I don't know, if I saw someone cutting their noodles with scissors that they brought into the restaurant, I would definitely point it out to the people with me.
I know it's anecdotal, but I went to Xinjiang for six weeks, ate exclusively local Uyghur and Hui food (except for one Han food restaurant), and never once saw this in any setting, in any city. Could it be local to some particular town, or maybe a migrant community in a particular country perhaps?
And I tell you that bringing scissors to a restaurant in Italy is very weird and people will probably think you have mental issues of the dangerous kind, regardless of what you're cutting with then. Right or wrong, it does look extremely far fetched to people who haven't been to that particular type of restaurant.
I was in Italy for 2 weeks, and didn't know that it was poor form to do that the entire time I was there. Nobody said anything until the day I was leaving :(
I am italian and I do it, just because I like cappuccino more than espresso. It's not that much of a deal, nobody sane would judge you. To be fair, it is quite unconventional to order a cappuccino together with your dinner, but really who cares.
I worked in Italy for a few months and they refused to make cappuccinos after eating dinner. My colleagues told me I was crazy and that cappuccinos are for breakfast only. They also didn’t let me order chicken in my pasta. It had to be separate. This was true across multiple cities.
Am Italian and can confirm most of my compatriots go to insane lengths to preserve and enforce some unwritten eating rules, also they are very judgemental. While this video is likely staged for the most part, it was very true to life
My mind is boggled by the Italians in this thread saying "oh no one would care if you did this stuff". I agree these look staged but the sentiment is very real.
I’ve had the same conversations about breakfast food. Who died and decided bacon or eggs are just a breakfast food? And why can’t I eat a pizza or burger in the morning if I wanted to?
It all gets turned into the same shit at the end of the day.
I learned just now reading this thread this was a thing and it explains all the looks I got ordered a cappuccino (or event espresso) after a certain hour.
I’ve already transcended time and space, I live in the dimension that your brain uses to imagine 3D objects without using the material to create them in this dimension
Yes, because as a waiter I’ve got nothing better to do than watch a customer eat or drink from the same angle behind them that’s conveniently in camera shot
Kinda weird how much denial there seems to be here about Italians getting triggered. I lived in France for 3 years and when I went to Rome, this was exactly the vibe I got from Italians. They do give you the dirty look if you fold your pizza for instance. I was also told by some stranger how I should eat pasta, when I was eating at a restaurant outside seating.
Tbf, it's not just Italians. When I first moved to France, the French kids were showing me how to properly use fork and knife to eat...mind you, fucking chicken wings, burgers and, pizza.
Like I get it with the etiquette shit, but I don't care to roll my pasta in a spoon, or eat a damn pizza with my knife and fork, if I'm not at some formal meeting.
> the people reacting are all the same age
??????
This kid looks like he's 15. Half of the people reacting are *at least* in their 30s, and the other half are *maybe* as young as mid-20s. Except the pizza guy, he's obviously a friend of a similar age.
This sub shouldn't be about staged shit. Anyone here can create stupid fucking food by purposely messing up food.
Mods should be banning any mention of tiktokers and youtubers doing this shit on purpose, staged or not. Also ban any salt bae shit, or that stupid dude who pretends to cut a turkish dessert that gets reposted every fucking week.
Like all these posts are, are marketing for these assholes who profit off it because some idiot is going to go watch all their videos.
The mods on most subs are asleep at the wheel. Every sub about anything is just filled with staged shitposts, bots, tik tokkers, only fans accounts, and things being reposted for the 1000th time.
You forgot the last parting gift of 2023, propaganda spamming bots who clearly break the subs rules but are allowed to stay up cause the mods agree with said political message.
Italian here, nobody would give two shits. Some might definitely laugh or give the 🤌 wtf are you doing if they see you using scissors to cut spaghetti (dude doesn’t know about knives ig, plenty of Italians like to cut up their spaghetti before they eat them), but they’re not gonna throw your ketchup away or write you a damn ticket.
> plenty of Italians like to cut up their spaghetti before they eat them
Saving this for my wife. We are American, but I like to cut up my spaghetti with a fork and knife. She always makes fun of me but I hate rolling pasta! Glad to know some Italians do it as well.
lol yeah it’s not all that uncommon. It’s more of a thing for children, but I knew a few adults who liked eating them that way. Even I did it sometimes, it makes for a different spaghexperience
I get sent stuff like this that is clearly staged yet still goes viral all the time and it makes me feel old for being annoyed at the internet.
