We actually do put sugar in the sauce in italy BUT STRICTLY ONLY IF THE TOMATO SAUCE IS TOO ACIDIC, which generally means that the tomato sauce is simply not good quality unfortunately... Good quality tomato sauce shouldn't be acidic enough to require any sugar; if your tomato sauce is noticeably acidic you might want to switch to another brand
I'm from Russia, and my mom sometimes cooks pasta, but she makes the sauce HERSELF from our tomatoes (we have a vegetable garden) and never adds sugar there. of course, there is an exception when she made canned food for the winter and added some sugar to it, but only so that it would not deteriorate during storage
I'm Italian and I have never seen anyone put sugare in the tomato sauce. If you feel the need to use SUGAR to reduce the acidity of the tomatoes, then you are really using trash-quality tomatoes.
@@cristianturbian2513 io lo faccio sempre e sempre fatto perché sennò il pomodoro ha uno strano gusto, anche jon troppo acido ma dolce è meglio. Non credo però di comprare pomodoro di marche povere, compro sempre diverse marche e le principali e a volte costose, forse sono io rotta boh
It's acceptable to add just a pinch of sugar in your tomato sauce IF yout tomatoes are a little too acidic, but if you cook it properly you shouldn't need it. In the north of Italy it's perfectly acceptable to drink cappuccino in the afternoon. A lot of my friends have it, and nobody has anything to say about it. I don't really know about other parts of Italy, though. The real "NO NO" is having cappuccino after a meal.
I drink cappuccino, all hours at my house, (I'm from Rome), but if I'm away from home, I usually take either a macchiato or a normal coffee if I'm like in a restaurant... perhaps it is a tradition that I carry from my grandmother's house since she does not drink milk...
OK i wanna talk. I'm italian and we are not that strict in general(at least the new generation). If it's needed you can put a little bit of sugar in the tomato souce, but if the souce is good or hommade (i'm from the south of italy(naples) and my family do tomato souce from our tomatoes every year, but that's not common, expecially in the north) you don't need it. There are some people that eat spaghetti with spoon, but it's not common.(My grandpa does it and some children too). I've never tested pinapple on pizza, but i want. In italy we eat pizza with thousands of toppings (for examples i love pizza with corn, ham, mozzarella and cream). Most of the italians from the old generation do not like this "new versions", but we do. Cappuccino is generally drinked in the morning, and if you drink it with pasta for instance, it's strange. If u drink it in the aternoon or in the night it's not strange. I'm very mind opened on everything except for ketchup on pasta. In my opinion ketchup it's a shit in general, but on pasta it's the worste thing ever.
Infatti, mai sentito i nostri compaesani lamentarsi tanto per queste cose. Io la pasta con il cucchiaio la mangio perché è comodissimo. La salsa la facciamo anche al nord ma dipende dalla famiglia, dipende se sei uno che preferisce le cose fatte in casa o meno. La pizza all'ananas la voglio un sacco provare, visto che ho mangiato quella alle pere, noci e gorgonzola ed era fantastica. Comunque non so te, ma io mi innervosisco più per come mangiano i tedeschi che per gli americani AHAHAH
@@Baccagaii Le bottiglie di pomodori fatte in casa ormai quasi nessuno le fa più, proprio perchè i contadini sono in percentuale nettamente inferiore. Credo che al nord la percentuale sia veramente minima. Onestamente a me non da fastidio se in altri paesi mangiano di merda, anzi, mi sento fortunato a essere nato in italia e soprattutto figlio di mia madre (che è cuoca).
Esattamente soprattutto sul fatto del cucchiaio, io personalmente lo uso è semplicemente comodo non c'è niente di male non capisco perché a volte si arrabbiano quando vedono gli altri utilizzare il cucchiaio 💀
@@aurorasantangelo6103 in tutta onestà, non ho mai visto nessuno arrabbiarsi per i cucchiai, o almeno nella mia zona. Fanno tanto i maestrini del galateo, poi dicono buon appetito a tavola😂
different cultures can be so strict with their food/drink habits. I remember living in Belgium at dorm, I offered juice to Spanish friend at like 5pm. she was, no no no, juice is for the morning why do you drink juice now?
what a strange spaniard... I'm from Spain and juice is a standard drink for merienda (ugh I hate the lack of an english word for merienda, it´s like... an afternoon snack, whatever)
Instead of that you should try cherry tomatoes, they're perfect on Pasta, they're the perfect balance between acidic and non-acidic and sweet/salty. Just don't put too much salt otherwise it tastes just like standard tomatoes
I’m from the north of Italy, to be honest I think the cappuccino thing is a thing of the south. I’ve had cappuccino after lunch, and I’ve seen it fairly frequently in bars and nobody raised an eyebrow at that. But in Rome they are quite sensitive about the topic and baristas will indeed scold you if you ask for a cappuccino outside of the “designated” time
I am an American that studied in Belgium and the Italian students thought it was so funny that in Belgium they sell ravioli in a can. They said they would never have canned ravioli in Italy. We also have canned ravioli in America though.
About socks and sandals, we have a word for it: "scandali" (calze + sandali), and it works even in english (scandals) So, remember: SOCKS + SANDALS = SCANDALS About the sweet cappuccino with strange things on it: we should import it in Italy, they're perfect for breakfast 😍 In Oregon I tried honey and lavander cappuccino, it was delicious 😍
I'm sorry,but I'm Italian and if I want to put socks under my sandals because it's too hot for shoes but too cold for sandals+bare feet I'M GONNA DO IT and there's nothing you can do about it! 😤 You know what freaks ME out and I can't see how so many people can do it without blinking an eye?!?Wearing no socks under shoes or wearing socks so short that it LOOKS like you don't have them!To just see a bare thin ankle popping out a massive shoe literally gives me SHIVERS 😖 and I'll never understand how people can be such jerks about sandals+socks and then accepting *THAT* horror without questions! Also I never understood the"no WHITE socks"thing specifically.What's wrong with white?It's the most neutral colour ever!!Are you saying I'm supposed to wear ORANGE socks when I'm dressed all fancy?Or green socks?Or mouse grey socks?Is grey better than white?Or black better than white?And WHY???What does it change?They're all neutral colours,WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS NONESENSICAL FASHION RULE???!!!😵
When Jordi said that people would look at you funny it made laugh because in Italy we don't have security cameras we have Nonna's(old ladies or granny's) who look at you from they're balcony 😂
My nonna and nonno were both born in Italy and lived there until their late teens. Both of them were from the south and always used a spoon to eat their pasta (you roll it on top of the spoon instead of doing it on the plate). My nonno even joked how my brother and I disappointed him since we didn't use spoons to eat our pasta. So I think the use of the spoon depends on the region. What you should NEVER do is cut up the pasta. THAT will for sure make a true Italian upset. Also, it's perfectly acceptable to add a spoonful or two of sugar to your tomato sauce if it's too acidic. Tomatoes are different depending on where in the world you live and what season it is. Personally, I adjust the acidity of my tomato sauce by adding sugar and baking soda and it comes out delicious every time.
It's not a regional thing it's more of an "etiquette" thing. Here in italy only older folk do it and strictly at home. It would be considered rude to do it at a restaurant and I have this memory of a family dinner at a restaurant with both my maternal grandparents and my paternal grandmother; since my maternal side was more "lower class" my grandad would use the spoon to eat spaghetti, nobody else did it in his family though, not the daughters nor my grandmother. I remember the shock of my paternal grandmother seeing my grandad use a spoon; she didn't say anything but you sure can bet she was thinking about saying something. So if you want to look like an old italian dude with a wifebeater and a cross necklace, eating spaghetti while watching football on television then yeah go ahead and use a spoon! The sugar thing is true, even us italians may do it and it is not socially unacceptable BUT ONLY IF THE SAUCE IS NOTICEABLY ACIDIC (which unfortunately either means that the sauce is bad quality or that it is overcooked). If your sauce is too acidic go ahead and use a small amount of sugar but a better idea would be to switch brands or be careful to not overcook it. Tomato sauce should be cooked with the lowest possible flame. And yeah we don't cut pasta, if you want short pasta there already is short pasta available, long pasta is supposed to be... long
I'm Italian, of the South, and in the sauce I put only salt, never sugar nor have I ever heard someone put it. Already many times the sauce is very sweet, sometimes not even so strong the taste without salt, God forbid I also put sugar in it. When I saw this thing of sugar in sauce in American films, not even in Italian shows with cooks on TV, I never heard anything other than salt, I was very amazed. The cappuccino, on the other hand, I also drink at 11 in the evening if I feel like it, there is no time limit for me. However, pasta on ketchup is not only American as a thing, but also English, at least as a stereotype.
