Ask an italian guy everything

>>7901952
How do you like your steak?

>>7901952
How do I get an italian gf?

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>>7901952
what can I cook to get a qt Italian gf??? and where can I find an Italian girls in America

what is it like being a smelly greasy wop, I'm going to assume horrible.

>>7901952
Alright red pill me on italian food. I always hear how great and diverse italian food is, but in my head it's just variations of pasta. Ironically my favourate italian food is gnocchi, but what else do you have?

>>7901952
What is your favorite fish dish? Could you describe it in detail or give a recipe?

I have an Italian cookbook that has a great recipe for fish with clam and anchovy sauce, which I make all the time, and am looking for more really good Italian fish dishes. (American here, btw)

>>7901952
I heard Italian was a country. Is that true or no?

>>7901971
You have to be attractive. Your personality doesn't matter, sometimes not even your money. They want exactly the man of their dreams and won't settle for anything else.
I got lucky and I found a girl that wants a depressed edgelord, but as I said, I got lucky. If you're posting on 4chan, chances are you won't ever get one.
>>7901968
It's not custom to ask for a medium-rare or anything at restaurants, they just bring you the steak the way they like to cook it and you have to deal with it, unless it's clearly overcooked or undercooked. Most of the people prefer a literal (not british standard) medium cooking for steak, when it has a little bit of black on the sides but the blood is still in it in abundance. I'm not a fan of cooked meat myself, but when I eat it I always pick the fiorentina or the porcheddu, they are not served spicy but the meat itself is tasty af.

Is bolognese real Italian or Italian American? If Italian how is it supposed to be cooked

>>7901978
First of all, pasta isn't just pasta. There's the more common one, made with weat, then there's potato one (gnocchi), the one made with eggs, etc, so it's a broad subculture of food.
Pizza isn't anything like american pizza, we don't put sweet shit on it like pineapples, we actually find it disgusting.
"Salami" does not exist. "Salame" is a singular word to describe a kind of food, while "Salumi" is a broader genre of raw meat whose purpose is to end up in sandwiches or to be eaten quickly at a happy hour.
Most of our food is regional and can vary from disgusting things (coda alla vaccinara, which is basically a cow tail) to very tasty shit (vincesgrassi, a variation of lasagna, or crescia, piadina, babbà and other pastries both salty and sweet) but we all have "affettato" in common. That's a word that means "stuff you're supposed to slice" and comprehends kinds of ham, cheese, salumi, soft or dry sausages and all kinds of bread.
>>7901983
My favourite fish dish is just a simple swordfish steak with olive oil and pepper. We fish the swordfish near Sicily's coast, so it's cheap if you go there (10 euros for a top tier steak). We also have various christmas eve recipies, since we only eat fish that day for an old catholic tradition, most of it is pasta with tomato and fish sauce, octopus and pease, and shit like that, but I never bothered to cook it myself because my aunt does it better anyways. Look up how to make "seppie con i piselli" if you want to have a good time.
>>7901976
Already answered that, also, most of italian girls are ugly but only take men way out of their league. They have incredibly high standards, and we italians usually prefer foreign women because they're not that bitchy (polish and german women love the strong italian cock so much)

>>7901986
>I'm not a fan of cooked meat myself
Then what kind of meat are you a fan of?

What's your opinion on polenta?

>>7901990
Don't know what you're talking about.
If you mean the word "bologna", well, it's definetely not food. Bologna is a city, not even known for its sausages, it's actually the city with the world's first University.
If you mean "ragù alla bolognese", which is sauce, you will need prime time tomato sauce from a legit italian store, good sausages and spices and a lot of patience. You have to make the thing boil for like 3 hours or even more, and you can't even leave it there as it needs your attention despite needing to have something to cover your pot when cooking. The result is really good, but you might want to start from a simple tomato + meat and onion sauce that you can do in 5 minutes to practice, unless you want to waste a whole day to eat shit because you fucked up.

>>7901997
As a Sicillian, do you feel like you're dragging down northern Italy with your violent and poorly educated ways?
>>7902000
I'd assume cold cuts

>>7902015
Have you had a sexual experience with a family member? Do you live in a villa?

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>>7902000
pic related is a salame called "ciauscolo". It's raw meat, probably pre-cooked in some cases. It's inside a "crescia", kind of jew easter bread that we use in my place to make big sandwiches. It tastes goddamn good with cheese, expecially pecorino.
>>7902014
Well polenta is only good during winter. It's a dish made in the north for northeners, I live in the east coast in the central region, so it's not typical.
Funny story about it, it's so nutrient that my partisan grand-grandad got caught during WW2 because the fascists spread the rumor that his mother was cooking it, and he was starving really bad, so they waited him home.
I think it's best served with mushrooms.

