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Cacio e pepe: UK Good Food pasta recipe sparks fury in Italy

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Cacio e pepe: Good Food pasta recipe sparks fury in Italy

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Hey Italians, I put ketchup on microwaved pasta. Come get me too! 😆
- Don't need Italy for that. I'm an American and that's still a crime. Maybe even a hate crime. What did that poor pasta ever do to you to deserve this inhumane treatment?
- I will turn your bones al dente
  
  You can try it: break the pasta in half, lay it in a deep/soup plate, fill the plate with water and microwave at max power for 10 minutes (mix it halfway). The pasta will be al dente. 👨‍🍳
  
  🤤
- Is it Banana ketchup? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_spaghetti
  
  Japan does it with regular ketchup
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naporitan
  
  Everything is allowed if you just call them noodles 😄
- Tell it to r/ItalianFood
- Japan has a famous dish that uses ketchup on spaghetti: napolitan
Giorgio Eramo runs a fresh pasta restaurant near St Peter's square - serving up cacio e pepe and other traditional pasta dishes.
"It's terrible. It's not cacio e pepe... What Good Food published, with butter and parmesan, is called 'pasta Alfredo'. It's another kind of pasta," he said.
On his restaurant's board of pastas, he offers cacio e pepe with lime - a variation. But he says that's ok.
"It's different, it's for the summer, to make the pasta more fresh. But it doesn't impact the tradition. It's not like cream or butter. Lime is just a small change."
While I do agree with the statement that there should not be any butter or Parmesan in cacio e pepe, the fact that this guy adds lime to his and saying it's still cacio e pepe, just make it sound like as long as Italians do the change, it's okay.
- Otoh calling it "(thing) with lime" is more hobest than calling it "(thing)" and putting lime in yours.
  Also, as he points out, the recipe given by bbc is an actual thing with a different name, which is a solid point. It's like a spelling error into another word that makes sense in context is worse than one where you can still tell what the original wprd was intendd to be.
Reminds me of when Gino D’acampo got angry about sour cream https://youtu.be/jFby3IEs9V0
- Not sour cream, salad cream. It's kind of like mayonnaise.
  
  Only more vinegary.
- "If my grandmother has wheels she would've been a bike!"
Maybe the drama was the real secret ingredient in Good Food's recipe?
"The suggestion of adding some cream gave me goosebumps."
That night they couldn't sleep, they could only stare at the ceiling, picturing buckets of cream getting poured onto pure, innocent pasta.

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