Does anyone else think Italian food is overrated?

[Anonymous No.13932867]

Eurofag here.

I swear the Italian cuisine is so simple and basic, I don't understand why it's so praised.
The majority of dishes consist of carbs and simple garlic/tomato based flavors.

If you go to Greece, Turkey, Spain you will find far more variable and developed cuisines that actually consist of more than just pizza and pasta.

Whats your opinion /ck/

[Anonymous No.13932922]

>>13932867
There's nothing overrated about a chicken parm on a late night.

[Anonymous No.13932929]

only pretentious cooking pricks praise italian food. i never go to an italian restaurant because its so easy to recreate.

[Anonymous No.13932938]

>>13932867
This is why you eurocunts are so pathetic, while you hate us Americans do realize that don't give a flying fuck about you.

[Anonymous No.13932940]

>>13932929
Right from a eurotrash chef boy ar dee can?

[Anonymous No.13932953]

>>13932940
what? pull that spaghetti out of your brain and talk english.

[Anonymous No.13932957]

>>13932922
Whatever the fuck you call chicken parm isn't even Italian cuisine you dingus

[Anonymous No.13932969]

>>13932957
to 2 seconds of googling shows that its an italian dish.

[Anonymous No.13932972]

true but who cares about how 'developed' a cuisine is other than to tell people shit like this and flex ur world food knowledge skills. italian food is good it's only overrated in the sense that people like it because people are familiar with it (or the idea of it anyway). its simplicity is a selling point for normal people

[Anonymous No.13932981]

>>13932972
i just hate the attitude about italian food.

[Anonymous No.13932996]

>>13932969
It's not an italian dish. It's an Americanised immigrant food. They don't have it in italy.
They have cotoletta, but thats just basically a schnitzel.

All of their food is carby as fuck. Greek and Spanish food in particular is fresh, simple, authentic yet way more varied.

[Anonymous No.13933000]

>>13932957
but it tastes good on a late night

[Anonymous No.13933005]

>>13932969
>The dish originated from 20th-century Italian diaspora.[1][4][6][7] It has been speculated that the dish is based on a combination of the Italian melanzane alla Parmigiana, a dish using breaded eggplant slices instead of chicken, with a cotoletta, a breaded veal cutlet generally served without sauce or cheese in Italy.[7]
It's an american dish

[Anonymous No.13933007]

>>13932867
I think there's a lot to be praised in the simplicity of cucina povera. The techniques and philosophy can also be extended to the relative abundance of goods we have today
There is also overlap between Italian food and Greek food and probably Spanish as well
It's like you came to this conclusion by looking at Italian restaurants in foreign countries or, at best, after a 3 day trip to Naples. Italian food just isn't that one dimensional
This is coming from someone from Greece so if someone knows better by all means tell us

[Anonymous No.13933014]

You people are whining like little girls, get the fuck out of Dodge.

[Anonymous No.13933029]

Take a loot at Turkish food, its so varied yet covers a wide variety of flavors and food types.
It's superior in every way.

[Anonymous No.13933050]

>>13932867
It is so much more than that. Hit up the tuscany, anon.

[Anonymous No.13933097]

>>13933007
>It's like you came to this conclusion by looking at Italian restaurants in foreign countries or, at best, after a 3 day trip to Naples. Italian food just isn't that one dimensional.
This.

[Anonymous No.13933611]

>>13933050
Tuscany, Liguria, Lombardy, Sicily so many different regional cuisines you cant possibly be saying that Italian cuisine is simple

[Anonymous No.13933621]

>>13932867
You've never had really good Italian food, but yeah I generally agree. I'm never gonna pay money for pasta that I can make at home, especially from an average Tommy Guido's, because it often literally is just Barilla with canned sauce.

[Anonymous No.13933751]

>>13932867
Honestly, I'd say the vast majority of French food is overrated, plus they're dicks on top of it.

[Anonymous No.13933826]

*AHEM*

[Anonymous No.13933873]

>>13933826
the fuck even is Peruvian cuisine? Some kind of nutria lol?

[Anonymous No.13933939]

>>13933826
aren't Italian and Chinese resteraunts also just the most common and spread around
of course they get the most customers

[Anonymous No.13933976]

>>13933873
raw fish burned with lime juice and crunchy rice

[Anonymous No.13933996]

>>13933976
Ceviche's and rice crispy treats are Peruvian? Well shit I just learned something.

[Anonymous No.13934009]

>>13933873
Kinda like a cross of Brazilian or Argentinian with Japanese.

[Anonymous No.13934020]

>>13932867
>I swear the Italian cuisine is so simple and basic, I don't understand why it's so praised.
>The majority of dishes consist of carbs and simple garlic/tomato based flavors.
Maybe at a pizzeria in Detroit. This is a tourist's understanding.
There is a pasta course, and it's less expensive than the meat course. Italians have a lot of fresh and varied vegetables and food of all types, and it's very regionally different, where whole regions use dairy vs olive oil based recipes, and fresh or preserved seafood, homey comfy food versus light food. It's seasonally based and very farm to table and has a good balance of quick prep and very labor intensive traditions at the same time.
You just are ignorant or of lower income/class to have dined or traveled well.

[Anonymous No.13934030]

>>13933873
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>>13933873
Nut-Fil-A coming soon.

[Anonymous No.13935661]

i think it's pretty good

[Anonymous No.13935684]

>>13933873
Peruvian cuisine is pretty fucking bomb, easily best in SA. Wouldn't surprise me in the least to see /cuck/ unaware of it.

[Anonymous No.13936611]

>>13932867
I live in Japan and people here genuinely think that corn on pizza is delicious and some sort of hidden italian delicacy. People here are really fucking nuts about italian food but can never remotely cook anything like it. There are loads upon loads of "italian" restaurants here but when you go in it's always some weird fucking japanese ripoff where they fuck up all of the dishes by adding jap shit like raw squid and eel and shit to it and then they try to fucking play it off as "real italian food". It doesn't help that people here don't know what normal bread or cheese is. It's all fucking gross. I have not had any normal-tasting cheese in all the time I've lived here, and good bread is about as rare as a properly paid salaryman. These people are born on this island, they will live their whole lives on this island, and they will die on this island without ever tasting real bread or cheese in their life and that's just sort of sad. The worst part is that because no japanese person actually knows what real italian food is like, nobody can call restaurants out on this bullshit, everyone eats it all up and calls it "honto ni umai uwuwuwu" and everyone thinks this is what real italian food is like. It's just sad. "Oh rettsu addu fishu eggu andu seaweedu to pasta carbonara don't u kno this is how rearu itarian peeporu eat!!!". The worst part for me is that japan doesn't just massacre classic italian food like this, but they also do it with every other country's cuisine imaginable. French, spanish, mexican, turkish, you name it. They botch everything they come across as "wow foreign so cool" but it's never apparently fucking good enough unless they douse it in soy sauce and raw octopus to make it "authentic european" food. Don't get me wrong I love me some japanese food but fuck this country for ruining foreign food culture and fuck the people for being too retarded to not know what real food is like, even though they kind of can't help it, fuck em it's gross

[Anonymous No.13936642]

>>13936611
piss off with the copy pasta

[Anonymous No.13936644]

>>13934030
I nut fil a u r mum last nite

[Anonymous No.13936731]

>>13932969
Yes it's Italian, like pizza hut and dominos.

[Anonymous No.13936825]

>>13933939
Check your reading comprehension