>>7902024
What is the best Italian dish, and why is it vitello tonnato?

>>7902024
That looks tasty as fuck. The bread reminds me of pita-bread.

So what's the name of your region? And what are your favourite recipes from it?

>>7902024
>I live in the east coast in the central region, so it's not typical.

Cool. My mom was born in Molise, I guess it was part of Abruzzo back then, that's the central region right?

>>7902017
I'm not from Sicily, I just love that place, even if it's messy. Greek theater, good food, good looking girls, sea everywhere, best volcano ever.
>>7902023
Lol is that an american stereotype? We don't do that, we're not fond of inbreeding at all, even if some sperglord will fuck his cousin sometimes and get disowned by his parents, but that happens everywhere I guess.
A villa? Mh, well, it's a house in the middle of the countryside, but it's not THAT big. It's just outside a 60k people city and near a huge turistic beach, so I guess it's good, but our houses aren't made of woods, they're made of bricks, so they're relatively safer but they cost more and are smaller than yours. Mine was a school during the 1940's, it was abandoned and mom bought it and made some works to make it viable as a living place.
I've got friends who have real fucking estate tho, sometimes with huge-ass pools or just in the front of the mediterrean sea.

>>7902036
>vitello tonnato
Gosh, Northern Italy has such fucking boring food. It's like I can taste the bad weather.

>>7902036
It's vitello tonnato because my grandma makes it every christmas
>>7902043
>>7902047
I'm from Marche, namely near a city called Jesi. The central region is composed of Toscana, Lazio, Umbria, Abruzzo, Marche. Molise is a literal meme in my country, we joke about its non-existance because it's a small place near the mountains, too south to be center, too north to be proper south.

>>7902054
I thought a villa in italy was just sort of a house where the family lived together?
Would you get disowned for giving your cousin a blowjob?

>>7902063
>Molise is a literal meme in my country, we joke about its non-existance because it's a small place near the mountains, too south to be center, too north to be proper south.

Yeah I know I have cousins back there in Campobasso and Termoli and they always post weird meme images of maps with Molise missing and stuff like that on their FB.

>>7902057
Vitello tonnato is eaten in every region above Napoli, actually, basically in every place where people own cows. If you go south they prefer pig and in Sicily horse meat is pretty common.
In Naples they love "sanguinaccio", which is swine blood and chocolate. I'm not about that at all to be honest.

>>7902063
It's funny I've heard of every single region in your post (and I think all the others in Italy as well), but I'd never heard of Marche before. Is it not very populated?

>>7902066
What you suggest is just disgusting.
And "villa" in italian literally means "big ass estate".
>>7902069
Funny thing, the place where I live is even more obscure than Molise.

>>7902078
It's probably even more populated than Umbria. It's just that no events of historic importance for all our country happened here, since we were vatican property until 1861. Marchigiani were tax operatives for the pope and shit.
We have big time tourism here with Germans, they love it. Mountains and sea are just 40 kms apart from each other, the food is god tier and we have decent beach for foreigners standards (It's not Malta, Puglia nor Sardinia, but we have lots of sandy beaches and a not-too-hot climate)

>>7902080
>Marche
Have you ever been to San Marino?

>>7902071
>sanguinaccio
That sounds insane but also delicious. It's interesting that in South Italy they use chocolate more like a food than just a sweet, it's how it was originally used in South America.

I suppose this is less a culinary question and more of a cultural one: I know there is a distinction between South and North Italy, but is there anything similar between West and East? You are divided by the mountains after all..

For example, here in Scotland the West Coast and the East Coast are quite different places and the people mention it.

>>7902087
Tell us some Marchian specialties!

>>7902090
Yeah, if you have to buy something that costs a lot and you want it cheap you go there, as they don't have IVA (tax on added value, it basically means 25+% of prices are added to goods and go away in taxes. It's fucking damaging and it's a big reason why people are escaping this country still today).

>>7902063
Did you know that where you live shares its name with a famous final fantasy villain?

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>unironic AMA thread

>>7902096
Every country has VAT.

