Marxist historian pisses off 
by exposing them to reality
Grandi has made himself unpopular in some quarters by criticising Italy’s mighty food and drink sector, which, by some estimates, accounts for a quarter of GDP. On the podcast, he jokes he should only leave his house “with personal security guards, like Salman Rushdie”. In 2019, the Italian ambassador to Turkey reprimanded Grandi at a conference in Ankara after Grandi ridiculed Italy’s 800 protected designations, products whose quality is recognised by the EU as inextricably linked to their area. At Les Mots literary festival in Aosta in 2018, he was attacked by a Roman presenter who, offended by Grandi’s claims about carbonara, “called [him] every name in the book” in front of a dumbfounded live audience.
Read this to piss off the Italian in your life
Had some lib tell me of some "European" recipe that had been made "since the dawn of time." It had potatoes in it. Since then, I'm generally distrustful of any European "tradition" that would have required every single person from that country to know how to read and have ample access to the resources to do it, let alone all the other cultures that also happened to live in those same countries and probably did things differently.
Yeah where I am from it was turnips all day, every day until potatoes arrived. And barley as they grain.
The Dutch say black pete is tradition too, but it's fairly recent lol