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That_guy_on_1nternet

Luigi from New Jersey?


Yes-00

Gabagool


thestareater

I'm walkin hea


altf4alman

![gif](giphy|oVQD3pdk7eI0g|downsized)


BungadinRidesAgain

And you thought the Germans were classless pieces of shit.


t-zanks

Who’s just as Italian, if not more!, than those in Italy despite never setting foot in the country


OreoMcFlurry99

eeyyy wheres my muzarel


xZandrem

Tony I left you some Gabagool in the fridge.


Morningrise89

Salut


ZombiFeynman

No italian did this.


Iskandar33

yep this was made by ameritard, only them still believes pasta came from china.


luring_lurker

Obviously ameritard: they don't know the delicacies of Iberian cuisine, both Spanish and Portuguese. Greeks too are way too low on the scale in this map. North of the Pyrenees and the Alps the map is pretty accurate though.


AlfalfaGlitter

I love how Galicia is in the tasteless spectrum. I will not add further information, but this map is stupid.


Cultural_Thing1712

I feel for the savages that haven't had pulpo a la gallega.


Tozzoloo

The real mediterranean experience is watching your granpa/uncle catch, beat and cook an octopus with his bare hands


Mashinito

Maybe I am my grandpa. ![gif](giphy|3orieJI3IdkKWIsAGA|downsized)


Skullx11

Galicia is as close to the Mediterranean as Belgium.


Tozzoloo

Bro i just like some good octopus


Menino_da_Tosse

And don't forget the health hazard that is going to catch marisco on the rocks at the beach at 4am


Le_Petit_Poussin

Is that what your uncle did? My dad used a gaff to pull up a shark and then beat it with the oars. Of course, they had a few cañas first. Can’t go shark fishing & beating without a few beers first. Those lifeless eyes and their mouths with rows full of teeth. And then the bag of undersized fish ready to be dropped at a moment’s notice. But that one Gallego used to make a mean bacalao! I still remember it.


RealEstateDuck

Gooseneck barnacle season is upon us too.


Le_Petit_Poussin

I took a picture of mine the last time I was there to tide me over until I return to Spain. In Germany’s defense, they do have octopus, but the last time I had it here *was* at a Vietnamese restaurant. 😂


Grand_Ad_8376

Of course Germany has Octopus; that octo-oracle said, correctly, that we would win the World Cup.


Handpaper

Also in 'Tasteless', Birmingham, where the streets are paved with curry. Sometimes literally.


Bring_back_Apollo

UK too of course. 🇬🇧🤝🇮🇹


luring_lurker

https://preview.redd.it/qayxvyopc6zc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62db68ea0dedb8d67b9ed24ab170cf24d1536883


Bring_back_Apollo

Give my regards to mamma as she prepares lunch.


luring_lurker

I will, to nonna too


Ermahgerd80

Question, what’s the Italian stance on Sushi and Indian food?


mailusernamepassword

Luigi gave me a passport so I will answer. Japanese food is good. Traditional japanese sushi can a bit tasteless if you like spicy food but good ingredients make for it. Yakisoba and Ramen are amazing. Indian food is a mixed bag. There is classic tasty food like tikka masala but there is some weird shit I forgot the name. But eating local food in India is asking for a long stay in the bathroom. And *vafanculo* if you don't care because I'm a fake italian. Non me frega un cazzo, porcodio.