>>7902091
Every region is its own. The biggest difference is between north, center and south, but going to another regions, whichever it is, is always a shock for us. Our dialects change in a radius of 2 kms, our food and customs do the same. There's a huge difference even between northeners themselves. People that live near to Germany and Austria are more kind with foreigners, for example, why people in Venice just straight up hate tourists in the first place.
So yeah, obviously since every single shitty village is completely different from the one next to it, there is a difference, but we never talk about east coast and west coast, since it's an unnecessary division when everything is varied on its own.
>>7902093
Cibo Marchigiano? Vincesgrassi, lasgna variation. Olive all'ascolana, fried olives inside a paste. Gnocchetti alla crema, which are basically olive all'ascolana with sweet cream instead of olives. Crescia, the bread I already posted. Ciauscolo, a kind of salame. Filled pidgeon, but it's not very common. Verdicchio dei castelli di Jesi, one of our nation's top white wines. We also have Lacrima, which is our local favourite red wine. Grasciaro is a kind of ratatouille, very good if you like cooked veggies. Pomodori\melanzane\peperoni ripieni, which are tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers, cooked and with bread crumbs in them.
There's a lot of other shit I forgot probably.

>>7902099
Don't know the pronunciation of their name.
>>7902103
We're all having fun, so stop being a retard and ask a question, fudgelord
>>7902107
Most of the time it's not as bad as ours tho. Or else we wouldn't buy stuff when abroad to save money. Because we absolutely do. Some guys go to the extent of traveling to Japan to get less taxes on the filming equipment they need.

>>7902120
Wow thanks that list is awesome. Do you have any good videos/youtube channels that show the correct way to make real Italian food? I recall someone (maybe you) posting a channel with a guy who does farming as well as cooking.

>>7901997
>polish and german women love the strong italian cock so much

Hahaha good b8 op

>>7902132
Not really, especially for the stuff I said. What you need is the ingredients, even more than the preparation. If you want to taste italian food the easy way, you go ask for a certain type of salame and cheese, you buy bread and you make a sandwich with them. There's not guarantee that the stores around you won't sell you slimy soft american pasta and cheap sauce. You can try to make olive all'ascolana, but you'll need to know how to dip fry an olive filled with meat. Also, vincestrassi requires chicken's bowels to be made, and it's not everyone's cup of tea, so you can stick with normal lasagna.

>>7902129
Is Espresso/general coffee equipment cheaper there? I find it fascinating how many different brands of machines and grinders you make and they range from basic to top of the line.

I've been looking on ebay.it to find a used coffee grinder but I didn't find as many things as I expected. Is ebay not very popular? I imagined that with so many cafeterie and coffee-drinkers there would be lots of equipment for sale.

>>7902143
>eastern european didn't get the "you got cucked while on vacation in Italy" memo
You'd be surprised how easy it is to win over their women. Unless you're a southener, in that case you'd better never speak with them.

>>7901952
do you like pizza

>>7902148
If you're looking to stuff to keep in your home, a lot of it is decent. It's about the brand of coffee we choose and the way we prepare it more than the equipment we have, we don't think like americans do in terms of preparation. We will go and cook spaghetti on a chinese wok and it will taste good regardless.
But I can't give you much advice, since I suffer from a heart condition and a cup of coffee could literally kill me. I'll drink cappuccino in bars or when mom makes it for me, but only if I absolutely must go on with my day and I haven't slept at all.

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>>7902144
I live in the UK and I have some good food markets and a top-tier Italian deli near me so I can get many of the things you mention. (Their deli meat/cheese counter is huge). They make Cassatta which I could eat every single day, with an espresso, until I have diabetes.

>>7902103
Fuck off this is a quality thread

>>7902163
That's a pity. You could try drinking decaf. Technology has progressed to the point where Swiss-Water Decaf coffee (it's a new-ish method) tastes almost exactly the same as normal coffee and so you can buy top quality beans to make it with. I'm not sure what you mean buy "american preparation", most of the world seems to make espresso the same way. The only thing I know is that Americans use less water and more coffee in their shots.

>>7902156
"do you like pizza" is like asking "do you like juice".
There's an infinite amount of possible pizzas.
I like the diavola, I hate the quattro stagioni, not a fan of bianca con cipolla, absolutely love quattro formaggi and marinara, napoli is not my cup of tea, margherita con mozzarella di bufala + fried chips on top of it is the absolute best.
Besides that, every restaurant gives their name to most of their pizza if they're not evergreens like the ones I mentioned, so I can't answer that in a complete way.
Liking pizza is more about liking what you put on it, like pasta.

