In article >,
(Victor Sack) wrote:

> <Koko> wrote:
>
> > We tried a new, to us, Italian restaurant on Mother's Day.
>
> Koko, the pictures are very nice and certainly tell a lot. Among other
> things, they tell me at once that the food, however tasty, is not
> remotely Italian (as in Italian-Italian, heh!). Italians do not serve
> pasta that obscenely overloaded way, making it almost a pasta
> soup/stew/main dish. And, yes, I do notice your mention that the owners
> are from Italy, yet it is clear they have adapted the food they serve to
> American tastes, to say the least. The food itself may well be very
> good - food does not have to be authentically Italian to be good, after
> all - but if it is explicitly (or even implicitly) advertised or
> labelled as Italian, it is truly a travesty.
>
> Victor

How should it be advertised or labelled, Bubba? Italian dishes prepared
for American palates and appetites? I'm not looking for an argument,
just your opinion.

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