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zeke said:
I am good with those substitutions. (And really I can substitute in all sorts of different meat).

But no add-ons allowed.
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Ah a true Italian. Stubborn as hell and a purist. Admittedly I have added some shit on to my carbonara out of boredom from doing the same thing every time and it fucking never turns out better than the original. Classics are classics for a reason. And with Italian food more than anything else, I find it's really hard to improve a classic. Almost impossible.
 
hockeylover said:
If we're talking bland food, there are definitely wayyyy better candidates for that label than Italy.

Newfie grandparents on one side, British grandparents on the other...
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Italian food isn't bland, but I think most of it is fairly "simple". But that's the elegance - go to Naples and have a margherita pizza, and that sh*t is tastier than any other pizza in existence, and it's not because it's loaded with toppings. And a similar thing holds true for a lot of other great italian food - it's not really complex, but the best italian just uses a small amount of quality ingredients, and tastes as good or better than anything else.
 
Preston said:
Hahahahaha okay yeah, that shit is on another level. British food in particular.. Yeesh. I guess I'm just comparing it to the very very top tier of cuisine. I hold Italian food in a high regard but it's bland next to many cuisines around the world. Doesn't make it bad though. The beauty lies in it's simplicity which makes it all the more comforting in the end.
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Jiggs Dinner -- turnips, potatoes, corned beef, cabbage. All boiled in one pot, salt and pepper. Then fry it up the next day and call it "bubble and squeak".
 
UWHabs said:
Italian food isn't bland, but I think most of it is fairly "simple". But that's the elegance - go to Naples and have a margherita pizza, and that sh*t is tastier than any other pizza in existence, and it's not because it's loaded with toppings. And a similar thing holds true for a lot of other great italian food - it's not really complex, but the best italian just uses a small amount of quality ingredients, and tastes as good or better than anything else.
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Italian food is my favourite food and I agree completely, especially with the bolded part.
 
Italian and Japanese cuisines are very similar in that they focus on finding the best version of simple ingredients and then work them to their most flavourful limits
 
Preston said:
Ah a true Italian. Stubborn as hell and a purist. Admittedly I have added some shit on to my carbonara out of boredom from doing the same thing every time and it fucking never turns out better than the original. Classics are classics for a reason. And with Italian food more than anything else, I find it's really hard to improve a classic. Almost impossible.
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Eh, just that whatever creamy hollandaisy shit they usually serve as carbonara is just not very good.
 
CH1 said:
Italian and Japanese cuisines are very similar in that they focus on finding the best version of simple ingredients and then work them to their most flavourful limits
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And oddly enough, they have the oldest populations and as a result, feel very traditionalist when you visit each nation. Outside of ramen, neither country likes to.. Experiment. In other words, they're stubborn old fucks but I fucking them for it.
 
Preston said:
And oddly enough, they have the oldest populations and as a result, feel very traditionalist when you visit each nation. Outside of ramen, neither country likes to.. Experiment. In other words, they're stubborn old fucks but I fucking them for it.
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Damascus is the oldest continually lived in city in the world. Do you love their food too?
 
Let's compare how the Brits serve eel:

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To how the Japanese serve eel:

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Appearance is 75% of the battle. The last bit is not just fucking boiling every single fucking protein and knowing how to fucking cook.
 
Preston said:
And oddly enough, they have the oldest populations and as a result, feel very traditionalist when you visit each nation. Outside of ramen, neither country likes to.. Experiment. In other words, they're stubborn old fucks but I fucking them for it.
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Except the Japanese are much more interested in perfecting what other cultures bring to the table. They didn't invent denim, but made it better. They're crazy about perfecting whisky and coffee. And I had one of my best pizzas in Japan, from a dude who studied dough making in Italy.

Italians don't seem as obsessed with other cultures and stay in their lane for the most part.
 
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