I’ve been cooking Italian American food over 40 years and got rave reviews. After watching you guys, Vincenzo’s Plate and Pasta Grammar, my cooking has completely changed. I now make as much as I can fresh, like bread and some pasta, and I only buy products that are good quality and no preservatives. It tastes so much better, my health is better and everyone is amazed by the flavors! I even have my daughter and granddaughters cooking more authentic. Thank you so much!
You are much like me. I watch them all too. My cooking has changed dramatically and I still am trying to empty the crap from my cupboard and restock with better quality.
Yes!!! 👏🏽 I’m a Sicilian American and I have always cooked simple fresh Mediterranean dishes…. Pasta grammar also helped me understand how garlic is not a centerpiece (although I LOVE heavy garlic) it really made a huge difference and then watching Jessi and Alessio talk about the differences……. Made me fully understand. My daughter and parents LOVE where this has taken my cooking. Simple. Fresh. Delicious! I had no idea abt chicken not being a pasta acceptable ingredient but I’ve always said no… chicken doesn’t go with pasta so I guess that was just written in my Sicilian soul … haha
Fazoli's: This is classic Italian! Alessio: *You sit on a throne of lies* Former MasterChef judge Joe Bastianich (whose parents are Istrian Italians) mentioned about the fact that garlic breadsticks or garlic bread in general is nonexistent at an authentic Italian restaurant and it's very much an American thing, and the comments section where that clip was featured were overly hating on him for that.
Bastianich di cucina non capisce un cavolo, come tutti gli italo americani hanno una considerazione della cucina tutta loro, non saprebbe preparare neanche un semplice spaghetto aglio olio e peperoncino
Non vendono in nessun panificio o supermercato italiani grissini o pane all aglio né al ristorante. L aglio crudo viene strofinato sulla bruschetta( fette di vero pane tostato) prima di adagiare pezzetti di pomodoro crudo. Inoltre lo usiamo in modica quantità solo in alcune pietanze, ma mai in maniera esagerata.
5:18 you could LITERALLY GO TO THE SUPERMARKET AND BUY BREAD, MAKE YOUR OWN MEATBALLS, GET SOME GOOD CHEESE AND TOAST YOUR BREAD. That's...stuff I could make at home. 5:25 - I get his reaction...this is stuff you find at Subway or cheap Uni food.
Fazoli's is basically fast food Olive Garden. Neither are great, they are just there. Of course, making pasta and sauces from scratch will lead to better taste and better for your health. Just like I grew up with a garden and we only bought a few staples from the grocery store. Got too busy as an adult to take the time to grow a garden, to make stuff from scratch. That is something I hope to get back to soon, now that I am retired.
😂😂😂 I loved this video!! What Alessio said about ricotta cheese in lasagna brought me back to when I first came to the states. My two American friends took me to Applebees for my first time and I ordered the lasagna. When I tasted the ricotta cheese I felt nauseous and told my friends I didn’t like it and they told the waitress for me and sent it back. She very kindly gave me something else. That was also my first experience of how great American restaurants are, because there’s no way I would have sent that back if I was in my own country. I would have left it, paid for it and gone home to eat dinner instead. I’m used to lasagna with bechamel sauce which is how my friend from Rimini taught me to make lasagna when I was 17. Now that’s delicious!!
Interesting. I used to like ricotta. One dayyears ago I made a little appetizer w it.. puked immediately. Me be it was expired. I dont think so. I quit cheese 4 yrs ago (it makes me sick). Miss it
il piatto con le fettuccine Alfredo, gli spaghetti con meatballs e le "lasagne" tutto mischiato nello stesso piatto, che viene spacciato per cibo italiano, è un colpo al cuore.😄
It's the same kind of thing as looking at some of the "American" food you can get in Japan or similar things, every place takes things and adapts it to both what they have and what the locals like, especially with multigenerational immigrant developments. Hell, you can even look at parts of europe and what they view as "american food" outside of the international fast food chains...and you have things like the source for most of the worlds take on Mexican food comes from either Taco Bell or ChiChi's menus... Then you add the fast food take on things from there which heavily simplifies things anyway. The big mistake for a lot of these videos is not going inside and eating there
It’s no an American concept about garlic it’s that when the poooor from Calabrian and Sicily came to America they found a bounty they had never seen before so the Italians used more garlic and meat than their relatives in the old country could never imagine
I think people forget histories, even the Italians themselves. The class/poor immigrants who came to the US are not the same as the families who stayed in Italy. In some ways the recipes and cooking are probably no longer available in Italy. Migration does strange things to the country they leave behind but a lot of times pride plays a part in a negative opinion of something they don't understand.
