Boycotting PastA?
On the 13 September, there will be no spaghetti, fettucine, farfalle or rigatoni in Italy, as the country goes on its first-ever pasta strike.
Angry Italians to go on national pasta strike
Angry Italians are downing their forks in response to a 30 per cent price rise in the nation’s favourite food, along with steep rises in the price of coffee, mozzarella, bread, biscuits and schoolbooks.
Most Italians eat pasta at least once a day, and consume around 54 kilograms over the course of the year.
According to a recent study, many of them prefer pasta to all other pleasures.
Imagine boycotting your greatest ‘pleasure’. Heh.
Did y’all know……..
To cook one billion pounds of pasta, you would need 2,021,452,000 gallons of water - enough to fill nearly 75,000 Olympic-size swimming pools.
Thomas Jefferson is credited with introducing macaroni to the United States. It seems that he fell in love with a certain dish he sampled in Naples, while serving as the U.S. Ambassador to France. In fact, he promptly ordered crates of “macaroni,” along with a pasta-making machine, sent back to the States.
Pasta
The first American pasta factory was opened in Brooklyn, New York, in 1848, by a Frenchman named Antoine Zerega. Mr. Zerega managed the entire operation with just one horse in his basement to power the machinery. To dry his spaghetti, he placed strands of the pasta on the roof to dry in the sunshine.
Speaking of spaghetti…and meatballs: the Italians only ate meat a few times a month. So, when they came to America, where meat was so plentiful, they incorporated meat into their cooking more often, making meatballs an American invention.
The average person in Italy eats more than 51 pounds of pasta every year. The average person in North America eats about 15-1/2 pounds of pasta per year.
How can you not love pasta.
That mix of soft, melted cheeses with tender pasta.
The tomatoes colored a bright red…..
Can you taste the creaminess, the heartiness of meat, juicy and fully cooked…..
..the sweet-and-tart flavor of the absolutely perfect sauce. Mmmmmmmmmmm.
Can you smell the fragrant smell…….
Just imagine it gliding over your tongue …warm and comforting.
Gosh…….Zit dinner time yet?
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September 5th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
My Asian wife has no palate for pasta whatsoever… but take away her rice and watch the sky fall down!
September 5th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Please put a disclaimer up when showing pasta porn like that, my diet for today will now be ruined as I must eat gooey cheese covered pasta or expire.
September 5th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Angel, I’m not a big pasta fan but you do make it sound tempting.
September 5th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
On a serious note certain staples are seeing increases without full explainations. I live in the Northeast so courtesy of bad legislation a gallon of milk is more expensive anyway. Recently my wife noticed a sign at the store “explaining” the reasons of costs,fuel and ethanol. Load up on those carbs and keep an out out on those price shifts. Consumers deserve better.
September 5th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Ok that really made me hungry
September 5th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
I love pasta! I was jusstItaly a few weeks ago and boy, did I have great pasta!
September 5th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
I couldn’t go on a pasta strike, and I’m not even Italian!
September 5th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
brown butter garlic pasta!
fettucini with clam sauce!
fajoule!
penne or ziti with cheese!
somebody stop me!
September 5th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Now you got me hungry!
It’s past 11 pm!
D*mn you Angel!
(I think I have some pasta- and a spicy Bolognese sauce in the fridge).
(c;
September 5th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Italians without pasta … that would be like Americans without McDonalds … too terrible to imagine.
September 5th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
I am supposed to be on a diet and have done well so far!!!!All I want now is some pasta!A BIG HUGE bowl.I want to cuss at you too,Angel!!!
I would be hit harder if you took away my rice.
September 5th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
mmm…
pasta…
this strike is not fair to the tummy.
September 5th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
The Italians may say they are boycotting. But, I don’t think they have the stomach for it.
September 5th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Perhaps they’ll all go Atkins.
September 5th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
The pasta fotos are cruel! I am trying to lose the pounds from my vacation!!!
September 5th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
I hope you ate some pasta after writing that post. Reading it made me hungry.
September 5th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
YUP, GUILTY AS CHARGED… I made lasagne for dinner..ha !
dessert anyone?
