Hi everyone, welcome to miLAno! Hey everyone! So today I'm
gonna be telling you about some foods
that Americans think are Italian but
actually aren't Italian, but first let me
give you a brief explanation of how they
became a thing. There are a lot of
Italian Americans in America right now
because during World War II, as you may
or may not know, Italy went into a
fascist state, so a lot of people fled
Italy and went to America, and they
usually settled in cities like New York
or Philadelphia or San Diego and they
had their own little parts of the city
and made them "Little Italy." Of course
they spread all over the country, not
just the cities, but they started to make
their own culture: not just Italian
culture, but Italian American culture,
also because there are so many different
regions of Italy, and each one has its
own culture. So, with all of these
different cultures combined, it kind of
created this "Italian" culture, but
it's actually not Italian. It's more
Italian-American. Hence, with this Italian
assimilation into American society, the
result has been a lot of crazy foods
that actually don't exist Italy or even
resemble anything that exists in Italy.
So here we go, let's get started!
Just a disclaimer: I'm American, I'm
living in Italy right now, and when I
came to Italy and found out these foods
didn't exist, I was so upset,
but I've overcome my sadness, so I hope
that you don't become too upset, either.
STROMBOLI! No, it doesn't exist. I'm sorry.
The are calzones (calzoni), except there are not actually Stromboli.
So for the Italians out there, a
"stromboli" in America is kind of like a
calzone, but it's also like a burrito, so
they take the dough and they
wrap the meat and the cheese inside of
it, kind of like a wrap like a piadina in
a way, but it's not quite the same. It's
much fatter and much longer, so like
every other American food: very large in
portion. So yeah, they don't exist...sorry
to burst your bubble. Food number two: the
ITALIAN HOAGIE! Alright, so Americans
slash people all over the world who eat
Italian hoagies: yeah, we don't have them.
In Italy, there are paninis, or, as they call them, "panini."
Actually yeah, "panino" is singular and "panini" is plural, so when you say
"a panini" it just doesn't sound right. It's
like saying "a pizzas": you just don't say it.
So yeah sorry to, once again, change everything you've
ever known in your life. What Italy
does have is panini (or "are" panini),
so it only has panini, and they include
salami, prosciutto, and cheese; you
can pretty much choose what you
want on the panino. But in America,
we have like a defined "Italian hoagie" and a hoagie is like a baguette, but a little
bit bigger and much thicker, and we like
to put a whole bunch of stuff on it!
First of all, we have mayonnaise, then we
have salami, prosciutto crudo, which is
like uncooked meat, or you could put like
ham on it, which is prosciutto cotto.
Usually provolone cheese or American
cheese goes on top, and usually some
toppings, including onions, tomato, lettuce,
sometimes pickles, and usually oregano.
and usually like a secret "hoagie sauce." I don't know what this is,
but I heard it exists, so I'm not sure.
But yeah we don't have them at all in
Italy. In fact, we don't have hoagies. We
have thin French-styled baguettes, but we
don't have the thick American hoagie. So
sad. But Italian panini are
still pretty good, so I can't complain
too much. Next on the list: MOZZARELLA STICKS!
Okay, Italians: brace yourselves. Please do not
kill me for being an American from the
country who produced these! Mozzarella
sticks are kind of like fake mozzarella,
but warm, and then breaded and probably
fried. Okay. First of all, I think they're really good,
but that they don't actually taste like
mozzarella, so I don't think we should
call them "mozzarella" sticks, and I also
know that it's pronounced "mozzarella"
not "mozzarella," so I'm sorry for
that too. But just please accept us
anyway! And Americans, the mozzarella in the
mozzarella stick actually is not
mozzarella. It's like a synthetic cheese
probably, or like some kind of material.
Mozzarella from Italy is
so much more authentic, and it's like
always cold, and usually they store it in
water, and like it just tastes so much
better because, when you keep the
mozzarella cheese in the water, it preserves the flavor, so when
you eat fresh mozzarella, it's so good! I
usually have it on a salad or
sometimes it's a meal. It''s just so
delicious! Yeah, we do have mozzarella but
not the mozzarella inside the mozzarella
sticks, and they also never fry it. So yeah,
don't expect an Italian to know what that is. Next up: MEATBALLS! And this
is soooo depressing because I absolutely
love meatballs and I always used to eat
them with every bit of pasta!
