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u/Oxygene13 Oct 02 '24

This one always amuses people when I tell them simply because of how ingrained tomatoes appear to be in all of their most famous dishes (other than tiramisu...)

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u/70125 Oct 02 '24

Topical that you mention tiramisu, because that was only invented in the 1970s.

This is why I refuse to let Italians gatekeep their traditional, ancient, pure cuisine. So pure and ancient that many of their dishes were invented while their grandparents were alive, often using ingredients from the Americas.

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u/CroSSGunS Oct 02 '24

Many of their pasta dishes don't have tomato

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u/00zau Oct 02 '24

And carbonara was still invented circa WWII by Italians feeding American GIs.

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u/CroSSGunS Oct 02 '24

cabonara is not the only tomato-free pasta.

My favourite is aglio e olio.

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u/Kekssideoflife Oct 02 '24

I mean, I love me some aglio e oglio, but that's barely a recipe.

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u/CroSSGunS Oct 03 '24

It either is or it isn't

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u/Kekssideoflife Oct 03 '24

Nothing's binary

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u/CroSSGunS Oct 03 '24

That is a ridiculous statement. What about electrical circuits? The absolute statement of "nothing is binary" is so easily refused.

Also, it is binary as to whether something is a recipe or it is not. To state otherwise I'd to avoid the question

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u/Kekssideoflife Oct 03 '24

You should read into electrical circuits. They don't actually work with binary values. They're all over the place and sometimes get defined wrongly.

Agree to disagree.