How many kinds of Italian 'traditional' pizza are there? What things are used for traditional pizza? Пусть наш Бог хранит Украину. Миру мир! Cầu nguyện cho Ukraine và hòa bình.
Just to point out two things: I don't know if that is a valid reason for everyone, but the fact that we tendentially do not drink cappuccino after 12am in Italy, or at least it's not a common use, is probably tied to the normal digestion process that for us is extremely important, always generally speaking. Since in cappuccino, and not only in that kind of morning drink, you find a fair amount of milk, we tend not to drink it the more we get close to bedtime cause it's a pretty hard ingredient to digest, and you wanna be sure your body has digested all the food and drinks, or most of 'em, that it assumed during the day. The second point's aimed at answering the question I've found quite often here in the comments: "why is it that offensive for italians to see people cutting pasta?" ...well, let's make an example here. Every single shape of pasta has its roots in hundreads and hundreads of years in our history, and every single one of those 300 kinds, and more, originated in a specific area instead of the other, addressing various dynamics that led to the birth of their peculiar shapes, created and, initially hand-crafted in certain ways, both for artistic reasons, but also according to the cultural identity of that specific place, making them even more unique. Also, even if this should already be enough to answer that question, I'd still like to add another thing, specifically considering the fact that, out of all those shapes, people tend to cut spaghetti more often. In this particular case, it is worth noticing that, in orther to understand where that disappointed feeling of ours comes from, to make those long strands of pasta, it takes pasta-makers around 15 hours of their lives each time. And that's one of the other reasons why it is often perceived as being offensive and disrespectful to their efforts and, consequently, to our culture, added to the uncomprehensible act of buying a long-shaped pasta knowing you're gonna cut it when you have a bunch of short kinds available. With that being said, I hope I made everything clear and that people will hopfully stop seeing italians as a group of people who simply like to randomly complain about stuff. The only reason why we do keep complaining is actually a matter of always having to repeat the same things cause people just keep sharing disinformation about a specific culture, that, in this case, happens to be the italian one. Thank you for having read so far and sorry for this poem, but I felt it was necessary😅
4:14 I’m Italian and that’s actually a thing! Many of us do that with tomato sauce. As she said it reduces the acidity of the tomato :) some even use a little milk
I was thinking the same thing we always put a very little bit in a very large pot of sauce. She did admit she doesn’t cook so she is really speaking from zero experience.
You should use the best quality of ripe tomatoes, than you need no sugar. Some ketchups have more than 50% sugar added. Never compare ketchup with original Italian tomatoe sauce.
yes, correct, a "coffee spoon" of sugar in a 5 litres pot of sauce is acceptable if you want to correct the acidity (not all the tomatoes are the same, and sometimes depends even the age of the plant, the type of terrain, the type of water, if rained or not, so is ok to correct) but it never should becomes sweet
I am Italian and I always use a pinch of sugar to adjust the acidity of the tomato sauce. If you want, you can also use a little milk. But only a little bit.
As a former italian savage certified for three years now, just do what u please when you it pleases you to do it, just one thing, make sure people have their eyes on you or it's not fun
The American mother is right, in Italy we often put a little sugar in the tomato sauce to remove the acidity even if many Italian chefs consider it questionable
actually, I'm Italian and I use a spoon and fork to eat spaghetti.. and I know for sure I'm not the only one, it's just less common 😅 but actually, I think it's less messy and somehow it just gives me a more "polite" vibe 🤣
Anch'io uso il cucchiaio. Infatti il mio nonno mi ha sempre insegnato di fare così. Ho visto anche alcune persone che da bambino usano il cucchiaio, poi quando sono più grandi usano solo la forchetta
I always go out with my hair wet in Italy xD the sun dries it quicker than any hair dryer would. I've never gotten stares, but then again, I've only ever worn my hair wet in beach towns, where it's no issue, ppl just assume I must have been swimming recently.
@@giuliaanichini7667 well yeah, in the winter I don't do it either, cause it really does make me sick. But in the summer it's faster to let it dry outside.
I do it as well, and I always get strange looks and comments. I don't particularly mind and keep doing it anyway ahahahhahaha. But the struggle is real (I live in a beach town and I do this even if I have to hang out with friends at night ahahhahah)
Fun fact: I'd learn to eat Spaghetti as a kid in Italy 50 years ago - with a fork and a spoon. In this time it has been a normal behavior. That changes in the late eighties. It's like eating asperagus in Germany. Before the eighties it's a no go to eat it with a fork and a knife (only fork is aloud), now it's normal.
As an American who has traveled all over the US, I can clearly say that I have never seen an American put ketchup on pizza. I know Russians and some Mexicans do use ketchup on pizza. This channel must do a real video about what not to do in America. So many foreigners come to the US and commit so many errors it is crazy.
Just eat whatever makes you happy ^^ Foods come from creativity ^^ But that being said, I understand the pain when it's something traditional that we have been doing the same way for hundreds or thousands of years. 😂 Portuguese here.
That's true but creative doesn't always mean good! Sugar in the sauce is additional sugar that your body could really do without. Ketchup on pasta is the same thing Pineapple on pizza is fine and I say that as an italian, I don't like it at all but the flavors work for some people.
Here in Brazil we just care about our own happiness, it doesn't matter what other people think of ourselves, we'll go out with our hair wet, we'll eat the food the way we like, we'll wear clothes the way we feel more confortable, we'll drink coffee whenever we are in need...
I had a short trip to Italy and this is my summary: excellent food, black/dark clothes, historical sites all over, a very different take on common courtesy than the US lol.
I was born in the Bronx, New York (the northern part of New York City, right above Manhattan) and I grew up & still live in the suburbs right above. I grew up with good pizza, when I was in elementary school I really liked Sicilian pizza. When I went to university I discovered Chicago pizza & really liked it. And when I was in my 40s I discovered Hawaiian pizza - I had never tried it because it seemed so crazy and different but I was shocked that I really liked it.
I'm brazilian and here people put ketchup on a lot of foods, and pasta and pizza are two of them. I personally don't like ketchup, so I don't put it on anything. I prefer to make a tomato sauce myself. But if you go to more traditional pizzarias here there's only olive oil and they will frown if you ask for ketchup. About the pineapple pizza, one of the best pizzas I had was a pineapple and smoked turkey breast pizza. That's not an uncommon type of pizza in Brazil, since we have lots of toppings, including shredded chicken, requeijão (a type of cream cheese we have here) and many more weird toppings. We have sweet pizzas too, like chocolate, chocolate and strawberry, chocolate and shredded coconut, nutella and banana and many more. Of course, more traditional pizzarias stay away from those odd flavors.
I was raised in an Italian American family in New Jersey... A couple years ago I moved to New Mexico and I was honestly disturbed lol to see people eating pizza and pasta with ranch dressing. In New Jersey, that would definitely be a faux pas. I do not understand it. But it's a thing out here. Even with mozzarella sticks, I have to specifically ask for marinara sauce or else I will get ranch dressing.
Omg i’m so sorry to hear that 😭 lololol I grew up in jersey so i can only imagine how much you must miss good italian food. I live in one of the old-school italian-american neighborhoods in brooklyn so i’m really spoiled by good italian food and groceries stores / butchers. Probably the best you can get outside of Italy. I have to say NJ beats most of NY state when it comes to Italian food though.
@@reaux3921 hot take, Italian food exists only in Italy. Like every other local food. Even if you take a real Italian but in america, with american ingredients it will never be the same. I personally know Italian restaurant owners in different parts of the world and everyone says the same thing: "I can't cook real Italian food because people think that's not Italian" let that sink in.....😂
Honestly, as an italian, that lives here, I love pineapple ham pizza! Ahahahah Onestamente, da italiano che vive qui, adoro la pizza con ananas e prosciuto! Ahahahha
As an Italian who lives in Italy I tell you you can also order cappuccino in the afternoon but it absolutely should not be taken while you are eating, Certainly not in the evening.As for sugar on tomato sauce,You can use it if the tomato is too acidic but no more than a pinch Basically the same as you would add salt but I guarantee that if you cook the sauce at a low temperature rather than a high heat it won't be so acidic.Regarding white socks, they can be tolerated if you play tennis or if you are dressed completely in white, otherwise avoid them And as you said, absolutely not with sandals :-) Then for the rest we are quite tolerant and we understand that you are not Italian.But for sure we are horrified or feel bad lol
I wonder if the spoon with pasta is a regional thing in the US. I'm in St. Louis and I've never seen it. I've heard of it, but never seen it personally.
