@jens @vertigo @gedvondur @thegibson

Yes.
Here in Italy, out of a fistful of expensive restaurants in very touristic resorts (specialized in tourist plucking), nobody has Fettuccine Alfredo in the menu.

Maybe someone makes them at home, but call them just "pasta in bianco".

@GustavinoBevilacqua Yeah, exactly. Which is still something you usually serve to sick people, btw. I'll tell you @thegibson, similarly to @leodurruti, I never heard of those dishes - except lasagnas - in an Italian restaurant. Also, I had totally no clue of what "spaghetti ala Homer" were before a minute ago and I can tell you it's totally not italian. @jens @vertigo @gedvondur

@thegibson
Brace yourself for an invasion of triggered italians

@malerbabomba
@GustavinoBevilacqua @leodurruti @jens @vertigo @gedvondur

@brethil 😁 @thegibson @GustavinoBevilacqua @leodurruti @jens @vertigo @gedvondur

@malerbabomba @brethil @thegibson @GustavinoBevilacqua @leodurruti @jens @vertigo @gedvondur Maybe we can simply say that some dishes have Italian origins or have been inspired by Italian food, even if they're not technically Italian. They are their own thing and they deserve to exist (not in my house btw) but calling them simply "Italian" is a bit too vague

@malerbabomba @brethil @thegibson @GustavinoBevilacqua @leodurruti @jens @vertigo @gedvondur It's like when cooking apps allow to search recipes with "honey" as an ingredient, but don't condider that different honeys (chestnut honey, honeydew honey) have very differents tastes, or that goat milk has a much stronger taste than cow milk.

@malerbabomba @brethil @thegibson @GustavinoBevilacqua @leodurruti @jens @vertigo @gedvondur BTW we've all eaten at least once some Chinese food that is not actually Chinese by the point of view of Chinese people living in China. Who cares, if it's good...

@GiacomoSansoni @malerbabomba @brethil @thegibson @GustavinoBevilacqua @leodurruti @jens @vertigo @gedvondur
Wait until italians discover they have been eating "Yangzhou fried rice" all this time. 😁

@NicholasLaney @malerbabomba @brethil @thegibson @GustavinoBevilacqua @leodurruti @jens @vertigo @gedvondur What surprises me is that Chinese people are not mad about it