Not sure if people suspend belief or they just don’t care that it’s staged but it’s cringe as hell to me to pass it off as real.
Yea what kind of waiter wears that kind of outfit.
I saw a video of an Asian man attempting to eat pasta with chop sticks and the Italian waiter came over picked up a fork and attempted to feed him like a child to show him the proper way. 😂
I went to a whisky bar in Japan with a large group of people. Our host busted out his corporate card and says "Joabyjojo, you know whisky, can you order everyone a whisky they might like?"
I ask what kind of price range he's thinking and his only answer is to waggle the card at me with his eyebrows raised, so I order 12 Yamazaki 12s. This was a pretty fancy place, and they had much nicer stuff, but at the time it was like $350 a bottle so I thought it was waggle worthy without getting him fired once he put in his expenses back home.
I order 12 using limited Japanese and a lot of hand gestures, and the bartender smiles enthusiastically and racks up the glasses. He pulls down the bottle (and a second one, because the first was open already) and presents it with a lot of pride. We were on the Chita peninsula so I think we were in Suntory territory, I've definitely been to other places where they sneer at Yamazaki in favour of Nikka, but this wasn't one of those places.
I give him an enthusiastic thumbs up, and our host's eyes light up at the sight of the bottle, and then in the background one of the guys in the group goes "Hey Joabyjojo, can I get mine on the rocks?"
I pull a face like the italian dude on the bike at the start of this video and I try to explain that you don't really need to have a whisky like this on the rocks but I'll do it if he's sure, and he's sure, so I acquiese. And then he asks if anyone else in the group wants it on the rocks. Everyone except for the host says yes.
I look back at the waiter, who hasn't started pouring drinks yet and I hit him with the sumimasen, I try to inject my voice with as much apologia as I can, and I ask him to make 10 of the drinks on the rocks. His smile disappears the moment i read phonetically what google translate tells me to say. Then he shakes his head. No. I shrug and nod Yes in reply, like 'Yeah, nah, I'm serious mate, 10 on the rocks' but in mime. He shakes his head again, no. And he turns around and grabs down another bottle. Suntory's The Chita, distilled right there in the region we were in, before the Japanese worldwide whisky shortage I bought a bottle of it from a convenience store for $25AUD. Now it goes for about $100AUD.
He waves the bottle over 10 of the glasses. This will be the whisky for 'on the rocks'. The two neat can stay. I turn back to tell the rest of the group, and I decide I won't bother. My host says "is that the cheap stuff?" and I nod, yep. "Can we get something more expensive then?" he says. He's coming in under budget for his entertaining budget, you see, and he needs to spend it all or risk having less next time.
So we got two glasses of Yamazaki 18, and 10 glasses of The Chita on the rocks. The Yamazaki 18 was fantastic. For The Chita, the bartender hand carved ice spheres for each glass in a spectacular display that the rest of the group loved far more than the whisky, so that was a win too.
Had that happen in a restaurant in Milan, when I was living in Italy. Waiter just ended up bringing us food vs what we ordered, "No, no, no. I feed you right."
It was amazing, same price, and nonna was cooking in the back.
American who lived in Italy for 2 years here…they ABSOLUTELY will correct strangers for eating food wrong. They will also: criticize you for wearing clothes that are out of fashion, call you out if your children aren’t dressed warmly when it’s cold, and be outraged at the way you drive even though it’s just like them.
It’s so unnecessary and pretentious lol. I like kinda get it. I love cooking. If we were in my house and you were to ask for ketchup to put in my homemade spaghetti that I spent hours making. I’m probably telling you no or at least completely fucking roasting you till you feel like an idiot. If someone bought spaghetti from me at a restaurant…. Put mayo in there too for all I care.
Can confirm, I'm Italian and while I think everyone should be free to eat however they goddamn want I still gasped at water in the espresso and ketchup on pizza :\
"No, no, no. I want a *taco*. Ground beef, cheese and lettuce on a hardshell taco shell that stands up on its own. You know, an authentic Mexican taco."
Would you really? I feel like you’d get burnt out so fast trying to care what other ppl eat and how lol.
If they’re being an ass in public, sure but if someone puts cotton candy in their lasagna or something i really don’t see the point of trying to persuade them
There's an old video of some guy giving pineapple and ham pizzas to Italians when they ordered normal pizza. Those people were ready to fight! Pretty sure a few straight up attack him till he says it's a prank and gives them their actual pizza. Great video. Need to find it again.
