45 Times Italians Expressed Their Disgust Over Italian Dishes Cooked By Other People
The whole world knows how proud Italians are of their cuisine. And they have a reason to be. After all, they are the ones who invented pizza and they know how to prepare a dish as simple as pasta a million different mouth-watering ways. And let’s not forget about gelato and tiramisù. Are you hungry yet?
Well, maybe you should hold your appetite. Turns out, there is an account on Twitter that is dedicated solely to Italian food, but it’s not what you think it is. @ItalianComments shares food that Italians are mad at and cannot approve of. These dishes are a sacrilege in Italians’ eyes and they have a lot to say about them.
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I always think that if pizza misshapen/imperfect/bubbly/puffy/dotted with charred bits, it is a sign that it is really good (e.g. homemade, made from scratch, wood-oven fired)
Yeah, it shows that it was handmade, and that’s always better then not handmade
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yea it doesnt look perfect but it tastes 5 times better than american pizza
Italian pizza is wayyy better ... cheese and pepperoni on a card bored crust yuck
You can't beat the Sicilian classic, which is, btw, what I make at home best I can. "Regular" pizza.... Sorry, no.
Truth is that I would picked left one with mozarella. In Czechia we do right variant too often with plastic like "eidam" cheese and that thing glues your intestines for whole week. Kudos to exceptions.
It was supposed to be a pun. Because in French "Louis XVI" sounds like "Louis says" so... Nevermind, l'm leaving.
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Fake cheese made from plant oils hydrogentated to make it dirm and additives to make it “melty” mixed with skimmed milkpowder . NOT actual cheese. On the american one. Also I doubt the pepperoni has much actual meat in it but made of grissle, fat and additives ti give some taste. Anyone , who prefers the golden symmetrical factory version, never had real wellmade homecooked ones.
Hey, the pizzas I make don't look like a perfectly round disk. I do, however, make the crust fairly thin. This is really something unimportant to judge people on anyway.
There is definitely a time and place for either. I prefer the one on the left because the crust is better tasting. The crust of the right one is nothing like chalk but more like over buttered garlic bread.
Nothing beats a pizza from a little trattoria in a piazza anywhere in Italy. You havent tried pizza until you've eaten REAL italian pizza...
Been to Italy and never saw a pizza that looked like the one on the left. The pizza I had had a very flat crust and no tomato sauce at all. None. It was cheese (grated or sliced after the pie was cooked so that the cheese was not melted), and vegetables. Occasionally there was meat. My favorite was the grated cheese with uncooked dandelion leaves. Also, the trattorias served meals.... you get pizza in the piazza from a vendor, not a storefront.
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Two worst pizzas I have ever had was 1) in Italy and 2) in the USA. They both looked similar to the pics. Give me my local Italian Pizza restaurant (Australia) pizza any day. At least they have adequate toppings.
uhm, americans are all about preservatives. I literally thought everyone knew this because, well, look at the obesity rate here.
I would definitely choose the one on the left (but I'm half Italian and I cook fresh pizzas)
Never. Not with cars. Or coliseums. Or cathedrals. Or fashion. Or food. Right.
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The highly entertaining Twitter account @ItalianComments has more than 100k followers and they post everything that has to do with Italian food. Especially food that is so far from the traditional cuisine that you can only vaguely see the resemblance.
Of course, the dishes that attract the most attention are pizza and various pastas. The screenshots @ItalianComments posts almost always contain comments made by Italians mocking the food and expressing their expert opinion on the matter.
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this is somthing i would make as a dare then i would take one bite almost die from a heart attack then wake up then think about my life choices
Italian cuisine is the most popular in the world. YouGov actually conducted a survey in 24 countries asking 24,000 people which foods from 34 national cuisines they've tried and which of them were their favorite. The research revealed that surprise, surprise, Italian cuisine was preferred by the majority. 85 percent of the people agreed that they liked Italian food, especially pizza and pasta.
The nation that liked Italian food the most, with 99 percent of the representatives in the survey, was Italians. They are their culinary tradition’s biggest fans and they will defend it when they see it being mistreated.
