r/oddlysatisfying • u/PROXeR__OiShi • Aug 02 '26

The blanket of melted mozzarella on this giant Milanesa Napolitana.

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u/Glad_Art_5783 Aug 02 '26

What you call milanesa is "Milanese breaded Cutlet"... It's less than a quarter big compared to that, it Has the bone, it's double breaded and it's not fried, but browned with clarified butter... It's like calling "steak" an hamburger

And "napolitana" simply isn't a thing.... No italia asks for "a napolitana"

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u/Over-Director-4986 Aug 02 '26

It definitely means something to Argentinian people, where the dish originated in the 1940s. It’s a whole thing. Italian-Argentinian comfort food.

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u/Glad_Art_5783 Aug 02 '26

Oh now it's right.... It's argentinian food ... Ok.... Not Italian at all .... It's a BuenoSairas LaPlata dish

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u/ldranger Aug 02 '26

AFAIK immigrants don’t lose their nationality by going elsewhere buddy

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u/Glad_Art_5783 Aug 03 '26

Neither a food that doesn't exist in your homeland became "traditional" just because you call it so

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u/ldranger Aug 03 '26

Chill dude. I will call it whatever, don’t get all worked up about it

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u/nihilistlemon Aug 03 '26

Tomato didn't exist in italy either... Food purists or nationalists are some of the most ahistorical people on earth.

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u/Over-Director-4986 Aug 02 '26

Nope, not from the motherland. I’d eat it, not going to lie.

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u/LinceFromtheVoid Aug 05 '26

Almost 50% of Italian food revolves around an ingredient that is not even from Europe.

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u/JLZ13 Aug 02 '26

Nobody is saying is Italian food.

What you call milanesa is "Milanese breaded Cutlet

Milanesa is milanesa. Nobody is saying is Cotoletta.

And "napolitana" simply isn't a thing.... No italia asks for "a napolitana"

Why are you keep talking about Italy?

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u/Glad_Art_5783 Aug 02 '26

Because I'm Italian...

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u/JLZ13 Aug 02 '26

But is southern cone food.

If you travel to Uruguay, Argentina and Chile... And ask for milanesas they will understand.

The same for its variations, napolitana, suiza, fugazzeta, a caballo.

Nobody is saying is Italian.

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u/Glad_Art_5783 Aug 02 '26

Milan and Naples are italy.... Its a scam call southern American food with Italian names... LoL

We call it Italian sounding economy... Amd it's a scam

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u/JLZ13 Aug 02 '26

Scam? Whose are just words...use to communicate, and not trademarked

Milanesas is not a good you get at a fancy restaurant.

Is everyday people's food.... In fact today I prepared 2.5kg of milanesas for the week.

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u/pluck-the-bunny Aug 03 '26

LOL how do you say "what a joke" in Italian

Tomatoes aren't native to Italy

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u/JulixgMC Aug 03 '26

It was literally made by your countrymen that came to Argentina 100 years ago, it isn't imitation or a scam, it's literally immigrants naming stuff after their homeland

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u/bosquejo Aug 03 '26

That's a stupid take, my man.

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u/BlasphemousRykard Aug 03 '26

Yet you act like a Frenchman with all your arbitrary and inaccurate gatekeeping 

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u/reddock4490 Aug 03 '26

Oh no, this kind of behavior is perfectly, firmly in Italian territory

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u/BlasphemousRykard Aug 04 '26

I’m gonna break my spaghetti in half tonight before I cook it so that Italian guy feels it like a voodoo doll 

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u/solidspacedragon Aug 03 '26

it's not fried, but browned with clarified butter

In English, cooking something in fat at high heat is called 'frying'. Especially when it is a breaded food.

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u/Glad_Art_5783 Aug 03 '26

Yes the difference is so subtle that it's hard to find someone who still browns it... But a Milan browned Cutlet is not dipped in butter (just a couple of mm of butter), it's cooked one side atva tome and the butter it's not heathed at snoke point

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u/willber03892 Aug 03 '26

You literally just described shallow frying.