why is italian supermarket wine in the 5 to 20 euro range so crappy? big mystery. by now i just won't buy it anymore. french, spanish, argentinian, south african, australian, ... but f italian wine.
also as a german i disregard italian coffee culture as a sharade. i want a proper cup of coffee to drink. not this tiny cup or variations on it. german style filter coffee, heck, even drip coffee, with a sip of milk and some sugar beats all that crafty nonsense any time of the day.
italian restaurants are usually always providing a bad experience. the waiters are stuck up or even down right arrogant pricks. any alternative is preferential.
italian olive oil. well-documented [1] trash. go for greek.
i give them pasta science, tomato sauce and i love making pizza socially.
italian olive oil. well-documented [1] trash. go for greek
lol. If you consider greek oil a valid substitute then you've never tasted actual italian oil. Some exported italian oil was altered by mafia, so you stop using it altogether? What should we do with your cars after the diesel scandal then?
italian restaurants are usually always providing a bad experience. the waiters are stuck up or even down right arrogant pricks. any alternative is preferential.
Tourist traps generally are. You have to be a pretty naive tourist to fall for it tho, there's plenty of great restaurants with great service.
German waiters on the other hand are almost always unfriendly and restaurants close way too early in the evening.
We do, I learned to enjoy the long, watery filter coffee Germans/Austrians like and I think italian espresso is overrated. Still espresso is my favorite after lunch, it works well as a digestive.
Try Ligurian or Tuscanian fresh olive oil if you can, you'll be surprised how different it is from the classic mediterranean oil and even from the mixed italian oil you find usually abroad.
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why is italian supermarket wine in the 5 to 20 euro range so crappy? big mystery. by now i just won't buy it anymore. french, spanish, argentinian, south african, australian, ... but f italian wine.
also as a german i disregard italian coffee culture as a sharade. i want a proper cup of coffee to drink. not this tiny cup or variations on it. german style filter coffee, heck, even drip coffee, with a sip of milk and some sugar beats all that crafty nonsense any time of the day.
italian restaurants are usually always providing a bad experience. the waiters are stuck up or even down right arrogant pricks. any alternative is preferential.
italian olive oil. well-documented [1] trash. go for greek.
i give them pasta science, tomato sauce and i love making pizza socially.
1: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/lebensmittelskanda...
lol. If you consider greek oil a valid substitute then you've never tasted actual italian oil. Some exported italian oil was altered by mafia, so you stop using it altogether? What should we do with your cars after the diesel scandal then?
Tourist traps generally are. You have to be a pretty naive tourist to fall for it tho, there's plenty of great restaurants with great service. German waiters on the other hand are almost always unfriendly and restaurants close way too early in the evening.
well, i'm glad we at least agree about the coffee
We do, I learned to enjoy the long, watery filter coffee Germans/Austrians like and I think italian espresso is overrated. Still espresso is my favorite after lunch, it works well as a digestive.
Try Ligurian or Tuscanian fresh olive oil if you can, you'll be surprised how different it is from the classic mediterranean oil and even from the mixed italian oil you find usually abroad.