I, myself, am a huge fan of pineapple on pizza lol I grew up in a tropical country and pineapple is a common fruit, so the flavour is something that works with my palette 😅
Italian here, I don't like pineapple on pizza myself but I have no real issue with it; it's simply my distaste for sweet+savoury combinations My ex girlfriend had a real talent for cooking, she could recognize what flavours went well together and when somone told her that "foreigners" put pineapple and ham on pizza, to try and shock her, she instead said "sounds delicious". Pineapple on pizza is so divisive because it's one of those flavours that some people really really dislike, like me. It tastes so weird and unpleasant that it almost looks inconceivable to them. People's taste is a strange thing; for some people bananas are a treat for me bananas make me gag
@@giuseppedamora. facciamoci un giro per i Campi Flegrei (Napoli Nord) e mi fai vedere dove fanno ste cose . Ora sto scrivendo da Pozzuoli. Qui delle pizze con creme dolci non c'è nemmeno l'ombra.
@@Κύμη So dov'è campi flegrei, sono uno studente di ingegneria alla federico II, ci vado tutti i giorni, sfortunatamente. Non so in quella zona se le pizzerie fanno pizze dolci, ma ti assicuro che a napoli e provincia ce ne sono tantissime.
Yes we add a pinch of sugar to the tomato sauce. We do that to regulate the acidity of the tomatoes. Also yes, you may find a lot of people eating spaghetti with a spoon (especially in the south).
where I live, ketchup on pasta and using a spoon for pasta is seen like a kiddie thing, like any adult who can't eat pasta with just a fork with at best get teased in a "do you also need mommy to cut the pasta?" way, and at worst relentlessly mocked for ti, and in kids is okay cuz, you know many younger kids have problems with forks. Ketchup with pasta... is not a thing as far as I can tell, some kids may add it to their plate (and too many dishes) precisely because it's sweet and they like it, but it's not added to the sauce itself, but most older people wouldn't be caught death putting ketchup in anything other than nuggets, fries, burgers and hotdogs (which maybe not so coincidentally are stuff you more often than not, found in the kid section of menus.)
3:47 Some french people do that as well actually. And I'm guilty to have done it once as student when I got ketchup that was about to expire for free, and nothing else to put on my pasta... :'(
I'm not Italian, I'm Catalan, but I lived for a while in Rome (I speak Italian too) and well, I'm Mediterranean too, so we share some cultural stuff, like what she said about not wearing socks with sandals, that's sooo wrong! And people do go out with the hair wet from time to time, but we are always told we shouldn't do that cause of what Jordy said, they say we can get a could, so we usually dry it as well. I've seen some people put ketchup on pasta and on a pizza, which I despise, I hate that, but some people do... I'm sorry Italians but we use the spon😅. And about pineapple as a topping, yes, there's the same fight over here. Personally I think it shouldn't be a topping, in fact I don't even like the taste of it, so I don't want it on my wood oven made pizza with a thin crust, which is the kind of pizza that I like, the real kind😊✌🏽. Nice video! Best regards from Barcelona!
@@GIUSEPPEOC. I don't wanna start a discussion right now, but let me just say that I don't identify as Spanish, I'm just Catalan. I'm not stupid I know that officially I am, but unofficially I'm whatever I want, and well we are in unofficial territory, so, this is my flag if you don't mind: 💛❤💛❤💛❤💛❤💛 😊✌🏽
@@judna1 There's no problem with that, many times I identify as Sicilian instead of Italian and many other Italians do it as well. Greetings from Sicily to Catalonia!
Don't know in details where Ketchup pasta is a thing but by experience I've already seen it in the US and in Japan (in Japan it was convenience store's Napolitano, guess it's cheaper to produce than actual tomato sauce)
Jody, say it babe, german people do put ketchup in pasta too, and they even add würstel in it. And by the way, i use the spoon to eat spaghetti. It's very helpfull lol. Oh i forgot, i drink cappuccino with a sweet snack in the afternoon around 16:00 pm
Fork and knife for pasta for me. 90% of people around me use the spoon, but I was raised with the knife. With the spoon, I always end up with a roll too big. Difficult to get the exact amount I want. Even worse with rolling on the side of the plate. I might end up with the whole plate on my fork if there is not enough room to manoeuvre there to begin with. The spoon might help when the pasta is too slippery, when it does not stay on the fork. But so does the knife. Round knife, and please, don't cut the pasta. A more serious question would be : in Italy, what should your roll of pasta on your fork look like ? Is a pending "tail" ok, or do you need to produce a perfect roll with not a centimetre of pasta pending ?
If the tail is short it’s acceptable even in a semi formal environment, like a meal at the restaurant with friends or family. But if you end up with a very long tail (basically too long to enter in your mouth in one go), you probably took a too large amount (or you didn’t roll it enough) 😉
The American girl is not from the Northeast. I am from NY originally with my maternal side is Italian! I grew up with just the fork only eating spaghetti. I saw spoons in European countries outside Italy but I twirl my spaghetti very well like anyone in Italy. Ketchup on pasta depends on the. nationality. I cooked sauce in the UK! I taught there for 10 summer. I got cheers and more from the Italian students and French for my sauce because they were not a fan of English food. My paternal side is Irish and it is similar to English but of course my dad was American. The Russian students did not have my sauce some of them. They wanted strawberry sauce or ketchup. I thought that was gross!! Italians in the USA make fun of non Italian Americans on their Italian food cooking. My father's side used jar sauces like Ragu. Ragu in the USA was awful. My mom cooked and made her sauce with Puree like passata di pomodoro. I loved redpack tomato puree!! Best in the USA. I lived in Italy for 3 years. I tasted the passata di pomodoro and said thank God!! I can cooked a sauce. In other countries in Europe, I only found it in large supermarkets like Tesco in the UK. A big one because there was not too many. In the UK like the Irish by ancestry in the USA or in Ireland and UK think it is all the same to them. Jar ready made sauces and Puree cans or passata di pomodoro. Now I get passata di pomodoro in the USA, more expensive only because in case they use chemicals. When I was in Italy, I cooked the same and ate a lot but lost weight!! Eating almost a pound of pasta a day or in the afternoons but in the USA not it does not happen. I cook the same and it comes out the same my sauce!! Something is wrong. Pineapple on pizza started in Hawaii not surprising and spread to NY NJ late 80s and early 90s. Italian American families mostly prefer salami or a type of pepperoni or sausages or other toppings. Non Italian Americans some liked it that I saw it in the UK saying American style or even sweet corn on Pizza saying NY style. I never saw corn on pizza in the USA or corn in tuna fish or anything like that like in the UK. Pineapple I would never put fruit on my pizza!!
What region of the United States has this idea that putting ketchup on pasta is acceptable. Or maybe this is a Canadian thing please say it’s Canadian. Never have I ever seen anyone in all my days put ketchup on pasta. And my sister’s husband and her whole family are ketchup fiends but they would never put it on pasta. There are lines that should never be crossed.
About the sauce it depends. In general if the quality of the sauce is high/good you don't have to put sugar. If it's too acidic you can put a little spoon. In general it's better and healtier not to use sugar
4:48 what she on? XD If u want a really acid sauce u don't put sugar in it but if u want a balanced flavours sauce then u put it. 5:00 if u want to help urself with a spoon to eat spaghetti and other long types pasta you can do that
Why, i actually use the spoon to eat every kind of long pasta; i can also eat without a spoon but i feel more comfortable using it. I think using the spoon is something you do or not depending on your family: i mean, if your parents use to eat spaghetti with the spoon, growing up you're likely to learn using it too. It's true that not many italians use the spoon but it's not something unheard of.
No, if you're going to enjoy a meal with others or if you go to a restaurant you can't use any spoon; that's rude. I also hate the sound that spoon+fork do make.
I was several times in Friuli Venezia and there you can get Pizza Wurstel and Pizza con Patate , both like by children and teenager. I will eat my strucchi once I am back at Cividale
using a spoon to eat spaghetti is something that's not common anymore, but it was considered part of the etiquette in the past and some people prefer to eat spaghetti with a spoon in italy too. it's not a common thing though.
