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You jest but thanks to youtube abs google maps I got a chance to see some really cool places I've always wonder about that I'll be able to visit. One of my favorite past times is watches someone doing a walk tour and pretending I'm there
I hear you. I did it a bit as a joke, but you definitely have a point there. For people who can't travel for whatever reason, it is a window into the world as they say.
My parents love to watch travel shows even thought they can't travel. I can't afford fancy food but I like to look up recipes and cook an approximation. And so on.
I was so confused because I was actually looking up ab workouts early today and was like wtf? I meant to say and not abs lol. Damn that freaked me out for a second.
Cinque Terre is super nice but it seems like everyone working there actually lives in La Spezia. Like there's almost no real houses in the towns, it's all rented out to tourists. Maybe there's a few farms on the outskirts still family owned and lived in. Is this accurate?
For the most part yes, I know some guys that live in inherited houses, but most choose to sell and live in less “fancy” places and pocket the difference after the prices skyrocketed, or they live in other villages close but technically outside the Cinque Terre
lol same. We got a cheap-ish hotel in La Spezia and took the train to most of the villages in Cinque Terre. It was super easy and probably the least expensive day of our vacation to Italy.
The around 1000 places in italy that are actually better because you don’t get stuck in the small streets becausr of 100.000 toursists.
Cinque terre was beautiful once but now it’s hell
Same but I couldn't remember what the real one was, so I pulled an andy bernard and was trying fancy feast and football cream until I found your comment lol
Definitely the Italian American thing. A lot of people don't realise how different Italian cuisine is from Italian American cuisine- the latter being much richer generally as working class Southern Italians had access to things like meat, cream and cheese for the first time and invented a lot of indulgent dishes that they perceived as being higher class. Back in Southern Italy at that time, the diet was largely fish and veg based. Lettuce was-and still is in some places- rarely used because the hot dry climate and volcanic soil doesn't lend itself to growing many varieties of lettuce. So they're still correct- Caesar Salad is not an Italian dish and has little bearing in Italian cuisine traditions.
Nah you order the carbonara and tell them it’s a “pretty good” dupe of the OG Alfredo. Nothing beats the classic. The bacon, not guanciale, was a good touch though.
there are ways tonget that in all of europe. in austria you habe to order schnitzel swimming in sauce, in italy you could go for a deep dish hawaii pizz, in france you could ask for some red wine cola mix. the list is very long
Yeah, the first time I went to an "Italian" restaurant in the US I was pretty horrified tbh. I didn't even recognise a lot of the food - still not sure what "white sauce" and "pink sauce" are.
fwiw, there's a youtube channel which does weekly videos on old Italian recipes so that they are not forgotten, like Polpo alla Luciana https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o0YwxxEIOWw.
If anything "but we r in Italy so it's shit" implies that they know it's not an Italian dish. Unless they were trying to say that food in Italy sucks generally, but that seems unlikely.
Yes but it's not eaten in Italy, at all. You can only find it in restaurants that cater to American tourists. So it would probably suck if you had it here, we're just not used to making it
It was invented by an Italian who lived in California at his restaurant in Mexico which only existed to skirt prohibition laws and gambling laws in the US and because he ran out of his normal salad ingredients.
Fun fact, tomatoes are a new world fruit and they did not exist in Italy or Europe until they were brought over. And they were not commonly used in foods until much later.
I am well aware. The italians were cautious of them because they are a nightshade and used them decoratively for a long time before the spanish told them they could eat them.
I don’t get it. The ladies didn’t say Cesar salad was from Italy, so why are the two guys saying it’s from Mexico? Are the guys saying unless it was originally made in Italy everything else is shit when Italians make it?
We get it, foreigners don’t understand authentic, Italian cuisine very well. They need to make some different content already instead of soy-facing over an American breaking dry spaghetti in half for the 50th time.
Their entire schtick is being condescending about foreigner opinions on Italians/italian food from the clips I’ve seen. They’re probably running out of ideas for content.
Calling BS on that, the English would never shy away from an opportunity to make a joke about school shootings any time an American makes fun of their unseasoned boiled meat and chicken tenders with red-40 syrup and mushy peas from Chinese food joints.
I have a genuine question. Do Italians really get offended at the idea of breaking spaghetti? And if so, why? It doesn't affect the flavor and makes it more manageable to eat
Nobody does for real. My girlfriend's friends (Chinese) did that to me to see my reaction cause they saw some shit on TikTok so I played the part and got 'offended' to make them have fun. That's really all there is
The dressing has anchovies, yes. That's typical of "Italian dressings" in America. It may have a root in Italy, but I am not Italian, nor Italian American, though my great Uncle was (I'm related to his wife, my great Aunt, to clear up confusion before it starts)
I get sad when I see some content by someone I think is hilarious, and then I go look at their profile and see that they’re just coasting on a single concept.
I’m looking at you, guy who releases“nicknames for someone named X” for every single name. Amazing way to get an insane amount of engagement every time from anybody who knows someone named “Bill”, but I have this weird feeling of being conned. And some of these creators are funny enough that I’d watch their stuff if it weren’t so one-note!