Italians, you probably know what
meatballs are from the movies because
like probably in every American movie
there's at least one plate of
spaghetti and meatballs with the red sauce, the pasta sauce with tomatoes in it,
but no, it's not the case. So yeah,
Italians, basically we just take the
meat -- they take beef and bunch it up into a big ball and they slap it on top of the
spaghetti with the red tomato sauce and
Americans that halon's don't eat
meatballs actually meatballs are thought
to be Swedish or Spanish but definitely
not Italian under any circumstances
in fact Italians never eat them if you
go to an Italian restaurant you will not
find meatballs on the menu you'll find
spaghetti you will find usually into a
pasta sauce you would find like chopped
up tomatoes that's probably more common
or like tomatoes chopped up so much
they're like a pasta sauce but you
wouldn't actually get a pasta sauce and
actually they usually eat bigger
portions of meat as a second plate so
usually when you go to a restaurant in
Italy or you have a big meal with your
family who's Italian you start out with
the appetizer or antipasto and then you
go over the first plate which is pasta
and then you go for the second plate
which is some kind of meat or entree and
then you go for the dessert so you don't
eat the pasta and the meat together
there are actually two separate plates
because there are two different layers
of the meal so yeah pretty much putting
meatballs and pasta is like a crime in
Italy so don't even attempt it no some
Italians claim that they do actually put
a little tiny tiny tiny bits of meat in
the pasta sometimes for example pasta
carbonara it's like mmm it's like tiny
specks of meat with a sauce with like
eggs and cheese and like a whole bunch
of other ingredients that I'm not gonna
know how cooking to know about but you
can look it up and you can see what it
looks like goodness definitely not
meatballs but it's like tiny mini
meatballs like what the meatballs had
babies and those babies have babies
that's what you would get in the pasta
carbonara next up telling salad dressing
okay I love salad don't get me wrong but
I only liked it in America when I could
use Caesar dressing
or Italian dressing so when I came to
Italy
surprised they don't have salad dressing
anywhere when you go to the store
Americans in Italy and you look for
salad dressing it doesn't exist because
all Italians use like either oil and
vinegar or oil or vinegar or some salt
or something like that they don't
actually rely on the store to provide
the dressing they usually make their own
if anything if they even use dressing
but they just prefer simple kinds of
salads and it's hylians what is salad
dressing well pretty much they take oil
or vinegar or both and they mix it
together with some other spices to make
it taste a lot better and then they put
it on the salad in America because
Americans don't like vegetables okay by
that I mean I don't like vegetables but
regardless Sotomayor I can I take a
bunch of vegetables and they sprinkle a
whole lot of salad dressing on top just
to make the salad tastes so much better
and it works so coming here is a big
adjustment now I just eat oil on my
salads it's so sad but spy I'm getting
used to it I guess but I think I might
just go back to America and stock up on
Italian dressing and Caesar dressing and
then I'll like bring it back to Italy so
I can like stock up for the year you
know
yeah I've actually do next up to Cheney
Alfredo Americans it doesn't exist
fettuccine is a type of food and alfredo
is a name so when you say I'm fettuccine
alfredo to an Italian the person will
ask wait Alfredo who is he
I thought so Gina wait are you making a
human pasta that's cannibalism so yeah
please don't say that don't get really
confused and Italians what is this but
alfredo sauce is supposedly like a
cheesy sauce kind of that Americans put
on the fettuccine and also we caught
footage genie even those with the chena
just remember that Americans put a
Cheney also with most pasta like for
example lasagna is actually lasagna
because is when you make lasagna the
singular word plural - Azon yay it's
like you're talking about multiple
layers of the pasta petition alfredo in
America is like a cheesy alfredo sauce
with fettuccine pasta and also some
chicken it's delicious it's like the
best pasta ever and last but not least
pizza okay let me explain here's one yes
of course both countries have pizza but
the type of pizza is so drastically
different
I cannot even call them the same exact
food because I think that Italians would
be offended
okay so Americans yes usually invented
the pizza in Naples long long time ago
actually at first it was a common
person's food because it was for the
impoverished people who couldn't afford
good food so they have pizza but now
pizzas like the best food ever so it was
kind of ironic that it started out that
way but in Italy we don't really have
that many varieties of pizza so you can
either order the pizza margherita which
is like the regular pizza with cheese
and tomato sauce or you can get all
there are different types of pizza there
are sometimes gourmet pizzas with
different kinds of toppings but usually
there are not that many offered I think
the main ones are usually
pizza margherita pizza con Tondo Chipola
which is pizza with tuna and onion which
is a weird mixture that we don't usually
have in America and also
we never have pepperoni pizza if you ask
for pepperoni they will put peppers on
top because pip it on me means peppers
in Italian so it's kind of crazy
sometimes if you want to ask for like
the pepperoni kind of thing and Italy
you can ask for salami but they're not
always going to have it so good luck and
Italians in America you probably know
that we've ruined your pizza I'm very
sorry but there are also really great
kinds of American pizza just let me tell
you
so in Chicago there's a thing called the
deep-dish pizza which is really really
thick crust a lot of sauce a lot of
cheese and just a very thick pizza but
it's also usually smaller because you
can't eat a lot of it or else you get
really full really fast and also it's
not just in Chicago it's spread out all
across America there's also only thin
crust pizza and like even thinner than
the ones that you have in Italy but yeah
it's still delicious
and usually in America we had a whole
bunch of toppings anything you could
possibly think of
usually we add pepperoni which is like
like really really really cooked salami
but smaller and all over the pizza you
probably know about to be honest like
it's famous and I think it's even on the
emoji and we usually add sausage or
vegetables buffalo chicken pizza is very
famous in America we add chicken to the
top of the pizza and also a thing called
buffalo sauce which is like actually
very sketchy orange sauce I have no idea
how it's made or what it tastes like
because I never tried it but I just know
I don't want to try it because it just
look so unnatural and also it's from
Buffalo New York that's why it's called
that it's not actually made with buffalo
meat I'm so sorry Italians I know all of
you are gonna hate me for this but
pineapples do belong on pizza so in
America we have a thing called Hawaiian
pizza which is actually invented in
Canada by the way so you can't place all
the blame on my country but we add ham
and pineapples to the pizza and then we
eat it and it's delicious by the way but
usually we don't include tomato sauce
because that would just be crossing the
line anyways you should definitely try
it aliens you will love it and Americans
yeah never say that you like Hawaiian
pizza or else all Italians will hate you
forever
they might even revoke your B
anyways that's all I have for you today
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