Food

[Raza]

Turns out that this is bs. But, I do now know, after some research, that

The word "pasta"*originates from the Italian word "pasta," which translates to "dough" or "paste".

I wouldn't have looked it up were it not for your lies so, thanks!

Where’d you hear that, Wikipedia? You can’t trust Big Wiki.

There’s legitimate debate as to whether the Italians even invented pasta, or they learned it from the Chinese, or if they developed it separately, but I think it’s commonly accepted that the first people to make food we’d recognize as pasta today are the Chinese, with evidence going far back as 1100 BCE vs. Etruscan evidence 700 years later, around 400 BCE.

But what they don’t tell you is that Gio’s great^19th grandpa Joey Benedetto “Benny” Boxapasta visited China around 1110 BCE and stayed there about 15 years, which adds a whole new wrinkle to the story, doesn’t it now?

[geoffbot]

Where’d you hear that, Wikipedia? You can’t trust Big Wiki.

There’s legitimate debate as to whether the Italians even invented pasta, or they learned it from the Chinese, or if they developed it separately, but I think it’s commonly accepted that the first people to make food we’d recognize as pasta today are the Chinese, with evidence going far back as 1100 BCE vs. Etruscan evidence 700 years later, around 400 BCE.

But what they don’t tell you is that Gio’s great^19th grandpa Joey Benedetto “Benny” Boxapasta visited China around 1110 BCE and stayed there about 15 years, which adds a whole new wrinkle to the story, doesn’t it now?

The ciabbatta was invented in 1982

[Raza]

The ciabbatta was invented in 1982

Correct, by an Indian fellow name Gagandeep “Chai” Badal, who named it “ciabatta” so it would sound Italian and give it credibility in haute cuisine at a time when Indian food was not taken seriously. Much like how Philadelphia Cream Cheese is a product conceived of and made in New York, but taking the name Philadelphia to invoke the high quality dairy coming out of the Philadelphia area at the time (this one is actually true; I mean, it’s all true, I’m like George Washington, I chop cherry trees and tell no lies, but this is really real and verifiable).

[geoffbot]

Well there we go!