Got to visit Italy and stay at a winery in Tuscany. The winery had the DOP cert and all that stuff... Most of their wine tasted like shit. We did a tasting and they served up different cured meats that tasted like they were rubbed on the moldy wine cellar walls, real classy joint.
Slightly related: we also took a tour of a local pasta maker, whole family lives in one house in the village and they only use local wheat and no modern manufacturing processes. Pretty neat, and there's only a handful of them left, one of the first to sell out after WWII was Barilla. Any way, the pasta was great, but one of the family workers had some interesting comments when he learned we were from the US. This dude was upset that we're tearing down confederate statues, and he knew a lot of favorable history of the kkk... I told him we're taking them down because we don't give participation trophies to losers. 😎
That protected region stuff doesn't mean it's good at all.
that protected region shit is marketing only and alone and would usually fly in the face of whatever capitalist advocate for it. There's 0 reason to believe that some kind of foodstuff is made better if it's done in Place A instead of Place B, especially at an industrial scale
Got to visit Italy and stay at a winery in Tuscany. The winery had the DOP cert and all that stuff... Most of their wine tasted like shit. We did a tasting and they served up different cured meats that tasted like they were rubbed on the moldy wine cellar walls, real classy joint.
Slightly related: we also took a tour of a local pasta maker, whole family lives in one house in the village and they only use local wheat and no modern manufacturing processes. Pretty neat, and there's only a handful of them left, one of the first to sell out after WWII was Barilla. Any way, the pasta was great, but one of the family workers had some interesting comments when he learned we were from the US. This dude was upset that we're tearing down confederate statues, and he knew a lot of favorable history of the kkk... I told him we're taking them down because we don't give participation trophies to losers. 😎
That protected region stuff doesn't mean it's good at all.
that protected region shit is marketing only and alone and would usually fly in the face of whatever capitalist advocate for it. There's 0 reason to believe that some kind of foodstuff is made better if it's done in Place A instead of Place B, especially at an industrial scale