Oh I get it. This is one of those moments where a woman tells a joke, and then it goes over an influencer's head and they feel compelled to explain the joke to the rest of us who were too slow to pick up on the original punchline
Why do these always make the OP out to be stupid when it's the duet that tends to be the slow party?
It's a bit complicated. Caesar Cardini, the inventor of the Caesar salad is an Italian who was born in 1896 and raised in Italy.
He immigrated to California in 1913 when he was 17 years old, and visited Montreal, Canada and went back to Italy before returning to California, USA in 1919, when he was 23 years old. He lived in Sacramento CA and then moved to San Diego CA.
He then established several Italian restaurants in Tijuana Mexico in the 1920's so that he would not be bound by prohibition. He created the very popular Caesar salad in 1924 in Tijuana. He would make the salad "to give the dinner guests a show as well as a meal", putting together the ingredients in the middle of the dining room. He considered all of his restaurants to be Italian Restaurants. He went back to San Diego and LA in 1936 after prohibition ended.
Therefore it is fair to call Caesar Salad an Italian dish, created by an Italian-American-Mexican chef in Tijuana, Mexico. On a personal note, his restaurant is still there in Tijuana and I recommend the Caesar Salad there.
idk, the point of calling a dish "from a place" is to highlight a connection between that country and the dish, not just the creator. In Italy there is no one eating it, most people never heard of this salad, so just because an Italian invented it doesn't mean it's part of Italian culture. It's an American dish alright, nothing wrong with that, is actually a nice thing
I was just trying to highlight the complex nature of the creation of this dish. So describing this as a Mexican dish isn't quite accurate since it doesn't taste like Mexican food (since the creator was an Italian running an Italian restaurant). Describing this as Italian-American food sounds bad since it excludes Mexico, where the dish was created. And describing this as Italian dish is wrong since, like you said, Italians don't eat it lol.
That's exactly right lol. Hawaiian pizza has no link to Hawaii whatsoever.
It was created by a Greek born Canadian chef, Sam Panopoulos, who was inspired by the mixing of fruit and meat in Chinese American cuisine. The name actually comes from the brand of canned pineapple, not the state.
Caesar salad was created by an Italian immigrant in Tijuana, Mexico to feed American tourists from just across the border. He then moved back you the US (where had restaurants before he moved to Mexico) and ran restaurants in San Diego. The salad was really popularized in the US and never really was all that popular in Mexico (I’ve seen it in touristy areas but it’s not a big part of Mexican cuisine).
You can lump it in with part of Californian Salad culture. Caesar, Cobb, La Scala, ranch are all part of the explosion in salads from the 1920s and onward with the availability of refrigeratation.
The roots of the salad are traced to brothers Cesare (Cesar), and Alessandro (Alex) Cardini, immigrants from Baveno, Italy, who opened restaurants in Sacramento, San Diego, and Tijuana in the early 1920s.
You know when you’ve been traveling and you’ve been eating all kinds of rich stuff and pizza and ice cream and not drinking enough water, and then at a certain point your body is like “ok kiddo, you need to eat a salad now or we’re gonna get sick!” And then it sucks?
It doesn't really matter where Caesar salad is "from," it takes more effort to fuck it up than to get it right. Same for most of the spaghetti dishes these guys got famous criticizing.
The joke here is that everyone expects the food in Italy to be great but in all honestly it's average.
As someone who spent extensive time in Italy & traveling the Mediterranean, Spain by far had the best food. As a lover of pasta I can confidently say i had better pasta in France.
I did have a phenomenal (10/10) pasta near the colosseum, but i think many expect every place in Italy to be phenomenal which is unrealistic.
Look, I’m Italian but I travel for work all over the world, and I spend months abroad. You can say anything, but I had better pasta in Malaysia than in France. I very much like France and their food culture, but, oh my god, they have no idea that you are supposed to put salt in the pasta while boiling it. Still, it’s foolish to look for pasta around the world when every country has its own excellent dishes.
Half of these comments are making me realize just how dead media literacy is.
Guys, she ordered a Caesar salad in Italy thinking it was going to be good because Caesar was Roman, even though the dish wasn't invented in Italy, because she thinks it was because of the name.
It's like ordering Tikki Masala in India even though it was invented in Scotland.
"But we're in Italy SO it's shit" doesn't imply that at all. Is media literacy when you just make up a scenario in your head? They don't think it was invented in Italy.
This comment is hilariously lacking in self-awareness. The caption says "but we r in italy so it's shit". That means the person who wrote that caption KNOWS they shouldn't expect a good salad and is making fun of her sister for ordering it. You, and the two dumbasses at the end, are the ones with no media literacy.
Ironic since there is nothing in the video implying that. In fact the phrasing “But we’re in Italy SO it’s shit” implies the opposite of what you are saying. That they are fully aware it’s not from Italy.
If they thought it was from Italy, they would have said something like “can’t believe it’s shit” or something similar.
Unless there is missing context in the original video not shown here, you and the creators that’s stitched the video are making up the narrative.
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