"brooklyn1" ha scritto nel messaggio >
> "Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
>>> Claims of spending the largest proportion of income on food is nothing
>>> to >> be proud of; means the great majority of the population is poor,
>>> food is costly, scarce, and what the great majority of the population
>>> consumes is >>> of poor quality...

>> So you mean the US eats better because they choose Spam & Velveeta and
>> the >> poor of Italy eat prosciutto and Parma cheese? The well-to-do US
>> beverage of choice is Diet Coke while the poor Italians have to drink
>> Pinot Grigio > or Chianti.
>>
> You know better than to say everyone in the US subsists on Spam and
> Velveeta > and no one in the US drinks booze, because that would include
> you. There's more proscutto, parmesan, and dago red consumed in the US
> than in Italy..

You can go off on these idiotic tirades filled with invented prejudicial
statements if you like, but don't refute others who have actual experience
when they tell the truth.

The truth is you have never eaten as well as my peasant neighbors eat and
you wouldn't recognize real Italian food if you were trapped in a cave with
nothing else.
You have no idea what most Americans do, let alone what Italians do. In
Italy you can't even buy the shit that passes for cheap food in the USA.

> Italy exports most of their gourmet foods production and the US is the >
> biggest importer.

Really stupid. Most prosciutto sold in the US is fake made in the USA.
Same for Parmesan. The portion of real Italian food exported to the US
relies on its quality. We ALL eat the real thing here, with each person
having an opinion of which of the prosciutti crudi tastes the best.

>>Most Americans who visit Italy (or any country) primarily
> stay at American style hotels; they may as well have stayed home.

That's what YOU would do, not the rest of us. The agriturismo homestay is
the biggest travel deal in Italy these days.

>>The > regular everyday Italians don't eat what Americans call "Italian
>>Food", most eat exactly what typical Americans eat on a daily basis...

They absolutely do NOT. You obviously have paid no attention to Vilco or
Pandora ever.

>>and they don't eat better, they simply spend more time cooking > because
>>prepared foods that Americans consume are much too expensive...

They do not exist. Not even canned soup. That's because Italians won't buy
them.

>> didn't you see all the pictures of dishes Pandora posted, all fussily
>> prepared, but small portions and no expensive ingredients, what Italians
>> call pasta for six would barely feed me and you.

And that wopuld be because they eat two or more courses after they've eaten
the pasta, idiot.

>>The reason pizza in Italy is so bare bones is because with the way
>>Americns pile on toppings hardly any Italians could afford it.

BS. Piling on all that crap ruins the pizza and turns it into a deadly fat
bomb as well as making the crust soggy and flat.

And per capita most of the world's developed
> countries drink more Coke than Americans... if you think Italians don't
> drink Diet Coke then you spent your time there with your eyes closed...
> Coca Cola is the first English Italian toddlers learn...

No, nowadays I teach them to say "Sheldon is an idiot who doesn't mind
showing his ignorance in public."