I’m Dutch and I think this map is completely unfair. It overrates our food significantly
The Dutch chartered an enormous company to trade spices, but never used them.
That’s just common knowledge, dealers never dip into their own product.
As a Belgian, I agree!
I knew an Italian exchange student that kept whining that nothing tasted good and nothing tasted as it should up here in Scandinavia. Then another exchange student (from Thailand I think) got tired of him and told him ~“the rest of the world isn’t your mother” and it was a literal moment of realisation for this dude.
Wow, a rare good tasteful Your Mom remark
I wholeheartedly support culinarily disrespecting Italians, honestly.
Dudes trying to convince us that they are presenting ancient traditions when their precious dishes are invented in like the 60s
Also, many times they will say some isn’t an authentic way to do something, and then you will learn it is authentic for like, a few towns over.
You should see how Italians debate their own food when two of them are from two different towns. It’s bloody epic!
Cappelletti vs Anolini probably caused a few deaths
Dudes trying to convince us that they are presenting ancient traditions
Ancient traditions
Look inside
Post Columbian exchange vegetables
Post-columbian fruit is underselling just how new at least posts of it are. Carbonara was invented by US soldiers in the 1940s, literally made using bacon and powdered egg from their rations.
Tiramisu is unclear, but 1939 seems to be the earliest of the possible candidate, the earliest actual document is from 1969.
Pizza as we know it today was reimported from the US.
I love Italian food, but it’s much less traditional than people pretend.
tourist traps are everywhere. nevertheless Italian cousin remains top notch. fact
Must be a freak in the sheets.
Non-mediterran = toxic? Slightly biased i say.
Italians biased about food? Never!
If you wanna be pedantic, Italian pasta is actually the knockoff of Chinese noodles.
Also, Greek food is fantastic!
If you really wanna be pedantic, almost everything is a knocknockoff of something
I feel like France, Greece, and Spain are gonna have some pretty strong objections.
RIP Portugal
Not from someone from the South-East of France.
Cannes and Nice are apparently the only places in France with real food 🤣
okay but north africa food?
Well, the map is titled, “Culinary Map of Europe” :D
The Netherlands is probably an “overcooked pasta” enclave than. When I was a kid, I was sure Al Dente was Italian for Deathly Toxin.
overcooked pasta
Al DenteAh, so Al Dante
What about fat spicy indian curry tho?
This is Funny if you think about it because Modern Pizza originates from the USA and Pasta from China
Naples. Modern pizza comes from Naples.
That dish was then taken to New York where shredded cheese was used in place of the slices used in Neapolitan pizza.
Pasta on the other hand, does descend from a Chinese dish. Sort of. The Proto-italians actually invented some types of pasta dish themselves, notably the precursor to lasagna and ravioli.
Well most of ‘traditional’ Italien food is actually from the US and had been invented by Italien immigrants.
Fake pizza, sure, but doesn’t imply it’s bad. Plus ironically, you can find Italian style pizza in the US if you look for it.
That said, I’ll still apologize for Dominos, Pizza Hut, et. al. for fast-foodizing the concept of pizza.
I grew up north of the toxic belt, and it’s my firm opinion that Italian food is overrated. Well, except Parmesan, I’ll give them that.
Lasagna is like a moussaka with too much tomato sauce and layers of pasta that should’ve been skipped.
Anyone who downvotes this is either Italian, or has a fetish for mashed tomatoes.
Any Italian noodles with tomato sucks. Chinese noodles win 99.99% of the time
Spanish and Greek food beats Italian. Heck Polish food is way underrated. Also American pizza is better.
American pizza made by Italian immigrants. ftfy
