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This reminds me of this video that shows how Italian food is a recent invention https://youtu.be/iZZfwyKa0Lc

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A lot of “traditional” national foods are like that, especially if you consider pre-columbian food traditions. If you just limit it to chocolate, tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, potatoes, and beans, none of which were used or available in Europe until after importation, you see that it gets murky pretty quickly. Funny how we associate potatoes with Ireland, tomatoes with Italy, and chocolate with Switzerland when they’re actually all indigenous American foods.

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The tartiflette, a very popular traditional meal from Savoy in the Alps, was invented in the 70s !

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Beans are native to Europe.

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One “bean” is native to Europe. The fava or horse bean to be specific.

Pretty shocking, eh?

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What are some actual European foods that people ate hundreds of years before that?

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Meat, grains, fruit, and veg. Just different ones and less variety.

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From what I can find, there was a lot of barley, wheat, rye. Meat and fish. Peas, cabbage, apples, pears, grapes, honey, legumes, herbs, cheese.

Recipes turn out to be a lot of bread with cheese, meat or stews, with wine or beer. And also things like pancakes and other baked goods.

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Take veel other motoun and smyte it to gobettes. Seeth it in gode broth; cast therto erbes yhewe gode won, and a quantite of oynouns mynced, powdour fort and safroun, and alye it with ayren and verious: but let it not seeth after.

—Curye on Inglysch, IV.18.

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Well I never.

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Ah. Good. Now we can calculate the optimal amount of ketchup to pour over them. I also like them uncooked on pineapple pizza. Yummy.

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The first part of this made me think you’re making a joke about being tasteless, then you said the pineapple pizza part and given that pineapple on pizza is just plain wrong, you might be serious

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pineapple on pizza is just plain wrong

I’m sorry you grew up uncultured :(

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I’ll die on this hill.

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Of course they are serious. Ketchup is the best pasta sauce hands down.

It can even be used as a replacement for tomato sauce on pizza, just so damn multifunctional.

But I agree, pineapple on pizza is wrong, that is why I prefer kiwi and banana on there instead. The taste is incredible!

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Pete the cat has entered the chat, those are socks on the pizza.

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I can’t up vote you

And down vote you

It’s not fair

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10 points

You have to break them in half first

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Not approved

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9 points

Hey…I know some of those words! Not all of them…but some!

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I picture the security guard at the building there dealing with this one guy who loves tagliatelle but is a total tagliatelle snob, and he keeps ordering it when he goes out but then he comes to rhe Palazzo and he’s obsessed, wants to check every noodle against the gold standard, thinks he’s being gang stalked, knows the Palazzo asked him not to return but he keeps coming back.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagliatelle

Tagliatelle (Italian: [taʎʎaˈtɛlle] ⓘ; from the Italian word tagliare, meaning ‘to cut’) are a traditional type of pasta from the Italian regions of Emilia-Romagna and Marche. Individual pieces of tagliatelle are long, flat ribbons that are similar in shape to fettuccine and are traditionally about 6 mm (1⁄4 in) wide.[1] Tagliatelle can be served with a variety of sauces, though the classic is a meat sauce or Bolognese sauce.

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Looks like it says 8mm in the picture

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Fix it

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3 points

Mamma Mia 8

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The camera is known to put on a few mm

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Thanks I had no idea what it was.

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