sf wrote:
> On 25 Feb 2006 07:40:37 -0800, stitcher wrote:
>
> > A friend who lives in Italy explained to me that when most Italians go
> > out to eat, they
> > are looking for mostly the same kind of food they might make at home,
> > perhaps more "refined" in ingredients, but basically familiar foods.
> > They might go out for Chinese food once a year or so just for a lark,
> > but do not think, as we often do, "what shall we eat tonight, Thai,
> > Mexican, Japanese, French, Italian?" That being said, Italian food is
> > much more varied that most Americans know. The cuisine of the north,
> > for instance, uses butter, not ollive oil, with a definite French
> > influence, to the northeast, it's German-influenced, not the
> > tomato-based Sicilian cuisine found in most American Italian
> > restaurants. I would say that your impression of dedication to their
> > own cuisine is fairly accurate, but their own cuisine will vary from
> > one region of Italy to another.
>
> So, are they stuck with the cooking of their own region or do Italians
> decide if they want to go out for Tuscan, Sicilian or Venezian?

Most 'talians can't spell those... years ago my 'talian neighbors
(Vincent and Teresa - Vinny & Terry) had thier first child. The guido
grandfather (Dominic) was beaming as he handed out cigars (yeah, with
'talians the gal's father hands out the cigars, like he was the father
and the son-in-law is a nothing). Dom could hardly contain himself as
he related how the kid was born by Sicilian Section. I swear.

In the US they eat almost exclusively pizzas, pastas, saw-seeges, meata
balles, and bread, bread by the acres... if it ain't high carb/fat
'talians won't eat it... ever see what 'talians calls ensalde, a saucer
of two lettuce leaves and a sleaze of tomato *drowning* in olive earl,
which they sop up with bread and leave the lettuce and mato... 'talians
eat lots of bread, even use bread to sop up the juices from when they
have sex... hey, they eat anchovies too! hehe Btw, 'talians never talk
food in the singular... Yo, Carmine, takea more macaronis.

NO, 'taliians do not eat Chinese food.. not to mention they can't read
the menu, and this is true. Ever notice in 'talian restaurants how
the WOPS just holler out their order, no menu, And one is always the
designated orderer, orders for everyone with no discussion... no menu
because the the loud mouthed ones who do all the ordering and bossing
about really can't read... their brains had a Sicilian Section
lobotomy, only the mouth works.
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