Come Here, Dinner!
The account has been active since 2015 and has blessed its followers with more than 1,500 tweets. You can find some patterns in the content @ItalianComments shares. The photos often are of weird food combinations of pasta, for example with rice, and of course, the sacrilege of sacrileges that makes an Italian's blood boil—pizzas with pineapples on them. Share your opinion—is pineapple on pizza appropriate or are you with the Italians?
Deconstruction
The comments under these photos are as entertaining as the photos themselves. The Italians are not holding back and are critiquing the dishes without mercy. They compare the food in the photos with puke and other nasty things, expressing their disbelief that someone actually eats this and go as far as to say that what they are seeing is a crime. Of course, we understand that they are mostly joking, but knowing their passion for their food, part of an Italian's soul probably is truly suffering seeing things on pizza that they consider should never be put on it.
#NationalPizzaDay
It is not surprising that the Italians are so passionate about their own food. It’s part of their national identity; they have a whole culture surrounding it. Eating is a pleasure, dinner is considered quality time with family, and their food traditions go way back. Did you know that modern pizza developed in the 18th or at the beginning of the 19th century? All those circumstances explain why Italians are so attached to their food and why seeing others making the dishes barely recognizable provokes heated reactions.
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Not only do I break pasta in half to cook it, I hate twirling it. Hows that for psycho?
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i need to go burn my eyes out and cut off my tongue after seeing this picture and imagining this taste
In The Name Of Carbonara
Like Grandma Used To Make
Ah, the famous german cuisine. Everybody loves us for our cooking skills
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How About Giving Them Short Pasta
HOW MANY TIMES DO PEOPLE HAVE TO LEARN THIS! YOU. DO. NOT. CUT. UP. PASTA!
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After reading this thread, I want to mention that everyone is welcome to eat whatever the f**k they like. You love spaghetti with ketchup? Very well. Only don't call it an Italian dinner. And don't post it anywhere. This is a guilty pleasure and you should not brag about it. :D
Yeah, most of it was fine. If you're hungry and that's all you got go ahead and be creative, it can taste yummy.
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These are abominations to food. The Italians are right to feel outraged and insulted.
A few days ago, an american got really upset when I said some of them really disrespect other cultures by butchering their food. I stand by my statement.
Yes. If you want to cook food from a region try to keep it as original as possible (inside reasonable limits). I hate seeing people cooking "paella" that has 0 to do with my culture. Then call it rice.
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Yikes. Imagine taking on the emotional weight of what everyone else is eating. Eat whatever you like people - put cheeseburgers on pizza. Cut up your spaghetti, hell, dye it different colors if you want. Use as few or as many dishes as you want (not everyone has dishwashers and piles of dishes). I'm glad you're able to feed and enjoy yourself.
My American family is filled with great cooks and I cannot understand why so many of these people think they are Gordon freaking Ramsey because they mixed dessert and dinner or put puke on their food.
(Now, I'm writing something that shouldn't be taken seriously, but... ) This is not only cultural appropriation, this is also the worst level of offence to our Italian hearts!!! Seeing those not-very-edible things be called "carbonara" or "pasta alla bolognese" or "lasagne" and writing that those things are "inspired to Italian dishes" or even claming them to be Italian is a true Blasphemy!! Our foods is our soul!! How dare you.... the ghosts of thousands of Nonne (grandmas) will persecute you and your family until the end of the world!! They will beat your ass with rolling pins and ladles whenever you think of putting ketchup on pasta again!! ( And I'm sure you don't wanna know where they will put you if you dare ordering some ananas on your pizza, respect first kid) I have warned youuuuuuu
LOL.... and my grnadma ain't Italian and she's gonna haunt these peple! FOOD IS HEART AND HOME. Ooooh someone's gonna feel the wrath ;-)
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Probably gonna get a ton of downvotes but, if people like pineapple on pizza just let them do their thing, yeah? Please don't call me offensive to Italians it's just my opinion please don't downvote me thanks!