My father is italian, I dunno if this accounts for anything but I never heard of using a spoon to assist in spaghetti consumption….except maybe uppercrust white/Brit/non-southern Europeans thing to do? I don’t think our family marinara calls for sugar since the recipe calls for prepping the tomatoes or which canned kind to use which will not need sugar either…..? Ketchup I have never heard of anywhere near Italian things except pizza… In Turkey, or anywhere else outside Italy and US (to my knowledge) serves “pizza” with ketchup and mayo. 🤢
Well, i will teach Italian people the way to use chopsticks when eating noodles^^; Пусть наш Бог хранит Украину. Миру мир! Cầu nguyện cho Ukraine và hòa bình.
The SOCKS! That is totally right, no socks should ever be worn with sandals or open shoes in general. White socks are probably fine for any kind of sport related activity, like soccer, tennis, going to the gym, that's okay. Food is so subjective though, as someone who has worked in a coffee shop for a few years I can safely say nobody cares if you get a cappuccino at any hour of the day. If want to cut back on the caffeine you can always ask for it to be decaf 😁 We won't look down on you!
Wait do you really never use a spoon for spaghetti in the rest of Italy? Lmao I, from the south, am used to using it sometimes but for example my grandfather always uses it🤷♀
Ma lo faccio anche io del nord, è tipo comodissimo! Senza faccio cadere la metà degli spaghetti sulla tovaglia e poi chi cazzo ha voglia di sentire mia madre che si lamenta?😂
@@Baccagaii No, ma non vivo secondo le regole del galateo così com’è stato concepito 150 anni fa, quindi se qualcuno lo dice rispondo con un grazie, mica mi alzo dalla tavola. Però che una persona nata e cresciuta in Italia non sappia mangiare uno dei piatti nazionali è singolare e comunque rappresenta la mancanza di un’abilità sociale che si può acquisire con poco sforzo. Così come, visto MOLTO spesso specialmente in USA, si può imparare a tagliare una bistecca senza brandire il coltello come un pugnale e la forchetta come un’alabarda, senza per questo stare a tavola come il Principe di Galles.
@@RicMorn Ma allora non rompere a chi vuole mangiarsi gli spaghetti con il cucchiaio, è solo una comodità in più. In più se c'è da lamentarsi, guarda come li mangiano i tedeschi.
thats actually wrong, depending on the quality of the tomatoes, if the "sweetness" of the onions isnt enough u need a sprinkle of sugar to balance the acidity to really make pop that fruity taste of the tomatoes. so Callie's mum is right.
actually a some italians do that, especially in the south afaik. It is seen as strange but cmon, it's just a spoon if you learned to eat it that way as a kid it's ok
We actually do put sugar in the sauce in italy BUT STRICTLY ONLY IF THE TOMATO SAUCE IS TOO ACIDIC, which generally means that the tomato sauce is simply not good quality unfortunately...
Good quality tomato sauce shouldn't be acidic enough to require any sugar; if your tomato sauce is noticeably acidic you might want to switch to another brand
I'm from Russia, and my mom sometimes cooks pasta, but she makes the sauce HERSELF from our tomatoes (we have a vegetable garden) and never adds sugar there. of course, there is an exception when she made canned food for the winter and added some sugar to it, but only so that it would not deteriorate during storage
@@cody_bite4362 Good quality tomatoes are already sweet and not acidic, that's why good quality sauce doesn't need sugar
I'm Italian and I have never seen anyone put sugare in the tomato sauce. If you feel the need to use SUGAR to reduce the acidity of the tomatoes, then you are really using trash-quality tomatoes.
@@cristianturbian2513 è vero n ho messo mai lo zucchero nella passata di pomodoro. Sono d'accordo con lei dependedella qualità del pomodoro si usa.
@@cristianturbian2513 io lo faccio sempre e sempre fatto perché sennò il pomodoro ha uno strano gusto, anche jon troppo acido ma dolce è meglio. Non credo però di comprare pomodoro di marche povere, compro sempre diverse marche e le principali e a volte costose, forse sono io rotta boh
jordy is a great choice, I like her representing Italy 🇮🇹, I really like Italian culture and especially Italian food
Thanks!
I’m Italian ÙwÚ
@@imperomaratona who
@@imperomaratona wahahah bello incontrare altri italiani
she actually makes some things up
She did nothing but the food food, pizza pasta nonsense and 10 seconds on Italy's history, achievements and said "in Italy" every 10 seconds.
It's acceptable to add just a pinch of sugar in your tomato sauce IF yout tomatoes are a little too acidic, but if you cook it properly you shouldn't need it.
In the north of Italy it's perfectly acceptable to drink cappuccino in the afternoon. A lot of my friends have it, and nobody has anything to say about it. I don't really know about other parts of Italy, though. The real "NO NO" is having cappuccino after a meal.
Perfect!
I drink cappuccino, all hours at my house, (I'm from Rome), but if I'm away from home, I usually take either a macchiato or a normal coffee if I'm like in a restaurant... perhaps it is a tradition that I carry from my grandmother's house since she does not drink milk...
I'm from the south and I've never seen someone drinking cappuccino if not in the morning
@@merylee2752 infatti è prassi beverlo per colazione il cappuccino
I'm from Turin in northern Italy and everybody gets cappuccino in the afternoon
OK i wanna talk. I'm italian and we are not that strict in general(at least the new generation). If it's needed you can put a little bit of sugar in the tomato souce, but if the souce is good or hommade (i'm from the south of italy(naples) and my family do tomato souce from our tomatoes every year, but that's not common, expecially in the north) you don't need it. There are some people that eat spaghetti with spoon, but it's not common.(My grandpa does it and some children too). I've never tested pinapple on pizza, but i want. In italy we eat pizza with thousands of toppings (for examples i love pizza with corn, ham, mozzarella and cream). Most of the italians from the old generation do not like this "new versions", but we do. Cappuccino is generally drinked in the morning, and if you drink it with pasta for instance, it's strange. If u drink it in the aternoon or in the night it's not strange. I'm very mind opened on everything except for ketchup on pasta. In my opinion ketchup it's a shit in general, but on pasta it's the worste thing ever.
Infatti, mai sentito i nostri compaesani lamentarsi tanto per queste cose. Io la pasta con il cucchiaio la mangio perché è comodissimo. La salsa la facciamo anche al nord ma dipende dalla famiglia, dipende se sei uno che preferisce le cose fatte in casa o meno. La pizza all'ananas la voglio un sacco provare, visto che ho mangiato quella alle pere, noci e gorgonzola ed era fantastica. Comunque non so te, ma io mi innervosisco più per come mangiano i tedeschi che per gli americani AHAHAH
@@Baccagaii Le bottiglie di pomodori fatte in casa ormai quasi nessuno le fa più, proprio perchè i contadini sono in percentuale nettamente inferiore. Credo che al nord la percentuale sia veramente minima. Onestamente a me non da fastidio se in altri paesi mangiano di merda, anzi, mi sento fortunato a essere nato in italia e soprattutto figlio di mia madre (che è cuoca).
@@Baccagaii Mi piace provare tutto. Ad essere onesto pere, noci e gorgonzola non mi ispira, ma non si può mai sapere.
Esattamente soprattutto sul fatto del cucchiaio, io personalmente lo uso è semplicemente comodo non c'è niente di male non capisco perché a volte si arrabbiano quando vedono gli altri utilizzare il cucchiaio 💀
@@aurorasantangelo6103 in tutta onestà, non ho mai visto nessuno arrabbiarsi per i cucchiai, o almeno nella mia zona. Fanno tanto i maestrini del galateo, poi dicono buon appetito a tavola😂
Thoughts of Italy : Food , Fashion , Fancy Football , History , Art...the list goes on
Fancy? Football?
@@lelapin6166 we high end brands, also football is pretty good, we did win the euros last year, tho we didn't qualify for the world cup
Pizza, pasta, lasagna, mafia, mobster, Al Pacino, Robert de Niro ext...
@@irenecarrillo6750 the language is not fancy tho
@@percymiller8775 any other stereotypes? I think you miss them.
different cultures can be so strict with their food/drink habits. I remember living in Belgium at dorm, I offered juice to Spanish friend at like 5pm. she was, no no no, juice is for the morning why do you drink juice now?
what a strange spaniard... I'm from Spain and juice is a standard drink for merienda (ugh I hate the lack of an english word for merienda, it´s like... an afternoon snack, whatever)
Actually in Italy sometimes it's possible to adjust the tomato sauce with sugar if it's too acid. But just a little when you're cooking it.