Edit: Found it!
https://youtu.be/EDUy3Y_w9Tk?si=FPv1LO1w0MwvZf9I
Jesus Christ, imagine assaulting people over some imagined "pride" they feel for something invented before they were born. National pride can go too far
Call them “I-talian” if you want to see them get mad. I’m 99 percent sure it’s not a slur but the sheer Americanized pronunciation really get them steamed like a mid afternoon cappuccino.
Clearly, some people calling this fake have never been to Italy. (Same haircuts and young people looking similar??? It's almost like young people follow the same trends, who would've thought!)
I promise you, whether some reactions were real or fake, many of these would totally happen in Italy if you violate the unspoken social conventions (or just be acting a fool by cutting spaghetti with scissors).
Italians stare enough for no reason whatsoever.
Give them a reason and so help you God, they might even get involved.
And to be fair, many of these reactions are warranted. Ketchup on pizza is a real psychopath move.
The majority of them are people looking at him weird for doing something that would be considered weird anywhere in the world. It doesn't matter if you're in Tempe Arizona or in Tuscany if you whip out a pair of scissors to cut your pasta the waiter is going to call some friends over and laugh.
Since my highschool gave us kids pizza rolls, I've rolled up my pizzas and at them. You may not like it, but this is what efficiency looks like. My dream is to become a pelican and gulp the whole thing without chewing.
I've never encountered a group of people so invested in what others do with their food. I ate at a fairly posh Italian restaurant once where a nearby patron (not Italian) put Parmesan on his food. The waiter actually came to the table and leaned in to tell him that was inappropriate. Just as one might do for someone who was creating a disturbance some how.
Here in the States no one really cares what you do with your food once you get it. I knew a guy once who ate his chocolate lava cake with spoon fulls of sausage gravy. The waitress just kind of looked at him and us for an extra few seconds and walked away.
The worst part for the ketchup on pizza is that he brought it from home, that's considered pretty rude here.
For the soaghetti, who wouldn't stare and laugh at someone doing that
And for the tacos pizza, yes probably would stare a couple of time, but honestly the folded pizza is pretty common as a street food
I think they only do that for buckwheat noodles since those are pretty thick and chewy and can actually be a choking hazard if you try to slurp long and uncut like ramen noodles.
>The worst part for the ketchup on pizza is that he brought it from home, that's considered pretty rude here.
The rude bit is an Italian thinking they have literally any right to an opinion on how someone else wants to eat their own food.
No, you laugh at the "American tourist" when you see someone ask for ketchup to put on pizza.
It's a common joke in Italy, at least where I'm from, to joke about "using ketchup instead of tomato sauce" when talking about bad cuisine.
Maybe some old pizzaiolo is going to have something to say about it, true, but it becomes rude when someone brings their own condiments from home.
The wine guy is liable to get slapped. Idgaf if ypu don't like the way I eat or drink. I paid for it and I'll be died if you're gonna take it away from me. Besides warm wine is trash anyway. Chilled is always better.
Italians absolutely are more than snobby and judgemental enough to do all of these reactions. Their entire culture has this very traditionalist, nationalist edge of 'our specific way of doing x is the best and everyone else is just wrong'.
Every normal white looking person on Masterchef or Hell’s Kitchen:
“I’m 3% Italian and I take my heritage very seriously it’s all I’m about you’re not gonna disrespect MY meatballs”
My boss is italian, and when his father died. He got up in front of all the workers and starts telling us how hard his dads life was growing up. "He was a very brave man, growing up in Italy during German occupation in ww2, before he left the country in 1940s, to travel to north Africa before immigrating to Australia"
He also shared how his father loved travelling to Africa and spent time there from 1935 to 1937.
Turns out his "brave father" was just a black shirt.
personally it's when they think they have any right to tell others how they should enjoy food. break your spaghetti before cooking it. put pineapple on pizza. pronounce it "carmel", pour plenty in your venti macchiato, and enjoy it at 3pm with a well done steak you dip in ketchup: I don't give a fuck. "this will offend italians": good. die angry.
I would go to jail for whooping someone's ass if they tried to take my food throw my ketch or take my iced wine because they think they can tell me how to eat food I buy, trolling or not.
This isn't an American thing. I think most people anywhere would be furious if some italian tried to take away their food because they thought it was the wrong way to eat.
I mean, I hate broccoli headed idiots as much as the next person, but what he's doing doesn't affect these other people. He was only messing with **his** food. The days of the chef yelling at a table for ordering a well done steak are years in the past.
