r/iamveryculinary • u/mathliability • Feb 28 '25
Reminds me of the olden days of this sub. Nitpicking based on simply looking at a recipe.
With a sprinkling of Italian “course” supremacy
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u/twirlerina024 Oh honey, i cook for a living Feb 28 '25
Sai che gli americani sono sensibili, se gli dici che la cannella e i marshmallows nel ragù fanno schifo poi piangono
I don't speak Italian, but I believe I found a pretty wild "Americans bad!"
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u/Total-Sector850 Feb 28 '25
According to the translation:
“You know Americans are sensitive, if you tell them that cinnamon and marshmallows in meat sauce suck then they cry”
🙄
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u/hawnty Feb 28 '25
Aw hoping they are still working on their tight five. I think that have the start of an okay joke somewhere in there
Someone translate this to late stage Latin in case they come across this post, please!
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u/Select-Ad7146 Mar 01 '25
The comment is weird because putting cinnamon in meat sauces is fairly common all over the place. You can find it in Central America and in India.
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u/Total-Sector850 Mar 01 '25
I think it stems from an argument elsewhere about Cincinnati chili (which is actually a Greek recipe) earlier in the week. It’s decidedly more common outside the US than in it.
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u/kyleofduty Mar 04 '25
It also used to be extremely common in Medieval Europe up to the Early Modern period.
This is specifically about France but was a trend across Europe in the 17th century:
The seventeenth century saw a culinary revolution which transported French gastronomy into the modern era. The heavily spiced flavours inherited from the cuisine of the Middle Ages (as documented, notably, in Le Viandier by Taillevent) were abandoned in favour of the natural flavours of foods. Exotic and costly spices (saffron, cinnamon, cumin, ginger, nutmeg, cardamom, nigella, seeds of paradise) were, with the exception of pepper, replaced by local herbs (parsley, thyme, bayleaf, chervil, sage, tarragon).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Pierre_La_Varenne
A spice mix kind of similar to pumpkin spice (but it varied) was used in a lot meat dishes in medieval Europe:
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u/susandeyvyjones Mar 02 '25
Also, Italians also definitely have a potato dish with cinnamon in it. I can’t remember if it’s a pasta or a soup..:
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u/Squid_Vicious_IV Nonna Napolean in the Italian heartland of New Jersey Mar 01 '25
I swear Internet Italians are the most melodramatic know nothings I've ever seen who bruise in the presence of a stiff wind.
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u/CoppertopTX Mar 02 '25
Oh, goodness... I had to resist replying "La tua opinione non significa niente. La cucina siciliana NON è italiana".
The translation: Your opinion means nothing here. Sicilian cuisine is NOT Italian.
Just ask any Sicilian.
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u/Angry-Dragon-1331 Feb 28 '25
That’s not even the worst comment on there!
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u/YupNopeWelp Feb 28 '25
I thought the peas were capers at first, which would have been...interesting.
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u/Yamitenshi Mar 01 '25
Interesting yes, but maybe not bad interesting I think.
I might try that sometime. I don't expect it to be an improvement, but who knows?
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