Instead of that you should try cherry tomatoes, they're perfect on Pasta, they're the perfect balance between acidic and non-acidic and sweet/salty. Just don't put too much salt otherwise it tastes just like standard tomatoes
@@fanaticofmetal yes, I mean there are problems when you buy the tomato puree at supermarket, not when you cook directly with the tomatoes you want.
I’m from the north of Italy, to be honest I think the cappuccino thing is a thing of the south. I’ve had cappuccino after lunch, and I’ve seen it fairly frequently in bars and nobody raised an eyebrow at that. But in Rome they are quite sensitive about the topic and baristas will indeed scold you if you ask for a cappuccino outside of the “designated” time
Me too. I think the big sin is to have it for lunch with savoury dishes, that's pretty disgusting!
i'm from naples and here it's exactly the same.
Ma perché?
I'd tell them to eff off and give me what I want LOL
It is the same in South. Even short espressos after dinner, especially during the summer nights out... It is probably catchy story for tourists.
I am an American that studied in Belgium and the Italian students thought it was so funny that in Belgium they sell ravioli in a can. They said they would never have canned ravioli in Italy. We also have canned ravioli in America though.
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Canned ravioli? Come on...
whoever eats canned ravioli is because they ha
About socks and sandals, we have a word for it: "scandali" (calze + sandali), and it works even in english (scandals)
So, remember: SOCKS + SANDALS = SCANDALS
About the sweet cappuccino with strange things on it: we should import it in Italy, they're perfect for breakfast 😍
In Oregon I tried honey and lavander cappuccino, it was delicious 😍
Linus Tech Tips takes offense to that.
I'm sorry,but I'm Italian and if I want to put socks under my sandals because it's too hot for shoes but too cold for sandals+bare feet I'M GONNA DO IT and there's nothing you can do about it! 😤 You know what freaks ME out and I can't see how so many people can do it without blinking an eye?!?Wearing no socks under shoes or wearing socks so short that it LOOKS like you don't have them!To just see a bare thin ankle popping out a massive shoe literally gives me SHIVERS 😖 and I'll never understand how people can be such jerks about sandals+socks and then accepting *THAT* horror without questions!
Also I never understood the"no WHITE socks"thing specifically.What's wrong with white?It's the most neutral colour ever!!Are you saying I'm supposed to wear ORANGE socks when I'm dressed all fancy?Or green socks?Or mouse grey socks?Is grey better than white?Or black better than white?And WHY???What does it change?They're all neutral colours,WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS NONESENSICAL FASHION RULE???!!!😵
@@Nicamon Linus Tech Tips would love to have you. XD
@@RandomFandomOfficial I don't know who that is but 😄👍!
When Jordi said that people would look at you funny it made laugh because in Italy we don't have security cameras we have Nonna's(old ladies or granny's) who look at you from they're balcony 😂
My nonna and nonno were both born in Italy and lived there until their late teens. Both of them were from the south and always used a spoon to eat their pasta (you roll it on top of the spoon instead of doing it on the plate). My nonno even joked how my brother and I disappointed him since we didn't use spoons to eat our pasta. So I think the use of the spoon depends on the region. What you should NEVER do is cut up the pasta. THAT will for sure make a true Italian upset.
Also, it's perfectly acceptable to add a spoonful or two of sugar to your tomato sauce if it's too acidic. Tomatoes are different depending on where in the world you live and what season it is. Personally, I adjust the acidity of my tomato sauce by adding sugar and baking soda and it comes out delicious every time.
It's not a regional thing it's more of an "etiquette" thing. Here in italy only older folk do it and strictly at home. It would be considered rude to do it at a restaurant and I have this memory of a family dinner at a restaurant with both my maternal grandparents and my paternal grandmother; since my maternal side was more "lower class" my grandad would use the spoon to eat spaghetti, nobody else did it in his family though, not the daughters nor my grandmother. I remember the shock of my paternal grandmother seeing my grandad use a spoon; she didn't say anything but you sure can bet she was thinking about saying something.
So if you want to look like an old italian dude with a wifebeater and a cross necklace, eating spaghetti while watching football on television then yeah go ahead and use a spoon!
The sugar thing is true, even us italians may do it and it is not socially unacceptable BUT ONLY IF THE SAUCE IS NOTICEABLY ACIDIC (which unfortunately either means that the sauce is bad quality or that it is overcooked). If your sauce is too acidic go ahead and use a small amount of sugar but a better idea would be to switch brands or be careful to not overcook it. Tomato sauce should be cooked with the lowest possible flame.
And yeah we don't cut pasta, if you want short pasta there already is short pasta available, long pasta is supposed to be... long
I'm italian and i never seen someone eating spaghetti with fork and spoon in my entire life here.
i'm italian, from napoli and there are some people that do it. It is not common at all, but i've seen it a few times.
I'm Italian and i eat my spaghetti with fork and spoon. In restaurant, too.
there's a spot in hell for those who brake or cuts basically any kind of pasta
Jordy is so sweet...she reminds me a fairy tale creature...👀...🤗
It's nice to see Jordy again. I love the way she represents Italy and her behaviour just matches the atmosphere of the vid. Love it.
I'm Italian, of the South, and in the sauce I put only salt, never sugar nor have I ever heard someone put it. Already many times the sauce is very sweet, sometimes not even so strong the taste without salt, God forbid I also put sugar in it. When I saw this thing of sugar in sauce in American films, not even in Italian shows with cooks on TV, I never heard anything other than salt, I was very amazed.
The cappuccino, on the other hand, I also drink at 11 in the evening if I feel like it, there is no time limit for me.
However, pasta on ketchup is not only American as a thing, but also English, at least as a stereotype.
How many kinds of Italian 'traditional' pizza are there? What things are used for traditional pizza? Пусть наш Бог хранит Украину. Миру мир! Cầu nguyện cho Ukraine và hòa bình.
Just to point out two things:
I don't know if that is a valid reason for everyone, but the fact that we tendentially do not drink cappuccino after 12am in Italy, or at least it's not a common use, is probably tied to the normal digestion process that for us is extremely important, always generally speaking. Since in cappuccino, and not only in that kind of morning drink, you find a fair amount of milk, we tend not to drink it the more we get close to bedtime cause it's a pretty hard ingredient to digest, and you wanna be sure your body has digested all the food and drinks, or most of 'em, that it assumed during the day.
The second point's aimed at answering the question I've found quite often here in the comments: "why is it that offensive for italians to see people cutting pasta?"
...well, let's make an example here. Every single shape of pasta has its roots in hundreads and hundreads of years in our history, and every single one of those 300 kinds, and more, originated in a specific area instead of the other, addressing various dynamics that led to the birth of their peculiar shapes, created and, initially hand-crafted in certain ways, both for artistic reasons, but also according to the cultural identity of that specific place, making them even more unique.
Also, even if this should already be enough to answer that question, I'd still like to add another thing, specifically considering the fact that, out of all those shapes, people tend to cut spaghetti more often. In this particular case, it is worth noticing that, in orther to understand where that disappointed feeling of ours comes from, to make those long strands of pasta, it takes pasta-makers around 15 hours of their lives each time. And that's one of the other reasons why it is often perceived as being offensive and disrespectful to their efforts and, consequently, to our culture, added to the uncomprehensible act of buying a long-shaped pasta knowing you're gonna cut it when you have a bunch of short kinds available.
With that being said, I hope I made everything clear and that people will hopfully stop seeing italians as a group of people who simply like to randomly complain about stuff. The only reason why we do keep complaining is actually a matter of always having to repeat the same things cause people just keep sharing disinformation about a specific culture, that, in this case, happens to be the italian one.
Thank you for having read so far and sorry for this poem, but I felt it was necessary😅
As an Italian, I can confirm that we use sugar in souce sometimes, and also we can use the spoon to eat pasta. But it's all up to certain regions.
4:14 I’m Italian and that’s actually a thing! Many of us do that with tomato sauce. As she said it reduces the acidity of the tomato :) some even use a little milk
I'm Brazilian and my family eats spaghetti every Sunday and we also put tomato sauce on it, it's super yummy.
It’s perfectly allowed add a very little bit of sugar in the recepy of tomatoes sauce. The reason is to regulate the acidic of tomatoes.
Very true, I love that you pointed it out!
I was thinking the same thing we always put a very little bit in a very large pot of sauce. She did admit she doesn’t cook so she is really speaking from zero experience.
If you use cheap and low quality tomatoes, maybe.
