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

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thus the integrity of your food means nothing to you.

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there are only two possible notions, it means everything or nothing. No middle ground.

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Because you said it wasn't important

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Where did I say it wasn't important? I said it didn't offend me, and it doesn't. The magazine photo isn't about food, it's about the Baton Rouge dating scene

It's more about not getting offended at perceived injustices and understanding the intent of the photo for what it is. It's not advertising a restaurant.

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Its best to not engage him, just laugh. It makes them feel good when you laugh.

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Yeah, I think I'm done. Was bored with school today

I haven't seen a magazine photo label one of those, so I wouldn't know what that is.

Does Five Guys sell king cakes?

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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?

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Sorry, that's all I can do after reading this.

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Believe me.... Me too. My condolences.

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I just can't believe you gathered all of that just from looking at a magazine cover of two people sucking on a spaghetti noodle.

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I love noodles.

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You're not going to write another essay paper about how spaghetti isn't actually a noodle?

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You're not going to write another essay paper about how spaghetti isn't actually a noodle?

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Shooweee bang, heck no. Gimme a bowl a noodles and some red gravy and I'm good to go.