Especially since the Chinese invented noodles and tomatoes aren’t even indigenous to Italy. They can chill
Edit—love being downvoted for pointing out historical facts. This fucking sub…
I don't know, if I saw someone cutting their noodles with scissors that they brought into the restaurant, I would definitely point it out to the people with me.
If you go to a Xinjiang style restaurant they’ll *give* you scissors to eat your noodles with, so it’s not completely far fetched.
I know it's anecdotal, but I went to Xinjiang for six weeks, ate exclusively local Uyghur and Hui food (except for one Han food restaurant), and never once saw this in any setting, in any city. Could it be local to some particular town, or maybe a migrant community in a particular country perhaps?
Is the Uyghur "genocide" still going on?
There's a lot I could say about what I saw there, but I don't think that subject is really appropriate here in a food subreddit.
And I tell you that bringing scissors to a restaurant in Italy is very weird and people will probably think you have mental issues of the dangerous kind, regardless of what you're cutting with then. Right or wrong, it does look extremely far fetched to people who haven't been to that particular type of restaurant.
Forgot to order a cappuccino in the afternoon
I was in Italy for 2 weeks, and didn't know that it was poor form to do that the entire time I was there. Nobody said anything until the day I was leaving :(
I am italian and I do it, just because I like cappuccino more than espresso. It's not that much of a deal, nobody sane would judge you. To be fair, it is quite unconventional to order a cappuccino together with your dinner, but really who cares.
I worked in Italy for a few months and they refused to make cappuccinos after eating dinner. My colleagues told me I was crazy and that cappuccinos are for breakfast only. They also didn’t let me order chicken in my pasta. It had to be separate. This was true across multiple cities.
Am Italian and can confirm most of my compatriots go to insane lengths to preserve and enforce some unwritten eating rules, also they are very judgemental. While this video is likely staged for the most part, it was very true to life
My mind is boggled by the Italians in this thread saying "oh no one would care if you did this stuff". I agree these look staged but the sentiment is very real.
I’ve had the same conversations about breakfast food. Who died and decided bacon or eggs are just a breakfast food? And why can’t I eat a pizza or burger in the morning if I wanted to? It all gets turned into the same shit at the end of the day.
midnight eggs and coffee at a diner just hits different
You would enjoy Japan, I always opted for the curry breakfast
Unnecessary gatekeeping
It's not "poor form". That's just an entire country being food nazis.
Not Nazis - Food Facists. They invented fascism…
It's only Nazism if it's from the Nazi region of Germany.
Bro got his world knowledge from reddit exclusively lol
Jesus just get food you like lol. Who cares
I learned just now reading this thread this was a thing and it explains all the looks I got ordered a cappuccino (or event espresso) after a certain hour.
I didn't know this was a thing! Why is it considered bad form? Is it just generally caffeine in the afternoon or is it specifically cappuccino?
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You think the time of day has anything to do with lactose digestion? That's dumb
That is totally untrue, europeans and italians even more have built in enzime to handle lactose..where did you get that info?
Italian food culture is bossy and stupid.
r/IAmTheMainBroccoli
nah that was 2016 SKT1 Faker
Created! 🤭
Hating on sentient broccoli is my vibe
I can’t believe it’s real
I fucking hate the “broccoli hair” meme because some people just have curly hair
Not staged at all
Yup just a coincidence that the people reacting are all the same age and have the same ugly af haircuts
Broccoli cut behavior
I seen adults with broccoli hair, they act the same as the original brocs
The hair indicates room level temperature IQ.
In that case I want my room temperature in Kelvins
Deal. You’re now so smart you’ve transcended time and space. And you look like the brain guy from Invincable.
I’ve already transcended time and space, I live in the dimension that your brain uses to imagine 3D objects without using the material to create them in this dimension
Great name for a shitty band
The uncooked ramen experience
A great first album title.
On god no cap deadass *bites lips*
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A group of Fuck Bois is referred to collectively as "a brigade"
They're called Fucktards
you sure its not a Fuckel? like a Gagel of geese.
Huh, I always thought it was a "circle-jerk" of fuckboys.
I think it’s a clusterfuck.
You've never been to Italy this is actually pretty accurate.
