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It's amazing how many Italian dictators had biscuits named after them. You've got the Garibaldi of course, you've got your Bourbon, and you've got your Peek Fr

• thomassmith65 11mo ago
  It's weird to remember Garibaldi as a dictator, as though he were similar to Mussolini or Hitler. That said, he was one, for a few months in 1860.
  • golem14 11mo ago
    I know little more than what is written in Giovanni Guareschi’s work. But he feels more like the Napoleon of Notting Hill. I wonder where Chesterton got his inspiration from…
    • gattilorenz 11mo ago
      Which of Guareschi’s work is about Garibaldi? I can imagine he’s mentioned a lot in Don Camillo since the communist and socialist parties in the first republican election of Italy joined in a coalition called “the Garibaldi front”, but Garibaldi himself was already long dead by then.
    • toyg 11mo ago
      He's a unique figure. Running across the world, finding himself constantly drawn to battles for the freedom of this or that group, he had a penchant for winning military campaigns that were then politically squandered by the people he trusted. A committed republican at a time when it was a revolutionary and scandalous position, he won half of Italy for a king he didn't like (and who really didn't like him) and then effectively self-exiled. More than once, he had to be held back by aristocratic leaders scared by his "uppity" plebeian success. And he was as popular as the Beatles - all over Europe, men wanted to die for him and women wanted to run away with him. The difference between him and Napoleon (the real one from Corsica, not Notting Hill) was that he sincerely never wanted to rule anything or anyone.
      • bjourne 11mo ago
        That description fits Che Guevara too. Who, coincidentally, also was considered to be incredibly handsome.
• colinb 11mo ago
  I have happy memories of the struggle to open the Trotsky boxes. In my house we used to have them with cocktails, so it was easiest to just pull out the bar tools and hack away. (Oh the embarrassment. My ears are burning)
• petesergeant 11mo ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11CvBKpKbn8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11CvBKpKbn8 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi_(The_Young_Ones) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi_(The_Young_Ones)
• teo_zero 11mo ago
  > how many Italian dictators had biscuits named after them. So, how many?
  • esperent 11mo ago
    Well, it seems Garibaldi biscuits were genuinely named after this guy. However Bourbon was named for the House of Bourbon, a French royal family. I'm discounting the Peek Freens Trotsky assortment because Trotsky was, of course, Russian. So, one. Which is still more than you might expect.
    • orwin 11mo ago
      Also, Trotsky was only a only a butcher and repressor, never a dictator, as he didn't held power.
    • sofixa 11mo ago
      > House of Bourbon, a French royal family Which also ruled in Spain and multiple different parts of Italy (like Parma and the Two Sicilies).
• _zagj 11mo ago
  Garibaldi wasn't a dictator.
  • thomassmith65 11mo ago
    While it's misleading to characterize him as a dictator without further context, he momentarily was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_Giuseppe_Garibaldi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_Giuseppe_Garib...
  • jjgreen 11mo ago
    The original quote (from "The Young Ones") uses "revolutionaries" rather than "dictators", which make more sense.
• olelele 11mo ago
  this is weirdly similar wording to https://old.reddit.com/r/TheYoungOnes/comments/u93yfd/revolutionary_biscuits_of_italy_rise_up_out_of/ https://old.reddit.com/r/TheYoungOnes/comments/u93yfd/revolu...
• meindnoch 11mo ago
  Garibaldi was not a dictator.