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Very good.
It's my approach to people, for example, using cycle lanes the wrong way.
I don't know if public disapproval works as well in Germany or England as in certain parts of Asia though.
And you will definitely get a fuck you or worse in Berlin for just staring disapprovingly at people in cars doing stupid shit.

Obviously not part of the sign writers guild.

Bonfire incident NI nsfw:

https://twitter.com/kamalone71/status/1678898797659734016

Broken legs & ribs apparently.

Quite frankly

What happened to this place

Wot the fack are you lookin at?! in South London.

Marxist Italian academic says most purist rules about Italian cuisine - and the purported history of same - are bullshit. Also now exploited by racist politicians. He calls it "gastronationalism".

Italian food is mostly bland comfort food that appeals to children.

Italian food is mostly food that appeals to most of Europe, North America and Australia, given how many Italian restaurants there are.

ftfy

Repetitive, yes, but bland?

Yes, it's like the antithesis of Asian cuisine, you get the one bland thing on your plate you have to eat until you can move on to the next but then you get great deserts.

They've had this guy on the Cycling Podcast, it was interesting. He's quite right in that a lot of the Italian food 'traditions' actually started in the 50s or 60s.

I think 'gastronationalism' is a bit strong, but Italy is a very homogeneous society with a lot of set ways of doing things and much more shared culture than the UK. If you don't behave in these set ways you can expect someone to call it unitalian - normally someone older, if I'm honest.

The best Italian food is simple and puts the quality of the ingredients front and foremost, in my experience most of the best food these days is associated with the 'km0' (zero kilometre) or slow food movements.

Obviously @sohi you've not had any.

The best Italian food is simple and puts the quality of the ingredients front and foremost

Which results in mostly bland food while a similar approach in Japan lifts the ingredients to another level.

Also not putting salt in your bread because you didn't want to pay some tax 400 years ago? Fuck of with that shit

Marxist Italian academic says most purist rules about Italian cuisine - and the purported history of same - are bullshit

Fair play. That's some brave talk.

Chat to an Italian about recipes and you can see how they invented fascism.

Italy is a very homogeneous society

Ironic given it's younger than the United States.

it's like the antithesis of Asian cuisine

Except the sort of Cantonese that focuses on texture and is, in fact, as bland as anything, almost as if the phrase "Asian cuisine" were fatuously reductive.

No offence, but I think your palate is the issue not the cuisine.

Agree with that one. This actually reminds me that the worst food I probably had traveling
was in Sichuan, I couldn't read any of the menus so I pointed at things other people were
eating and mostly ended up with some kind of fermented brown things, wasn't bland though.

Well, obviously, that's how you judge food.

the phrase "Asian cuisine" were fatuously reductive.

I thought we'd done fatuously reductive comments about entire continents on the last page

Also less likely to start a fight than some recent content.

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Don't they look happy ?

Some arseholes are making their 8 year old sit still and be equally bored. Presumably they didn't eat their greens or put frogs in nannies bed again or something.

Good read.
Really happy I am allowed to put bacon in my carbonara because guanciale isn't as nice.
But then egg bacon cheese has become rare in this household anyway.