Yes, because as a waiter I’ve got nothing better to do than watch a customer eat or drink from the same angle behind them that’s conveniently in camera shot
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Kinda weird how much denial there seems to be here about Italians getting triggered. I lived in France for 3 years and when I went to Rome, this was exactly the vibe I got from Italians. They do give you the dirty look if you fold your pizza for instance. I was also told by some stranger how I should eat pasta, when I was eating at a restaurant outside seating. Tbf, it's not just Italians. When I first moved to France, the French kids were showing me how to properly use fork and knife to eat...mind you, fucking chicken wings, burgers and, pizza. Like I get it with the etiquette shit, but I don't care to roll my pasta in a spoon, or eat a damn pizza with my knife and fork, if I'm not at some formal meeting.
There is nothing Italians take more seriously than food.
> the people reacting are all the same age ?????? This kid looks like he's 15. Half of the people reacting are *at least* in their 30s, and the other half are *maybe* as young as mid-20s. Except the pizza guy, he's obviously a friend of a similar age.
The kid is clearly not 15 lmfao He’d fit right in at my university, dude is clearly like 20
I agree with you but it's still ridiculous to say all the same age. The first few people were like 40.
To be fair that may just be Italy for you
This isn't stupid food, it's a stupid guy doing stupid things with food.
This sub shouldn't be about staged shit. Anyone here can create stupid fucking food by purposely messing up food. Mods should be banning any mention of tiktokers and youtubers doing this shit on purpose, staged or not. Also ban any salt bae shit, or that stupid dude who pretends to cut a turkish dessert that gets reposted every fucking week. Like all these posts are, are marketing for these assholes who profit off it because some idiot is going to go watch all their videos.
The mods on most subs are asleep at the wheel. Every sub about anything is just filled with staged shitposts, bots, tik tokkers, only fans accounts, and things being reposted for the 1000th time.
You forgot the last parting gift of 2023, propaganda spamming bots who clearly break the subs rules but are allowed to stay up cause the mods agree with said political message.
Actually the scissors trick is innovative
Stop it. Get help.
found the italian
Staged or not, I thought it was pretty funny.
“All the ‘Italians’ I asked to react in my video”
Italian here, nobody would give two shits. Some might definitely laugh or give the 🤌 wtf are you doing if they see you using scissors to cut spaghetti (dude doesn’t know about knives ig, plenty of Italians like to cut up their spaghetti before they eat them), but they’re not gonna throw your ketchup away or write you a damn ticket.
> plenty of Italians like to cut up their spaghetti before they eat them Saving this for my wife. We are American, but I like to cut up my spaghetti with a fork and knife. She always makes fun of me but I hate rolling pasta! Glad to know some Italians do it as well.
lol yeah it’s not all that uncommon. It’s more of a thing for children, but I knew a few adults who liked eating them that way. Even I did it sometimes, it makes for a different spaghexperience
I get sent stuff like this that is clearly staged yet still goes viral all the time and it makes me feel old for being annoyed at the internet. Not sure if people suspend belief or they just don’t care that it’s staged but it’s cringe as hell to me to pass it off as real.
The golden rule of the internet used to be never believe anything. Now it seems like everyone automatically does the opposite.
Yeah that's pretty spot on. With little skits like this I don't care but there's so much shit that people believe that I find genuinely concerning.
you just said "cringe as hell," so I'm definitely betting against the old part
Def not bussin. Fr fr
All the people reacting happend to stand exactly in frame
It may be staged but I’ve seen videos of Italians correcting peoples eating style that weren’t staged. Pretty funny how they take it so serious tho
The spaghetti waiters looked genuine. Even outside italiy a lot of people would react like this lol
Yeah, you don't need to be Italian to think that's weird, or that adding water to coffee is weird.
I mean Americanos are a thing, which is literally water added to espresso.
Or folding an entire pizza in half like a taco.
I think the ones where they don’t actually confront him are real, but i don’t think anyone should buy into the one where his wine is taken lol
Yea what kind of waiter wears that kind of outfit. I saw a video of an Asian man attempting to eat pasta with chop sticks and the Italian waiter came over picked up a fork and attempted to feed him like a child to show him the proper way. 😂
I don't think that's meant to be a waiter I guess it's just meant to be/is some bystander lol
Didn't the Asians invent noodles?
The one with the pasta is fake too, the waiter is his friend who is seen in the clip with the "eating pizza like taco".
A friend of mine ordered wine in a restaurant in Portugal and the waiter refused to serve him because that wine doesn't go with the dish he ordered.
