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Misused Italian food names/foods
Tuscani pastas? Five-cheese stuffed rigatoni topped with sausage?
Panini sandwiches? If you've ever winced at the oily, cheesy messes that pass for Italian food in much of America, you'll enjoy this article (see No. 6!) http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Top-10-Americanate |
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On May 8, 9:05*am, wrote:
> Tuscani pastas? Five-cheese stuffed rigatoni topped with sausage? > Panini sandwiches? If you've ever winced at the oily, cheesy messes > that pass for Italian food in much of America, you'll enjoy this > article (see No. 6!) > > http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Top-10-Americanate That "Tuscani" crap (and the off-beat pronunciation) really annoys the heck out of me. N. |
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Nancy2 wrote on Thu, 8 May 2008 08:04:46 -0700 (PDT):
> On May 8, 9:05 am, wrote: >> Tuscani pastas? Five-cheese stuffed rigatoni topped with >> sausage? Panini sandwiches? If you've ever winced at the >> oily, cheesy messes that pass for Italian food in much of >> America, you'll enjoy this article (see No. 6!) >> >> http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Top-10-Americanate > That "Tuscani" crap (and the off-beat pronunciation) really > annoys the heck out of me. I sympathize with your comments about oiliness but what are you referring to about pronunciation? Is it it attempts to give an Italian accent, which is pretentious and usually mistaken or bad grammar? Grammatical errors in naming a dish of foreign origin are just amusing to me but then, I don't know a lot of Italian. -- James Silverton Potomac, Maryland E-mail, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not |
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"Nancy2" > wrote in message ... On May 8, 9:05 am, wrote: > Tuscani pastas? Five-cheese stuffed rigatoni topped with sausage? > Panini sandwiches? If you've ever winced at the oily, cheesy messes > that pass for Italian food in much of America, you'll enjoy this > article (see No. 6!) > > http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Top-10-Americanate That "Tuscani" crap (and the off-beat pronunciation) really annoys the heck out of me. N. have to totally agree with the sentiments expressed in the article...it's happening in Oz as well, the multitude of pseudo-Italian heat and eat lasagna, cannelloni and whatever else the manufacturers can butcher |
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> wrote in message ... > Tuscani pastas? Five-cheese stuffed rigatoni topped with sausage? > Panini sandwiches? If you've ever winced at the oily, cheesy messes > that pass for Italian food in much of America, you'll enjoy this > article (see No. 6!) > > http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Top-10-Americanate What a great article! I laughed out loud at the "misused Italian food names" section. YEARS ago (I think I may have even been in my late teens!), I used to joke about opening my own restaurant, "Mama McNiff's Authentic Italian Cuisine". Oh hell, it was funny THEN! TammyM |
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>, Nancy2 > wrote: > On May 8, 9:05*am, wrote: > > Tuscani pastas? Five-cheese stuffed rigatoni topped with sausage? > > Panini sandwiches? If you've ever winced at the oily, cheesy messes > > that pass for Italian food in much of America, you'll enjoy this > > article (see No. 6!) > > > > http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Top-10-Americanate > > That "Tuscani" crap (and the off-beat pronunciation) really annoys the > heck out of me. Shrimp scampi, anyone? Miche -- Electricians do it in three phases |
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On May 8, 10:22*am, "James Silverton" >
wrote: > *Nancy2 *wrote *on Thu, 8 May 2008 08:04:46 -0700 (PDT): > > > On May 8, 9:05 am, wrote: > >> Tuscani pastas? Five-cheese stuffed rigatoni topped with > >> sausage? Panini sandwiches? If you've ever winced at the > >> oily, cheesy messes that pass for Italian food in much of > >> America, you'll enjoy this article (see No. 6!) > > >>http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Top-10-Americanate > > That "Tuscani" crap (and the off-beat pronunciation) really > > annoys the heck out of me. > > I sympathize with your comments about oiliness but what are you > referring to about pronunciation? Is it it attempts to give an > Italian accent, which is pretentious and usually mistaken or bad > grammar? Grammatical errors in naming a dish of foreign origin > are just amusing to me but then, I don't know a lot of Italian. > > -- > > James Silverton > Potomac, Maryland > > E-mail, with obvious alterations: > not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not I didn't say anything about "oiliness." I think saying "Tus-kahn'-ee" is a stupid take-off of "Tuscany." N. |
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Nancy2 wrote on Thu, 8 May 2008 14:29:02 -0700 (PDT):
