italians mad at food
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“pathetic food-based forms of performative cultural narcissism as a personality substitute.” ✨ IG: @italians_mad_at_food
Ministry of Food Sovereignty
Joined May 2015
stages of an italian mad at food, a thread: 1. initial bewilderment
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Jasmine Paolini could not hide her feelings when asked if Australia had 'the world's best coffee' ☕️🤭🤣 #AusOpen
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Me when I ordered a tiramisu to go ,and the owner said "tiramisu must be eaten in restaurant slowly" and made me eat it right there 😆
"the customer is always right" simply does not apply in italy
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@ItalianComments My wife was refused parmesan on her seafood risotto. Waiter said no point blank and walked away. Rude.
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me in rome asking the waiter for ranch to go with my salad and he said “we don’t do that here” i was humbled
"the customer is always right" simply does not apply in italy
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@ItalianComments Heading to Naples for pizza, the tour operator announced if we even mentioned pineapple we’d be kicked out of the country lol 🤣
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In Rome, my American boss tried to order tortellini pasta with carbonara sauce... I told him not to. He tried. He was told "no".
"the customer is always right" simply does not apply in italy
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@ItalianComments I ordered an americano in the afternoon while in Venice and I was told "it is not breakfast time" and was given a spritz.
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you lot simply don’t deserve the right to butcher out food in our country tbh
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I asked for cheese on my prawn pasta and the waiter simply said ✨no✨
"the customer is always right" simply does not apply in italy
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That's right. I asked for Parmesan Cheese for my pasta and the guy told me "No, you're gonna ruin the taste"
"the customer is always right" simply does not apply in italy
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@OperaBrendaSLP @ItalianComments An English colleague ordered cheese w her pasta alle vongole at La Cambusa in Bologna. She noticed the waiter’s face, said, I’m sorry; he said, if you want. Later the whole staff marched out carrying her pasta, behind it, a 🚫 sign + behind that, freshly grated parmigiano.
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wasn’t it simply “al dente”?
I was in Italy with a group, some ordered pasta for dinner, they ended up returning it and had a huge argument because the pasta "wasn't cooked"
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I tried to order a coffee with my pizza in rome one time and the waiter yelled at me
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@ItalianComments In Sicily, we saw a manager being called because a waiter wouldn't bring parmesan for a fish dish
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I ordered a capuccino at 1pm in Venice and the grandma running the cafe literally said "it is not breakfast anymore, signora" and gave me an aperol spritz and you know what? she was right
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@pavsmith @ItalianComments I still remember a waiter/maitre in Frascati (Rome) over 30 years ago, telling us of some Germans who had ordered Carbonara + some emmenthal cubes and green salad on a side plate, and then mixed everything together. They were (deservedly) thrown out.
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@jaunehyuck @ItalianComments We treat food for what it is (an art for the mind and soul), other countries treat food as bare fuel for the body (sigh)
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