Italians are so cucked by the ruling class that they can't enjoy a combination of sweet and salty and acidic flavors. Apparently it's very important in their culture to pretend to be mature consumers whose lives are happily controlled by bourgeois virtues. I think the real "abomination" here is people who are reducing their aesthetic taste by narrowing humanity's wide and expansive culinary palate, just to strengthen the brand for their fascist ideals of national foods https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8gbqwl/what_is_the_best_two_topping_pizza_combination/dyasmg8/
Speaking of things that don't give you an experience, that's just about any given Italian recipe. Aside from hand making pasta, almost all of their recipes are like get high quality ingredient and don't fuck it up by getting it to the table. The French and Chinese will take literally any meat or vegetable, no matter how inhospitable or inedible, and turn them into something insanely tasty. Italian cooking has never evolved beyond three basic foods (pasta, sausage, cheese) and remaking those in slightly different ways and then bitching about any deviation therefrom.
Fuck overrated-ass Italian cooking, is my point. There's no skill involved in 99% of their cooking. Hand making pasta is the only impressive thing they do, so they do it thousands of different little ways.
Watching Li Zuqi on youtube has convinced me of the Chinese, and likely all Asian, food transformation powers.