Then this lady gets super incensed and starts going off calling everyone that disagrees with her "medigan" which is apparently a derogatory term used by Italian Americans to insult people they think have "lost touch with their Italian heritage"

The comments and replies are chefs-kiss

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[–] FreeRangeKitties@hexbear.net 39 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Reminder that Italy didn't even have fuckin tomatoes until europe did colonialism

Can you imagine that?

So much of western cvltvre is a modern lie.

While we're on the topic of tomatoes, fuck cherry tomatoes and fuck Israel for ruining backyard gardens with their cursed pollen that makes tiny fruit. They did not create cherry tomatoes but they did teach them how to be prolific invaders, apparently. settler

I emoji searched for lysenko but settler came up which worked out in the end

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sichuan didn't have chillies either. Imagine that...

[–] FreeRangeKitties@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

I agree that's a little bit of a mindblower, but idk, maybe it's because I learned as a 白左 (/s) but I feel like people in China actually do know that.

I think in general people in China know their actual history more than people in the west. But I haven't actually been to China so I only see it from the lens of people who are able to talk to foreigners who are bad at Mandarin

And also I know that wasn't the point and I'm not going to pretend they were saints either but I still should point out, China wasn't the one going around stealing land, they got it through trade. And just like today we're not supposed to consider who China is trading with to be bad. Trade happens in a vacuum and builds the productive forces so it is always good. Mmhm.

[–] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You'll get no argument from me, cherry tomatoes are disgusting little shits that are always trying to evade my fork.

Also, Italy wasn't fully unified until 1871, so trying to codify a singular Italian culture is almost as recent and silly a concept as the invention of Israeli culture.

[–] FreeRangeKitties@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago

silly a concept as the invention of Israeli culture.

lol I was gonna say that, but I was like nah the Italians may be fascist but I don't wanna call them Israeli, that's too much of an insult!