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Simple question. Which country consumes the most Italian food on an annual basis? Obviously, this question is referring to overall consumption, not per capita.
Which country eats the most Italian food?
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warpus
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Does East Side Mario's count as Italian food? My Italian friends tell me that it shouldn't.
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No debate. Americans eat more of everything. 300 million fat people cannot be beaten.
Neither frozen nor fast food pizza count as "Italian food".
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Americans use Italian recipes, but Italians eat truly Italian food - prepared by Italians.
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Does American style pizza count as Italian food if you get it at an 'Italian' restaurant? My favorite Italian place (Barone's in Lancaster) serves pizza that is better quality, but stylistically the same as fast food pizza so I don't think it is any more 'Italian', really.
Most amusing pizza experience:
Visiting Chicago, and my brother-in-law takes us out to see the sights of his city, of which he is justifiably proud. The thought of genuine Chicago pizza comes up, leading to paying a whole bunch of money to park the car within an easy walk of two famous Chicago pizza places. We find that both of them have waits upwards of two hours, maybe three. My gf and I are on west coast time, but my sister and her hubby are not thinking dinner at or after ten is a great thing, and really, two or three hours?
So at the second place a guy tips my brother in law to another pizza place a couple blocks down and a couple blocks off Rush Street that probably won't be so busy. He assures us it is great, and that he himself eats there all the time. We trail on over there and find...a California Pizza Kitchen!
Zack
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How many generations after they leave Italy does an Italian family no longer count as Italian? Barone's is a third generation family business, so does it count as an Italian restaurant?
If an Italian immigrant gets a job at McDonald's, do my McNuggets count as Italian food?
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The livers of sassenachs.
warpus
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It depends, doesn't it?
For example, when you go into a random "Chinese" restaurant here in North America, are you really eating Chinese food? Or are you just eating "Chinese food" ?
Meaning that if you went restaurant hopping in China, you wouldn't find the sort of stuff you'd find at a "Chinese" restaurant in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. It's completely different food, from what I understand.
Wouldn't it be similar, to an extent, with Italian cuisine?
So then I suppose the question is, are we talking about Italian food, as in, the sort of food that Italians eat? Or are we talking about Italian food, as in, the sort of stuff that gets labelled as Italian food in the culinary world (or wherever)?
With Italian there seems to be a lot over overlap, but for all I know Italians in Italy eat nothing but rice and hate tomato sauce. I wouldn't really know.
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Haggis, three meals a day.
I saw a cooking show that brought up the China myth to dismiss it in favor of the Italian history seen in that wiki article.
Zack
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Did the person(s) who made it have a mustache(s)?
We were in that area the other day, walked by Gino's East and saw people waiting outside. I don't understand the insanity either. Tourists and suburban people I guess...
People should venture out to the neighborhoods to avoid tourist trap pizza in Chicago. ie Pequods in Lincoln Park.
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Apple pie for breakfast.
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San Marinese people. There's no need for justification.
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