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As someone on a diet: fuck OP for posting this
We are all working class. Don’t let the 1% divide us with their borders.
It’s clear we all love pizza… together. Solidarity amongst the working class!
Where do you think pizza comes from?
Italian pizza is really different than American.
Yes, usually it’s a whole pizza, not one tenth
Pizza al taglio?
You clearly have never had Italian pizza. Not even close.
Pizza is American unless you want to claim every flatbread is a pizza.
Fun fact, in many places, soft-serve ice cream is known as “Italian ice cream”.
What we are seeing here is a slightly botched traditional Italian lunch.
In many places
In very few places ftfy
slightly
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Like all things, we have seized it and made it our own. Like how getting Chinese food in an American restaurant only vaguely resembles Chinese cuisine. 💪
Sure, but the Americanized versions of Italian, German, or Chinese foods were made by immigrants adapting their traditional recipes with ingredients they had on hand.
I can’t speak for German or Chinese food, but having been to Italy, a good NYC slice beats anything the Italians have to offer.
Hard disagree there. I’ve visited both and tried both. NYC pizza is disappointingly average.
Just like how italian, German, and Chinese foods came about! America is just more recent and we tend to keep the labels of the influences ao it is more obvious.
Well, that and adjusting to suit mainstream tastes. Like how garlic bread is largely a Western introduction in Korea, but is preferred sweet there instead of savory.
Development of cuisine is a fascinating thing!
To be fair, most of what I’ve seen of Chinese cuisine looks like dog yack, so I think we got the better end of the deal.
Real, eaten-in-China Chinese food is amazing. Highly regional, though, so you may love one region’s cuisine and not another’s. Some of the best food on earth for sure, though.
I mean, tomatoes are a fruit native to the Americas, so even though pizza was invented in Italy, it’s invention is still tied to that side of the Atlantic in some ways. Pizza has a very interesting past!
Pizza existed before they had tomatoes tho
I would argue that the modern understanding of pizza in Italy and across the globe is one that includes tomatoes. Things prior to that called pizza would likely not pass as pizza today. And it’s pretty accepted that pizza and tomatoes are very linked. Imo you’re being pedantic.
Guess you never heard of pizza bianca then. Please try not to formulate grand theories before knowing just a sliver of the involved facts, thank you.
It’s Chinese inspired American food.
To be fair Chinese food in Europe doesn’t have much to do with actual Chinese food either
Depends on the restaurant, but in general - yes, proper Chinese is rare.
Dude I had sweet and sour chicken at a Chinese food joint in a mall in chemnitz Germany, it was a friggin schnitzel. Just with sweet sour sauce. And instead of potatoes it was a ball of rice lol. I found the picture I took here 🤣:
If I wasn’t paying attention, looks like katsu curry until I notice the sauce looks like pure sugar. But ya nowadays everyone’s got their schnitzel variant 😂
Also, we Costco-sized it. That is a single slice of pizza in that photo.
I recommend looking up what an Irish breakfast roll is. Thank me later.
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Hah! In Scotland we dip pizza in batter and deep fry it. With a deep-fried Mars bar for afters.
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/five-glaswegian-chip-shop-delicacies-11462402
The first bug eave of immigrants to the US were the Scotch-Irish, which is where the American propensity to deep fry everything comes from.
You can aslo the American usurpation and economic dominance over England as those Scotch-Irish getting their revenge.
I’m calling Gordon Ramsey on your ass.
Gordon Ramsey would deep fry that pizza in wagyu tallow.
Time to make a pilgrimage
Get drunk before having it, but if you’re coming here you were probably going to do that anyway
Guys, guys, there’s no point in intercontinental squabbling, we should focus on the real enemy, uh… teleporting space squid
Wait… is that a reference to the original Watchmen comic?
You know it
That deep fried creme egg looks naughty
That’s your daily 2,000 calories right there.
Italians will cook your pasta inside a whole wheel of cheese. Spaniards deep fry pork belly and serve it as a snack. Last time I was in Eastern Europe I thought something was a sweet only to discover it was a lump of straight-up pork fat. Just raw. To munch on.
Americans may be more consistent at eating gross murderfood regularly and in large quantities, but they sure aren’t the only ones to have it.
The big difference is in the details.
Italians dont cook your pasta in that wheel. They throw it in there and shove it around. Its no comparison to that center console by any stretch. The countries that munch on raw fat are usually freezing cold and very rough in terms of manual labor conditions. People burn through double the amount of calories or more if they have heavy manual labor and cold climate.
Maybe not the spaniards though. ;)
You’ve never been to the Po Valley. We fry mortadella here.
Oh god… I can feel it, I can feel the East Germans commenting “that’s a Jägerschnitzel” and then the flame war with the Austrians kicks off.
My pet peeve is when lids are slightly on. It’s worse than having no lid at all.
Those new, shitty lids are always slightly on. That’s as “on” as they get.
And they break for like no reason
I don’t even know if that counts as on at all. It is really just laid on top partially covering it.
This could kill a European
If it didn’t contain so many banned ingredients
$2
As an European, I cannot comprehend the width of that centre console. 2 drinks side-by-side AND some extra? Must be a full eagle screech wtf is a kilometer V8 mortr truck.
In some cases it’s actually 3 drinks side by side…
Generally the center consoles of full sized trucks and SUVs is as large as it is because people on construction sites wanted a file cabinet holder center console. So it can hold an 8.5 x 11 or A4 sized paper horizontally in the center with a holder.
That be a truck, the center console can be flipped up to have a central seat in trucks where the shifter is on the steering column or besides the real (dial in Ram trucks).
Fun fact:
It’s “a European” since the pronunciation starts with “ˌjʊ”. Similar thing with “university”.
I’m not trying to be a dick but to spread information.
Ok, that’s all. Thank you for reading :)
When I was a kid, I remember being impressed that my dad’s Dodge Ram could fit an entire laptop in the center console, horizontally.
The real crime is eating that in your car
Be me using FSD to hold pizza in one hand, drink in the other, while I mow down children with reckless abandon
This should be our citizenship test.
I think we should do it mukbang style. Here’s a huge pile of food, you have to eat at least 3000 calories in 5 minutes to pass
The meal is what it is. Collieries for a whole family dinner
But how wide is that center console of your car? Double cup holders side by side?
I can barely have my coffee in my VW FOX and still change to the top row of gears without tripping it over…
See, the Americans don’t do stick shifting
That will only kill a European if the American who ate it sat down on the European.
You know, Costco exists in Europe as well, with the same food order menu.
Well I for one did not know that actually!
I (an American) had actually never heard of Costco until I moved to Japan. Where I grew up we had Sam’s Club, but no Costco, so when I got to Japan and the other foreigners were talking about how they love getting the chance to go down to Costco, I had no idea what they were talking about.
Didn’t see a Costco in person until a few years later.
Sam’s club is superior anyway. They have a larger and more stable selection at the same or better prices.
Yea but then you’ll be supporting Walmart. So there’s that.
Yeah but worse labor practices.
You merely adopted the $4.99 rotisserie chicken.
I was born into it, moulded by it.
Why you didn’t see the $1.49 hotdog meal combo until you were a man.
