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@Elessar Nothing north of Hadrian's Wall ya hear. 🤣

@Elessar By the same logic, we (🇬🇷) invented EVERYTHING. Even "Hawaiian" pizza😂😂😂

@room101 You guys went from inventing democracy to ravaging pizza with pineapples, I can't even 🥴

@Elessar

@KiwiBird Notice how even the perpetrator of this heinous crime is wearing gloves, not to touch the abomination s/he's just made

@Elessar I think I may have told you this before. One of my fave cousins is married to an Italian woman (she's from Rome) and I often tease her about Italian cuisine and its origins. I was with them all last week and told her about the Hawaiian pizza thing.

After some furious googling on her phone, she disgustedly threw it on the seat beside her and said a lot of stuff in Italian that I couldn't understand. She was not a happy Mamma Romana.

My cousin then told me about an incident that had happened recently. She was not well (a second bout of Covid) so cooking duties fell to him. She gave him simple instructions for a pasta dish which he, of course (he's a guy so didn't listen properly), messed up.

She took one forkful and yelled at him:

"You don't care about the pasta!!!!"

He related that last bit in a heavy Italian accent, complete with appropriate hand gestures.

I literally had tears streaming down my face from laughing so hard.

@room101 I don't think you've mentioned this episode before lol, but yeah that's a quite common (/understandable 👀) reaction

Sorta like:
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@Elessar I love Gino, he's awesome. Went to one of his restaurants many years ago, in London. Spectacular food.

Yeah, how he reacted is pretty much exactly how Mamma Romana reacted to the news that a Greek invented pineapple on pizza.😂😂😂

I know I never told you the "You don't care about the pasta" story before, I only heard it last week myself. But I'm sure that I 've mentioned my cousin and his awesome Italian wife before🤷‍♂️

@room101 @Elessar That pineapple pizza dude is dead the Hawaiian Pizza recipe should have been buried with him. Don't let the Canadian's off the hook either.....it was in Canada where this monstrosity was conceived. He was a Canadian citizen.....Greek immigrant.

@KiwiBird I agree with @Elessar, he was probably exiled from Greece. Probably all of the Med region😂😂😂

@room101 @KiwiBird It's reasonable to think there's probably a much more complex situation than it appears to be.

Greece exiled him for either this or some other culinary crime we haven't heard of. Canada being nice ol' Canada accepted his plea for asylum, but little they knew they would've been the theater of this crime against humanity. In fear of being the target of a joint offensive by a potential military alliance that would've arisen between Mediterranean countries to combat this new treat to global security, they've quickly shifted the blame to Hawaii - a territory under the direct protection of the United States, much harder to attack, in order to buy time.

Now however that it's clear both Greece and Canada are somehow involved, the whole geopolitical equilibrium is no more.

@Elessar Brilliant....however I have seen some things that can not be unseen. Kiwifruit on Pizza. The Chinese would even be horrified. This abomination is a direct consequence of the pineapple infiltration.

@KiwiBird Clearly an escalation, the situation now might very well be irreversible

@Elessar @KiwiBird You guys are brilliant. Have to copy this dialogue and send it to Mamma Romana. No doubt she will be in full agreement as to how dire the global situation has become😂😂😂