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(Atlas Obscura)   Italians against pasta is like Christians against Christ. Subby calls it blasphemy by a bunch of fascists   (atlasobscura.com) divider line
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510 clicks; posted to Food » on 30 Jan 2023 at 4:01 PM (8 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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Psychopusher [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 3:22:33 PM  
Antipasta?  Don't mind if I do!

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And then I'll have some pro-pasta.

/This is why I'm fat.
 
Kris_Romm
2023-01-30 4:23:03 PM  

Psychopusher: Antipasta?  Don't mind if I do!

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And then I'll have some pro-pasta.

/This is why I'm fat.


I'm pro pasta too!

To be fair, I also don't dislike using Spaghetti Squash as pseudo pasta.  But I'm not one of those dillholes who thinks it's a pasta replacement.  It's just a different dish.
 
blondambition [OhFark]
2023-01-30 4:29:53 PM  
This guy? A fascist?


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austerity101 [BareFark]
2023-01-30 5:08:50 PM  
F*cking futurists.
 
middleoftheday [OhFark]
2023-01-30 5:34:30 PM  
I think this is the only time in the entire history of the Internet that I have ever thought "no hold on I wanna read this" when I saw that sezzzy "jump to recipe" link.
 
rjakobi
2023-01-30 6:47:52 PM  
I do remember Mussolini was pushing Italy to eat more rice to show solidarity with the Japanese, but that only led to the creation of risotto.

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Fascist...
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 7:04:42 PM  
Mussolini pushed people to make gluten free pasta edible way before anyone else would have gotten the idea.  For that, we should thank his dismembered corpse.
 
anuran
2023-01-30 7:12:44 PM  

blondambition: This guy? A fascist?


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more an opportunist. we got a copy of the english edition of his book decades ago. the way it severed the connection between cuisine and its essential parts like nutrition, pleasure, and socializing and turned the whole thing into weirdly idiosyncratic performance art was just wrong. that's all that really needs to be said about it.

he didn't start off as explicitly fascist, but like all good grifters he was able to find a parade and jump to the head of it sucking up to the guy waving the big baton
 
AuralArgument
2023-01-30 8:16:48 PM  
Along with his proponents, Marinetti, who founded the Futurist movement in 1909, blamed tradition for Italy's declining world stature. Futurists embraced technology, war, and masculinity, while decrying museums, libraries, and many other long-held Italian treasures-pasta among them.

Along with his proponents, Trump who founded the MAGA movement in 2020, blamed the lack of tradition for America's declining world stature. Trumpers embraced technology, war, and masculinity, while decrying museums, libraries, and many other progressive American treasures- tolerance of others among them.


/ Updated for future articles.
 
iron de havilland [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 8:28:21 PM  

rjakobi: I do remember Mussolini was pushing Italy to eat more rice to show solidarity with the Japanese, but that only led to the creation of risotto.


I've heard/read the same thing that TFA states, that Mussolini pushed rice because it grew well in Northern Italy and he wanted wheat imports for reasons of making pasta to be reduced.

/Risotto dates back to 1809, apparently.
//Thought occurs that "the Japanese inspired Italians to invent risotto" is pretty much a modern updating of "Marco Polo took pasta back from China".
 
grumpfuff
2023-01-30 9:45:16 PM  
Italians do tend to be kind of fascist about food. "You used bacon instead of guanciale??? Blasphemy! That's not real carbonara!"

/Spain can get pretty bad when it comes to paella though
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 9:51:49 PM  
A lot of Christians are very unlike their Christ. Why can't an Italian enjoy something other than carbs in gravy?
 
anuran
2023-01-31 3:42:20 AM  

grumpfuff: Italians do tend to be kind of fascist about food. "You used bacon instead of guanciale??? Blasphemy! That's not real carbonara!"

/Spain can get pretty bad when it comes to paella though


Especially funny since "traditional" carbonara only dates from WW2 and was probably made with Spam half the time
 
Psychopusher [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 9:43:19 AM  

Kris_Romm: Psychopusher: Antipasta?  Don't mind if I do!

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And then I'll have some pro-pasta.

/This is why I'm fat.

I'm pro pasta too!

To be fair, I also don't dislike using Spaghetti Squash as pseudo pasta.  But I'm not one of those dillholes who thinks it's a pasta replacement.  It's just a different dish.


I wouldn't turn down spaghetti'd squash or, in particular, zucchini -- hell, I make a nice zucchini and rice dish with hot Italian sausage that I quite like; it would just be kind of like that but without the sausage or rice.  But it would be its own thing, and I still prefer pasta.

/Having chorizo and cheese penne for lunch.
 
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