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I don't know about the Carolinas and Georgia and other parts of the South, but I can attest that the pizza in Florida is generally horrible. I don't know anyone here originally from the north who likes the pizza. And it comes up in conversation regularly, LOL. We have found one place with reasonable pizza, but when we go up north to visit family, we always make sure to get pizza at least once. I don't know what it is, maybe it is the water, but yuck, it's just not good here. At all.
"No self respecting Italian Yankee would ever serve an Italian sub hot"
Yes they do!!!
"No self respecting Italian Yankee" YOU choose who to respect and not too. Does NOT mean EVERYBODY from your area thinks the same way.
I've traveled all over the country, my Aunt's mother came "right off the boat" from Italy and ate food from REAL "Italian Yankees"
Not ALL Italian made food tastes the same.
An Italian sub:
A COLD CUT sub....
Italian bread sub roll, preferably freshly baked
Cappy Ham, salami, pepperoni
Lettuce, tomato, onions, Mayo, sub sauce/oil and vinegar
Hot peppers, preferably cherry peppers but peperocino is also acceptable.
Italian bread sub roll, preferably freshly baked
Cappy Ham, salami, pepperoni
Lettuce, tomato, onions, Mayo, sub sauce/oil and vinegar
Hot peppers, preferably cherry peppers but peperocino is also acceptable.
Served COLD.....never hot.
Edit: I forgot the Provolone!!
But there is also the Italian meatball sub and sausage sub. Both served hot. Sometimes with melted provolone. Yum!
I don’t think this poster realizes that a lot of Italian restaurants in the south are owned and operated by transplanted Yankees. It’s as if this poster thinks every Italian restaurant in the south is operated by a southerner. Is it some magical force field surrounding the northeast that makes people cook bad Italian food and bagels all of a sudden when they leave the force field zone?
Those are the good ones lol.
And they're a lot more common now than they were when I first moved to the South in the 90's.
Here's the thing:
Generally speaking, GOOD Italian food is pretty easy to find in the North because there's a high population of Italians.....and the recipes have e been handed down over the years.
Good Italian food is the rule.....not the exception.
So much so that when you grow up there, you kind of take it for granted.
The situation changes when you go down South though.
It's not that there isn't ANY good Italian food in the South, it's that it's just a lot harder to find than it is up North.
Poor to mediocre Italian food is the rule in the South, not the exception.
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