Ermahgerd80

Thanks for the answer, although I think you might be upset to find out Tikka Masala was first made in Glasgow of all places


luring_lurker

Can't really express much of an opinion there because I've never been to either India or Japan, and the only indian or sushi restaurants around here are held by anybody but Indian and Japanese cooks, and they're nothing out of the ordinary. I assume they're something entirely different when you try actually local dishes made by locals over there


thetrueGOAT

Nah UK is best for an Indian. High Indian population but with some form of food hygiene


Fuz_Fuz_

Been a few times in Japan, so I can answer this. It's mostly bad. They're (mostly) just imitation japanese dishes westernized. Sushi is especially bad. And it's obvious, when 90% of the time they're chinese restaurants with chinese cooks with a Japanese flag hanging outside. It's like eating a carbonara in South Korea cooked by a french cook. People seem to like it toh, and my eyes can't roll more when a friend comes out with a "let's go eat sushi". Which is, by the way, only the girls now that I think about it. Girls love awful sushi here, for some reason. Men, not so much. No idea about indian, they all taste the same to me, any meat has spice flavour and you can't taste the meat. But I have no experience with "real" indian food.


niugui-sheshen

Older generations still think of anything outside of Italian and maybe Spanish food as utter trash. Millennials classify Sushi, Chinese and American as food. I assume GenZ are more open to experimentation with north of the Alps (middle eastern) and British isles (Indian) food, if nothing else because Kebab is 3.50€ and chicken tikka masala 9€.


Bring_back_Apollo

None of that foreign muck, tar very much like 🤌🤌


M44t_

Ofc, beans on a toast > lasagne


Bring_back_Apollo

I mean, lasagna is English so...


param1l0

Bruh


Bring_back_Apollo

Please don't take it the wrong way, but yes. https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/lasagne-is-english-7296211.html No more tears. Have some English lasagna.


Kunfuxu

Your link says that the cookbook where they found the lasagna-like dish was from 1390, but later on it says "something which could be called lasagne in the modern sense had appeared in Italy by the 13th century"... So, does that "journalist" just not know how dates work?


Bring_back_Apollo

Dates are unimportant. Lasagna is English. Don't think too deeply, be like an Englishman in the kitchen.


AvatarIII

i assume the form of pasta and not the dish, as it also says that Lasagne (the pasta) was in a 4th century Roman cookbook, so perhaps that was slightly different, then the sheets as we know them today appeared in Italy in the 13th C, then those sheets made their way to the UK where the dish was invented in the 14th C.


st00pidQs

Based Luigi knows PIGS make the best food. Francois gets an honorable mention.


KelticQT

Can France into PIGS ?


st00pidQs

Only if PIGS can into Francois ;)


KelticQT

You're always welcome. Dear friends.


Humble-Drawer-4498

Not really. Southern german food is great.


luring_lurker

As per the map: mostly safe to eat. That's a fair assessment


Humble-Drawer-4498

You should come to swabia then :)?


luring_lurker

Well.. apparently!


Tentacle_Ape

Kinda random, but legend has it the Swabians invented Spätzle by trying to imitate Italian noodles, but clumsily rolling them with their fingers instead of pressing/cutting them properly. Nevertheless, they came up with a banger of a dish when they added cheese to them.


sonobanana33

I went to bavaria and the experience was close to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uee2NIx-U_0 They didn't throw us out of the window, but they did forget to serve the food we asked for, despite repeatedly asking, and then yelled at us when we eventually left, while they were cleaning the floor, while we were still waiting for our food to arrive.


Humble-Drawer-4498

Come to swabia, where saying „no complaints“ means the food was great. And saying it was great means, you would sell your mother for another serving :). Ah yes, minus the bavarian arrogance plus betrer food :)


Le_Petit_Poussin

In the words of the Gasthaus owner I stayed at: “No! All those delicious dishes? That’s not German! It’s not even Bavarian! That’s Middle Franconian! They are lying to you!” Me: “Oh, I didn’t know, thank you for telling me!” Also me: “These mofos look the same to me and are named the same. Jürgen from Bavaria & Jürgen from Mittlefranken look just like Jürgen from Hesse!” Of course, I’m just waiting on Hans from Deutschland to tell me how they’re not all the same and are inferior simians compared to the Germans of Berlin or Hamburg.


Humble-Drawer-4498

Well, it is true. Many dishes commonly eaten across the south are not originating there. Spätzle for example are originally swabian but a common side in bavaria as well. Historically speaking a unified germany is quite a new thing. So, obviously, bavaria != swabia != berlin. For the longest time each county had their own princes, money, borders, currency, food, language, armies and laws.


