Q&complAints #270: Italian Dish

What is your favorite dish at an Italian restaurant?

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. . .here are my thoughts.

What is your favorite dish at an Italian restaurant?

I get a hankering to visit an Olive Garden about once a year, but never more often than that.  Can’t go wrong with a simple Angel Hair and Five Cheese Marinara with Grilled Chicken.  Or perhaps the complex layers of a good lasagna.  I’m not huge into the ins-and-outs of Italian cuisine, but I think I can safely say a lot of it’s pretty similar: carbs and sauce.  Even moreso than Italian cuisine, Mexican foods seem to be the exact same stuff, just in different wrappings and maybe under a slightly different sauce.  Regardless, when you think about an Italian meal, you think of family.   

“When You’re Here [once a year], You’re Family.”   

And isn’t that what really makes a meal memorable?  Great conversation and a bit of good-natured ribbing can really accentuate the delicious flavors of each bite.  While watching an Italian family eat a meal in the 2016 Oscar Best Picture nominee, Brooklyn, such a memorable family moment was produced.  While eating pasta, an 8-year-old informed his brother’s Irish girlfriend of the well-known fact their family don’t like Irish people.  Worst family motto ever: 

“When You’re Here, You’re Hated!”

3 thoughts on “Q&complAints #270: Italian Dish”

  1. Italians and Family dinners go hand and hand. I don’t care what it is or where you got it, when you are with loved ones, it always tastes better. I do love Italian food the best. As far as when I eat in an Italian restaurant, I usually get grilled fish or chicken. When you have eaten good authentic Italian Food like I have, you play it safe.
    I do not like Mexican food. It seems to me they shred everything and put it in a tortilla or something else that is loaded with carbs and put sauce of some kind on it. And cilantro tastes like spoiled parsley to me.

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