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IMO Italy has lots of high value origin stuff because they value and care about tradition and realness and so on. Go to Italy and you'll see real stonework. If
by Arnt 3y ago
IMO Italy has lots of high value origin stuff because they value and care about tradition and realness and so on.
Go to Italy and you'll see real stonework. If you want to find a micrometer layer of gold on top of plastic, or not much more marble on top of concrete, then go do Saudi or UAE. Not Italy. The stone you find there is real, and so's the porchetta. So they get PDO designation for the stuff they care about, and abhor makebelieve alternatives for the same reason that they value the real porchetta.
- bborud 3y agoI used to think the outrage Italians show when you mess with Italian dishes on Youtube was exaggerated. Then I worked with a couple of Italians from the north of Italy. Oh boy do they take food in general, and their national cuisine in particular, seriously :-)
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y agoThe food I get in Italy is on average substantially better than the one I get in Vancouver, so that protection of food has some serious value. when I arrived in Canada, I asked what is a canadian dish and I've been told poutine, nothing else. I was shocked, in Italy I can't count all traditional dishes, let alone know all of them (I'm of Italian origin). That being said, banning food is not a good idea, but I can see also a rationale for banning it. We'll see how it goes
- Arnt 3y agoBanning food is common enough practice. You may have heard the story about European eggs being banned in the US because they fall short of the hygienic requirements, while US eggs are banned in Europe because they fall short of the hygienic requirements? The story is true. Much else too. You can't import "prosciutto di parma" into Italy, it's banned. (Well, technically I suppose you could export the legal stuff and then reimport it.)