Italian food is extremely overrated

[aklifaal]

most things about italy and italian culture are incredibly overrated. ancient rome and renaissance halo, i guess

The concept of Italy as a country didn't exist until Garibaldi united bunch of random states in 1861. Italy and Italian culture literally doesn't exist, the north and south are completely different worlds. Tiny example: the area of the city of Bologna originally speaks the Emilian language, which is a Gallo-Romance language, and that makes it closer to the Northern French or even Catalonian than the Florentian (their dialect was the basis of standard Italian today) just at the south of their border, jfl