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The Twitter Account that Documents Italians Getting Mad About Food:
Hell hath no fury like an Italian who sees you disrespecting mozzarella
Let’s face it: food is a contentious topic. Growing up in South Carolina, I witnessed more than a few verbal battles over the merits of North Carolina’s vinegar-based barbecue versus the classic SC mustard-based sauce. Still, while these debates might grow a little more heated than you might expect—especially given that mustard-based sauce is objectively the correct answer— they never erupted into violence, either. I should be thankful, then, because if Zach Champion’s Twitter account @ItalianComments is anything to go by, putting pineapple on a pizza in Italy might constitute a capital offense.
The shtick is pretty simple: As an avid fan of recipe sites like Tasty and Tastemade, Champion noticed that whenever an American would try to prepare an Italian dish in a creative (i.e., not particularly authentic) way, Italians would fling colorful insults at them in the comments section.
“All their crappy pasta recipes get these horrified replies,” he says. “People on the site were noticing, so you’d see replies mentioning all the ‘angry Italians.’ There was such a solid wall of great content that I thought it merited its own novelty account.”...
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