• Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    I once posted a pic of some spaghetti meatballs to a dorm group chat. The Italian dude immediately jumps in and says "that's not real pasta". So I say to him "noodles are from China, so you guys are actually just fucking up 捞面 really bad."

    Dude got legitimately mad and didn't talk to me for a week. Worth it.

    • KimJongFun [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      I knew one of these guys in college, one time I ate his cooking and it was the worst fucking spaghetti I've ever had in my life lmao

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      A dude that gave me that attitude on pasta/noodles also tried to (erronously) correct me on spider taxonomy and the ranges of mosquitos. I sticks with me years later.

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      The Sards have their own version of hand pulled noodles, too. Called su filindeu. The mainland Italian mind could never