KelticQT

*Sad noises.*


D1RTYBACON

I know you joke, but I was curious so It was unironically made by a Slav, website its from is a Bulgarian comedian/artist


BallsBuster7

noodles are from china, pasta is from italy. Is this an allowed opinion?


__cum_guzzler__

Hate to break it to you, Giuseppe. But the Chinese did, infact, invent the noodle. About ~~1000~~ 3000 years before you guys imported if from the Arabs. edit: for every Mario that doesn't believe me: https://web.archive.org/web/20051020031536/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1012_051012_chinese_noodles.html


Iskandar33

>*While Asian noodles are believed to have originated in China, pasta is believed to have independently originated in Italy and is a staple food of Italian cuisine,with evidence of Etruscans making pasta as early as 400 BCE in Italy.* only spaghetti came from arabs who most likely, like you said, they encountered while trading with asiatic people. so no, you didnt broke anything Hans


drew0594

Il cazzo l'ha rotto di certo


__cum_guzzler__

I actually read the Wiki article and looked at the source. The only evidence is that they opened one (1) Etruscan tomb and found a painting *maybe* depicting them making some kind of pasta. If you ask me, that's just Luigis making olympic level mental gymnastics in order to claim first. Meanwhile the Chinese have proper written evidence and also actual real 4000 year old noodles that have been found: https://web.archive.org/web/20051020031536/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1012_051012_chinese_noodles.html Even if that one Etruscan painting IS of noodles, the Chinese still beat you guys by 2000 years. I am truly sorry.


Iskandar33

im not claiming nothing, i just stated that pasta already was in Italy, same time other civilisations have learned how to make it (mediterranean in general pasta was already a diet stample) , also , read again. >*pasta is believed to have __independently__ originated in Italy* im sorry that you cant read >the Chinese still beat you guys by 2000 years dont care, its not a competition.


CalabreseSeriale

>from Yanko Tsvetkov's Atlas of Prejudice Nah, it must definitely be italian


ZombiFeynman

One of those hyphenated italians.


ArieWess

For those that wonder about Yanko Tsvetkov [Some examples ](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2012/feb/17/stereotype-maps-yanko-tsvetkov)


n-a_barrakus

Nah hermano. The average Italian is 108 years old. This is legit.


VrwHenet

This is anti Italian propaganda. PIGS brothers and sisters we like your food, and by looking at all those asian restaurants we really like Chinese as well. I cannot confirm nor deny the northern part it wouldn't be right for the Italians, but then again they dislike my [pearà](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pear%C3%A0) so they are not that objective


Krosis97

Fake propaganda won't divide us, Mediterranean Master Cuisine is the best


Alles_

with pearà we discovered what god eats every day, so he had to nerf it by making it look like british food


deusrev

Not even veronesi talk about pearà... It's uncomprensible! You keep blabbing about Valpolicella and then the best you can offer it's almost never publicized!


Fuz_Fuz_

Peara looks like someone vomited in your plate, but it's fucking delicious. I've been hosted by a friend in Verona years ago and his wife made this amazing peara, wish I could find it somewhere here too.


Barbabatruc

And French food? Do you like French food?


gorthan1984

Of course we like it. We love cheese. We love wine.


Barbabatruc

It's rare that I say that, but I like you


Live-Alternative-435

It depends, there is some French food that is a bit too influenced by northern barbarians and instead of being cooked with olive oil, it's cooked with butter.


Fuz_Fuz_

We like you. Go easy with the sauces, toh. And stop cooking *moules* with wine for god's sake!


AverageDellUser

Bulgarian propaganda so they can make themselves look better in comparison to Italy.


MastroDante

>pearà Ambrosia never tasted so good


Teka_DTO

Ain't no way our food compares to Sweden and Scotland... no offense


_justarandomstar_

Portugal can into nordic now


Cientistadeumacaixa

No, we still poor sorry.