You should use the best quality of ripe tomatoes, than you need no sugar. Some ketchups have more than 50% sugar added. Never compare ketchup with original Italian tomatoe sauce.
yes, correct, a "coffee spoon" of sugar in a 5 litres pot of sauce is acceptable if you want to correct the acidity (not all the tomatoes are the same, and sometimes depends even the age of the plant, the type of terrain, the type of water, if rained or not, so is ok to correct) but it never should becomes sweet
That shocks us Portuguese too - sandals with socks OMG hahahah
Especially, when it rains. Пусть наш Бог хранит Украину. Миру мир! Cầu nguyện cho Ukraine và hòa bình.
It's a big crime against fashion.
I am Italian and I always use a pinch of sugar to adjust the acidity of the tomato sauce. If you want, you can also use a little milk. But only a little bit.
But that means the tomato you used weren't good
@@gaia7240 Tomato is naturally acidic. It depends a lot on what kind of tomato you use but it always has a hint of acidity.
@@Akaprovic I know
@@Akaprovicbro cazzo fai, lo zucchero no
@@IMKAPPAA perché te come la correggi l'acidità del pomodoro? Così hanno insegnato a me..
As a former italian savage certified for three years now, just do what u please when you it pleases you to do it, just one thing, make sure people have their eyes on you or it's not fun
The American mother is right, in Italy we often put a little sugar in the tomato sauce to remove the acidity even if many Italian chefs consider it questionable
actually, I'm Italian and I use a spoon and fork to eat spaghetti.. and I know for sure I'm not the only one, it's just less common 😅
but actually, I think it's less messy and somehow it just gives me a more "polite" vibe 🤣
Anch'io uso il cucchiaio. Infatti il mio nonno mi ha sempre insegnato di fare così. Ho visto anche alcune persone che da bambino usano il cucchiaio, poi quando sono più grandi usano solo la forchetta
I always go out with my hair wet in Italy xD the sun dries it quicker than any hair dryer would. I've never gotten stares, but then again, I've only ever worn my hair wet in beach towns, where it's no issue, ppl just assume I must have been swimming recently.
It's normal to do it after the gym or the swimming pool. It's a bit of a no no in the winter, we are very scared of colds for some reason...
@@giuliaanichini7667 well yeah, in the winter I don't do it either, cause it really does make me sick. But in the summer it's faster to let it dry outside.
I do it as well, and I always get strange looks and comments. I don't particularly mind and keep doing it anyway ahahahhahaha. But the struggle is real (I live in a beach town and I do this even if I have to hang out with friends at night ahahhahah)
Fun fact: I'd learn to eat Spaghetti as a kid in Italy 50 years ago - with a fork and a spoon. In this time it has been a normal behavior. That changes in the late eighties.
It's like eating asperagus in Germany. Before the eighties it's a no go to eat it with a fork and a knife (only fork is aloud), now it's normal.
in southern italy was more common afaik
As an American who has traveled all over the US, I can clearly say that I have never seen an American put ketchup on pizza. I know Russians and some Mexicans do use ketchup on pizza.
This channel must do a real video about what not to do in America. So many foreigners come to the US and commit so many errors it is crazy.
As an American I have seen Ketchup on pizza in Mexico, and Cuba, but never seen Ketchup on Pasta. I've seen people put ketchup on eggs in the U.S.
@@jaydaytoday3548 If US Americans have a rule is to put Ketchup literally everywhere
Brazilians do that too 😭😵💔
@@fanaticofmetal Not this American 🤮
Russians use mayonnaise for everything.
Just eat whatever makes you happy ^^ Foods come from creativity ^^ But that being said, I understand the pain when it's something traditional that we have been doing the same way for hundreds or thousands of years. 😂 Portuguese here.
That's true but creative doesn't always mean good! Sugar in the sauce is additional sugar that your body could really do without. Ketchup on pasta is the same thing
Pineapple on pizza is fine and I say that as an italian, I don't like it at all but the flavors work for some people.
"Do not mess with PIZZAAA!!!" Jordi I love u!
Here in Brazil we just care about our own happiness, it doesn't matter what other people think of ourselves, we'll go out with our hair wet, we'll eat the food the way we like, we'll wear clothes the way we feel more confortable, we'll drink coffee whenever we are in need...
I had a short trip to Italy and this is my summary: excellent food, black/dark clothes, historical sites all over, a very different take on common courtesy than the US lol.
I was born in the Bronx, New York (the northern part of New York City, right above Manhattan) and I grew up & still live in the suburbs right above. I grew up with good pizza, when I was in elementary school I really liked Sicilian pizza. When I went to university I discovered Chicago pizza & really liked it. And when I was in my 40s I discovered Hawaiian pizza - I had never tried it because it seemed so crazy and different but I was shocked that I really liked it.
I'm brazilian and here people put ketchup on a lot of foods, and pasta and pizza are two of them. I personally don't like ketchup, so I don't put it on anything. I prefer to make a tomato sauce myself. But if you go to more traditional pizzarias here there's only olive oil and they will frown if you ask for ketchup.
About the pineapple pizza, one of the best pizzas I had was a pineapple and smoked turkey breast pizza. That's not an uncommon type of pizza in Brazil, since we have lots of toppings, including shredded chicken, requeijão (a type of cream cheese we have here) and many more weird toppings. We have sweet pizzas too, like chocolate, chocolate and strawberry, chocolate and shredded coconut, nutella and banana and many more.
Of course, more traditional pizzarias stay away from those odd flavors.
I was raised in an Italian American family in New Jersey... A couple years ago I moved to New Mexico and I was honestly disturbed lol to see people eating pizza and pasta with ranch dressing. In New Jersey, that would definitely be a faux pas. I do not understand it. But it's a thing out here. Even with mozzarella sticks, I have to specifically ask for marinara sauce or else I will get ranch dressing.
Omg i’m so sorry to hear that 😭 lololol I grew up in jersey so i can only imagine how much you must miss good italian food. I live in one of the old-school italian-american neighborhoods in brooklyn so i’m really spoiled by good italian food and groceries stores / butchers. Probably the best you can get outside of Italy. I have to say NJ beats most of NY state when it comes to Italian food though.
@@word42069 America isn’t the world. Argentina has better Italian food than New Jersey
@@reaux3921 hot take, Italian food exists only in Italy. Like every other local food. Even if you take a real Italian but in america, with american ingredients it will never be the same.
I personally know Italian restaurant owners in different parts of the world and everyone says the same thing: "I can't cook real Italian food because people think that's not Italian" let that sink in.....😂
Honestly, as an italian, that lives here, I love pineapple ham pizza! Ahahahah
Onestamente, da italiano che vive qui, adoro la pizza con ananas e prosciuto! Ahahahha
As an Italian who lives in Italy I tell you you can also order cappuccino in the afternoon but it absolutely should not be taken while you are eating, Certainly not in the evening.As for sugar on tomato sauce,You can use it if the tomato is too acidic but no more than a pinch Basically the same as you would add salt but I guarantee that if you cook the sauce at a low temperature rather than a high heat it won't be so acidic.Regarding white socks, they can be tolerated if you play tennis or if you are dressed completely in white, otherwise avoid them And as you said, absolutely not with sandals :-) Then for the rest we are quite tolerant and we understand that you are not Italian.But for sure we are horrified or feel bad lol
I wonder if the spoon with pasta is a regional thing in the US. I'm in St. Louis and I've never seen it. I've heard of it, but never seen it personally.
I, myself, am a huge fan of pineapple on pizza lol I grew up in a tropical country and pineapple is a common fruit, so the flavour is something that works with my palette 😅
Italian here, I don't like pineapple on pizza myself but I have no real issue with it; it's simply my distaste for sweet+savoury combinations
My ex girlfriend had a real talent for cooking, she could recognize what flavours went well together and when somone told her that "foreigners" put pineapple and ham on pizza, to try and shock her, she instead said "sounds delicious".
Pineapple on pizza is so divisive because it's one of those flavours that some people really really dislike, like me. It tastes so weird and unpleasant that it almost looks inconceivable to them. People's taste is a strange thing; for some people bananas are a treat for me bananas make me gag
Vade Retro Satana!!🤣. I'm Joking, but please don't do that in Italy on our national dish, you can end up in jail !!
Do not mass with PIZZA!
USA: Pineapple on pizza.
Brazil: Chocolate on pizza.
Pizza with Nutella is common in Italy hahah
@@alessiovalentini4401 io l'ho vista solo a Roma, tipo pizza e Nutella e pizza e fichi. A Napoli non credo lo facciano.
