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re: Italians love them some motor scooters and cigarettes.
Posted on 10/17/23 at 6:21 am to Pfft
Posted on 10/17/23 at 6:21 am to Pfft
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Go to Naples, they will frick up some Roman drivers there.
Out of Control!!!!
And it ain't close...Naples is the one area of Europe where if you get into a heated discussion with someone and use the loud voice and crazy eye technique that backs other Europeans into a groveling foregivance seeking shell of the man they were pretending to be you best be prepared to throw hands...they don't brook no such nonsense in Napoli....
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Posted on 10/17/23 at 6:28 am to Penrod
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I’ve spent quite a bit of time in Italy - big cities as well as bucolic country towns - and I’d say Louisiana food is better.
I have lived and worked all over Italy...it is great. Food is WAY over rated in every region. Its good, but generally speaking it is not better than Olive Garden which is GARBAGE compared to a decent mom and pop in most major US cities with an Italian population. My wife is a first generation Italian American. Her Mama and her Mama's parents were Italian to their core. Their cooking was off the charts, no one in Italy could hold a candle to it. My wife inherited that trait. When we lived in Italy many of them came to visit. Many of them were born and raised in Rome and Abruzzo...every one of them who had spent many years in Italy agreed that Chicago had better Italian food in strip centers than anything one could find in Italy. It is almost as over rated as french food in France....
Posted on 10/17/23 at 6:32 am to AwgustaDawg
quote:Stopped reading here.
My son and I spent a month in a tent on a beach in Pisa one summer…..
Posted on 10/17/23 at 6:32 am to Slippy
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The undisputed baseline for good Italian food
Olive Garden is probably the best restaurant in most American cities with a population of under 200k.
Olive Garden to Italian food is like IHOP to breakfast food. It's usually not bad, but it is never great. Any city between 100-200k has a better restaurant for Italian food than the OG.
Posted on 10/17/23 at 6:36 am to Slippy
Sounds like a typical American abroad.
Congratulations, you're the reason most people outside United States think Americans are arrogant shite for brains people. Way to live up to the stereotype.
Congratulations, you're the reason most people outside United States think Americans are arrogant shite for brains people. Way to live up to the stereotype.
Posted on 10/17/23 at 6:43 am to Slippy
Did you wear your mask and show them that you have been vaxed and 4x boosted?
Posted on 10/17/23 at 7:02 am to soccerfüt
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My son and I spent a month in a tent on a beach in Pisa one summer…..
Stopped reading here.
Why? Pretty typical summer vacation for Europeans. It wasn't like living in a tent under an over-pass...this was a camping resort, very nice, almost impossible to get into LOL. Very normal way for Europeans to spend the month of August. It is one of our favorite memories of our 7 years in Europe.
Posted on 10/17/23 at 7:13 am to AwgustaDawg
Eskimos share their wives with male visitors over the Winter.
Just because locals do something doesn’t make it what I want to do.
Just because locals do something doesn’t make it what I want to do.
Posted on 10/17/23 at 7:53 am to AwgustaDawg
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Italian food in Italy and French food in France is hot garbage
I know that this is the O-T but it may be time to take this to the food board. Where did you eat in Italy & France? The airports?
Posted on 10/17/23 at 7:56 am to AwgustaDawg
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Seriously...and this is going to be CONTROVERSIAL as hell...but Italian food in Italy and French food in France is hot garbage. It is lousy. Olive Garden would hold a footrace with the best restaurants in Italy. The atmosphere in Europe is generally better but the quality of food is not close. Admittedly I haven't eaten at a any Michelin 3 star restaurants but I have eaten at a bunch that were very popular with local middle class patrons and nary a one of them would best a waffle house.
And there's a new leader in the clubhouse for dumbest post of the year.
Posted on 10/17/23 at 8:40 am to Slippy
You shoulda gone to Branson
Posted on 10/17/23 at 8:43 am to Slippy
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motor scooters
Has been GAF since the 60's.
Posted on 10/17/23 at 8:45 am to N2cars
quote:in a few areas. Yes.
but Louisiana is really great in the food department ( and not much else).
But the differ t food cultures in North, Central and Southern Italy are all diverse and based in better ingredients than most La dishes.
Posted on 10/17/23 at 9:08 am to BRgetthenet
They got you on camera?
Yep
Yep
Posted on 10/17/23 at 10:51 am to soccerfüt
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Eskimos share their wives with male visitors over the Winter.
Just because locals do something doesn’t make it what I want to do.
I get it. Spending a month in Tuscany on the beach is not everyone's cup of tea....it sounds horrible to some LOL...
Posted on 10/17/23 at 10:56 am to Slippy
Hmmm, I’m intrigued. Looking for a spring break trip. Wife wants to go skiing, but skiing out west has gotten prohibitively expensive unless you live there.
Been to Venice, but not Rome.
Would appreciate a trip report, suggestions.
Been to Venice, but not Rome.
Would appreciate a trip report, suggestions.
Posted on 10/17/23 at 11:28 am to StringMusic
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I know that this is the O-T but it may be time to take this to the food board. Where did you eat in Italy & France? The airports?
Spent 7 years living and working in Europe. Worked with local nationals. Ate where they ate. As stated, not Michelin 3 star places but places middle class professionals would frequent. Food was nothing to brag about and was often horrendous.
The French in particular are known to be highly critical of food..it is a common refrain in most of France that the cuisine is only enjoyed by Americans and Brits LOL. The same is true to a lesser extent in Italy and among Italians. My wife's still has a lot of family members in Roma and Abruzzo...we have stayed with them many times and they have spent time with us in the states. They would not argue the point that Italian food in an average Italian restaurant in Chicago, New York and even Miami and Atlanta, neither of which is known as great Italian food, would rival anything in Italy. Obviously there would be exceptions to this but it is based on a pretty good bit of experience and on the opinions of actual Italians.
Posted on 10/17/23 at 11:39 am to Slippy
Posted on 10/17/23 at 11:48 am to redstick13
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I’ve driven a scooter in Rome. You start driving like them in no time. I did something I wasn’t allowed one day and had an angry Polizia take up pursuit in his car. I cut across a footpath and evaded him.
For almost 6 months I drove a massive Mercedes Station wagon all over Rome. This was the first time I had been to Rome except for one time prior when I did not drive at all. I thought the Romans the rudest people alive...constantly screaming and hollering and shaking fists and even occasionally trying to chase me down in the big assed Benz....it was a hot rod, they couldn't have caught it on a bet. About 3 months later a co-worker and I returned to Rome (he was German but was fluent in Italian). When we left the airport in our rental car I started giving him directions and he kept getting confused, finally pointing out that about 2/3s of the directions I was giving him required accessing pedestrian only areas where the only vehicles allowed were those with permits to deliver shite and the other 1/3 was in a restricted zone where only local residents who had paid a pretty hefty fee could operate a vehicle LOL. Those people weren't being rude, they were trying to keep from getting mowed over by that massive Benz wagon LOL....
Posted on 10/17/23 at 11:49 am to BregmansWheelbarrow
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I’m down to wear some Suede jump suits with a wife beater on and gold chains while riding a vespa.
Lol those jersey/New York Italians are about as Italian as I am Irish.
They're actually closer to Italians than most Irish Americans are to Irishmen...lots of really tacky shite in Italy. Lots of it.
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