September 5th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
15 and 1/2 lbs? Wussies…that’s a weekend here. Booya! I loves me some Italian food. If you live in the Huntington Beach (CA) area, Cavallino’s is one of the best places I’ve been…reasonably priced, and they dote on you.
Add cheese, and you have the perfect food. Can you say: Manicotti
September 5th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
It shouldn’t be too hard to boycott pasta since there is going to be a shortage. Too many grains are being used for alternative fuels, promoted by the global warming crowd.
September 5th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Sorry Angel, could not help it…….
On Top Of Spaghetti
On top of spaghetti all covered with cheese
I lost my poor meatball
When somebody sneezed.
It rolled off the table and on to the floor
And then my poor meatball rolled out of the door.
It rolled in the garden and under a bush
And now my poor meatball is nothing but mush.
So next time you eat spaghetti
All covered with cheese
Protect your poor meatball
In case of a sneeze
and of course……..
Spaghetti, spaghetti, all over the place,
Up to my elbows–up to my face,
Over the carpet and under the chairs,
Into the hammock and wound round the stairs,
Filling the bathtub and covering the desk,
Making the sofa a mad mushy mess.
The party is ruined, I’m terribly worried,
The guests have all left (unless they’re all buried).
I told them, “Bring presents.” I said, “Throw confetti.”
I guess they heard wrong ‘Cause they all threw spaghetti
now pass me a bowl, and put some melted cheese on it…..PLEASE!!
September 6th, 2007 at 1:15 am
Angel:
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Well, very extraordinary news indeed. It’s true they really love pasta, so this is going to be hard for them. Just as hard as it’s for your readers now, not to go running to the kitchen to make some pasta for ourselves!!
(Thanks God it’s breakfast time!
September 6th, 2007 at 5:37 am
oy…that is terrible!!! no spagetti??? vey…stay safe…great post…love your blog…a sweet new year my friend
September 6th, 2007 at 7:09 am
Got here a bit late, but that’s better than never! It’s 7:00am Thursday morning. Guess what we had for dinner last night? Spaghetti with a Clam Sauce that I love, and a fresh garden salad.
I’ll bet many of the Italians won’t be boycotting anything but will be making their own pasta at home. I know I would! For Italians to boycott pasta would be like Texans boycotting steak.
September 6th, 2007 at 7:31 am
I think we’ll have spaghetti for supper.
September 6th, 2007 at 7:34 am
Great post Angel, ya got me hungry.
I’m thinkin about some spicy meataballs
September 6th, 2007 at 8:04 am
You kill me with these food posts, Angel!
Where’s the nearest Italian restaurant?
September 6th, 2007 at 9:15 am
Angel, I’ve damn near turned into an Italian reading your post. I like good pasta, but I would kill for a Whattaburger right now! You probably don’t have those in New York, but you need to have.
All I have access to is an occasional McDonalds, which is something, but I don’t know what. It has gone halal in Britain I understand, and so is serving food sacrificied to someone and something I don’t support (besides you don’t really know what’s in it).
September 6th, 2007 at 10:19 am
My ham sandwich is so less satisfying now.
September 6th, 2007 at 10:47 am
Spaghetti for dinner tonight.
September 6th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
The Arabs can’t pronounce P, they say it B instead. This is a source for a lot of jokes in Israel about Arabs. (Good clean fun, but which our self-righteous Leftards will naturally decry as “raaaaaaaacism”. Khomeini said there is no fun in Islam; none in Leftism either, and now you have yet another reason why they’re allies.)
Uh, where were we? Oh yeah: so one day an Arab came back home from Italy, and his friend asked him how it was.
He replied, with an angry face: “Terrible! Just terrible! Those beoble are misers, cheats, swindlers!”
The friend was surprised, because it went against what he’d heart. “How can that be? What did they do to you?”, he asked.
The reply: “Every restaurant I visited, I asked for basta, hours and hours, ‘Basta! Basta!’, but didn’t get any!”
(”Basta” is Italian for “enough”, “no more”.)
September 6th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
PIMF heart -> heard
September 6th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Holy cow you’re making me hungry!!
September 6th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Mmmmmmmm….. Spaghetti!
September 6th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Okay, now I am really hungry. You have such a way with food!
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