Ask an Italian living abroad anything

Ask an Italian living abroad anything.
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Juventus, but all I do is typing "Juventus" on Google and see how the last match went. never been to a soccer match

This question is extremely relevant. Maybe OP will respond. In the meantime...this

Didn't I answered here ?
mmh, this thread was also my first trips

Why are your people so fucking arrogant, obnoxious and yet absolutely lazy and unreliable?

You're the most deluded people on Earth, why is this?

How does if feel to be part eggplant?

I can think of two things:
1) we were the losers of the last great conflict and we've lacked the spirit of Germany when it came to rebuild.
2) most of the young italians going abroad are the worst ones. I saw people move to London
>I'll found a work there
fucking morons. I lived abroad only when I could land a job from my country, and I'v always moved back when the contracts ended. I'm no dead weight, simple as that.
The good italians left, often, and meddled in the new country, as good people do.

Eggplants are just... terrible. whatever they may say about that damn "parmigiana".

Young sir, you clearly have never met an Argentinean or a MuriKKKan.

>I can think of two things etc.

You almost make me rethink my racism. Thanks for the honesty.

What do Italians think of Italian-Americans and their attitudes?

Eggplant is from the New World.

Not met many Argentinians, no, but the Americans get a lot of their own arrogance, obnoxiousness etc. from Italian-American sources.

What's the secret to a good spaghetti sauce

>yet absolutely lazy and unreliable?
>Italians are the largest percentage of immigrants during the 20th century
>enormous amount of physical labor jobs are filled by Italian immigrants

wot

also,

>You're the most deluded people on Earth, why is this?
>deluded
>proceeds to call Italians arrogant, obnoxious, and lazy
>probably only spoken to a handful of actual Italians.

The irony is so sweet.

Do you guys use those all the time? I'm an US'r who uses one daily ...

Instead of tossing in already cooked meat, pre cook some beef with bone, and throw it in the sauce to finish cooking. Reduce the sauce until it is thick, not watery, and the beef is off-the-bone tender.

Also use tomato paste.

I can't but think good of them. I only know a small few in Palo Alto, they were lovely.
Italians feel very proud about Italian-Americans who made their fortune there (like Federico Faggin, for example) but there's little return. At least on a public side

depends on the sauce

every.
DAMN.
TIME.
at least at home. Espresso is kinda different but equally good. And there are bars that use moka pots as well.
oh, and you're great user. keep going.

that's a good start user :D
add a hint of white wine maybe?
and don't forget some minced veggies, not many, again it's just something a tad more than a hint.
forget the basil on the top at the end, that's BS imho. unless you have to make it look good, ofc

It really all depends on what you want. It's trial and error really. Some people hate meat, some only want garlic and olive oil, etc etc.

Just throw random shit in and see what sticks. Best part is, you really can't fuck it up that badly.

First of all, I don't think you understand what irony actually is.
Secondly, I've travelled through Italy twice in my life and worked alongside them quite a few times.

Yes they immigrated a lot, and did nothing but labor jobs, and they did them very badly.
>Unreliable
Irrefutable.

Why are you obsessed with how good Italian food is, when it's probably one of the worst kinds of food?

The stuff without pasta is okay, but generally you're pasta obsessed and it's terrible.

German detected.

are you italian as well? italian origins maybe?

weeeell, calm down there. If it's for you anything goes... but you can't call "gricia" if there's tomato. ok you might like it, but it's like taking a Taco for a Burrito. A Mexican would be displeased, but in the ends it's you eating it.

nothing but labor jobs? well, I'd like Italy being made by many Enrico Fermi-s but eh. It was the poor people who traveled away, usually selling away all what they had for a ticket.

I'm sorry you ate terrible pasta. It's a staple of our cuisine tho, like rice & beans in Brazil or Maize in Mexico. We eat it almost every day.

btw you're very curious. where are you from? which country/place doesn't have anything to offer on the table that makes you so angry over a well-known cuisine?
>it's probably one of the worst kinds of food
I mean, even the British (pun intended) have some trump in their sleeves...

I'm sorry you ate terrible pasta. It's a staple of our cuisine tho, like rice & beans in Brazil or Maize in Mexico. We eat it almost every day.

I really shouldn't say "terrible" pasta, as I've eaten a lot of different pasta. But it's just pasta, it's not really good or bad, it's just bland, as you say, it's a staple.

This is what I can't understand, that you eat it every day. I have it one day and I don't want it again for about a month. If I had to eat pasta every single day I think I'd kill myself.