>>7902129
It's pronounced /mɑːʃ/ so it's different.

>>7902170
What I meant is we have different ways of thinking. We are historically a people of farmers, fishers and artists. We're poor people with culture. So if we have to do something we invent a way, we make it with whatever instrument you put in our hands. Americans are usually people who want their shit to be on point, to have the right machinery every time and some times might even decide to give up on something if they don't have the tools.
So I guess making coffee for them is more about having top-tier equipment while we're more focused on top-tier ingredients and proportions (italian espresso is really tight and black, american espresso is just murky water in comparison)

>>7902165
That sounds good. Try piadina with mozzarella di bufala and prosciutto cotto. If you like spicy stuff put some "nduja" on bread and get the runs for days. Also, cannoli siciliani, babbà.

Whats your view on Paul Pogba going to Manchester United?

>>7902000
Italy is pretty big on cured meats.

>>7902206
I might be one in a million, but I don't like soccer.
I only cheer for my national team when there's a tournament because it's our national sport, but I'm not interested in private clubs of 20 black guys and 2 italians, they don't even represent their native cities fighting each other, it's just a big money circlejerk.

>>7902120
>aubergines/eggplants are now cucumbers because some not-quite-but-close-enough dirt-eater from marche said so

What's the objectively best dolce?

>>7902221
I can't know every english word when It's language number 3 for me, can I? Mistakes can happen.
>>7902223
Torta maronita. Look it up. Fucking delicious.
Also, we already mentioned top tier stuff like cassata siciliana, babbà and cannoli siciliani, so what's more to say?

>>7902195
>nduja, cannoli
Love both of those. See, the South DOES have the best foods! Is the bread for the piadina, basically a pita?

Also, do you make your own pasta?

>>7902234
Never eaten pita so I dunno.
"Make your own pasta" huh? Well if it's gnocchi, ravioli, tortellini and tagliatelle, homemade pasta is the best. Handmade pasta from stores is still very very good, but beware of branded shit like "Giovanni rana".
If you mean spaghetti, pennette, farfalle and other kind of "vanilla" pasta, then no, we don't, we buy it because it's basically the same.
We always cook it on our own and make the sauce ourselves, sometimes even the tomato sauce with fresh tomatoes, but we don't make the generic pasta by ourselves, since Barilla and brands like that already make a very good work.

>>7902231
And it's my fourth language. Yet I still know the difference between an aubergine and a cucumber.

>>7902248
Good for you. Big deal, I got a word wrong, will Queen Elizabeth come here and ask me to fuck her now or something? I still write better than a lot of americans who never studied their own grammar.

>>7902242
I see, good to know. So which brands do you like from dry pasta? I was once told by Italians that people prefer Divella instead of Barilla? I love De Cecco and Rummo but they're a bit more expensive than the rest. Giuseppe Cocco is also popular here but never tried it.

>>7902234
Different Italian here.
Piadina is more like naan, but not quite. Pita, as far as I know, has no fat in its dough, which is why its unpleasant and of poor quality, much like the people who make it.
Piadina and naan traditionally both have clarified animal fat, lard and ghee, respectively.
With lots of us going health-conscious these days and forgetting that our grandmothers lived to be 100 years and ate lard all day, every day, piadina is now also made with vegetable oil.

>>7902260
Mom always bought Divella or Barilla because they're affordable, but I've eaten De Cecco and it's good anyways.
I'd say I prefer Divella when it's not cooked too much, we call it "al dente", which means that you feel it on your teeth but it's not crunchy, just cooked enough to be edible. Usually It just takes 5 or 10 minutes, depends on how much pasta you put in the pot and what's written outside the box.

>>7902273
nonna also toiled in the field growing chickpeas all day and washed clothes with a board, not shitposting on 4chan

>>7902273
As he said, if any bread is made with swine lard, it's really good and tasty. Variations of pizza and focacce are good examples.

>>7902279
>implying that explaining the difference between piadina and pita is shitposting when someone asked 'what's the difference between piadina and pita?'

>>7902279
Bisnonna sometimes says that she wants Mussolini back.
But hey she makes neat clothes lavorando a maglia so it's good.

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>>7902273
Who are you talking about? I think you mean Arabic "pita", which is thin like paper and tastes like cardboard.

Real Pita bread is made with olive oil.

>>7902295
>Implying nonna Antonia wouldn't shitpost if she spoke english

>>7902277
>al dente
This is the only way to cook it! I save some water from the pasta before I add the sauce to cook them together. It always makes it 10x better because of the salt and starch.

