite boxed cereal for breakfast, every day; and often when I’m feeling down and in need of comfort, I make my Granny’s Chicken Pie ;-)
I will never forget Italy, the food in Rome did not impress me but they eat bat’s nipples there, the food on the coast was very nice, but the thing that impressed me the most was how this ahole cabbie was wildly gesticulating, cussing and all over the road... we said hey, Pisano... Let us do that!
He smiled and drove while we flipped off bad drivers!
Good times.
Yup
Aaaaaaah, hilarious!
When an American puts pineapple on a pizza, an Italian dies. One minute of silence for this disgrace! We say 'no' to violence against pizzas.
So's mine. I sympathize. But her best friend was Italian, and used to bring the minestrone around.
What about anchovies?
Are wasps dying LOL?
LOL!
Back in the 70s, I had a boyfriend who wanted a sign that said ‘asshole’ that he could stick out the window whenever another driver did something stupid.
My husband doesn’t need a sign, he’s got a big voice. I learn a lot of New Words, when we’re out driving around...
Mama tried.
I don’t get so wild anymore LOL
Yes; cooking to Italians is a set of principles, not recipes. Here is one of my favorite online nonnas, Clara, 91 years old, making pasta and peas. I was so surprised to see her put potatoes in it! But her theme is Italian-American dishes from the Depression:
Thank you for the fun thread.
I get sick of all the carping. Not that smoked carp aint bad...
Exactly so
We slice the potatos thin like scalloped potato.
The Old timers love it, and I think it’s OK too.
My Uncle a Vietnam vet on the Forrestal used to mix his peas with the mashed taters, I thought he was crazy, He said it makes em stick to the knife, then he would take me mushroom foraging.
Miss him
When I was in Italy and the ones here. My grandmother on my father’s side was the skinny one.
I told my boy when he was like 5, “if you can master the egg, you will never be hungry or disappointed”
AAAAk! No way! I’ve had real Italian pizza, made by REAL Italians, all my life. That stuff you’re talking about is something cooked up by Food Network gourmet snobbish “chefs”. Sure Italian housewives made their own mozzarella and other cheese, but they dried it and cured it. That snooty fresh mozzarella, would be a sometimes thing, but they had to cure and it to keep it from spoiling. But the thing about pizza, is that it’s like pasta -— an Italian housewife makes a dish with whatever she has on hand. Some authentic pizza has no mozzarella, just parmesan or Romano, maybe some anchovies, and tomatoes, either as a sauce, or fresh, or maybe no tomato at all,just a little olive oil. It’s true, real Italian pizza is just a thrown together dish, with a bread base. Ask any ww2 soldier who served in Italy, and they’ll tell you, what we call pizza, didn’t exist in Italy. BUT, somehow or another, pizza with sauce and mozzarella, and meat, ended up being created by Italian cooks, here. (And I’m NOT talking about pizza hut or papa John’s; they’re a poor concoction by PepsiCo). My husband grew up in Wichita, where pizza hut started, and until the brothers sold it to PepsiCo, it was the real deal. Just like they bought out colonel Sanders, and made kfc into something that bore little resemblance to the real thing, they did the same to pizza hut. In other words, pizza can be anything you want it to be. A poor Italian housewife, in the 1940’s, probably never saw a piece of pineapple, but whatever she DID have, she threw it together to feed her family. If she called it pizza, so be it.
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