Have you seen the abominations many foreign countries try to pass off as "American food?" No one has any room to talk - or any room to downvote.
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Does anyone else notice this issue... in some of the comments, if I press “view more replies,” the original reply that was shown totally disappears. It is just gone from the replies section. It happens to both negative and positive replies. And it doesn’t happen all the time. On a mobile phone platform, for context.
As someone with Italian ancestry, my grandmother would kill me if I made any of these (and I would not blame her)
What is everyone's problem? Eat whatever you like even when everyone hates it. Yeah, some of the food looked pretty disgusting or weird to me as well but I am not the one who's gonna eat that. My boyfriend loves spaghetti with powdered sugar and cheese - seems weird to me but if he likes it, what's the big deal? Am I supposed to yell at him that he is eating it wrong or what? Jee, people just take it easy and mind your own businesses. :D
Honestly, I don’t find most of these too bad. And who cares if it doesn’t look nice? As long as it tastes good, I couldn’t care less what it looks like.
Omg these are great... Glad there are normal people who see these and want to die
Italian pandas rate my pizza (homemade based, fresh ingredients) IMG_3863-6...d-jpeg.jpg 
i actually couldn't make it through all of these, they were such monstrosities. how do people not get heart palpitations after eating this crap?
Why comment - oops - well it's fun to make fun of crap food like Chief Ramseyand "Kitchen Nightmares" sadly seniors with no taste buds eating there like Sizzler pretending it is better than say McDonalds or Dominoes - but hey not everyone can afford or have great taste buds like the pros. Just look at Hollywood Celebrities and what they eat when they are drunk eating a burger as our famous night rider video - classic junk food - yum - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1xqby
I wonder where there are all the people who shout "culture apropiation" when they see a person that they deem white doing something from a non western culture. Why is it ok then to butcher european culture? Just because we are white?
Since I live in the US, European culture/cuisine here is not so much butchered as it is "blended". And European cuisine owes potatoes, tomatoes, etc. to the Americas, so the "appropriation" argument could go around for-freaking-ever at this rate...... IMHO. No disrespect meant. Let's just say, "Please cook and sing and dance and dress with courtesy and respect."
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Later I may show this to my Italian girlfriend and ask her to cook me dinner.
Italian Pandas - rate my homemade pizzas (gf made the dough) IMG_3863-6...8-jpeg.jpg 
These are the same people who think Olive Garden is authentic Italian.
please give me the pill from the Matrix movies. i want to forget what i saw
I worked as a chef at a Michelin star restaurant. We made incredible Italian food. And then a customer decided to show is what we were doing wrong with the caniloni. He was a rich VIP brat, so the owner told us to let him. He "fixed" our caniloni sauce by adding ketchup. The head chef just about keeled over and died. He made us all taste it. It took every fiber of my being to not puke.
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I'm sorry for that. Unfortunately Venice is known in Italy to be a scam for tourists (expecially if you eat or drink in places near "piazza san Marco" ). Venice is wonderful to see, but really expensive. If you want to eat traditional pizza the city of Naples is the best. But you can find good pizza in most cities around Italy, you just have to follow the local (like in most nation, you have to be aware of the tourist traps).
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Most lemmings have been brain washed into believing food has to look a certain way to be acceptable. Taste is the final test!!!!!!!!!!!
Most of these aren't any worse than the abominations many Europeans try to pass off as "American style."
I just can't with people anymore. My nonna is dying over this and she's already dead.
The rest of the world should be ashamed of what they have done to italian food. I have to wonder how many have gone to Italy, only to find out Spaghetti Bolognese isn't on the menu. Ragu alla bolognese bolognese
Whoops pushed enter! Ragu alla Bolognese is a slow cooked meat sauce, not tomato based. And it isn't eaten on a thin pasta. Thick pasta to soak up the sauce.
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When I was living in China I ordered a "Canadian" pizza at Pizza Hut, it came with corn on it. As a Canadian I can tell you, we don't do corn on pizza. A "Canadian" from Pizza Hut in Canada is generally pepperoni, mushroom & bacon. Canucks have no version of pizza that comes with corn.