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>>7902301
Looks nothing like piadina to me.

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>>7902307
I didn't say it looks like piadina, I'm responding to this: "Pita, as far as I know, has no fat in its dough, which is why its unpleasant and of poor quality"

Which is probably pic-related.

>>7902305
Dude calm down.
I'm not sure I get it.
First of all you make water boil, you put salt in it, then you put pasta. While you're doing this you make sauce, and only when both are ready you mix them in a separate container. You don't put the sauce inside the boiling water and vice versa. That's a crime.

>>7902310
I'm OP and I was finally answering the pita question saying it doesn't look like piadina at all.

>It's an italian thread
>Nobody has asked about maccaroni and cheese
I'm proud of you for not doing that.

>>7902301
Are there large regional variations in pita?
I had pita once and once only on holiday to Cyprus. It was awful.
The one in this pic actually look quite good and not drier than a geriatric cunt.

>>7902302
Kek.

>>7902311
This is what I do, you can tell me if it's wrong or not. When the sauce is cooked (separate pot) and the pasta is ready I remove it from the water, and pour all the water out of the pasta pot except for a very small amount at the bottom (2-3 tablespoons max.), then I add the sauce and the pasta back to the (still hot) pot where I made the pasta and mix them all together for a 1-2 mins.

By the way, I've seen recipes where they throw the pasta in the sauce while it's cooking. E.g. paccheri con broccoli e salsiccia

>>7902323
>he likes to be smacked with brassica and forcemeats
I can oblige.

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>>7902318
Cyprus pita is horrible. It is becoming popular in Greece, because it doesn't have oil in it so health-conscious people love it, so now when you order souvlaki you can have it as an option.

Real Greek pita looks like pic-related. Cypriot food has many middle-eastern influences because they have a significant Lebanese population and well...they are almost next door to the Middle East. It's not all bad though, they make a delicious pastry called Tahinopsomo, which is basically a braided brioche with Tahini, cinammon and sugar filling.

>>7902325
wat

>>7902335
Sorry, it was silly.
Paccheri are from Naples. "Pacchero" in Neapolitan is also slang for 'smack' because the word is descended of ancient Greek for "whole hand" and ancient Greek, which is still spoken dialectically in some parts of the south, strongly influences many of the Italian dialects of the area, Naples and Bari in particular.
Many times, I've heard "smettila o ti do un pacchero!" literally "stop that or I'll give you a whole hand!" implying a smack.
This is also related to standard Italian "pacca" which also means "smack."

>>7902323
That pasta is made on a frying pan tho, it's not with sauce.
And you're doing it wrong. You don't need extra water, the pasta already absorbed enough. If you feel that it lacks salt just...well put some more salt while cooking.

>>7902373
This is the method I've seen to cook it, he adds water to the sauce before the pasta:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GXtPuhQ4Ds


Also, in the other method I was talking about here >>7902323 I've been using 2tbspoon water from pasta pot mainly because it has starch and starch makes the sauce and the pasta bind/come together better. How do you do it?

>>7902359
lel, that makes a lot more sense now. Is tubular pasta very popular in Italy? I've been watching Italian TV shows recently and I swear to god EVERY single time they are eating pasta it's Paccheri or Rigatoni.

>>7902411
I just mix the sauce and the pasta when they're done, period. No fucking around with the water. The sauce is already good on its own and I like it to be consistent and not watery. After I have "scolato" the pasta, I use the water to feed my plants or some shit.

>>7902434
I see. It doesn't make my sauce watery, because frankly 2tbspoons of water for half a packet of pasta and a half a pot of sauce makes no difference, but I'll try it your way and see. Do you do the mixing in a bowl or in the pot with heat?

>>7902444
Bowl, I live alone and eat directly from it.

>>7902434
>feed my plants
Doesn't that kill them because of the salt content?

>>7901952

Cacio e pepe.

I've heard so many people rave about having it in Italy. From my minimal understanding of Italian food, I follow that it's about the freshness and integrity of the ingredients.

Is there anywhere stateside where you can eat a comparable version of that dish? Or find ingredients to make a similar caliber of dish?

>>7902604
I assume the salt went in the pasta because they are still alive.
>>7902617
Italian householf of first generation immigrants.

>>7901952
Tripe; yay or nay?