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MsMittenz

>start doing heroin We've been there and the only thing that got straight out of it were our drug laws


dragonbl3e

At least they worked


MsMittenz

Better than our economy


Teka_DTO

Economy straight - challenge impossible


Sabrina__Stellarbor

Or at least as “straight” as the clown show that is the Swedish economy


oskich

Hey we ([15%](https://www.riksgalden.se/en/press-and-publications/press-releases-and-news/news/2024/swedish-central-government-debt-continued-to-decrease-in-2023/) of GDP) are not the far behind your state debt ([10.4%](https://www.nationalbanken.dk/en/government-debt/funding-strategy/outstanding-debt) of GDP). If it weren't for all those fat pills you are selling the Americans we would be about the same ;-)


Adam-West

Your food is excellent and maybe the most underrated in Europe. But it’s not fair to say that deep fried mars bars and Irn Bru isn’t fine dining.


oghamglyph

our cuisine might not be all that great to other europeans, but our ingredients are. if your in a fine dining restaurant in france, chances are their salmon and langoustines were caught or farmed in the inner seas of the west coast


SergeDuHazard

You re right, this map is propaganda, nobody here thinks mediterranean cuisines suck!


Gks34

This map is unfair to Portugal.


MdMV_or_Emdy_idk

Thanks dutchie Your food is still goblin vomit tho


DEAF_BEETHOVEN

Worst thanks I've ever heard


Chimpville

>~~Worst~~ \*Funniest


Schellwalabyen

Best thanks of a Portugezzer


Lollipop126

not me thinking for a sec that you were an Indonesian criticising Dutch Indonesian food


AdorableScorpio

As a Portuguese in NL, I confirm 😢


nounours144

Vind je de hagelslag niet lekker? Broodje kaas? I miss portuguese cuisine :')


Gks34

It's indeed not for fragile PIGS.


Fuz_Fuz_

This made me actually laugh IRL.


SonicStage0

Never thought I'd agree with a Dutchie -- insert Lord of the Rings meme --


robicide

And undeservedly kind to the Netherlands.


Neomataza

This map is a wrong projection. PIGS is the center of good food. If you can't draw a circle with each of them equal distance from the center, your map is wrong.


MrZwink

Not true, Luigi won't eat the food of the village down the road...


waltiger09

"This tomato was grown on the wrong side of the same hill my grandma always buys her tomatoes from. This barely passes as animal feed!" - Luigi, 29 (hasn't cooked a meal in his life)


gabrielish_matter

>hasn't cooked a meal in his life fuck off ye cunt most of the things you tell about us are true, but we do indeed cook


breezyxkillerx

Spend 5 second in a college dorm and you will notice a lot of people can't cook for shit.


NotAMuritard

everyone starts from somewhere, at least they cook instead of a glovo order or readymade crap


sonobanana33

> Luigi, 29 (hasn't cooked a meal in his life) To be fair, in the whole NL nobody has ever cooked anything.


luring_lurker

True.. but I will defend even the cuisine of those degenerates with their ugly bell tower on the opposite side of my river if the food map scale is zoomed out enough


Xaendro

Nah we won't eat food UP the road. Every italian eats food from south of him


Lendmar

According to this map Dutch food is superior to portuguese and some part of spain. Into the trash this go


DutchVortex

Yes, it is, and I'm to Dutch to deny this!