@@Shuan-t1h Without controversy, the vast majority of those immigrants came from southern Italy and therefore represented the population of a third of the Italian territory and are traditionally different from those in the center who are different from those in the north. Even today. We have not forgotten our history, it is that the history of the immigrants who settled in the USA does not belong to us, it belongs to the Americans as those people became US citizens; it is you who have a distorted vision of what it is to be Italian and you are confirming that it is an American concept (deriving from this distorted vision) to put garlic in all Italian dishes. P.S. I'm Italian and I don't like garlic at all.
@@art3mide644I'm Scots, have worked from north to south in Italy. Every 30 Kms, more or less, the cuisine changes. Also lived in Sicily, Rome, and a lot of time in the Veneto. I also hate garlic...
Fazoli's fun fact: The concept of the casual Italian-American dinner, Fazoli's, began in 1988. Two years later, the Fazoli's system was established. Fazoli's started with five locations in the Lexington, Kentucky, area. Fazoli's was originally managed by Jerrico Inc. but later was put up for sale and sold to Duskin Co. Ltd so that Jerrico Inc. could focus on Long John Silver's.
my grandpa is a dentist in italy and he lowkey was shading us when he visited (different country) saying we're very crazy in using a lot of garlic in our food haha
I'm not Italian, I have no Italian DNA, but I am autistic and have always had a weird palate. I'd never heard the no chicken with pasta rule until I found this channel, but always as a kid I refused to mix chicken and pasta and I always told my mom that it just didn't make sense together. Now I know why, it wasn't meant to be.
Over 25 years of visiting the USA I have never had a good Italian meal. Frequently I was told that I had NEVER had a proper Italian meal. Ho lavorato in Italia per quasi 30 anni. I miei amici hanno due ristoranti, quindi penso di poter giudicare. keep up the good work!
The crust very well has sugar in it. Sugar feeds the yeast in the dough to make it rise better. It doesn't take much ,so they most likely put too much sugar. I love yalls difference of opinions. He rolled his eyes so hard that I thought he was going to break the window next to him, 🤣😂🤣
At subway they sell meatball subs. No pepperoni but I get spinach, green peppers, olives, tomatoes, cucumbers, pepper, 1row yellow mustard. The 2 of you could split a 12 inch.
My understanding is that the reason why there is such a heavy use of garlic in Italian-American cuisine, is that many of the early Italian immigrants to the US were poor. Garlic was a cheap and easy way to mask the absence of higher quality/more expensive ingredients in their food and so was used heavily. And while it may not be “authentic” to the original Italian cuisine, it’s something that was introduced by Italian-American immigrants. At least that’s what I had always been told.
@@naveconterossonel sud Italia non usiamo l aglio in maniera eccessiva, ma con parsimonia, perché il sapore Dell aglio può sovrastare gli altri sapori. Infatti anche in alcuni famosi ristoranti lo usano per coprire il pesce che non è fresco.
I’ve been to fazzolis in Colorado Springs and the breadsticks were pretty good from what I remember. The spaghetti was a little better than my homemade spaghetti made with Raghu then again I was in the military eating MRE’s so everything else was amazing. They had one for one year at a truck stop in Connecticut. It didn’t do too well here. Just like Checkers and Sonic is fading too.
my son and i used to share the sampler on a regular basis...not because it was amazing, but because it was a cheap meal we could split (and for the hang time...)...
Well, you don’t know that maccheroni al pettine from Modena or garganelli romagnoli may have a chicken ragù. So it is not true that there isn’t pasta with chicken. It’s that it is a proper ragù, not just chicken breasts tossed on the pasta. The chicken ragù is made in the same way as preparing pollo alla cacciatora. Then there are also the Roman fettuccine alle rigaglie di pollo (chicken liver, heart and so on).
@@emanuelapartis9978 siamo diventati troppo ricchi e abbiamo scordato piatti della tradizione contadina, poveri, di quando c'era poco da mangiare e le bistecche erano alla portata di pochi, mentre un pollo anche i più miseri contadini ogni tanto riuscivano a metterlo in pentola.
The reason that chicken is never added to pasta is very simple and correct: chicken dries out too much if it cooks in a sauce. Italian sausage will never be dry, so that's why you sometimes find it crumbled in a sauce. Same goes for beef: it is crumbled or shredded, and even then it's simmered in milk, for example, for hours, to soften and tenderize it. Meatballs are NEVER served on top of pasta, so the rule holds. I have seen pizza in Italy with meatballs, but they are tiny, almost pea sized, so they won't get overcooked and dry. I'm sorry, but never question Italian food rules, especially with regard to pasta dishes. There's always a logical reason.
Meatball Peperoni sub looks amazing. This may not be Italian, but what it is, is Italian/American fusion, and I'm hungry to try that, but no Fazoli's in my part of the US.