>>7902630
With eggs and tomato, absolutely yes

>>7902617
>Is there anywhere stateside where you can eat a comparable version of that dish? Or find ingredients to make a similar caliber of dish?
Just make it yourself. Fresh refrigerated eggy noodles or good pasta you enjoy like Barilla, grate your own pecorino, grano pagano (harder to find). crack your own peppercorns. Dip a measuring cup into the pasta water to reserve some, before you drain it. This is used just in case you want to thin the sauce a bit when it's all combined and cheeses are grated and all that.

>>7902174
>margherita con mozzarella di bufala + fried chips on top
explain

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What do you think of my pizza? It's a new take on rustic. Instead of peasants making shitty food, it's poor people making food.

>>7902015
>putting sausage in a ragu
>claims to be authentic

Take that sausage shit back to Brooklyn, famiglia.

>>7902870
You call them french fries probably. I put them on pizza all the time, they just go with everything.
>>7902982
I literally gave away where I come from, If you actually read the thread you would know I'm at least 500 kms away from Bologna. Let them make their ragù the way they like it, I'll eat pappardelle col cinghiale in the meantime.
Se sei ancora dubbioso te posso consiglià de gì a pijattela 'ntel culo, sempre che te c'abbia capito 'n cazzo de quel che ho detto :)
>>7902976
It looks like shit, give up

>>7903067
>Se sei ancora dubbioso te posso consiglià de gì a pijattela 'ntel culo, sempre che te c'abbia capito 'n cazzo de quel che ho detto
Based anon uses dialect to prevent sperglords from using google translate. This is italian shitposting, fatto con passione

Montescaglioso fag here. We eat raw horse constantly.

Breakfast: focaccia with tomato (cold Sicilian pizza or tomato pie in America)
Lunch: heavy pasta, bean, or broth with meat after
Dinner: cooked greens with bread, or lunch meat and lots of fruit or carbs

>>7903096
Still me.

The fact is the ingredients taste completely different. And I'm not being a jerk off. My favourite snack is hard blackened crust bread , soaked in tomatoes guts, with olive oil and salt, and the empty tomatoes on the side with salt.

They are sweet and fruity in a way not found even in Jersey with their so called Jersey tomatoes

>>7903096
Basilicata, lol. Never made a stop there, only passed by. I just saw a big desert.

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Daily reminder that tomatoes are not Italian, or European at all.

Italy has the best food. I lived in Rome for 4 years and travelled extensively. I daily dream about pizza diavola, mozzerella di bufala, prosciutto baziano, san daniele, salame calabrese and freshly pressed olive oil

Hi OP fellow centro-italian here, I was ready to call you full of shit given your pretentious OP post but you're actually quite alright.

>>7902411
That's one peculiar way to cook pasta, it's prone to fuck it up easily because if you don't add the exact amount of water you will overcook the pasta while waiting for the sauce to thicken. I'd stick with the standard procedure, you're just supposed to add a couple tbsp of the pasta's boiling water to the sauce while it's simmering, the starch helps thicken the sauce and makes it stick better to the pasta. Then drain the water from the pasta when it's ready, pour it in the sauce pan, stir for a minute and serve.

>>7903109
Lol. Yeah. Sigh.

>>7901952
I'm not murikans, what's the best way to tell if an Italian restaurant is authentic?

>>7902120

melanzane is eggplant, frienderino

>>7903119
So what. The american upper class is of either european or african descent. You ashamed of that? I'm not ashamed of eating potatoes, corn, tomatoes or turkey.
>>7903137
>Only rule of the thread is that you basically can't expect me to know everything that dumbfucks that call themselves "italians" and don't even speak the language properly do in your country, as 99% are autist that haven't even spent a day of their life here and are just exploiting a meme.
Wow, it's like I already told you I don't know. If it looks like a diner or a buffet or something like that it surely isn't italian tho. Any decent italian restaurant requires you to sit the fuck down, look at the menu and choose. Don't fall for obvious bait like "True italian something" where "something" is no italian dish. An anon made a post about an italian place where they served custard. We don't even have custard in Italy. Get info about what they serve and check if we eat that shit.
>>7903128
San Daniele costs so much fucking money, I can't afford it.
>>7903129
Gotta make the ameriturds understand that "maccaroni" do not exist, or else I'll have a brain seizure

>>7903148
Mistakes happen.

>>7901952
yo op,
i got a sweet deal on cherry tomatoes last week (2kg for 2€), and since i couldnt eat them all plain, i put around half of them into my mixer on the lowest setting (in order not to shred the seeds),drained it and added some salt and olive oil.
I cooked some garlic in olive oil, added the tomato water and emulsified it with cooking liquid from pasta, butter and parmegian.
It was hands down the best simple tomatosauce ive ever had.
so i was wondering if this is a known/standard procedure in italy.