> On May 8, 10:22 am, "James Silverton" > > > wrote: >> Nancy2 wrote on Thu, 8 May 2008 08:04:46 -0700 (PDT): >> > >> On May 8, 9:05 am, wrote: > >>> Tuscani pastas? Five-cheese stuffed rigatoni topped with > >>> sausage? Panini sandwiches? If you've ever winced at the > >>> oily, cheesy messes that pass for Italian food in much of > >>> America, you'll enjoy this article (see No. 6!) >> > >>> http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Top-10-Americanate > >> That "Tuscani" crap (and the off-beat pronunciation) really > >> annoys the heck out of me. >> >> I sympathize with your comments about oiliness but what are >> you referring to about pronunciation? Is it it attempts to >> give an Italian accent, which is pretentious and usually >> mistaken or bad grammar? Grammatical errors in naming a dish >> of foreign origin are just amusing to me but then, I don't >> know a lot of Italian. >> >> not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not > I didn't say anything about "oiliness." Sorry if it wasn't you but a lot of commercial Italian food is plain greasy. I am not annoyed by misuse of foreign languages; it's just plain funny. Others can do wonderful things to English, witness the Japanese, especially with their difficulty in distinguishing R an L. > I think saying "Tus-kahn'-ee" is a stupid take-off of > "Tuscany." -- James Silverton Potomac, Maryland E-mail, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not |
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Apparently, Pepperoni is from the south of Italy, but in the south of Italy
I have never heard any reference to Pepperoni. Anyone who has eaten true salami sausage from Reggio Calabria will not entertain Pepperoni in a million years. Pepperoni can also be easily mistaken verbally from Pepperoni, which of course is peppers. Or peperoncino, which is chili's. > wrote in message ... > Tuscani pastas? Five-cheese stuffed rigatoni topped with sausage? > Panini sandwiches? If you've ever winced at the oily, cheesy messes > that pass for Italian food in much of America, you'll enjoy this > article (see No. 6!) > > http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Top-10-Americanate |
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Miche > wrote: > In article > >, > Nancy2 > wrote: > > > On May 8, 9:05*am, wrote: > > > Tuscani pastas? Five-cheese stuffed rigatoni topped with sausage? > > > Panini sandwiches? If you've ever winced at the oily, cheesy messes > > > that pass for Italian food in much of America, you'll enjoy this > > > article (see No. 6!) > > > > > > http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Top-10-Americanate > > > > That "Tuscani" crap (and the off-beat pronunciation) really annoys the > > heck out of me. > > Shrimp scampi, anyone? I'd rather have the Chicken Scampi, thanks! You can get this at The Olive Garden, a large chain in the US, also featuring the above named five-cheese stuffed rigatoni topped with sausage: http://www.olivegarden.com/menus/ -- Dan Abel Petaluma, California USA |
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On May 8, 9:05 am, wrote:
> Tuscani pastas? Five-cheese stuffed rigatoni topped with sausage? > Panini sandwiches? If you've ever winced at the oily, cheesy messes > that pass for Italian food in much of America, you'll enjoy this > article (see No. 6!) > > http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Top-10-Americanate Guilty as charged. A little tedious, but oh so true. Fact is, our Number 1 ranking is slipping in just about everything. But we'll always be Number 1 in Americanate. |
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> > That "Tuscani" crap (and the off-beat pronunciation) really annoys the > > heck out of me. > > Shrimp scampi, anyone? > > Miche > > -- That's always been a killer - and now, even big-name "chefs" are using it to describe a dish. Sigh. N. |
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"Nancy2" > wrote in message ... > >> > That "Tuscani" crap (and the off-beat pronunciation) really annoys the >> > heck out of me. >> >> Shrimp scampi, anyone? > That's always been a killer - and now, even big-name "chefs" are using > it to describe a dish. Sigh. Looking it up I see than scampi is a type of lobster, and that Italian for shrimp is gamberetti. Still, scampi has come to mean a garlic/butter/lemon sauce and that's not going to change. nancy |
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In article >,
says... > In article > >, > Nancy2 > wrote: > > > On May 8, 9:05*am, wrote: > > > Tuscani pastas? Five-cheese stuffed rigatoni topped with sausage? > > > Panini sandwiches? If you've ever winced at the oily, cheesy messes > > > that pass for Italian food in much of America, you'll enjoy this > > > article (see No. 6!) > > > > > > http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Top-10-Americanate > > > > That "Tuscani" crap (and the off-beat pronunciation) really annoys the > > heck out of me. > > Shrimp scampi, anyone? > > Miche > > Chicken Picata. |
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