I was gonna come in to say who cares how someone eats their food, if it is perfect by someone else's standards or not, or if it is adapted. Maybe they have NO idea it isn't authentic. But then I saw the actual garbage in most. so the steak and alfredo...let them eat steak on top of their pasta on one plate. But s full pineapple on a dish? Wtf. Yes, why not cut the spaghetti for your kids? I know my kids and the appropriate bite for their 2 year old mouth, why dictate that for someone? My daughter was eating long pasta at 3 in a restaurant when she wasn't used to it and she choked on it. I wouldn't eat short spaghetti but I wouldn't bitch at someone if they did.
I mean...my extremely low standards still would. This looks like uni staple.
After reading this thread, I want to mention that everyone is welcome to eat whatever the f**k they like. You love spaghetti with ketchup? Very well. Only don't call it an Italian dinner. And don't post it anywhere. This is a guilty pleasure and you should not brag about it. :D
Yeah, most of it was fine. If you're hungry and that's all you got go ahead and be creative, it can taste yummy.
Load More Replies... These are abominations to food. The Italians are right to feel outraged and insulted.
A few days ago, an american got really upset when I said some of them really disrespect other cultures by butchering their food. I stand by my statement.
Yes. If you want to cook food from a region try to keep it as original as possible (inside reasonable limits). I hate seeing people cooking "paella" that has 0 to do with my culture. Then call it rice.
Load More Replies... Yikes. Imagine taking on the emotional weight of what everyone else is eating. Eat whatever you like people - put cheeseburgers on pizza. Cut up your spaghetti, hell, dye it different colors if you want. Use as few or as many dishes as you want (not everyone has dishwashers and piles of dishes). I'm glad you're able to feed and enjoy yourself.
My American family is filled with great cooks and I cannot understand why so many of these people think they are Gordon freaking Ramsey because they mixed dessert and dinner or put puke on their food.
(Now, I'm writing something that shouldn't be taken seriously, but... ) This is not only cultural appropriation, this is also the worst level of offence to our Italian hearts!!! Seeing those not-very-edible things be called "carbonara" or "pasta alla bolognese" or "lasagne" and writing that those things are "inspired to Italian dishes" or even claming them to be Italian is a true Blasphemy!! Our foods is our soul!! How dare you.... the ghosts of thousands of Nonne (grandmas) will persecute you and your family until the end of the world!! They will beat your ass with rolling pins and ladles whenever you think of putting ketchup on pasta again!! ( And I'm sure you don't wanna know where they will put you if you dare ordering some ananas on your pizza, respect first kid) I have warned youuuuuuu
LOL.... and my grnadma ain't Italian and she's gonna haunt these peple! FOOD IS HEART AND HOME. Ooooh someone's gonna feel the wrath ;-)
Load More Replies... Probably gonna get a ton of downvotes but, if people like pineapple on pizza just let them do their thing, yeah? Please don't call me offensive to Italians it's just my opinion please don't downvote me thanks!
Have you seen the abominations many foreign countries try to pass off as "American food?" No one has any room to talk - or any room to downvote.
Load More Replies... Does anyone else notice this issue... in some of the comments, if I press “view more replies,” the original reply that was shown totally disappears. It is just gone from the replies section. It happens to both negative and positive replies. And it doesn’t happen all the time. On a mobile phone platform, for context.
As someone with Italian ancestry, my grandmother would kill me if I made any of these (and I would not blame her)
What is everyone's problem? Eat whatever you like even when everyone hates it. Yeah, some of the food looked pretty disgusting or weird to me as well but I am not the one who's gonna eat that. My boyfriend loves spaghetti with powdered sugar and cheese - seems weird to me but if he likes it, what's the big deal? Am I supposed to yell at him that he is eating it wrong or what? Jee, people just take it easy and mind your own businesses. :D
Honestly, I don’t find most of these too bad. And who cares if it doesn’t look nice? As long as it tastes good, I couldn’t care less what it looks like.
