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[–] sachamato 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I go to Italy often just to eat real Italian food. I understand that for Italians, the hawainana pizza is an aberration, like many other things if not cooked as they traditionally do. And I respect it, because it's a key part of their culture. Still, I have a right to eat and like whatever I want, so I also expect respect on that sense. Some people will do this and some others won't. I think it's a personal choice to decide respecting others opinions.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Traditional schmaditional. They never had tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, corn or a bunch of other things until Meso-America was ransacked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Discovering that tomatoes were new world fruit really torpedoed any chance of me respecting Italian traditions

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Well… a tradition’s gotta start sometime.

Look at that fucking Elf on the Fucking Shelf shit. It’s marketing tag on the box is (or was) “a tradition”.

Yeah. A tradition for ONE fucked up family who then cashed in HARD and forced their sick gaslighting on the gullible public. /rant

[–] sachamato 1 points 3 weeks ago

I also discovered a while ago the amazing arrival of pinneaples to Europe, back then they were so rare and expensive that there were companies providing rental services for pinneaples. Rich people would host a pinneaples party, to basically show it, and then to be returned to the company that rented it. Crazy pinneaple times indeed!

[–] supercriticalcheese 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They don't have to serve you what you want if it's not on the menu, they can try to accommodate if they really want but that's about it.

But if you don't have the ingredients they cannot really do that can they.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I get that shit ALL the time. I have 34 wing flavours, a number of them address the sweet n savoury/sour thing I personally detest. I don't carry the disgusting bulk sweet n sour sugar sauce common to this region and continually get people staring at the 34 flavours and and ask "do you have honey mustard or sweet n sour"? No. I don't. That's not what I'm doing here, if I had that, it would be listed. Literally every other place has that, I'm fucking trying to impart some taste to the region no matter how miniscule.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I enjoy that this rant started out like we should all know that you have a wing restaurant.

[–] Pooptimist 2 points 10 months ago

They make pizza dulce with Nutella, so I can get my pizza with pineapple