Before i went to magaluf i was told the brits are the worst, but on my adventure i didnt cross a single douchey brit, but LOADS of douchey italians. How is it that the youth of Italy cant behave like normal people? Must be a source to this?

I'm English but I've been living in Canada for many years.

The British have a lot of unique foods, and they have a lot of variety.

Scouse, Cornish pasties, fish and chips, Yorkshire puddings, full English breakfast, roast dinners etc.
I could go on forever.

I think it's the variation that matters. British foods are all very, very different from each other.

Italian food, no matter what it is, seems to always have pasta and always far too much tomato sauce. Even pizza is the same thing but in a different form.

As a Brit myself, I'd say the youth of everywhere are douchey cunts. I think that particular problem is international. You just got lucky if you didn't meet any Brit cunts.

doesn't mean a thing but look at those doubles

I can tell the difference between "0" and "00" grade pasta and ofc from freshly made pasta. bland pasta without salt is terrible, and with a bad oil is even worse.
one day carbonara, one day "aglio olio peperoncino", another day simple sugo, and so on... depends on the quality of the ingredients.

England is full of douchey italians who went there finding luck. Usually they accept to live in 6sqm rooms in shared apartments that looks like a filthy rathole. Those italians usually ends up working as waiters in... Italian restaurants. Meh.

I know, and I'd sell a kidney of my dead grandma for a good fish'n'chips. I found a spot in Belper, Derbyshire, that was just delicious.
as said, pasta is VEEEERY variated. and we're damn full of main courses as well. and starters? eating a full course meal would take, in my region, around
8 entrees
2 first, usually rice and pasta
1 main course
main course side
dessert

so true :\

why is italy filled with jobless momma's boys?

Ci odiano tutti fratello italico

because our moms are way too much protective. I don't say to do like the Finnish and kick out your son/daughter at 18, but... well, something inbetween?

mica vero, dai, solo i bifolchi

Yeah ur on to something there, obviously i cant shoot the whole country based on a couple of scenes that occured on a party island like that. But, there was no one else than italians that started random beefs, urging to fight people for no reason, this happened twice with two different groups, also an italian group of friends were escorted out of our hotel for beating up a swedish girl, singing and yelling on their way out, so idk you gotta ask questions

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How do you like your HERPES?
All people from Italy have Herpes.

Sure and ebola too

Maybe it's because Italians think they have to prove themselves. Their culture seems to breed an inferiority complex. If you have your mother treating you like a baby all your life, when you go away from home you want to desperately prove you're not actually a baby?

I have another question OP;
I know about the history of the Italian Mafia, and of course the Italian American Mafia, but how is it now? Is the traditional Mafia a very real presence in Italian life or is it dying out and being replaced by the same kind of homogeneous criminal gangs we all have these days?

How the fuck do those coffe machines work

Look it up stupid nigger

I need a bigger coffee maker. I go to bialetti website and they say the biggest stainless steel brewer is 6 cups. I go check the store and they offer me a 10 cup version od that same model. Same stuff with the mokka, they have 18 cups and even bigger ones. Are theese fake?

scumbags. want to talk about the hooligans who went to rome and damaged Piazza di Spagna's fountain? and there were nothing but Brits there. assholes are assholes

no herpes at all. did you fucked a filthy hambeast from italy maybe? I'm sorry for your terrible experience :(

ah well, sure. you forgot AIDS

oh good lord. it's there, and it's stronger than ever. Keeps growing, it's like a cancer that you can't really get rid of. Look for images of Scampia, a neighbourhood of Naples. It's "harsher" in the south, but it's present in the north as well.

the water in the lower tank boils and build up pressure, that pushes the hot water up through the filter where the grounded coffee is and up again in the upper tank. when you hear the moka pot "gargling", it's ready.

no need to be so rude but okay

they're all real, maybe they don't ship the supersize ones? I've seen a 56-cup titan, probably was made just to show it tho

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_crime_in_Italy

If you do the wrong things in south italy you are dead, just do your own things and ignote everyone and all will be fine

It's not an inferiority complex italians just mind about food, pussy and soccer

and btw, on the italian site they sell the aluminium moka up to 18 cups. go for aluminium if you use it often

as much as muricans just mind about guns, bald eagles and big macs

Thanks but the big one is only for when we have lots os friends over. Maybe every two months.

Italians are disgusting. But I like your food.

What's the North South divide really like in Italy?

then go for steel. Aluminium is great when you use it everyday AND YOU DON'T BRUSH IT. to clean an aluminium moka pot, just brush gently with water and your fingertips, otherwise your coffee will always be bland. using it everyday multiple times a day makes it very hard for bacteriaor molds to build up, don't worry about the satins

honest at least. again, sorry for your bad experiences.

