okay but north africa food?
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I grew up north of the toxic belt, and it's my firm opinion that Italian food is overrated. Well, except Parmesan, I'll give them that.
Lasagna is like a moussaka with too much tomato sauce and layers of pasta that should've been skipped.
Anyone who downvotes this is either Italian, or has a fetish for mashed tomatoes.
This is kinda funny, and I know the concept of "authentic" isn't particularly easy to nail down, but my experience is that Italian lasagna doesn't have tomato sauce. It's always been thin pasta, a ragu, and bechamel. It generally changes to match the tastes and ingredients of where it's being made, but maybe you'd like the version I know.
I had moussaka in Greece a few years ago and liked it too!
But Ragu is a kind of tomato sauce.... Sure, it's got a lot of meat, but doesn't it always have tomato?
Ragu is a general term for meat sauces some of which have tomatoes but not all. The recipe I use I wouldn't call a "tomato sauce" but it has tomatoes. In the US most ragus are much more tomato forward if that's your frame of reference.
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Wow this is the most triggering post I've seen in a while and that's saying a lot in these times
According to this map I should probably be dead.
I mean, it may not be the best, but this puts portugal in a very bad position when we are all mediterranean with mostly the same ingredients.
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Man y'all have clearly never eaten in Lyon...
This tracks, every Italian I've ever met has been a complete snob about food.
I second this map.
What about fat spicy indian curry tho?
Any Italian noodles with tomato sucks. Chinese noodles win 99.99% of the time
I wonder what Italians think about our (Hungarian) fake Italian food called Milánói Sertésborda, or Milanese Pork Ribs. It consists of Milánói/Milanese sauce made with tomato sauce, garlic, black pepper, oregano, basil (if you're not an imbecile trying to mimic Michelin chefs by only using little or no seasoning), and thyme (also often left out by the former group), pork belly, mushrooms, and either bacon or smoked ham; macaroni (the long kind); and pork snitzel (which most Hungarians think is a Hungarian food).