I agree, it’s not always a good thing. I’ll call it “tainting” one’s culture. You end up with an amalgamation of shit! To me, necessity doesn’t require a Sicky-D’s in Italy or Timbuktu when you’ve got the munchies. Talk about a punch in the gut, may as well nosh on cardboard with a nice Chianti. From sexy cars and lips inflated to 36 psi, American corporations should put on the brakes and stay in their lane. Up in Port Townsend Wa, beautiful little seaside artsy town, has one fast food shit hole, you guessed it, Sicky-D’s. Taco smell tried to install its toilet there, and the local mom and pop shops slammed the lid shut. Buy local to support the community’s!
I was truly disappointed to see so many SUV type vehicles in Italy when, on vacation, I returned seventeen years after having lived in Rome in '70-'71. They seemed so out of place and ridiculous, considering the price of fuel. Plus, they took up more than one normal parking spot! Anyway, they're sadly considered status symbols by those who drive them...no matter where.
"Any right-thinking Italian would tell you that putting pineapple on pizza is an act of war and all perpetrators ought to be brought before a tribunal at The Hague." Yes, THANK YOU!! Pineapple on pizza is a fucking crime against nature. FULL STOP. END OF STORY. NO QUESTIONS. THANK YOU, YOU MAY GO NOW, MY WORK HERE IS DONE!!!
Of all the gawdAWFUL ways Americans have found to defile pizza, pineapple is #1 with a bullet, in that anyone serving me a pineapple pizza should get a bullet in the back of their skull for committing the equivalent of a culinary war crime.
I love pineapples. I love pizza. But some things should not go together- like Tommy and Pam, Brad and Angelina, peanut butter and anchovies, or chain saws and sexual acts.
I hope I haven't been too ambiguous, but pineapple on pizza? I'd rather be hung on a meathook by my testicles over a crowd of starving pit bulls.
It was 'invented' by a Greek immigrant in Canada back in '62. The combination of pineapple and HAM caught on, but because it was called a Hawaiian pizza, the assumption was made. I first had it in Australia in 1985 and thought it was great. That, and burgers with fried egg, have been strangely etched in my memory of Oz ever since. Good hangover food, I guess......
An SUV trying to squeeze its way down a cobbled street in Spoleto sent us scrambling out of the way because the side mirror came right through our dining area!
Zero correlation between video games and acted out violence. Crime statistics -- especially violent crimes -- track directly to economic issues. Going the opposite direction, kid I sat next to in High School band, ushered with at the church, came home one night and took his Eagle Scout hatchet and murdered his mother, father, sister, critically injured his little brother, set the house on fire, and went out for a walk. This was 1975. Like Rodney Dangerfield said about Son of Sam: "He was always such a quiet man ... "
I like my occasional "Hawaiian Pizza", not because it is Italian but because I like it. An analogous case can be made about the "street tacos" at the 618 pub where I go every Thursday. They are about as authentically Mexican as I am. But I like the taste, I like the venue, and their jalapenos are always fresh and tasty.
If there was ever one thing that has offended me to the point of speechless rage, it is the presence of Budweiser on tap in places like Ireland. This is a crime against nature.
I agree, it’s not always a good thing. I’ll call it “tainting” one’s culture. You end up with an amalgamation of shit! To me, necessity doesn’t require a Sicky-D’s in Italy or Timbuktu when you’ve got the munchies. Talk about a punch in the gut, may as well nosh on cardboard with a nice Chianti. From sexy cars and lips inflated to 36 psi, American corporations should put on the brakes and stay in their lane. Up in Port Townsend Wa, beautiful little seaside artsy town, has one fast food shit hole, you guessed it, Sicky-D’s. Taco smell tried to install its toilet there, and the local mom and pop shops slammed the lid shut. Buy local to support the community’s!
I was truly disappointed to see so many SUV type vehicles in Italy when, on vacation, I returned seventeen years after having lived in Rome in '70-'71. They seemed so out of place and ridiculous, considering the price of fuel. Plus, they took up more than one normal parking spot! Anyway, they're sadly considered status symbols by those who drive them...no matter where.
Halloween!
"Any right-thinking Italian would tell you that putting pineapple on pizza is an act of war and all perpetrators ought to be brought before a tribunal at The Hague." Yes, THANK YOU!! Pineapple on pizza is a fucking crime against nature. FULL STOP. END OF STORY. NO QUESTIONS. THANK YOU, YOU MAY GO NOW, MY WORK HERE IS DONE!!!
Of all the gawdAWFUL ways Americans have found to defile pizza, pineapple is #1 with a bullet, in that anyone serving me a pineapple pizza should get a bullet in the back of their skull for committing the equivalent of a culinary war crime.
I love pineapples. I love pizza. But some things should not go together- like Tommy and Pam, Brad and Angelina, peanut butter and anchovies, or chain saws and sexual acts.
I hope I haven't been too ambiguous, but pineapple on pizza? I'd rather be hung on a meathook by my testicles over a crowd of starving pit bulls.
It was 'invented' by a Greek immigrant in Canada back in '62. The combination of pineapple and HAM caught on, but because it was called a Hawaiian pizza, the assumption was made. I first had it in Australia in 1985 and thought it was great. That, and burgers with fried egg, have been strangely etched in my memory of Oz ever since. Good hangover food, I guess......
You forgot American social media. Talk about killer apps.
An SUV trying to squeeze its way down a cobbled street in Spoleto sent us scrambling out of the way because the side mirror came right through our dining area!
OMG!
Zero correlation between video games and acted out violence. Crime statistics -- especially violent crimes -- track directly to economic issues. Going the opposite direction, kid I sat next to in High School band, ushered with at the church, came home one night and took his Eagle Scout hatchet and murdered his mother, father, sister, critically injured his little brother, set the house on fire, and went out for a walk. This was 1975. Like Rodney Dangerfield said about Son of Sam: "He was always such a quiet man ... "
I like my occasional "Hawaiian Pizza", not because it is Italian but because I like it. An analogous case can be made about the "street tacos" at the 618 pub where I go every Thursday. They are about as authentically Mexican as I am. But I like the taste, I like the venue, and their jalapenos are always fresh and tasty.
If there was ever one thing that has offended me to the point of speechless rage, it is the presence of Budweiser on tap in places like Ireland. This is a crime against nature.
HA! Well, we all have our triggers, don’t we? And I agree that Budweiser has no place in an Irish pub.
I don’t think violent video games make people violent, per se. But it’s something that needs to be better understood and studied.
Not holding my breath though.
Capitalism. Mostly spurred on by joining the EU
Italy was a founding member...