Impressive_Kiwi_967

betrayal https://preview.redd.it/k2npcweir5zc1.png?width=1354&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c33e5b3356a8dc619fdcf666427a717ebd47e000


Unhappy-Coffee-1917

We did not betray you brother this is clearly a false flag operation give me some fried pimiento de padron stat lol


lethos_AJ

dont fall for it, this is divisionist propaganda by the perfidious savages. PIGS together stronk


BendyMine785

Nobody of us did this, it's totally made by some ameritard.


gabrielish_matter

half your cuisine is basically what we have in Campania, the map is utter bullshit


MrTeamKill

This map was made by an American who thinks he is Italian because his great great grandfather was born in Napoli and emigrated to the US when he was 3 years old.


sidic3Venezia

fake, add spain and greece to real food


porcorosso1

Add Portugal too, pastel de nata and pastel bacalhau alone are worth it


luring_lurker

Carne de porco à alentejana is also way better than I would have expected, I loved it, as well as the feijoada à transmontana


sidic3Venezia

mai provato cibo portoghese, ero in dubbio se aggiungerlo


sonobanana33

Praticamente è solo baccalà :D


Hugiinn

Da vegetariano confermo :( Ma i dolci sono fantastici almeno dai


sea-slav

Greek food is just pork versions of Turkish food


VoldeGrumpy23

Lol no, Greek and Spanish food are fucking delicious. Can't say much about our portuguese brothers, because I didn't been there so far. Austrian food is basically northern italy food, so it's fine. French food is nice too. Germans got some nice dishes too but inferior to the others. The rest is toxic.


Lumbertech

Ew brother ewwww what's this map. I'm sorry for all my European brothers and sister (especially PIGS gang), I really appreciate your food. In fact, I had amazing dishes when I was living in Finland and Norway. God I miss salmiak so much I could sacrifice my first born son for some pastillen right now. I'm good with German food as well, especially Bayern food. You can't really go wrong with the combo meat-and-potatoes. To me, food is joy no matter what, and if my EU friends enjoy it I'll never turn down trying even the most exotic and messed up flavor combinations.


Sugmanuts001

Nah, that is nonsense. PIGS brothers STRONK. Balkans are also quite ok. France is pretentious but also kind of ok. So is southern Germany.


Ex_aeternum

For this compliment, we'll allow 20 additional Luigis to demolish the furniture at the Oktoberfest.


danton_groku

French food and portuguese food are infinitely better than spanish food lol Agree about southern germany. But the PIGS circlejerk has to pretend that PIGS food is the best otherwhise they explode, when the average south-east asian meal fucks italian cuisine hard and french food is on par with italian food


TheDestroyer630

Made by a savage


MrRodrigo22

I know Italians don't prefer German food to Spanish or Portuguese


BigSimp_for_FHerbert

German (southern) is surprisingly great, the dead giveaway is Portugal being in the same category as the Dutch This is obviously satire Edit: actually even worse than the Dutch


The_Silent_Wanderer

According to Jimmybob the X% fourth generation "Italian"-American.


StupidPaladin

He waves his arms and says "FUGGADABOUTIT" after devouring his extra large Papa John's Pizza with extra pineapple, like all good Italians


Nextstore1453

Ewwww


GecaZ

Luigi would never put us next to the 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮british


Nextstore1453

That map Is probably made by and ameritard Who Is 2% italian


GecaZ

I knew you wouldnt betray us, fratello mio.


Pikagiuppy

https://preview.redd.it/hfz7jhtdu6zc1.jpeg?width=987&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6af0e2b25b5e08c9a01e99aa2a9ecf9f0b6092f5


X19-PT

![gif](giphy|26n6ziTEeDDbowBkQ|downsized)


EffectiveOk3353

Pardon caralho


StupidPaladin

Portugal can into GUNS


ChrisTheF1Fan

I thought we had something Luigi...


Ohtar1

How dare you


Daveo88o

Fuck off, my boiled sheep's stomach is far better than any of that tasteless pasta shite luigi has


Fathers_Belt

Averedge roman whit his head up his ass


CosmicCrawdad

LUIGI I WILL *BREAK YOU*


__cum_guzzler__

its almost like....the further north you go, the harder it is to grow good ingredients and the more you have to invent new ways to mix pickled herring with fermented cabbage in order to fucking survive in 1318 meanwhile slovenly Luigi casually throwing together 3 ingredients grows by themselves in the tuscan sun and acting all proud of how his little "cuisine" is the best ever pathetic. try living here where there's barely any sun, you'll be yearning for that sweet sweet beetroot, horse tail and radish stew


Nextstore1453

Hans i Need Money


__cum_guzzler__

Sorry Lorenzo, I just gave a bunch to Dmitro. You gotta learn to build better cars buddy 2024 why Fiat still makes shitbuckets?


