• hansolo@lemmy.today
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    Italians: Macaroni? Never meet the guy.

    French: Non, c’est pas nous. And, ah, stop suggesting it iz oos.

    English: Mate, cheddar ‘n’ butter mixed into pasta’s onna da finest fings we ever doone. This is our proudest moment :''3

    Japanese: Accurate.

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    Wait. Italians claim Mac and cheese?

    I always thought it was an American thing. Because Americans love pouring cheese over everything.

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      No, the part about Thomas Jefferson is accurate, but his chef thought it was a take on French cuisine. Turns out it’s descended from English casseroles.

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        The chef was also his half-brother in-law, and the brother of Tommy’s teenage mistress

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      Thomas Jefferson was obsessed with Macaroni, and created the dish that modern day mac and cheese is based on. He served it at a ton of White House dinners. He also was the person responsible for shipping macaroni extruding machines from Italy to the US while he was a diplomat over there.

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      I think pasta is the victim here which still doesn’t really track perfectly but it’s a start lol

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    Three I’m American and this makes me want to vomit up everything I’ve ever eaten in my entire lifetime in one huge gigabarf.

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    Italy and France are the worst. They LOVE their protectionists pretentious screeching about how you’re enjoying life wrong.

    Japan was very cool with the hybrid food and traditions.

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      Because of the fact that immigrants from Naples, the city state, came to the US in the mid to late 1800s, it is entirely probable that American Pizza predates the country of Italy.

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    I’m Italian and I would try this. Also, fudge those “purists” of Italian food: every family has it’s own recipe for everything different from their neighbors’, there’s no or little historical documents about dishes still served and most “based” Italian food was invented by Italian emigrants coming back home with inspiration from where they were.

    Cuisine is mixing and experimenting, tradition is the death of good food.

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      My Italian coworker at my old job was a big fan of pineapple on pizza. The ones who screech the loudest about people “doing it wrong” are normally a minority and suffer from insecurity and lack of knowledge.

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    I think Japanese would be mildly amused and try it. Mac and cheese is certainly at least somewhat known here and I don’t think most would even consider that sushi; just weird, room-temp cheesey macaroni salad wrapped in seaweed.

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      Seriously, why is one of the things that makes Canadians go “CANADA FUCK YEAAAA” the processed, prepackaged version of a British-invented, American-associated dish, that isn’t legally allowed to be called what it’s supposed to be in Canada?