I get what you mean but… no. American Chinese isn’t Chinese. American Italian isn’t Italian. And I had a real Italian (my great gram) feeding me until she passed when I was 11. She’d be rolling in her grave if I said that.
I will say now there’s so many sauce options and if you pick one that says whole tomatoes and not paste or puree, it’ll probably be good. But that’s number 1 in it being American. I have a herniated disc (thanks to my Hungarian great grandpa) and can’t cook sauce for hours. My Grammy would have a heart attack if we brought home jarred. After that it’s less “we make this only in America” and more “we never make these 90% of dishes in America.”
And I never felt the difference until I went to Rome. My great gram was born in the US, but to two new immigrants from Sicily who didn’t speak English. She grew up in little Italies all over NY. She was essentially raised in Italy until her 20s when she met the other half of our town at her factory job and they made an Italian-Hungarian American mutt. 😂 but yeah I didn’t think there was a difference until I went to Rome, picked a random restaurant with all of four tables, and was surprised by the 85 year old owner. He didn’t speak any English, but was so excited to tell us all about his mother, the original restaurant, everything. And of course the food? Ten times better just because of the fresh ingredients.
I don’t know. I just really don’t agree. Italian American food is about 50% Italian, and very few Italians will consider it Italian food unless you show you can literally cook it like in Italy.
People don’t realize that half the foods in the world were invented in America. The video of tom holland talking about there’s no such thing as American food and that hamburgers were invented in Hamburg Germany really pisses me off
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I get what you mean but… no. American Chinese isn’t Chinese. American Italian isn’t Italian. And I had a real Italian (my great gram) feeding me until she passed when I was 11. She’d be rolling in her grave if I said that.
I will say now there’s so many sauce options and if you pick one that says whole tomatoes and not paste or puree, it’ll probably be good. But that’s number 1 in it being American. I have a herniated disc (thanks to my Hungarian great grandpa) and can’t cook sauce for hours. My Grammy would have a heart attack if we brought home jarred. After that it’s less “we make this only in America” and more “we never make these 90% of dishes in America.”
And I never felt the difference until I went to Rome. My great gram was born in the US, but to two new immigrants from Sicily who didn’t speak English. She grew up in little Italies all over NY. She was essentially raised in Italy until her 20s when she met the other half of our town at her factory job and they made an Italian-Hungarian American mutt. 😂 but yeah I didn’t think there was a difference until I went to Rome, picked a random restaurant with all of four tables, and was surprised by the 85 year old owner. He didn’t speak any English, but was so excited to tell us all about his mother, the original restaurant, everything. And of course the food? Ten times better just because of the fresh ingredients.
I don’t know. I just really don’t agree. Italian American food is about 50% Italian, and very few Italians will consider it Italian food unless you show you can literally cook it like in Italy.
People don’t realize that half the foods in the world were invented in America. The video of tom holland talking about there’s no such thing as American food and that hamburgers were invented in Hamburg Germany really pisses me off