• fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
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    27 days ago

    And every time you add cream to a carbonara, you can count on people from the country that invented fascism to complain about cultural purity.

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        26 days ago

        That’s the hilarious part. Italy is not freaking singular place. It’s like saying you’re doing some regional dish wrong from the US when you live 3 states away from where that regional dish was created.

        I’ve seen one Italian person correct another Italian person on how they weren’t making the sauce “traditionally”. Turns out both of them were making it it the traditional way to where they live.

        Then the original person that was whining claimed that there’s was the right way because the original bolognese sauce was invented in Bologna.

        They can’t even agree that there’s going to be internal variations on a regional dish.

  • Opisek@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Thank you for this community. Back when I first joined Lemmy I missed niche communities. Today I found CunkPosting and I feel complete.

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    27 days ago

    Pasta is just messing up Asian noodles and making it their national identity.

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      27 days ago

      Italians taking noodles from Asia and tomatoes from South America to make their new national identity

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      27 days ago

      That’s a myth. There have been proto-pasta back in Etruscan days.

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        Sort of. The proto-pasta was either a sort of flatbread ravioli, or there was a dish that was kind of similar to lasagna.

        There was nothing like noodles until they came along the silk road from China. Which took something like 2000 years.

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        27 days ago

        Oh god, the flashbacks. that motherfucker would set up camp in the goddamn kitchen all fucking night, and talk to his mother for multiple hours.

        “let me get some healthy eating done, oh no wait, the italian shithead I live with has occupied the kitchen territories and won’t fucking stop until 1am when he and his shitty gf are going to get into yet anotehr fucking argument”

        I should have called the fucking cops on his fucking ass.

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      27 days ago

      Well…

      Fasces (/ˈfæsiːz/ FASS-eez, Latin: [ˈfaskeːs]; a plurale tantum, from the Latin word fascis, meaning ‘bundle’; Italian: fascio littorio) is a bound bundle of wooden rods, often but not always including an axe

      Sounds like a bound bundle of spaghetti with an axe in the middle would be awfully close to a fasces

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    27 days ago

    technically the origins of fascism trace back to the us jim crow laws wasnt it?

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      27 days ago

      Some inspiration, but only incidentally. Fascism was really Italians wanting to be Romans again. This is why most of the key ideas of Fascism were written out in Latin, or used Latin terms.

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        27 days ago

        i don’t think its that incidental when goebbels himself said nazism was modeled after it.

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          27 days ago

          Nazism is a form of Fascism, but Fascism is not Nazism.

          Italy fell to Fascism a full decade before Germany did.

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              Yes, but the Italians didn’t care about that, because they based Fascism (which they invented) on Roman laws, particularly the Empire period.

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                  Again, the Italians invented Fascism and it had nothing to do with America.

                  Italian Fascism was rooted in Italian Nationalism, which borrowed heavily from their ideas about the Roman Empire.

                  The Nazis didn’t even exist when Italian Fascism was developing, because it was happening during WW1.

                  After WW1, some Germans were reeling from the loss of the war and latched onto this new hyper nationalist idea that the Italians had invented.

                  Only after Mussolini seized power in 1922, did Hitler come into the picture. He tried his Beer Hall Putsch in 1923.

                  It’s important to note that in 1923, the Nazis still didn’t have a coherent platform beyond hyper nationalism, and even that was shaky because Germany hadn’t actually existed for all that long.

                  After the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler went on trial and became a national figure in Germany. The face of the Nazi movement. And as such, he needed a coherent set of ideals and shit. Which he came up with in prison. Well, a swanky castle prison with all his friends and comfortable rooms and shit.

                  Anyway, it was during the 5-year prison sentence where Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, and finally had a coherent sounding ideology for the Nazi movement.

                  A full decade after the Italians had theirs.

                  Now, Hitler was also obsessed with the books of Karl May, who was a young adult fiction writer in Germany. May wrote books centered on the American West, even though he had never actually been to America, and didn’t speak English.

                  That’s where America finally comes in to things.

                  So when Hitler finally rose to power in 1933, he could then look at what America was doing to crib some laws. But even then, the Nuremberg laws were more inspired from Russian laws around Jews than what was going on in America.

                  Oh yeah, the Russians really hated Jews. You couldn’t be a 1900s antisemite without bowing to the superior hatred shown by the Russians, particularly under the Tsars. But that’s an entirely different history lesson.