>>7901952
Do Italians like Trump?

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>>7903152
>american upper class
>african descent

>>7903161
It's true. My friend Jamal is so rich he has a new iPhone every week. What sucks though is that every time he gets a new one, it's locked, as if it was already used and it's just a refurbished phone. The Verizon employees probably only do that to him because they're racist fucks.

>>7903156
I do not make the tomato part of the sauce myself.
So I take the good conserve that are already made, put them in a frying pan with some oil, toss onions and sausage in it, put it on pasta and put parmigiano on it after it's already mixed up. I don't need much salt because I let the sauce slightly overcook on purpose to make it more dense and spicy and shit, but if you're for more liquid sauce then you need a good grain of it.
Also, I never really quite put butter into my sauces, since it's against my personal taste. I'll put cooking cream in the tomato sauce to get a different recipe out of it, there's some variations like "pennette alla vodka" and "pasta al fumè" that use that method. You can try them.

>>7903161
>You literally get to elect what is basically your king
>You chose a nigger twice
It's not on me, it's on you.
>>7903158
Italians are a split people. Some will like Trump, some will suck Bernie's cock and lick Hilary's cunt all day.
I think every single politician that ran for president in the USA since Clinton, including Clinton, was a piece of shit and that you were forced to choose what in your eyes looked like the lesser evil. Your politics are too much tied to money, corporates and oil lobbys to have some meaningful person come out and do the right thing.
I don't really care who you vote, you're basically fucked because you didn't understand that immigration is what allowed your country to exist in the first place, and since everyone hates each other for some reason you won't be able to cooperate and build anything.
You want to keep Pedro out because he's a shit tier immigrant? Cool, you can't do that, it's 2016 and lefties won't let you. You either find a way for Pedro to become a decent citizen and adapt or you adapt to Pedro, there's no way out of this.
And that's coming from a pretty racist guy who wouldn't want niggers in his country in the first place, but has to deal with them. The only thing you can do is teach them to live like you, so they are not a problem. Trump is too out of touch with the world to get that.

>>7903174
>>You chose a nigger twice
Again, why ameritards even get to complain when it's their fault

>>7902143
I resemble that :’(

>>7903161
Haven't you noticed that american pop culture is made up of 90% billionaire black people or are you blind? The chimps rule the place, in media and in politics alike. They can just play the racist card and destroy you.

>>7903180
>90% billionaire black people
Oprah, Michael Jordan, and uh that's about it. Compare that to the hundreds of white billionaires in the US; now you see they're woefully underrepresented.
>The chimps rule the place, in media
They're performers. Puppets for the people who actually own the media.
>in politics
Half black president raised by a white parent who hasn't really accomplished a whole lot? Also whites outnumber blacks in congress and the supreme court which are far more influential in the lives of the populace.

>>7903167
Dude, Iphones are cheap af. He's getting a new one because he keeps buying the same crap. I know because I just went through three of them last year. My new phone is beast comparatively and it wasn't even the one that I wanted.

>>7903168
thats curious since i thought tomato sauce made from peeled, deseeded tomatoes (flesh cooked down) was pretty standard, especially in summer when you might not want the heavier,sweeter taste of the conserves.
Another question id have would be, why is cappuccino and basically every other coffee containing espresso so much tastier in italy.
I really dont get it, im quite interested in coffee but it seems like even espresso bought at a shitty supermarket in italy and brewed on the stovetop tastes better than almost everything you can get where i live, also better than when i do the exact same thing at home. Is it the milk?-The water?
Thanks for the nice thread and also i want to add that im fucking jealous of the italians for being able to cook with the produce they have. Im from germany and even if you source great stuff and are really intereshted in cooking, you wont find vegetables anywhere close to the ones you get in italy, i guess thats the essence of italian cooking pretty much

>>7903210
I guess it's all about the ingredients. We have a climate that's unique in the whole planet, so everything that grows here is peculiar. We are amongst the countries with the biggest variety of different plant species, and we have the luxury to be able to grow pretty much anything, tobacco, bananas, tomatoes, potatos, niggerfaggots and whatnot, along with all the plants that are native from here, like Mirto, cherries, grape, olives, etc.
I can't answer about the coffee, for as I already said, I can barely drink any since it could kill me, and I also think it's unhealthy because it is cause of addiction. But I can confirm, after being forced to drink some while working abroad, that foreigners can't fucking do it. Spain is the only other place where I tasted coffee and it wasn't that bad.