I just love to laugh with you guys! You have the best energy and I agree that the food in Italy never gave me heartburn and I visited many cities along the coast twice, from northern Italy all the way down to Sicily and the food was amazing. What gave me heartburn was the wine! 😂😂😂
I feel you Alessio, as an Italian living in Finland. I really feel you...and the obsession of foreigners with the garlic 🙈 totally relatable unfortunately
@@jake-qn3tl it's cultural. I don't see anything weird in how we perceive our cuisine as part of our identity. Plus, you don't have to take my comment that seriously. I am half joking about it 😅
@@giulias.orlando347 No it's definitely not weird. I'm just a Canadian with no real culture lol. Sometimes I wish I had more traditions in my family. I'm sorry I said It was weird.
If you guys are ever in Chicago, you NEED to try deep dish pizza. I think it would be so funny to see Alessio's reaction XD only do legit Chicago pizza though!
@@myrdraal2001 Quiche has an egg-based filling and deep dish most definitely does not, so they are not at all the same thing XD I've heard a lot of variations of the ole "Chicago pizza is just X" but I've never heard that one
I can’t find a lasagna recipe from Alessio. Is that a video you’ve made before, or is that something coming up?? I’d love to see more recipes from you guys!🧡
@ 12:15 "Tell me what’s wrong with the pasta..." - Well, it would be more efficient to tell what’s right: basically only the hand that’s holding the fork, cause it’s his RIGHT hand 🤣 BTW I have watched quite a few of your videos, and I just can’t stop wondering: which part of Italy does that /aˈmoɹe/ (sometimes even /aˈmoɹ/) pronounciation come from? 😉 Or is it just minor victory of english phonetics? 😇
When I moved to Fl 25 years ago and there was a Fazolis. I tried it once and never went back. They went out of business in central Fl shortly there after.
Hahah I’m glad you chose the pizza. I suggested it on Instagram. Also you are right. That pizza tastes sweet and it’s SO bizarre. I’ve never had pizza like EVER!! I love pizza and have tried SO many different kinds, I make my own from scratch, and have tried different pizza dough recipes, but something just went totally wrong with their pizza. You would think over the years they would have fixed it but nope. Apparently it still tastes the same way it did like 20 years ago. Yuck! Oh and the meatball icky!! The texture is like pate cat food. That is NOT what a meatball texture is like. Alessio is also not alone in his hatred for Alfredo. One of my biggest pet peeves is white pizza. 🤢 Btw the reason why they over season everything in the states is because we having an obesity issue. When you are obese you inevitably have killed your tastebuds so to make the food more palatable is by over seasoning everything otherwise people can’t taste the food. It’s so sad, but true. This is why I don’t eat out unless I absolutely have to.
having spent time in Italy away from big cities eating at people's homes or "mom &pop's" ristoranti, I can appreciate this review. That isn't close to italian food.
I'm 2 years late on this video but I love Fazolis and hear me out as to why. Yes, it's not the best Italian type food ever! However, I was bitten by a tick and most restaurants will not care that I am allergic to so many things. This place will go out of their way to help me with my allergies.
Beautiful couple, you must carry a gallon of water each when eating American fast foods! Your sub sandwich had 6080mg of sodium!🤦🏾♀️ Italian, French and African foods are fresh, light, packed with fresh herbs, filling, flavorful and free of chemicals. I taught in foreign language schools, so I learned to eat superb foods from my colleagues.❤️
Location un Orlando Florida on Colonial drive is the worst all around! If you want food poisoning then by all means go there! Enjoy your long hospital stay afterwards too😂!
I have had food poisoning twice from Fazoli’s. It’s been 10+ years since I had them and I tried again about 6 months ago. Horrid! Love you guys though! So adorable!
After watching you guys the only thing I'm convinced of is that going to Italy is where you're going to find bland, boring and basically tasteless food. Doesn't sound like a trip I want to make any time soon. In my opinion, America has improved upon classic Italian dishes. And the meatball sandwich is something we should never even give Italy credit for because it is a classic American invention for the ages
not fast food - but carpenettis in Moody alabama has excellent Italian food. I'm not Italian but of the other Italian places I have tried carpenetti's is waaay above and beyond.
I ate at an authentic Italian restaurant in Alexandria VA, USA. I ordered of course, spaghetti. It came with very very little sauce. At first I thought, what? The first bite until the last was the most amazing, flavor filled spaghetti I have ever in my life, had!! I just kept thinking, how did they get all of that wonderful flavor in there? The owner came out to introduce himself and he was authentic Italian, too! Loved him. He was so sweet. I wish I could have that restaurant food every day.😊 Mmm, mmm, good!
Their spaghetti with meat sauce is good and the bread sticks soak up the sauce that left is great. I miss our Fazoli they closed up due to the Covid outbreak brake. And they never reopened.😢 true Italy the food is fresh and great.
