Carbonara

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Minnesota had deep fried ranch at the state fair last year.

Logi

The people of Cremona are eying you suspiciously.

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She's into it.

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Italians demand our respect for their culinary traditions when Carbonara is literally a 19th century invention. Ridiculous! Next time I'm having pasta, I'm intentionally putting ketchup on it to dishonor them

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i first read this comic as saying “ice cream in carbonara” and thought the injuries were justified. but after rereading it i’m not so sure anymore

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“Ppff my pasta trick, walmart can section 346-aisle 96-shelf 215b between shampoo and dog food, is great! I love the taste of asbestos and lead with poorly mixed ingredients i found at the last moment in the garden.”

Gnam

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Ah yes. The Italians with their culinary repertoire, based on the same 7 ingredients.

🤌🤌

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That's fair. I'm not Italian but I find it highly annoying when restaurants offer carbonara but it turns out to be a cream based sauce - it just tastes different.
Unfortunately here (mere 3h by car to Italy) most restaurants serve cream-carbonara. So I never order it, it just make it at home. (And there's a trick to get a nice carbonara, I put the eggs and parmesan into a steel bowl and heat and whisk them "bain-maire" on top of the pot where the pasta is cooking (and add a bit of pasta water).

This makes a really creamy carbonara sauce.

Oh and let the pasta steam out and cool down a bit before adding the sauce or it will curdle.

I did cream-based "carbonara" in the past, but for my taste this is so much better.

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Give it some fancy name and call it a new dish.

Something like "Maccaronara al Heinzorino"

SpongeBorgCubePants

Original Alfredo also does not have cream. It's butter and parmeggiano

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Enjoy your Naporitan!

Fushuan [he/him]

That's the thing, of it's a new recipe with a new name it's not sacrilege. It's like those "Spanish omelette" or paellas I see on the net. If you want to fuck around with omelettes do it but don't put our name on it, if you want to play around with rice feel free but don't call it paella!

Next time I see an omelette with fish being called Spanish omelette imma throw hands. We do have a variation with fish but it's a different dish!

Fushuan [he/him]

You can enjoy what you want, just don't name it as something already stablished. Of ypu say you are doing a beef BBQ and suddenly you bring chicken saying "yeah we do beef with chicken in this house" is as stupid as someone adding extra ingredients into a dish and not changing the name.

Fushuan [he/him]

Important to point out that he isn't saying that she is wrong for doing that, it's just a different recipe, don't call it British Mac&cheese!

udon

At least he didn't suggest that health insurance should use a deny, delay, and defend strategy for insurance claim payments

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Nothing I hate more than food snobs, put whatever you want in your food

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Original Alfredo is pretty much an American invention. There is a restaurant in Rome that makes "pasta al burro e parmigiano" but that's pretty much it. Americans took the dish, put cream and shit in it and gave it that name. They can keep it imo.

In Italy pasta Alfredo is more of a meme than anything else, and "pasta al burro" is made pretty much only when you are sick.

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You mean American Italian. American Italian food is nothing but heavy creams, sauces, and pastas. It’s become a caricature. It’s all the comfort food but on steroids.

Having been to Italy multiple times I can assure you that pasta is a minority on the menu, and the restaurants that do have pasta-heavy menus cater to tourists or are specialty. The food has a wide variety and is regional, and most certainly isn’t just whatever it is you restrict it to in your stereotype.

TheRealKuni

Yeah honestly cream in the carbonara doesn’t sound terrible. I probably wouldn’t do it, but if someone did I’d try it. I’m up for almost anything food-wise.