Do Italian cars for export and for domestic market differ in quality (particularly Alfa Romeo)?

How do you feel about your part in the second world war?

Are you ashamed of being turn-coat, backstabbing, unreliable allies?

you get diabetes from nutellaburger?

Not OP.
Why would anyone be ashamed of the sins of their grandfathers?

you should ask what's the divide between REGIONS.
and then there's this thing, yes... north vs. south... kind of.
seriously speaking, most of it was due to the large migrations of people from the agricultural south to the newly developing industrial north in the 60s. again, those are stories mostly written in racism ("we don't rent to southerners" signs, dialect-only speaking to make it hard for non locals to understand), difficulties and sometimes blood. the image of the poor traveler with a cardboard luggage is a common icon for those things. They really didn't speak the same language at that time... and guess what could happen
>points to Palestine/Israel

eheh. yes. depends also on the specific model. I know that door locks come, partly, from Japan for all the world. but only on certain FCA models :D

>in the 60s
The 1860s?

Also what are the different cities and regions in Italy like?

1960s

How does moka pot coffee compare to french press coffee?

what are you talking about, OP!
italian arrogance is based on an incredible amount of inventions and leading history, american arrogance is young, muscular, empty and noisy.

>burns coffee
not italian

>Overdoing your mocha

You are not a native Italian

of course, user...
the world is FULL of british restaurants.

look at man, it was like... SEVENTY fucking years ago. I can't feel sorry for anything. xD

you know that McDonalds just launched a Nutellaburger in partner with Ferrero, right?
look: I've ate Ferrero's things all my childhood and no diabetes at all

1960s
err... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_Italy
there are 20 of them and everyone is very different from the others

it's another planet, man

not OP

step back itaboo, you can't even spell it properly

ndò caxxo hai imparato l'inglese così bene, io quando esco dal Veneto è già tanto se riesco a parlare itagliano senza intercalarlo al dialetto, sforzandomi come un animale nel reprimere l'analfabetismo di ritorno

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I don't spell it, I just drink it.

>ndò caxxo
amvedi, un veneto parlando in romanaccio, evvai

We don't want everyone eating our fucking food you retard, it's ours, it's for us, and us alone.
We're also not arrogant enough to suppose other people want to eat what we enjoy. In fact, we don't want you to, we want you to hate our food so there's more for us.

Fuck off to the spaghetti hut and leave us to eat our lovely roast spuds and gravy.
Proper gravy, not that grey American shit.

What region are you from OP? My people came from Piedmont. We're the non-niggers of Italy.

>it's ours, it's for us, and us alone.
a nervous brit, ultrakek!

you made me so upset I've even forgot to attach the image, dimwit

con le studentesse erasmus. e qualche cartone tipo Surf's Up. poi un anno a Derby in una multinazionale con conferenze al telefono europee ogni venerdì ti cambia da grappa a tagliatella

and you drink it badly. I think you do even brush the moka after every use

daje

this made my day xD

GIUDA CRIN ma ti t'lu parli 'l piemunteis o l'an nen mustate?
yes, I'm piedmontese. Chieri, you know?

>the non-niggers of Italy.
true, but close to france, so gay

>ndò nemo? in ostaria?
frase più pronunciata del veneto alle 6PM

every italian has a nigger inside

southern France share NOTHING with the parisiens pussies

That's just because you fuck them.
And by you i mean specifically you.

My family is from Moncalieri

southern, but still france: gay

>ndonnamo? allosteria?
frase più pronunciata del lazio alle 6PM
not so different, anyway :)

stai calmo su, un grappino e passa tutto
mio nonno paterno era del padovano

so close

No, my ancestors left in 1881

why did you choose god tier espresso as your OP, OP?

>con le studentesse erasmus. e qualche cartone tipo Surf's Up. poi un anno a Derby in una multinazionale con conferenze al telefono europee ogni venerdì ti cambia da grappa a tagliatella

E' difficile andare a spargere per la terra d'Albione il Serenissimo seme, con la terza media. Ti tocca restare bloccato qua a costruire barricate per reprimere l'assalto delle orde di negri (non più di terroni, quelli ora sono alleati, od almeno così dicono a Quinta Colonna)

Do you have any HEMA groups in Italy? I know longsword in the Italian style based on Fiore Dei Liberi. Just curious.

ma anche da voi in Lazio si comincia alle 7 di mattina col moro, ed alle 10 c'è già gente che ordina pistoni da mezzo litro di Moretti?

