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morrow the moron, another couch traveller !
"Gregory Morrow" a écrit dans le message de ... Ed Pawlowski wrote: "brooklyn1" wrote in message You know better than to say everyone in the US subsists on Spam and Velveeta and no one in the US drinks booze, because that would include you. There's more proscutto, parmesan, and dago red consumed in the US than in Italy.. With population difference of 300 million to 58 million, that is true. We are one of the largest markets for produce from Italy. Italy exports most of their gourmet foods production and the US is the biggest importer. Most Americans who visit Italy (or any country) primarily stay at American style hotels; they may as well have stayed home. The regular everyday Italians don't eat what Americans call "Italian Food", most eat exactly what typical Americans eat on a daily basis... in other words they eat half the quantity and pay twice the price. The main difference between typical Americans and the typical Italians is that Italians spend more than twice as much time preparing their meals... and they don't eat better, they simply spend more time cooking because prepared foods that Americans consume are much too expensive... Disagree. I've spent time in Italy I've eaten with the locals, stayed at homes, not hotels. I've also shopped at the supermarkets and bought groceries to cook our meals. In Italy you will see very little of the processed foods, the Velveeta cheese, the Kraft mac & cheese, and many other products of that type. You will find the prosciutto hams, the large selection of local cheese, sausages, and regional items. Yes, they have Coke, but the same store is likely to have twice the amount of shelf space for wine than soda. I was blown away at the prices too. In some restaurnats when yhou order wine, the put a pitcher on the table and you drink what you want. Sliced white bread? There may be two kinds available while fresh baked will line the shelves with a half dozen or dozen varieties and sizes. didn't you see all the pictures of dishes Pandora posted, all fussily prepared, but small portions and no expensive ingredients, what Italians call pasta for six would barely feed me and you. The reason pizza in Italy is so bare bones is because with the way Americns pile on toppings hardly any Italians could afford it. And per capita most of the world's developed countries drink more Coke than Americans... if you think Italians don't drink Diet Coke then you spent your time there with your eyes closed... You will find it at some of the bars and smaller shops, but it is not the staple that soda is in most American homes. Aqua with gas is even more likely. You will find it a pizza shops too. A typical side street shop may have 6 to 10 pizzas with different toppings ready for sale by the slice. That's because guinea WOP households are very primitive places, not only do many dwellings not only lack basic refrigeration, but also cooking gas and plumbing and thus modern appliances and so the facilities for food preparation are very limited... Refrigerators and air conditioning are considered still by many in Italy to be "works of the devil", the cool air they produce is considered to be "bad for health"... Not only do they lack modern refrigeration and A/C over there but Italians do not believe in the use of window screens, that is why malaria and polio and other vermin - borne and filth - borne diseases are so practically rife there... Italy really is still Third World, just look at a place like Venice, MOUNDS of rubbish in the streets...and the canale of Venezia are open sewers, they dump the contents of their chamberpots right off of their balconies every morning... Q: What is the Venetian term for "flush"...??? A: "Morning tide"...!!! -- Best Greg "The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."~~~~Margaret Thatcher |
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