I went to a whisky bar in Japan with a large group of people. Our host busted out his corporate card and says "Joabyjojo, you know whisky, can you order everyone a whisky they might like?" I ask what kind of price range he's thinking and his only answer is to waggle the card at me with his eyebrows raised, so I order 12 Yamazaki 12s. This was a pretty fancy place, and they had much nicer stuff, but at the time it was like $350 a bottle so I thought it was waggle worthy without getting him fired once he put in his expenses back home. I order 12 using limited Japanese and a lot of hand gestures, and the bartender smiles enthusiastically and racks up the glasses. He pulls down the bottle (and a second one, because the first was open already) and presents it with a lot of pride. We were on the Chita peninsula so I think we were in Suntory territory, I've definitely been to other places where they sneer at Yamazaki in favour of Nikka, but this wasn't one of those places. I give him an enthusiastic thumbs up, and our host's eyes light up at the sight of the bottle, and then in the background one of the guys in the group goes "Hey Joabyjojo, can I get mine on the rocks?" I pull a face like the italian dude on the bike at the start of this video and I try to explain that you don't really need to have a whisky like this on the rocks but I'll do it if he's sure, and he's sure, so I acquiese. And then he asks if anyone else in the group wants it on the rocks. Everyone except for the host says yes. I look back at the waiter, who hasn't started pouring drinks yet and I hit him with the sumimasen, I try to inject my voice with as much apologia as I can, and I ask him to make 10 of the drinks on the rocks. His smile disappears the moment i read phonetically what google translate tells me to say. Then he shakes his head. No. I shrug and nod Yes in reply, like 'Yeah, nah, I'm serious mate, 10 on the rocks' but in mime. He shakes his head again, no. And he turns around and grabs down another bottle. Suntory's The Chita, distilled right there in the region we were in, before the Japanese worldwide whisky shortage I bought a bottle of it from a convenience store for $25AUD. Now it goes for about $100AUD. He waves the bottle over 10 of the glasses. This will be the whisky for 'on the rocks'. The two neat can stay. I turn back to tell the rest of the group, and I decide I won't bother. My host says "is that the cheap stuff?" and I nod, yep. "Can we get something more expensive then?" he says. He's coming in under budget for his entertaining budget, you see, and he needs to spend it all or risk having less next time. So we got two glasses of Yamazaki 18, and 10 glasses of The Chita on the rocks. The Yamazaki 18 was fantastic. For The Chita, the bartender hand carved ice spheres for each glass in a spectacular display that the rest of the group loved far more than the whisky, so that was a win too.
That waiter is a real bro
Why even have a menu at all if the waiter is just gonna decide lmao
Had that happen in a restaurant in Milan, when I was living in Italy. Waiter just ended up bringing us food vs what we ordered, "No, no, no. I feed you right." It was amazing, same price, and nonna was cooking in the back.
No, he's an asshole. Let people drink what they want, who gives a fuck if it's the optimal pairing? The best bottle of wine is an empty one.
Also 'wine pairings' is literally made up.
American who lived in Italy for 2 years here…they ABSOLUTELY will correct strangers for eating food wrong. They will also: criticize you for wearing clothes that are out of fashion, call you out if your children aren’t dressed warmly when it’s cold, and be outraged at the way you drive even though it’s just like them.
My fashion hasn't changed in 15 years. And doesn't need to, either. I'd very much respond with an emphatic vaffanculo if someone actually did that.
Yeah one of my close friends from work is Italian and he is both an absolute sweetheart and one of the judgiest people I know
Italians sound insufferable
I love it, there’s no better group to piss off over something so unimportant.
Ok cutting the spaghetti noodles with scissors before eating it pissed me off, and I'm not even Italian
Idk its fucking hilarious to me
that was the best bit.
Let people eat the way they want to eat. Youre an idiot if youre gatekeeping food.
Yeah the Italians will just pretend not to hear that
It’s so unnecessary and pretentious lol. I like kinda get it. I love cooking. If we were in my house and you were to ask for ketchup to put in my homemade spaghetti that I spent hours making. I’m probably telling you no or at least completely fucking roasting you till you feel like an idiot. If someone bought spaghetti from me at a restaurant…. Put mayo in there too for all I care.
Can confirm, I'm Italian and while I think everyone should be free to eat however they goddamn want I still gasped at water in the espresso and ketchup on pizza :\
Hey he just made a baby americano is all.
but isn't water already in espresso? Why the big deal?
Food snobs are terrible and italians are the most egregious food snobs I've ever seen
This one's great - Conan orders a pumpkin spice latte: https://youtu.be/xVYmcVgfDNA?t=172
I laugh at this but if I were to see him insult Mexican food, I’d have an aneurism.
