This gave me a good laugh, sadly due to the ever-increasing depths of human stupidity. This time it’s the boot of Europe, Italy.
The country that gave us pasta, spaghetti, pizza and all those other delectable comestibles has gone off its rocker and decided to ban non-Italian food. This is in some misguided attempt at nationalistic culinary purity. The cause: Berlusconi’s centre-right government. Who else but some fool fascist would invent rules about food. There is an old joke about this sort of cleansing in Nazi Germany?
Q: What did the Germans eat by the time the Nazis had finished banning all non-white food?
A. Rice
It’s always the accessories, the peripherals of a culture that are first to go, before the people themselves. First, they ban non-Italian food. Then non-Italian books. Then non-Italian people. Followed shortly by non-Italian ideas. And finally they’ll have their dream, a pure, snow-white Italian nation. *snicker*
The source tells us that by “non-Italian” they just mean “non-white”, since French foods are ok. It’s only all those filthy Saracen dishes that have to go. And so once again, beneath the thin veneer of nationalism, we find the familiar devil of racism lurking, not very well disguised this time either.
The real kicker:
The antiimmigrant Northern League party brought in the restrictions “to protect local specialities from the growing popularity of ethnic cuisines”.
You know why they’re so popular, why there’s a “growing popularity”, Berlusconi? Because it’s good food and people like it! Occam’s razor, simplest possible explanation and all that. But of course, these guys are immune to all forms of logic, as evinced by this stellar quote:
Asked if he had ever eaten a kebab, Mr Zaia said: “No – and I defy anyone to prove the contrary. I prefer the dishes of my native Veneto. I even refuse to eat pineapple.”
Hahaha. Can this be real? It sounds like something out of a WW2-era Disney cartoon of a fascist. Well, Mr Zaia, we’re glad you don’t eat pineapples. We’re happy that the noble Brazilian fruit is unsullied by your touch.
Perhaps Mr. Zaia needs a gentle reminder that even all those traditional Italian foods like pizza and spaghetti are not Italian, but were gifts from Greece and China. Maybe he should stop eating all that wretched foreign food and subsist entirely on pure Italian air and Italian water, as he takes in the reek of the largest open-air garbage dumps in the Western world, caused by yet another age-old Italian tradition: the Mafia. Portare avanti combattimento!
Hi, sorry if i comment an almost-an-year old article…I’m italian and i can assure you that there is no law on banning non-italian food. What Zaia meant is that foreign countries often mock up our specialities (such as Parmigiano, Mozzarella and so on, i could go on forever), and he wanted to stop THOSE from being sold, not the ethnic cuisine.
On a personal note, i love foreign food, so i was just informing you that ethnic specialities are safe, here.
Now if you’ll excuse me, this article got me in the mood for some doner kebap.