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It is delicious though

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[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 months ago

Unless the food is for sick people in that case regular English food is perfectly bland for them.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 13 points 6 months ago

well someone needs to stir the risotto

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 6 months ago

This is the sort of discrimination I can support. Call the husband when you want some tea.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Carbonara is delicious and its definitely not a recent invention

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm Italian, and trust me: carbonara is not more than 70 years old...

Same thing for tiramisù.

[–] ragas@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The original inventors of Tiramisu are still alive today.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Carbonara was invented after WWII to use surplus bacon sent as food aid from the US and primarily served to American servicemen during reconstruction.

[–] wieson@feddit.org 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's not even made with bacon, so no

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 3 points 6 months ago

According to Wikipedia, with various sources, allied forces in Italy would often ask for bacon, eggs, and cheese on noodles, called "spaghetti breakfast," so Italian chefs would modify the existing recipe for "pasta cacio e uova," which was originally without meat, to feature cured pork, thus creating the original carbonara.

I didn't see anything to specifically say whether they originally used bacon as the allied forces asked, or used other more traditional forms of cured pork from the start, but now guanciale, a cured pork jowl, is considered the traditional ingredient, though bacon is a common substitute outside of Italy.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 1 points 6 months ago

Sorry that history doesn't fit into your world view.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe but the English havnt yet invented it at all

[–] fakasad68@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

*DISCOVERED it all

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My wife can bake (more or less), but cannot cook much else to save her life. She'll default to crackers, cheese and turkey slices for every meal, maaaaybe the occasional frozen pizza, if I don't cook. Also I'm a really good cook and I like my food, so... I'mma do the cooking.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Centuries of cultures and nations mixing and colliding resulted in pasta. Pasta is more international than Italian.

[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Perfectly reasonable. English food is disgusting.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For her, I would bring home a deep fried haggis and a Cornish pasty. Embrace our culture!

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Haggis isnt english. Its scottish

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

Both are British though

[–] Melobol@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Weaponized incompetence much?

[–] taygaloocat@leminal.space -1 points 6 months ago

Does every single thing need to be an argument in your world?

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Well, English recipes are not really the best, it's more fair to say that an US citizen of any gender don't should be in the kitchen, after seeing them adding ketchup to Spaguetti Carbonara

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 1 points 6 months ago
[–] pir8t0x@lemmy.ml -2 points 6 months ago

I think this is the wrong place to post this. You're supposed to post this on microblogmemes@lemmy.world