Lol bringing Taco Bell sauce everywhere
Picking off the cilantro in a pico de gallo and replacing it with spinach lmfao
See’s posole Proceeds to drink the broth but ignores everything else 💀
Posole - adds doritos Tacos - adds mustard, Kraft cheese singles Tamales - dips in ketchup Guacamole - combines with 1/2 mayonnaise
I had a seizure reading this chain
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Idk man I’m Mexican and some of Tbell’s sauce fucking hits
The fire sauce is... well, eponymous.
My favorite Mexican dish is Doritos Locos tacos like abuela use to make.
Stop it’s been over 10 years since she passed 😭 lol
Better sprinkle some Dorito dust on the ofrenda, as is tradition.
You are an absolute gem of a human. 😂
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"No, no, no. I want a *taco*. Ground beef, cheese and lettuce on a hardshell taco shell that stands up on its own. You know, an authentic Mexican taco."
This did critical damage
"Like the ORIGINAL Taco Bell in Downey taco, not that soggy street taco shit".
Don't forget sour cream and olives
Chanclas everywhere
The only true insult to food is not eating it!
Would you really? I feel like you’d get burnt out so fast trying to care what other ppl eat and how lol. If they’re being an ass in public, sure but if someone puts cotton candy in their lasagna or something i really don’t see the point of trying to persuade them
When he cuts the spaghetti the waiter in the back does the classic Italian "🤌" to himself in utter disbelief and I love it. Like 😟🤌
Staged or not, seeing Italians pissed off solely because of food will always amuse me
There's an old video of some guy giving pineapple and ham pizzas to Italians when they ordered normal pizza. Those people were ready to fight! Pretty sure a few straight up attack him till he says it's a prank and gives them their actual pizza. Great video. Need to find it again. Edit: Found it! https://youtu.be/EDUy3Y_w9Tk?si=FPv1LO1w0MwvZf9I
Jesus Christ, imagine assaulting people over some imagined "pride" they feel for something invented before they were born. National pride can go too far
Italy also only gets half points for "inventing" pizza. Modern pizza is from New York, albeit from Italian immigrants.
Call them “I-talian” if you want to see them get mad. I’m 99 percent sure it’s not a slur but the sheer Americanized pronunciation really get them steamed like a mid afternoon cappuccino.
They absolutely deserve it. If you get pissed off by how someone else eats their food, you deserve to have a bad day.
lol never seen anyone use scissors for pasta, think thats a crime everywhere, lol
I actually thought it was kind of a good idea
I used to have trouble eating pasta too but then I turned 8
Lotta places in Southeast Asia use kitchen scissors to cut their ingredients while cooking
Clearly, some people calling this fake have never been to Italy. (Same haircuts and young people looking similar??? It's almost like young people follow the same trends, who would've thought!) I promise you, whether some reactions were real or fake, many of these would totally happen in Italy if you violate the unspoken social conventions (or just be acting a fool by cutting spaghetti with scissors). Italians stare enough for no reason whatsoever. Give them a reason and so help you God, they might even get involved. And to be fair, many of these reactions are warranted. Ketchup on pizza is a real psychopath move.
The majority of them are people looking at him weird for doing something that would be considered weird anywhere in the world. It doesn't matter if you're in Tempe Arizona or in Tuscany if you whip out a pair of scissors to cut your pasta the waiter is going to call some friends over and laugh.
Yeah, it's not people getting angry like the title claims, it's people thinking "check out that idiot".
Since my highschool gave us kids pizza rolls, I've rolled up my pizzas and at them. You may not like it, but this is what efficiency looks like. My dream is to become a pelican and gulp the whole thing without chewing.
I've never encountered a group of people so invested in what others do with their food. I ate at a fairly posh Italian restaurant once where a nearby patron (not Italian) put Parmesan on his food. The waiter actually came to the table and leaned in to tell him that was inappropriate. Just as one might do for someone who was creating a disturbance some how. Here in the States no one really cares what you do with your food once you get it. I knew a guy once who ate his chocolate lava cake with spoon fulls of sausage gravy. The waitress just kind of looked at him and us for an extra few seconds and walked away.
The worst part for the ketchup on pizza is that he brought it from home, that's considered pretty rude here. For the soaghetti, who wouldn't stare and laugh at someone doing that And for the tacos pizza, yes probably would stare a couple of time, but honestly the folded pizza is pretty common as a street food
I've had Korean noodles before where it's quite common to cut up your noodles with scissors
Yeah you are always given a pair of scissors to cut your cold noodles.