@@Κύμη assolutamente si. La pizza dolce, con nutella e altre creme si trovano in tantissime pizzerie di napoli e dintorni da anni e anni.
@@giuseppedamora. facciamoci un giro per i Campi Flegrei (Napoli Nord) e mi fai vedere dove fanno ste cose . Ora sto scrivendo da Pozzuoli. Qui delle pizze con creme dolci non c'è nemmeno l'ombra.
@@Κύμη So dov'è campi flegrei, sono uno studente di ingegneria alla federico II, ci vado tutti i giorni, sfortunatamente. Non so in quella zona se le pizzerie fanno pizze dolci, ma ti assicuro che a napoli e provincia ce ne sono tantissime.
Yes we add a pinch of sugar to the tomato sauce. We do that to regulate the acidity of the tomatoes.
Also yes, you may find a lot of people eating spaghetti with a spoon (especially in the south).
i use chopsticks when eating it^^; Пусть наш Бог хранит Украину. Миру мир! Cầu nguyện cho Ukraine và hòa bình.
where I live, ketchup on pasta and using a spoon for pasta is seen like a kiddie thing, like any adult who can't eat pasta with just a fork with at best get teased in a "do you also need mommy to cut the pasta?" way, and at worst relentlessly mocked for ti, and in kids is okay cuz, you know many younger kids have problems with forks.
Ketchup with pasta... is not a thing as far as I can tell, some kids may add it to their plate (and too many dishes) precisely because it's sweet and they like it, but it's not added to the sauce itself, but most older people wouldn't be caught death putting ketchup in anything other than nuggets, fries, burgers and hotdogs (which maybe not so coincidentally are stuff you more often than not, found in the kid section of menus.)
Ketchup on pasta is a crime, but cutting spaghetti before eating is a murder.
For real
Yes bro 🇮🇹🇮🇹
3:47 Some french people do that as well actually. And I'm guilty to have done it once as student when I got ketchup that was about to expire for free, and nothing else to put on my pasta... :'(
Jordy is so sweet ♥️🇮🇹
I'm not Italian, I'm Catalan, but I lived for a while in Rome (I speak Italian too) and well, I'm Mediterranean too, so we share some cultural stuff, like what she said about not wearing socks with sandals, that's sooo wrong! And people do go out with the hair wet from time to time, but we are always told we shouldn't do that cause of what Jordy said, they say we can get a could, so we usually dry it as well.
I've seen some people put ketchup on pasta and on a pizza, which I despise, I hate that, but some people do... I'm sorry Italians but we use the spon😅. And about pineapple as a topping, yes, there's the same fight over here. Personally I think it shouldn't be a topping, in fact I don't even like the taste of it, so I don't want it on my wood oven made pizza with a thin crust, which is the kind of pizza that I like, the real kind😊✌🏽.
Nice video! Best regards from Barcelona!
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@@GIUSEPPEOC. I don't wanna start a discussion right now, but let me just say that I don't identify as Spanish, I'm just Catalan. I'm not stupid I know that officially I am, but unofficially I'm whatever I want, and well we are in unofficial territory, so, this is my flag if you don't mind:
💛❤💛❤💛❤💛❤💛
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@@judna1 Ah ok, sorry.... i can't know that😅 No problem... everyone can relate to how he wants to be and how it feels to be😁
@@GIUSEPPEOC. No problem, now you know😊✌🏽
@@judna1 There's no problem with that, many times I identify as Sicilian instead of Italian and many other Italians do it as well. Greetings from Sicily to Catalonia!
Don't know in details where Ketchup pasta is a thing but by experience I've already seen it in the US and in Japan (in Japan it was convenience store's Napolitano, guess it's cheaper to produce than actual tomato sauce)
In sauces u can put sugar in case it's too much acid
Ketchup with pasta is very common in Sweden.
WE also love kebab on our pizza.
You must come to Italy to redeem yourself before it's too late...😂
In Italy pizza with kebab is fully normal
Jody, say it babe, german people do put ketchup in pasta too, and they even add würstel in it. And by the way, i use the spoon to eat spaghetti. It's very helpfull lol.
Oh i forgot, i drink cappuccino with a sweet snack in the afternoon around 16:00 pm
Consiglio; se vuoi togliere acidità al sugo di pomodoro, puoi mettere una punta di cucchiaino (da caffè) di bicarbonato di sodio
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
Fork and knife for pasta for me. 90% of people around me use the spoon, but I was raised with the knife. With the spoon, I always end up with a roll too big. Difficult to get the exact amount I want. Even worse with rolling on the side of the plate. I might end up with the whole plate on my fork if there is not enough room to manoeuvre there to begin with.
The spoon might help when the pasta is too slippery, when it does not stay on the fork. But so does the knife. Round knife, and please, don't cut the pasta.
A more serious question would be : in Italy, what should your roll of pasta on your fork look like ? Is a pending "tail" ok, or do you need to produce a perfect roll with not a centimetre of pasta pending ?
If the tail is short it’s acceptable even in a semi formal environment, like a meal at the restaurant with friends or family. But if you end up with a very long tail (basically too long to enter in your mouth in one go), you probably took a too large amount (or you didn’t roll it enough) 😉
All my relatives in southern Italy use the spoon to roll them.
stab them ez
The American girl is not from the Northeast. I am from NY originally with my maternal side is Italian! I grew up with just the fork only eating spaghetti. I saw spoons in European countries outside Italy but I twirl my spaghetti very well like anyone in Italy. Ketchup on pasta depends on the. nationality. I cooked sauce in the UK! I taught there for 10 summer. I got cheers and more from the Italian students and French for my sauce because they were not a fan of English food. My paternal side is Irish and it is similar to English but of course my dad was American. The Russian students did not have my sauce some of them. They wanted strawberry sauce or ketchup. I thought that was gross!! Italians in the USA make fun of non Italian Americans on their Italian food cooking. My father's side used jar sauces like Ragu. Ragu in the USA was awful.
My mom cooked and made her sauce with Puree like passata di pomodoro. I loved redpack tomato puree!! Best in the USA. I lived in Italy for 3 years. I tasted the passata di pomodoro and said thank God!! I can cooked a sauce. In other countries in Europe, I only found it in large supermarkets like Tesco in the UK. A big one because there was not too many. In the UK like the Irish by ancestry in the USA or in Ireland and UK think it is all the same to them. Jar ready made sauces and Puree cans or passata di pomodoro.
Now I get passata di pomodoro in the USA, more expensive only because in case they use chemicals. When I was in Italy, I cooked the same and ate a lot but lost weight!! Eating almost a pound of pasta a day or in the afternoons but in the USA not it does not happen. I cook the same and it comes out the same my sauce!! Something is wrong. Pineapple on pizza started in Hawaii not surprising and spread to NY NJ late 80s and early 90s. Italian American families mostly prefer salami or a type of pepperoni or sausages or other toppings. Non Italian Americans some liked it that I saw it in the UK saying American style or even sweet corn on Pizza saying NY style. I never saw corn on pizza in the USA or corn in tuna fish or anything like that like in the UK. Pineapple I would never put fruit on my pizza!!
little sugar is better also in Italy because of tomato, the time you make sauce u can put little sugar, that s better for tomato taste
"Who would do that ? Ketchup on pasta" my dear Callie , i do that and many people actually do that as well , really tasty 😛🤗
I'm glad at least she has common sense
What region of the United States has this idea that putting ketchup on pasta is acceptable. Or maybe this is a Canadian thing please say it’s Canadian. Never have I ever seen anyone in all my days put ketchup on pasta. And my sister’s husband and her whole family are ketchup fiends but they would never put it on pasta. There are lines that should never be crossed.
@@pjschmid2251 you're very much welcomed to Italy
Just disgusting.
I’ve never seen it.
Some Countries in Asia cook spaghetti with ketchup and hotdogs
Eww no.
Finally something Americans and Italians can agree on cuisine
About the sauce it depends. In general if the quality of the sauce is high/good you don't have to put sugar. If it's too acidic you can put a little spoon. In general it's better and healtier not to use sugar
As long as you don't put cream into carbonara sauce...
I've heard from Swedish friends of mine that it's not uncommon to eat ketchup with (cooked) frozen spaghetti in Sweden.
4:48 what she on? XD
If u want a really acid sauce u don't put sugar in it but if u want a balanced flavours sauce then u put it.
