Italy bans kebabs and foreign food from cities
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I've got a book full of stupid laws somewhere... There's one somewhere that you can't put ice cream in your pocket, and another one that you can't take a picture of a rabbit in spring.zombie goat fetish said:
Well, I think little of most politicians, so this is actually the sort of thing I expect. I laugh at the thought of someone being surprised by this, though.Shirastro said:
Of course that's all we cook...Frost27 said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_cuisine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_cuisine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_cuisine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_cuisine
Not population ways, I mean in landmass it's a fairly small country. There's more land between my home and the next major city than there is in the whole country.FC Groningen said:
Conservatives admire his lifestyle as well and actually admire him for organising parties all the time. People call him "the chevalier" apparantly. He is the chairman of one of the biggest football clubs there, defender of the faith and friend of Rome. Enlightened people (mostly people in the North) tend to shun him.MurderousToaster said:
How is that even possible? Even if you live in Italy and support that, you are LETTING YOUR GOVERNMENT TELL YOU WHAT YOU CAN AND CANNOT EAT. You are giving them power to decide your digestion. What's next? No foreign cars? Okay, everyone has to buy Lamborghinis and Ferraris now. Then they will decide what media you can watch and use, or control what news comes out. If you're xenophobic and want to only eat Italian food, just EAT GOD DAMNED ITALIAN FOOD, why do you have to give your government the power to outlaw a basic necessity? This blows my mind...
Its just a matter of how you put it. Example:thedeathscythe said:
"If you live in the US and support that, you are LETTING YOUR GOVERNMENT TELL YOU WHETHER YOU SHOULD CONCIEVE YOUR BABY OR NOT? You are giving them the power to decide to abort or not. What's next? Deciding you can't kill yourself when you're in insufferable pain? Okay, everyone gets to sit out his cancer and parkinson now. Then they will decide you can own a small arsenal of weapons and have all rights to shoot people that trespass on your land. etc etc etc...
Does that mean the Duke of Edinburgh has to sleep with his socks on? HeheheJack and Calumon said:
Say what you want, he makes the Gondolas run on time.MurderousToaster said:
Edit: Crap, I meant Pagodas. Well that kinda killed that joke!
Fair enough. I think there are crazier pieces of politics out there...
You know, like that Iraq war thing that was going on? Oh, and the crisis in Darfur and the fact Libya is still an on going cris---
DROP THAT. Someone has banned non-Italian cuisine! HOLY SHIT! What a fucking idiot!!!!! Let's all laugh at him!
You know, like that Iraq war thing that was going on? Oh, and the crisis in Darfur and the fact Libya is still an on going cris---
DROP THAT. Someone has banned non-Italian cuisine! HOLY SHIT! What a fucking idiot!!!!! Let's all laugh at him!
The article is laughable. It's basically half-fabricated and half filled with stereotypes and second-hand propaganda.
The reaction I saw in the comments here is not that surprising either considering the way my country and its present government (and the President especially) are depicted abroad by the foreign press.
A good rule is to NEVER consider foreign press reliable to understand anything about the contemporary situation of a nation.
I don't agree with the spirit of that serie of laws made by mayors of some cities (they are called "ordinanze") -and I say this just to make clear that the government had nothing to do with them except one minister out of thirty saying he agreeded with them. Futhermore, the mayor of Milan was center-right while the mayor of Lucca was of ex-comunist party (all of Tuscany is a "red" region), so it was quite a bipartizan move.
Food, wine and all that is a very very strong asset of Italian touristic economy, some local authorities felt they needed to protect them. We can agree or not, but it is not illogical. Having fake pagodas near renaissance palaces or medieval churces should have never been allowed in the first place.
That said I love kebabs, I lvoe chinese food even more and I cry inside because we still don't have any "chain" of places serving Indian food at low prices (I do have a very very weak spot for Indian food).
It's just I have a dislike for those who alter facts to make them similar to ideological standards.
The reaction I saw in the comments here is not that surprising either considering the way my country and its present government (and the President especially) are depicted abroad by the foreign press.
A good rule is to NEVER consider foreign press reliable to understand anything about the contemporary situation of a nation.
I don't agree with the spirit of that serie of laws made by mayors of some cities (they are called "ordinanze") -and I say this just to make clear that the government had nothing to do with them except one minister out of thirty saying he agreeded with them. Futhermore, the mayor of Milan was center-right while the mayor of Lucca was of ex-comunist party (all of Tuscany is a "red" region), so it was quite a bipartizan move.
Food, wine and all that is a very very strong asset of Italian touristic economy, some local authorities felt they needed to protect them. We can agree or not, but it is not illogical. Having fake pagodas near renaissance palaces or medieval churces should have never been allowed in the first place.
That said I love kebabs, I lvoe chinese food even more and I cry inside because we still don't have any "chain" of places serving Indian food at low prices (I do have a very very weak spot for Indian food).
It's just I have a dislike for those who alter facts to make them similar to ideological standards.
The Italian media are not in an iron grip by Silvio Berlusconi. Do you wan me to make you a list?Blablahb said:
The corrispondents from "quality media" (if such a thing exists in the first place) are not impartial observers of a nation's situation, this is quite a myth. They have a lot of friends among that nation's press for obvious reasons, they have their own political and/or ideological view that will be usually prehemptively applied to whatever happens before hand and so on. Last but not least, they will always be "strangers", they will never fully grasp what stirs in that country soul. This is especially true for countries with a long past and a troubled history (Italy comes to mind).
I mean, is The Times a "quality medium"? That article was full of opinionated non-facts. I mean, literally, lies. Also known as BS.
