Italy bans kebabs and foreign food from cities

The Times of London ^ | January 31, 2009 | Richard Owen

[xrmusn]

Kind of reminds me of our BIG, BRAVE CONGRESS, passing the edict calling French Fries, Freedom Fries as a protest to France.

Naturally, the opposite of PROgress is CONgress

[radiohead]

<First they came for meat on a stick and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t meat on a stick...

ROFLMAO! I wish I could think of a clever rejoinder, but I’m too busy laughing.

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

I suspect that much of this is about getting rid of muslims. Not foreign food per se.

[ml/nj]

I remember when the biggest nuisance in Rome were the Gypsies.

Maybe. (What about all the cats?!) But Oriana wrote about all the sons of Allah in Florence camping by the Duomo and urinating on the Bell Tower. In her memory, may these Swine be routed from Italy and all of Europe (and America too!)

ML/NJ

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

As long as they don’t export Fiat’s, everything will be okay.

My first car was a 1974 Fiat. Two years later I found a sucker to take it off my hands for five percent of the original cost.

[elcid1970]

G-d has welcomed Oriana into His kingdom.

Crusaders here below must do battle against Islamic death cultists who dare pretend that they worship the same Deity as do we.

They hijack airplanes, and now they try to hijack our Lord, Who never commanded suicide and murder of innocents.

I loved the time I spent in Italy, BTW.

[nufsed]

A Short History of Spaghetti

Spaghetti!!! Who doesn't love it? But where did this delicious concoction come from, and how did it get to our plate?

We've probably all heard that Marco Polo brought spaghetti to Europe from the Far East in the late 13th century. While it's true that he probably encountered it there -- or at least a type of long noodle made from either rice flour or hard wheat flour -- pasta had existed in Europe for centuries. In fact, a fourth century B.C. Etruscan tomb has a bas-relief carving of a group of natives making what appears to be pasta. Pasta in Italy is a long tradition!

Pasta certainly existed in places other than Italy, however. The Chinese had been making it since at least 3000 B.C. And Greece claimed its share of the credit -- according to Greek mythology, the Greek God Vulcan invented a device that created long strings of dough.

But what is pasta without tomato sauce? Well, the Europeans certainly had a chance to find out. It wasn't until 1519 that the explorer Cortez brought the first tomatoes back to Europe from the New World. And when tomatoes were first introduced, they were grown exclusively as a decorative plant. The tomato is a member of the nightshade family, and it was assumed that it was poisonous as well. (Actually, the leaves and stems are toxic.) Eventually, it was discovered that tomatoes could be used as a food source, but it wasn't until the 18th century that it became a popular food item.

Thomas Jefferson can be credited with bringing pasta to the United States. When he served as Ambassador to France, he got a taste of this tasty dish, and he liked it so much that he ordered a pasta-making machine sent back to the U.S., the first "macaroni maker" in America.

The first American commercial outfit for the production of pasta was run by Antoine Zerega, who opened his factory in Brooklyn in 1848. He dried his product on his roof in the sunshine, and powered his machinery by one horse, which he kept in the basement.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

this

[Frantzie]

Hopefully Silvio will close down all the mosques and deport the you know whos.

[Starwolf]

And I like kebab, more so that some of the more traditional Italian food

[frankiep]

Well, I guess it’s sort of nice to know that our government isn’t the only one in the world that is comprised of imbeciles.

[Western Phil]

“My first car was a 1974 Fiat.”

I'm pretty sure that Simcas were Italians.

My brother had a Simca while he was in college. Drove it from Lincoln to Minneapolis for a job interview with Control Data. Blew a hole in one of the pistons on the way back. He disabled that cylinder and drove the rest of the way home, replaced the piston & eventually took it to Minnesota when he got his job. He replaced the car as soon as he could afford it.

[Toki]

That is going to put out a lot of small business from foreigners out of business. When I was living in Italy I remember only seeing other ethnicities in a couple of jobs. They were either trying to sell you stuff on the road, Working at food places, or ethnic clothing places. /shakes head. This gives them one less chance for the people to actually have a chance to get out of slums...

[Defiant]

Leave the kebobs, take the cannoli.