5:00 if u want to help urself with a spoon to eat spaghetti and other long types pasta you can do that
Why, i actually use the spoon to eat every kind of long pasta; i can also eat without a spoon but i feel more comfortable using it. I think using the spoon is something you do or not depending on your family: i mean, if your parents use to eat spaghetti with the spoon, growing up you're likely to learn using it too. It's true that not many italians use the spoon but it's not something unheard of.
No, if you're going to enjoy a meal with others or if you go to a restaurant you can't use any spoon; that's rude. I also hate the sound that spoon+fork do make.
You can use the spoon at home with your family but don't do it with guests or out at a restaurant; it's rude
I was several times in Friuli Venezia and there you can get Pizza Wurstel and Pizza con Patate , both like by children and teenager. I will eat my strucchi once I am back at Cividale
We call these kinds of pizza: Viennese or Americana. Funny thing Americans and Austrians don't have in their Menu those
04:14 - 04:28 My mom taught me the same thing and I'm Italian so I think it's true.💚🤍❤🍝
using a spoon to eat spaghetti is something that's not common anymore, but it was considered part of the etiquette in the past and some people prefer to eat spaghetti with a spoon in italy too. it's not a common thing though.
My father is italian, I dunno if this accounts for anything but I never heard of using a spoon to assist in spaghetti consumption….except maybe uppercrust white/Brit/non-southern Europeans thing to do? I don’t think our family marinara calls for sugar since the recipe calls for prepping the tomatoes or which canned kind to use which will not need sugar either…..? Ketchup I have never heard of anywhere near Italian things except pizza… In Turkey, or anywhere else outside Italy and US (to my knowledge) serves “pizza” with ketchup and mayo. 🤢
quella dei calzini non la sapevo haha
I didn't know the socks one haha
I am Italian too and I really like this kind of video to hear us accent but knowing different things byeee
How many international airports has Italia? Пусть наш Бог хранит Украину. Миру мир! Cầu nguyện cho Ukraine và hòa bình.
Many Canadians eat macaroni and cheese with ketchup and eating spaghetti with ketchup is supposedly common in Sweden.
I feel like this list is a list of things that most Americans don't do anyway.
I love jordy so much
I wanna point out how you can use a spoon to help you roll your spaghetti as it is still a custom in italy to do so, specifically south italy ;)
Well, i will teach Italian people the way to use chopsticks when eating noodles^^; Пусть наш Бог хранит Украину. Миру мир! Cầu nguyện cho Ukraine và hòa bình.
@@xohyuu the younger people are also able to do that XD since we a lot of sushi and chinese restaurants around here ;) still thanks buddy ^^
Oh, it is a kind reply^^; am late, piacere. @@sgrizzo48
@@xohyuu no worries buddy ^^ please forgive my ignorance but i assume you are from Russia, correct? :)
Didn't knew you guys used chopsticks :o
Im italian and I add sugar, also some old people use a spoon too, at least in the center area of the country. She's too strict lol
By the way, how many countries were there before united Itailia? Пусть наш Бог хранит Украину. Миру мир! Cầu nguyện cho Ukraine và hòa bình.
@@xohyuu a few mate, you can find it on google I dont know on the top of my head :)
Ahah I'm Italian and I always go out with wet hair
(´∀`)b Пусть наш Бог хранит Украину. Миру мир! Cầu nguyện cho Ukraine và hòa bình.
Nobody would die from wet hair. 😂
In Latvia we always eat spaghetti with a fork. Never in my entire life i saw if someone used a spoon. That`s not easy.
And chopsticks^^? | Пусть наш Бог хранит Украину. Миру мир! Cầu nguyện cho Ukraine và hòa bình.
I am Italian And i’m agree with you.
Use the fork
I have heard of ketchup on pasta because I've had it. If you don't have pasta sauce or can't afford it.
The SOCKS! That is totally right, no socks should ever be worn with sandals or open shoes in general. White socks are probably fine for any kind of sport related activity, like soccer, tennis, going to the gym, that's okay.
Food is so subjective though, as someone who has worked in a coffee shop for a few years I can safely say nobody cares if you get a cappuccino at any hour of the day. If want to cut back on the caffeine you can always ask for it to be decaf 😁 We won't look down on you!
Brave, dolci ragazze !
next you should do a video on the difference in money!
A thing my Nonna does is put a potato in her sauce to reduce the acid then she takes it out and it's all good 👍
In Italy you can not find a place to eat a propper breakfast. So, if you are a turist there, try to get a hotel room with breakfast included.
There's plenty of place to eat a proper breakfast. Coffee or cappuccino and some sweet pastry like a croissant. Like I said, a proper breakfast.
@@Bfidus That's not breakfast to most Americans or Brits.
@@sneakyrabbit3465 Can i say that eating bacon and eggs as soon as they got up, it's not the most healthy thing to do. Other than disgusting...
@@lupodelupis3672 Most American food isn't but they don't care.
You need to put sugar in the tomato sauce, it’s way too acidic otherwise. Not a ton of course
Just if the tomatos are not good. If you have good quality ingredients there’s no reason to add sugar
Wait do you really never use a spoon for spaghetti in the rest of Italy? Lmao I, from the south, am used to using it sometimes but for example my grandfather always uses it🤷♀
Ma lo faccio anche io del nord, è tipo comodissimo! Senza faccio cadere la metà degli spaghetti sulla tovaglia e poi chi cazzo ha voglia di sentire mia madre che si lamenta?😂
@@Baccagaii ma forse si lamenta del fatto che non sai mangiare gli spaghetti… 😄
@@RicMorn Giusto per chiedere, tu dici buona
appetito prima di mangiare?
@@Baccagaii No, ma non vivo secondo le regole del galateo così com’è stato concepito 150 anni fa, quindi se qualcuno lo dice rispondo con un grazie, mica mi alzo dalla tavola.
Però che una persona nata e cresciuta in Italia non sappia mangiare uno dei piatti nazionali è singolare e comunque rappresenta la mancanza di un’abilità sociale che si può acquisire con poco sforzo.
Così come, visto MOLTO spesso specialmente in USA, si può imparare a tagliare una bistecca senza brandire il coltello come un pugnale e la forchetta come un’alabarda, senza per questo stare a tavola come il Principe di Galles.
@@RicMorn Ma allora non rompere a chi vuole mangiarsi gli spaghetti con il cucchiaio, è solo una comodità in più. In più se c'è da lamentarsi, guarda come li mangiano i tedeschi.
Sweden is guilty about having ketchup on pasta! Almost everyone does it here! XD
thats actually wrong, depending on the quality of the tomatoes, if the "sweetness" of the onions isnt enough u need a sprinkle of sugar to balance the acidity to really make pop that fruity taste of the tomatoes. so Callie's mum is right.
Callie: "If you want to look like shit, then don't put white socks..."
a little bit of sugar it's widly used with salsa
Grazie Jordy per la rappresentanza, and most importantly DON'T MESS WITH PIZZA AND PASTA 🇮🇹
All girls should be barefoot like Jordy in this video
i m french and just hearing that spoon thing, i almost fainted...i thought spoons were for kids...
actually a some italians do that, especially in the south afaik. It is seen as strange but cmon, it's just a spoon if you learned to eat it that way as a kid it's ok
Love Hawaiian pizza
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come fai a mangiare gli spaghetti con il cucchiaio!??
how do you eat spaghetti with a spoon!??
I am italian, I always leave the house with wet hair to be honest. But it's true that it is not common to see
Interestinggg never heard about some of these
Many resteurants in italy give you a spoon if you order spaghetti alla whatever. I never get spoon in europe outside italy.
It's normal to use a spoon I was always taught with a spoon and just for reference I am from Abruzzo just incase it's different in another region
Il cucchiaio lo uso con la forchetta al massimo.
Ma mangiare gli spaghetti col cucchiaio è reato dai
@@IMKAPPAA lo facevo da piccola 🤷♀️
Now Im craving pineapple pizza. My go too, Pineapple, Anchovies and Olives. >=]
Hold on I’m italian and we actually do eat spaghetti with a spoon and a fork in our household! 🤣
My nonno always used to use a spoon with his fork for eating spaghetti
Some people do it but it's against the etiquette (il galateo). The most part uses only the fork
@@arv9915 whoops! 😬
@@vittoriazuccaroli146 I didn' t mean to be offensive ahahhaha I said what I know
@@arv9915 I'm Italian, I've always used the fork only, I've never thinked about using a spoon, Spaghetti were born to be eaten with solely a fork
At 5:32 she said "together with the fork"
Well if I lived in Korea I would use chopsticks to eat spaghetti too. This channel is based in Korea right?