re: If a picture paints a thousand words, then....

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Most I would say however fail to get the irony in the picture even.

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Is this really intellectual?

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I would say more nonsensical, since you seem to be the only person in on the joke.

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Is this really intellectual?

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No, but you're clearly an intellectual. And your brand of humor is way too high-brow for my lowly tastes. WAY over my head

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He's obviously putting wayyyyyy more into the picture than what is there.

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Mike? No, f-in way!!

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Apparently I'm one of these people. I think it is a stupid, cheesy picture but that's about it. I'm missing the irony.

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OK,let's break it down.

If you were from say Parma, made your first trip to the states, and were greeted at the airport with billboard of the magazine cover, what would you think?

If you went to an "Italian" restaurant here and were greeted with a menu so unfamiliar to you yet called "Italian Food" would you be a bit confused?




Or how about you live here, travel to any region in Italy, stumble across a restaurant called the "American Restaurant" and the menu was really poorly executed Cajun food and our national dish sold as gumbo, but was more along the lines of jambalaya instead, and desert was a chocolate mole topped with cheese enchiladas, would that have you scratching your head? How about if you never visited Louisiana, and yet this is what Italians thought that American food was, Cajun and/or Mexican. Would you find that odd?



The point is that it is very shallow and so generalized yet also so wrong in authenticity that nothing fits. The point is that real Italian cuisine is so foreign to most Americans that it must be a running joke in all regions of Italy how very poorly we understand Italy, and their very diverse culture and regional foods, so that when most Americans say they like Italian food here, they are referring to a very cheesy version of Sicilian, that misses almost all of the boat when it comes to even that regional food, and doesn't even touch on the overwhelming vast majority of the other regions. You could open up a restaurant here, call it an Italian restaurant, serve everything BUT what we think Sicilian food is, and people would be irate because they thought they were being tricked. Heck, mention the word bolognese instead of red meat sauce, and many would think they were trying to be fancy smancy and because they couldn't pronounce it, would avoid it like the plague.

Think I'm wrong?

I'll never forget eating at a place in Nashville with some coworkers and one of the guys turns to me as were going over the menu and says " I've had that Cajun blackened chicken before and it's probably not as good as the ones in Cajun Land, but I think it's really good".

Nice guy, but seriously, I felt embarrassed for the guy and let him know real easy that this wasn't a Cajun dish. I have to imagine that this is what it feels like.

All this over a free magazine that no one reads?

Does anyone know that girl? Would logjam!