I knew an Italian exchange student that kept whining that nothing tasted good and nothing tasted as it should up here in Scandinavia. Then another exchange student (from Thailand I think) got tired of him and told him ~"the rest of the world isn't your mother" and it was a literal moment of realisation for this dude.

I wholeheartedly support culinarily disrespecting Italians, honestly.

Dudes trying to convince us that they are presenting ancient traditions when their precious dishes are invented in like the 60s

I'm Dutch and I think this map is completely unfair. It overrates our food significantly

Spain and Portugal should be tier 1 or 2

Spanish and Greek food beats Italian. Heck Polish food is way underrated. Also American pizza is better.

As an American who just had some glorious fake pizza last night, I thought I hated pasta until I had good Italian, and then I realized I just hate Americanized Italian food. Except pizza, we do it better.

Pasta still isn't my favorite, but I'll take it if it's authentic. My SO makes some great aglio e olio and carbonara, often with shrimp.

Funny seeing this, especially from an iberian perpective, because local culinary is mostly the same as theirs. With the slight difference we actually have the balls to spice our food.

I feel like France, Greece, and Spain are gonna have some pretty strong objections.

RIP Portugal

Food in Portugal is delicious

Well most of 'traditional' Italien food is actually from the US and had been invented by Italien immigrants.

https://www.harpercollins.de/products/mythos-nationalgericht-die-erfundenen-traditionen-der-italienischen-kuche-9783365006252

How can you put Spain on the same level as Great Britain? Damn Italians don't know how to make anything other than sauce with tomatoes and they think they know how to cook.

This is Funny if you think about it because Modern Pizza originates from the USA and Pasta from China

Tbh I find Italian culinary traditions underwhelming. Like they just gave up 10 minutes in, no work at all because it's too hot.

To be fair, the further from coastline, the better the Italian cuisine - more herbs, more variety, more complex recipes (e.g Ligurian braised rabbit)

u wot m8?

We've got Greggs Sausage Rolls.

All you've got is pasta and tomato sauce for every meal, and think different shaped pasta makes it a different dish!

That's like thinking beans on toast is different if you put it on different shaped bread.

Fake pizza, sure, but doesn't imply it's bad. Plus ironically, you can find Italian style pizza in the US if you look for it.

That said, I'll still apologize for Dominos, Pizza Hut, et. al. for fast-foodizing the concept of pizza.

The Netherlands is probably an "overcooked pasta" enclave than. When I was a kid, I was sure Al Dente was Italian for Deathly Toxin.

Pre 1600s: Y'all a wanta some Rotting fish juice?

As someone who's lived Italy, this does sound like something an Italian would say lmao

I'm a little disappointed that the center is a knife and fork instead of a hand pinching fingers together to make a point

I grew up north of the toxic belt, and it's my firm opinion that Italian food is overrated. Well, except Parmesan, I'll give them that.

Lasagna is like a moussaka with too much tomato sauce and layers of pasta that should've been skipped.

Anyone who downvotes this is either Italian, or has a fetish for mashed tomatoes.

poland in the fattening/caution zone is kind of on point actually

i fucking love polish food and feel that describes it pretty well X3

Agreed, Bosnian and Croatian food are the only proper food :3

I mean, Italian food really is brilliant, they really just over time took all the best things they found and just made great food with it and left out everything else.

It's sort of crazy to think about how delicious a recipe with four ingredients can be until you realize they're four of the most delicious things on the planet.

I confirm. Source: I'm Italian:):):)

I mean, it may not be the best, but this puts portugal in a very bad position when we are all mediterranean with mostly the same ingredients.