Omg these are great... Glad there are normal people who see these and want to die
Italian pandas rate my pizza (homemade based, fresh ingredients) IMG_3863-6...d-jpeg.jpg
i actually couldn't make it through all of these, they were such monstrosities. how do people not get heart palpitations after eating this crap?
Why comment - oops - well it's fun to make fun of crap food like Chief Ramseyand "Kitchen Nightmares" sadly seniors with no taste buds eating there like Sizzler pretending it is better than say McDonalds or Dominoes - but hey not everyone can afford or have great taste buds like the pros. Just look at Hollywood Celebrities and what they eat when they are drunk eating a burger as our famous night rider video - classic junk food - yum - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1xqby
I wonder where there are all the people who shout "culture apropiation" when they see a person that they deem white doing something from a non western culture. Why is it ok then to butcher european culture? Just because we are white?
Since I live in the US, European culture/cuisine here is not so much butchered as it is "blended". And European cuisine owes potatoes, tomatoes, etc. to the Americas, so the "appropriation" argument could go around for-freaking-ever at this rate...... IMHO. No disrespect meant. Let's just say, "Please cook and sing and dance and dress with courtesy and respect."
Load More Replies... Later I may show this to my Italian girlfriend and ask her to cook me dinner.
Italian Pandas - rate my homemade pizzas (gf made the dough) IMG_3863-6...8-jpeg.jpg
These are the same people who think Olive Garden is authentic Italian.
please give me the pill from the Matrix movies. i want to forget what i saw
I worked as a chef at a Michelin star restaurant. We made incredible Italian food. And then a customer decided to show is what we were doing wrong with the caniloni. He was a rich VIP brat, so the owner told us to let him. He "fixed" our caniloni sauce by adding ketchup. The head chef just about keeled over and died. He made us all taste it. It took every fiber of my being to not puke.
DamnMurica is a nation of addicted meatheads (aka idiots). 09192012_O...6e67f7.jpg
I'm sorry for that. Unfortunately Venice is known in Italy to be a scam for tourists (expecially if you eat or drink in places near "piazza san Marco" ). Venice is wonderful to see, but really expensive. If you want to eat traditional pizza the city of Naples is the best. But you can find good pizza in most cities around Italy, you just have to follow the local (like in most nation, you have to be aware of the tourist traps).
Load More Replies... Most lemmings have been brain washed into believing food has to look a certain way to be acceptable. Taste is the final test!!!!!!!!!!!
Most of these aren't any worse than the abominations many Europeans try to pass off as "American style."
I just can't with people anymore. My nonna is dying over this and she's already dead.
The rest of the world should be ashamed of what they have done to italian food. I have to wonder how many have gone to Italy, only to find out Spaghetti Bolognese isn't on the menu. Ragu alla bolognese bolognese
Whoops pushed enter! Ragu alla Bolognese is a slow cooked meat sauce, not tomato based. And it isn't eaten on a thin pasta. Thick pasta to soak up the sauce.
Load More Replies... When I was living in China I ordered a "Canadian" pizza at Pizza Hut, it came with corn on it. As a Canadian I can tell you, we don't do corn on pizza. A "Canadian" from Pizza Hut in Canada is generally pepperoni, mushroom & bacon. Canucks have no version of pizza that comes with corn.
I was gonna come in to say who cares how someone eats their food, if it is perfect by someone else's standards or not, or if it is adapted. Maybe they have NO idea it isn't authentic. But then I saw the actual garbage in most. so the steak and alfredo...let them eat steak on top of their pasta on one plate. But s full pineapple on a dish? Wtf. Yes, why not cut the spaghetti for your kids? I know my kids and the appropriate bite for their 2 year old mouth, why dictate that for someone? My daughter was eating long pasta at 3 in a restaurant when she wasn't used to it and she choked on it. I wouldn't eat short spaghetti but I wouldn't bitch at someone if they did.
I mean...my extremely low standards still would. This looks like uni staple.