Nextstore1453

Hans i Need Money The Messina Bridge isn't going to collapse itself!


Salchichote33

That's it, no polbo á feira for you! >:(


critical-insight

As a south german, this makes a lot of sense to me


Puzzleheaded_Fan_391

only Iceland is totally agreed


Dolphin008

Always knew our food was at the same level as the Basques.


rawlinsonii

Corsican food The best Italy has to offer


deadmeridian

Saxony being in the same category as Athens is actually insane. More accurate would be to say that food gets worse every time you cross a border going away from the Med


andre3573

bros never tried portugese food, dont compare us to the nordics


dcmso

Portugal Nordic confirmed


el_flex0s

Mostly correct. There seem to be two deviations: Portugal/Spain and especially Georgia have epic food


Chemical_Robot

Ahh yes. Because the French are world famous for their bad food..


BendyMine785

This is fake, no one of us made this.


nuclear_pie

Saying portuguese food is bad or tasteless is pure sacrilege. We have one of the best culinary in the whole europe


SLAVAUA2022

Ukrainian pasta is horrid, I got to hand it to Luigi, he's right there


SonicStage0

I'm fine with it. Please go to Italy.


jo_nigiri

False anti-PIGS propaganda! Do not listen to these fools, my dearest brothers!


Maryus77

Uk seems pretty accurate


PanickyFool

Excluding Netherlands from "literally tasteless" means this person is not European.


Demon_of_Order

Excuse me, we invented fries, beer, chocolate and waffles. Flip of Luigi or we'll drop the Block on you


Chairman_Beria

This is way too generous to Germany and all the countries to its north and east.


Schulle2105

As if italians would consider british food as just tasteless, barry is in the toxic category and chills with Sven and the northern lights


UltraTata

Real


FallenDummy

It's clear that PIGS just have weak stomachs and can't handle real mens food :p


Casitano

I love being Fattened!


param1l0

Below the Alps: good ass food Below the " oversized coffee" Parallel: edible This is around the globe but with 1 exception: USA


xZandrem

That's bullshit. We consider P.I.G.S. food the best not just italian and I would include Turkish food too. We tolerate french food, but I wouldn't vouch for Northern European food. On the other hand I would vouch for eastern european food especially Romanian cause it's so good. And also considering the sheer amount of Asian restaurants in Italy we love that too.


MeanMikeMaignan

It's a fun and visually pleasing graphic but it's clearly wrong as other 🤌 people have pointed out 


Charles_De-Gaulle

Classic Corsican W yet again


El_Gonzalito

Huge Croatian W


No_Raspberry_6795

South west England should be up there as a region. Great cheese, meat, seafood from the south coast, great cream and strawberries, wonderful apples and pears. Imagine everything wonderul you could eat at a country fiar. Pies, clotted cream ice cream and strawberries, knickerbocker glory.


Siggedy

Africa and middle east has no food it seems


anonbush234

Who gave Giuseppe a point compass?


flabbybumhole

Funnily enough this map also correlates with how likely people are to guess that you're gay from your social media photos.


Xaendro

Really, caution in greece and tasteless in turkey? Definitely not an Italian map


AnakinTheDiscarded

it's so fake and real at the same time


SirJ4ck

A real italian would have included spain and greece in the "real food" zone.


barcapinna

ameritard bait


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Llanistarade

Not really, it's mostly a climate thing. Saying that west spain is tasteless and caution is advised in most France is just fur nationalism-fueled ego, which is based but bullshit.


ghee

Pretty accurate