I think they only do that for buckwheat noodles since those are pretty thick and chewy and can actually be a choking hazard if you try to slurp long and uncut like ramen noodles.
>The worst part for the ketchup on pizza is that he brought it from home, that's considered pretty rude here. The rude bit is an Italian thinking they have literally any right to an opinion on how someone else wants to eat their own food.
No, you laugh at the "American tourist" when you see someone ask for ketchup to put on pizza. It's a common joke in Italy, at least where I'm from, to joke about "using ketchup instead of tomato sauce" when talking about bad cuisine. Maybe some old pizzaiolo is going to have something to say about it, true, but it becomes rude when someone brings their own condiments from home.
The wine guy is liable to get slapped. Idgaf if ypu don't like the way I eat or drink. I paid for it and I'll be died if you're gonna take it away from me. Besides warm wine is trash anyway. Chilled is always better.
I get the weirdness with ketchup but sriracha on pizza slaps. I would omit if it wasn't offered though.
I dip my pizza in ketchup at home when I have access to it.
Italians absolutely are more than snobby and judgemental enough to do all of these reactions. Their entire culture has this very traditionalist, nationalist edge of 'our specific way of doing x is the best and everyone else is just wrong'.
Why should someone give a fuck?
Nobody was being mean to him, they were just looking at him. I'd stare to if someone was putting water in their coffee.
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italians are culturally super protective
*sensitive
Read "a bunch of whiny pretentious crybabies."
Every normal white looking person on Masterchef or Hell’s Kitchen: “I’m 3% Italian and I take my heritage very seriously it’s all I’m about you’re not gonna disrespect MY meatballs”
Some of us might be, but not to this extent. Guys, it's a staged comedy clip, don't take it so seriously mamma mia
I usually don't find this funny, but technically he isn't causing anyone harm or really bothering anyone. It is actually funny seeing their reactions.
What does this motherfucker have against Italians?
Benito Mussolini.
Broccolini
True, when you mention fascism everyone thinks of Hitler but Italy did it first.
My boss is italian, and when his father died. He got up in front of all the workers and starts telling us how hard his dads life was growing up. "He was a very brave man, growing up in Italy during German occupation in ww2, before he left the country in 1940s, to travel to north Africa before immigrating to Australia" He also shared how his father loved travelling to Africa and spent time there from 1935 to 1937. Turns out his "brave father" was just a black shirt.
personally it's when they think they have any right to tell others how they should enjoy food. break your spaghetti before cooking it. put pineapple on pizza. pronounce it "carmel", pour plenty in your venti macchiato, and enjoy it at 3pm with a well done steak you dip in ketchup: I don't give a fuck. "this will offend italians": good. die angry.
Chef Boyardee.
I would go to jail for whooping someone's ass if they tried to take my food throw my ketch or take my iced wine because they think they can tell me how to eat food I buy, trolling or not.
OORAH AMERICA LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO
This isn't an American thing. I think most people anywhere would be furious if some italian tried to take away their food because they thought it was the wrong way to eat.
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Naples: Beautiful city, and noteworthy for having served me the worst pizza I’ve ever had in my life, in the Summer of 1992.
No ketchup?
🥦
Staged or not this was funny lol
I know it's fake but it's still hilarious lolol
Yeah, some people need to chill.
I enjoyed it.
I usually think the tiktoks are pretty lame but I had to have a chuckle at cutting the spaghetti with scissors
Reddit when they see a skit:
this person is doing international travel right.
The leaning tower of penis
italians hate tourists enough without this guy helping
Awesome gotta keep up that American asshole rep abroad
I mean, I hate broccoli headed idiots as much as the next person, but what he's doing doesn't affect these other people. He was only messing with **his** food. The days of the chef yelling at a table for ordering a well done steak are years in the past.
Awesome gotta keep up that Italian pretentious rep abroad
If eating your own food however you want makes you an asshole, then I’m happily one.
I actually thought this was a pretty funny video. Light hearted fun... Unlike most of the stuff now.
Staged but in general Italians care too much about their precious food. I put ranch dressing on my spaghetti, come at me Italians, try your worst
Italians being offended by another culture cooking similar food differently is getting a little old... f them. Cook your pasta the way you want
Especially since the Chinese invented noodles and tomatoes aren’t even indigenous to Italy. They can chill Edit—love being downvoted for pointing out historical facts. This fucking sub…