>>7901952
How does it feel that your cuisine is in every way inferior to france

Pretentiousness: The Thread.

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>>7904627
>>7904609

>>7904629
>Chosen One

Well uh yeah, that's what I meant. You little tosser.

>>7901997
Don't shit on cow tail, you fuck.

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Do you like kebab pizza?

>>7904693
Don't mix white people food with nigger food. You either eat good nigger food or good white people food.

>>7904754
>Italians
>white
What did you mean by this?

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>>7904770
>Someone doesn't realize we're the only country in Europe that didn't bring shitskins to their homeland during colonial times, and therefore no true black italians exist
>Someone is probably an american with inferior mixed race genes, currently ruled by a nigger

>>7901952
Why are Italian guys so greasy and arrogant?

Tell me about italian tomatoes. When people in the US think "italian food" they automatically think of ragu or marinara or any kind of red tomato sauce. Are italian tomatoes of superior quality and abundance? are tomatoes extremely common in cooking there?

>>7904799
Why are americans so ignorant and loud?
Why are germans so boring and cold?
Why are english guys borderline fascists?
Why are asians so pervert and slimy?
Why are spanish guys muslims?
Why are the french so fucking gay?
Why are greeks poor and also faggots?
Why are irish brutish potato-eater alcoholics?
Why are norwegians so suicidal?
Why are the swedish communist with no national identity?
Why are russians uneducated inbred criminals?
I could go on until I run out of countries.

>>7904804
When someone's always in the way we say "you're like a tomato" here in my place, because tomatoes are literally everywhere when cooking.
There's plenty of variations of them. Cuore di bue is my favourite to eat raw like fruit, because of its /fit/ muscular structure.
Puglia is literally a giant tomato growing ground. Best tomatoes come from there.
Never tasted foreign tomatoes to be honest, when I go abroad I prefer to taste the things they're famous for, but once I've eaten a gulasch in prague that had tomatoes in it and I didn't even feel the taste because the meat was too skrong.

>>7904806
Answer my question please.

>>7904821
I did, but you can't understand a metaphore, so you're being an autist.

>>7904830
You didn't.
You actively avoided answering it.

>>7904836
Looks like someone had problems graduating high school because he couldn't read between the lines, but also couldn't read the lines themselves.

Also I'd like to address the fact that, even if I said "ask me everything" we're on /ck/ and in the OP I clearly said I won't have answers about what immigrants do in your country, so keep it food related, please. I'm going to stop answering bati questions because we're not on /pol/, /v/ or /b/, this board isn't for shitposting.

>>7904799
It is because of all the oil they consume and low iq.

>>7904903
Whats a good way to tell if an Italian place is shit tier or not?

How was learning the Sicilian language? My family hails from Napoli and while I can speak general Italian, Napolitano is fucking impossible. Also, thank you for a good thread.

>>7905378
0 clues about how to speak any of the Sicilian dialects, I can only speak italian and Jesino, which is my own dialect from the place I was born in.
By the way, Napolitano was a president, the language is NapolEtano.
>>7905082
In Italy I usually proceed to eat the food, say it's shit and leave without paying because I was served shit food. It only happened twice, but I've never been to a shitty place besides those times, and I was a long way from home. So I don't really know.

>>7901952
As a slave just finishing up Pelmini, would it be worth it to make homemade Gnocchi or just hope to find it in a big market. also, what is the best kind you've had?

>>7905508
slav*

>>7905522
slave was correct. know your place.

>>7905541
Whatever you say :3

>>7905508
Gnocchi are made out of potatoes and have no filling. Nothing to do with Pelmeni. If you want to try cooking italian pasta, try tortellini, tortelloni or ravioli, they're more similar to Pelmeni\Pierogi.
Also, there's only one kind of gnocchi, the only thing that can really change is the size of them and the sauce you put on it, like every other kind of pasta. I always favor a tomato + sausage and onions sauce for every kind of pasta and rice, put I had some mean gnocchi with pesto sometimes.

>>7905752
but*

>>7901997
>we don't put sweet shit on it like pineapples, we actually find it disgusting.
speak for yourself fucko

>>7901952
>Ask an italian guy everything
Uh, okay. Tell me everything.

>>7903198
....the joke is that he is stealing the phones you fucking moron

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>>7903161
the POTUS isn't upper class?