Why is pasta antifascist? Why did Mussolini hate pasta and what did he do to get Italians to eat less of it? In this video I explore the the reasons behind this hatred and how he tried to tempt the nation away from spaghetti.
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Had no idea of this chapter in the history of pasta! Fascinating. Keep up the good work 💪
I do not agree with: "receive good news, eat some pasta". I'claim instead "eating some pasta is good news per se" !
Interesting, didn't know about this before. This does make me interested in the nutritional value of pasta compared to bread and rice. Anyway, you earned yourself a new subscriber, shame you don't have more of them!
Really great video!
He thought it would make them soyboys 😂
You are too softly spoken! Speak up! This is history! Its cool and manly! You must speak up!
Very interesting video, keep at it
They are eating communist food stolen idea.
I'm still going with, he wasn't loved as a child.
He was right though, Pasta is no good for your health. It's the original processed food.
telling them to only eat domestically. a dictator enforcing tariffs on products. seems relevant today.
insanely good video from such a small channel! keep it up!
the real reason he wound up upside-down in milan was because he broke his spaghetti to fit it into the pot
I had to double check the subscriber count! Deserves more than 54 subs!
Ever since I was a little kid, spaghetti has been my favourite food. Now I know why. It's cuz I hate fascists! 🙌
Pasta is unhealthy though. And it does make you heavy, slow and bloated.
He used to come on very bald.
want to be overthrown? forbid italians to eat pasta.
1. pasta was not a novelty of the XIX century, the stereotype of Italians eating maccheroni is present in European literature since the XVII century. The first industrial production of pasta is from the 1740s.
2. Fascism did not banished pasta, tried to promote more consumption of rice to reduce grain imports during the war.
3. Cervi's gesture was not antifascist because pasta was per se antifascist, but because it was the symbol of a proletarian simple meal.
A bravo to the Cervi family!
This video is so good!! Instant subscribe, super interested in your other content 🙂
She said it. Mussolini was a Northern Italian. ‘Nuff said. 🙄
Same with "Germany," unified 10 years later. I lived and worked in Baden-Württemberg 40 years ago, and the cultural divide between North and South was still very, very real.
there are recipes for pasta from Italy going back to the middle ages
That was news to me, I know what I am going to eat on July 25th.
4:40 I loved your video, and I would die before giving up on pasta. However calling Marinetti a loser is simply a lack of class by your side. I studied him, and I can say I don't agree with his movement, but he was a rather interesting person, and his ideas, especially the ones before he got close to Mussolini, are worth reading.
Non furono certo gli immigrati di ritorno dagli Stati Uniti a propagare il consumo di pastasciutta in Italia, ma la invenzione di macchinari in grado di produrre la pasta in quantita' industriale abbassando il prezzo del prodotto e rendendolo accessibile a tutti gli Italiani in particolare dopo il 1861 anno dell'unificazione, fatto che non fu solo politico , ma anche economico visto che per la prima volta in secoli i prodotti potevano circolare liberamente sena dazi in tutta la penisola.
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