Why do Italians insist on betraying the trust we put in them
Because Bologna is a place (by far the most left wing city in Italy during the cold war) and Ragù Bolognese (indeed, "from Bologna") is a sauce that was invented there.
What Americans know as Bologna (pronounced Balooney for some ungodly reason) is basically bootleg Mortadella, a cold cut from (you guessed it) the city of Bologna.
It does answer the question, but Americans prefer to just go "eyy Tone gabagool, I'm walkin' 'ere
"And that will probably never change.
I honestly find it odd that you're taking this so seriously. either anti-italian shitposting as a genre has run its course, or I'm the one getting trolled and not realizing it
I grew up in Italy (an hour away from Bologna in fact). Whenever it gets mentioned, it always gets mocked with stereotypes of people from New Jersey or whatever.
Ignorance of the country is incredibly widespread, just like for many other countries in the west and elsewhere, but even the Brits or French at least get people treating events in the country seriously. Germany or Poland (the country I live in, and the one I was born in) both are treated with slight disdain for various more or less legitimate reasons. For many others it's just radio silence because of a lack of coverage/knowledge (which is unfortunately normal)
But Italy? Nah, it's all "eyy Tony Soprano"
Personally I get upset when I order an Italian sub and they put bologna instead of mortadella on it. That's not how Italian subs are made in Italy.
lol
I recently found out that Neapolitan ice cream was invented by Americans because Spumoni was too foreign for them in terms of flavors
So they slapped vanilla, chocolate and strawberry together, picked a random city in Italy and then named the mix after it
It was actually invented by a Prussian, but the name "Neopolitan" originated in America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neapolitan_ice_cream
The first recorded recipe was created by head chef of the royal Prussian household Louis Ferdinand Jungius in 1839, who dedicated the recipe to Fürst Pückler.[3] To this day, the German name for Neapolitan ice cream is Fürst-Pückler-Eis.
Sounds yummy
To my American ears that sounds like something very ugly a hooligan would do.
"He's asking too many questions. Black bag him"Those are the last words you hear before a bag is tossed over your head. Chains are wrapped around your body as you get hauled into a plane. 6 hours later you find yourself in a jail cell in Gitmo
Because the sauce was invented after the steamed meat log and tradition holds fast
Probably