>Italian food, no matter what it is, seems to always have pasta and always far too much tomato sauce. Even pizza is the same thing but in a different form.

Try Sicilian instead.
inb4 scusu bruddu mugghiu fugghiu

Hey OP - what the hell does "Moncalieri" or "Moncale" mean anyway? In English?

now that's quite a feat. Sure they were brave crossing the Big Puddle on a steamer. Do you feel your italian heritage as a weight, user?

uh... yes... I love it.

ahahah ma cazzo non sarai mica uno di quelli che tira su le barricate? eddai su, è il 2016. sento delle vostre gesta alla Zanzara un giorno sì e l'altro pure... per l'inglese non posso far altro che dirti di praticarlo e studiarlo, per le lingue altra strada non c'è.

I had a friend who was into that, but he moved away. Pussy pulls more that a Dodge Ram

It's the name of the town. Italian - Moncalieri; Piedmontese - Muncalé.

there's even... a wiki, a SHITTY wiki, in Piedmontese: pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moncalé

I did a little research on my ancestors. I think they left due to poor wheat crop yield in the late 1870s and early 1880s. I feel empathy for them, as they settled in Hell's Kitchen in NYC - and it was NOT a very nice place to be, but their kids grew up and moved to a nicer part of the city, and eventually moved out of NY into NJ which was rural back then. So I feel for them, but I take no personal pride in their accomplishments as I had nothing to do with them. I think they would be pleased with where their blood line has gone. I have 3 kids, and am fairly well off now. So the name of the city has no meaning that you know of?

if you know someone who speaks italian but doesn't speak dialect, tell him or her to listen to this

youtube.com/watch?v=ipB7D8f4Vew

...and look at his face.

this goes, more or less, for every region in Italy. Dialects are so much different in Italy that most of them are recognized as languages. There are even poaches of completely different languages, like the Griko in Puglia, related to ancient Greek, and Arebereshe that relates to Albanian. And many more, other italian anons can tell you much more about that.

I can guess it could came from a deviation of "monaco" (monk), since

Moncalieri was founded in 1228 by some inhabitants of Testona (now a frazione of the comune of Moncalieri) as a refuge from the assaults from Chieri. The easy access to the Po River and the bridge (a Templar possession for a long time) that it commanded granted a certain flourishing to the city, which became a free comune and housed a number of monastic institutions.

probably people took refuge in a fortified monastery - wouldn't be unheard of. but I am really guessing at it...

thoughts on arancini?

Interesting. There is family legend that my ancestors served Napoleon during his campaign. They had been an officer in his cavalry and was wounded in combat, so he received a pension. But I have no documents of proof. Thanks for the info.

I'm guilty of not having tasted them yet. I was only 4 when my parents took a trip to Sicily, and I can't remember much. Tho, one of my first memories is a large yellow ferry boat.
But I have to try them sooner or later. I hope it doesn't end up like with supplì, I've been to rome and those "friends" of mine didn't wanted to go to a goddamn friggitoria. FUCK.

>ahahah ma cazzo non sarai mica uno di quelli che tira su le barricate? eddai su, è il 2016. sento delle vostre gesta alla Zanzara un giorno sì e l'altro pure... per l'inglese non posso far altro che dirti di praticarlo e studiarlo, per le lingue altra strada non c'è.

ahahah hai sentito la puntata con Joe Formaggio scommetto!
E' sindaco di Albettone, un comune a 25km da dove sto io, so che bazzica su qualsiasi programma TV (non chiedermi quali perchè la TV non la guardo), ed è convinto che il problema dell'italia del 2016 siano i rom.

Gli hanno attraversato ed aperto in due il comune con l'autostrada della Valdastico foderando la campagna sotto le carreggiate con fanghi tossici di conceria importati dalla ndrangheta, e la sua unica preoccupazione in merito alle importazioni è appunto che "esportiamo cervelli ed importiamo negri"

could be totally true, mate. wouldn't be so hard to believe, given that Napoleonic troops were recruited pretty much everywhere! And Piedmontese people used to speak french as well, so... they could have understood orders better than a Lombard :P

si si, proprio quella!

insomma un genio del male, via... siamo al TOP.

OP here. goodnight anons, has been nice to chat around.
Buonanotte a tutti, è stato un piacere

>si si, proprio quella!
>insomma un genio del male, via... siamo al TOP.

Eh, parafrasando Umberto Eco, Formaggio propone soluzioni semplici per problemi complessi...
E la gente gli va dietro perchè Formaggio ha la laurea, mica come me che ho la terza media :D

Tutto sto caffè e mi caschi impartera ale do de note?
Allora non lo sai fare il caffè :D