Guy is just asking for chicken carbonara with no bacon and the server keeps telling him it isn’t possible.

Then this lady gets super incensed and starts going off calling everyone that disagrees with her “medigan” which is apparently a derogatory term used by Italian Americans to insult people they think have “lost touch with their Italian heritage”

The comments and replies are chefs-kiss

CW obviously discussions of and images of meat https://xcancel.com/sandinistaoliva/status/1952374193275756572

    • FreeRangeKitties [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      35·
      4 days ago

      Reminder that Italy didn’t even have fuckin tomatoes until europe did colonialism

      Can you imagine that?

      So much of western cvltvre is a modern lie.

      While we’re on the topic of tomatoes, fuck cherry tomatoes and fuck Israel for ruining backyard gardens with their cursed pollen that makes tiny fruit. They did not create cherry tomatoes but they did teach them how to be prolific invaders, apparently. settler

      I emoji searched for lysenko but settler came up which worked out in the end

        • FreeRangeKitties [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          7·
          4 days ago

          I agree that’s a little bit of a mindblower, but idk, maybe it’s because I learned as a 白左 (/s) but I feel like people in China actually do know that.

          I think in general people in China know their actual history more than people in the west. But I haven’t actually been to China so I only see it from the lens of people who are able to talk to foreigners who are bad at Mandarin

          And also I know that wasn’t the point and I’m not going to pretend they were saints either but I still should point out, China wasn’t the one going around stealing land, they got it through trade. And just like today we’re not supposed to consider who China is trading with to be bad. Trade happens in a vacuum and builds the productive forces so it is always good. Mmhm.

      • Bobson_Dugnutt [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        10·
        4 days ago

        You’ll get no argument from me, cherry tomatoes are disgusting little shits that are always trying to evade my fork.

        Also, Italy wasn’t fully unified until 1871, so trying to codify a singular Italian culture is almost as recent and silly a concept as the invention of Israeli culture.

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      25·
      4 days ago

      Kind of, although there’s also a factor of Americans claiming to have a larger role in something they were a minor player in.

      Carbonara was “invented” in the 40’s, but it’s mostly just adding egg to a pre-existing dish called pasta alla gricia which traces back to Papal Rome

      Pasta alla gricia is pecorino romano, guanciale and black pepper

      Pasta alla carbonara is pecorino romano, guanciale (or bacon), black pepper and egg.

      American GIs and their bacon and eggs + Italian cooks already making a dish with pepper, pork and cheese = Carbonara. Cream was added later stateside.

      So yeah, while it’s true that the word “carbonara” didn’t exist in any cookbooks prior to WWII and the dish as we know it wouldn’t exist/be well known if it weren’t for WWII, it’s not something conjured out of thin air

    • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netOPMEnglish
      16·
      4 days ago

      You can also use the emoji picker

      if you see an emoji and want to know how to use it you can also just highlight it and see the emoji code (or long press on mobile)

      For example the Sopranos emoji below is anti-italian-discrimination with a semicolon before and after.

      Not sure if it works outside hexbear but if you type : then start typing (without a space after :) it will bring up emojis containing that text.

  • kotak_doost [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    4 days ago

    This happened when my uncle from the US visited. We went to a Thai place and said, “I’d like this but not spicy.” The waiter said that’s not possible, and the look on my uncles face was like… You mother fucker, I’m an American consumer sir.

    He then later went on a rant about how Indians don’t understand customer service because of their backwards culture (the server was brown but no idea if he was from India).

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      4 days ago

      Commendatori! 🤟🤌

      I loved the details in that arc, these fucking absolute morons going to southern Italy to broker a relationship with a crime family and thinking they are going to reconnect with the beautiful ethnic heritage they have been keeping alive through sociopathy and slang.

      I loved when two old guys on the bench realize Paulie is an American and curse him out for one of those NATO incidents where a bunch of people died from some immune jet pilot goofing around and clipping the wires on a gondola sending the riders to a violent death… because Paulie was as ignorant of it as probably 99% of the American audience.

      Chris spends the whole time in his hotel room nodding off on heroin (lol), and none of them understand the food at all, because it’s not the cartoonish shit they grew up on. and they also get a glimpse of how off the rails life in the Mezzogiorno is for regular people when one of the thugs casually belts some civilian woman in the mouth in public and everyone not connected just scurries away.

      of course they all come back and lie like crazy about how it was a spiritual/familial renewal with the best food/culture etc.

      • hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        Sopranos is a groundbreaking family drama that uses the mafia as an analogue to corporate suburban America, it’s also incredible brainrot material and I had most fun with the show watching clips uploaded to YouTube with the comments sections all filled with parodied quotes.

        One of my favorite lines is in the pilot where Tony tells his expensive lib therapist that he feels he got into the business at the end after the peak and its a shot of him walking to get the newspaper in his huge mansion.