Is it the same thing? Kinda. Italian is just mac n cheese with or without meat To be fair the only thing I would order from Fazoli's is the veal parmigiana, which I don't even know if they have anymore, and the only reason I ever went there once was because we bought one of those coupon books from a Bot Scout about 20 years ago
When my Italian Grandma from Nusco would have us over for a holiday dinner, she would have homemade pasta and after the pasta, we had a meat platter,with meatballs, braciola, pork and Chicken but mainly the wings and legs. The chicken was not cooked in the sauce but separately.
I’ve been cooking Italian American food over 40 years and got rave reviews. After watching you guys, Vincenzo’s Plate and Pasta Grammar, my cooking has completely changed. I now make as much as I can fresh, like bread and some pasta, and I only buy products that are good quality and no preservatives. It tastes so much better, my health is better and everyone is amazed by the flavors! I even have my daughter and granddaughters cooking more authentic. Thank you so much!
That’s funny because I watch them , Pasta Grammar and Vincenzo’s plate too . They are my 3 faves . I love Eva 😂😂
Those are my go to channels too! Love them! Oh and Pasta Queen.
You are much like me. I watch them all too. My cooking has changed dramatically and I still am trying to empty the crap from my cupboard and restock with better quality.
Yes!!! 👏🏽 I’m a Sicilian American and I have always cooked simple fresh Mediterranean dishes…. Pasta grammar also helped me understand how garlic is not a centerpiece (although I LOVE heavy garlic) it really made a huge difference and then watching Jessi and Alessio talk about the differences……. Made me fully understand.
My daughter and parents LOVE where this has taken my cooking.
Simple. Fresh. Delicious!
I had no idea abt chicken not being a pasta acceptable ingredient but I’ve always said no… chicken doesn’t go with pasta so I guess that was just written in my Sicilian soul … haha
I know Vincenzo, his wife Suzanne & son Sebastian ☺️☺️ He took my family on a tour through Abruzzo where my dad was born 🇮🇹💖
I absolutely love these two..his accent is nice and he's funny 😂
Fazoli's: This is classic Italian!
Alessio: *You sit on a throne of lies*
Former MasterChef judge Joe Bastianich (whose parents are Istrian Italians) mentioned about the fact that garlic breadsticks or garlic bread in general is nonexistent at an authentic Italian restaurant and it's very much an American thing, and the comments section where that clip was featured were overly hating on him for that.
He just does not know real Italian food.
I’d listen to anyone except Joe Bastianich about Italian food
Bastianich di cucina non capisce un cavolo, come tutti gli italo americani hanno una considerazione della cucina tutta loro, non saprebbe preparare neanche un semplice spaghetto aglio olio e peperoncino
Bastianich is not wrong, bread and garlic breadsticks are part of Italian American cuisine, you won't find them in Italy.
Non vendono in nessun panificio o supermercato italiani grissini o pane all aglio né al ristorante. L aglio crudo viene strofinato sulla bruschetta( fette di vero pane tostato) prima di adagiare pezzetti di pomodoro crudo. Inoltre lo usiamo in modica quantità solo in alcune pietanze, ma mai in maniera esagerata.
I love the ending, so happy and playful.
it is all the time like that :) ciao Kelli un salute day Paninis
I'm suprise they still together u can tell they fight a lot when the camera stops
Never seen a french guy so invested with italian food
Joking right?
@@crystalscashgoals it's a joke throughout their videos
😂😂😂
@@schylerpierce930 LOL BRILLIANT
😂
You two are just wonderful!
grazie mille
5:18 you could LITERALLY GO TO THE SUPERMARKET AND BUY BREAD, MAKE YOUR OWN MEATBALLS, GET SOME GOOD CHEESE AND TOAST YOUR BREAD.
That's...stuff I could make at home.
5:25 - I get his reaction...this is stuff you find at Subway or cheap Uni food.
Fazoli's is basically fast food Olive Garden. Neither are great, they are just there. Of course, making pasta and sauces from scratch will lead to better taste and better for your health. Just like I grew up with a garden and we only bought a few staples from the grocery store. Got too busy as an adult to take the time to grow a garden, to make stuff from scratch. That is something I hope to get back to soon, now that I am retired.
Hilarious and love the whole thing. Was going to try Olive garden in Liverpool UK but think I will stick with the little Italian place opposite.
True i wish i will see you guys one day !! 🤞 Your videos are always entertaining and fun too watch😊❤️
That would be wonderful! If you ever see us around, please say Ciao!! ❤️
@@ThePasinis but i have to be on a holiday tho 😊
I also want to meet you one day. I am a BIG fan 😁
You guys are awesome..... May you be loved and blessed...today and always!!!
😂😂😂 I loved this video!! What Alessio said about ricotta cheese in lasagna brought me back to when I first came to the states. My two American friends took me to Applebees for my first time and I ordered the lasagna. When I tasted the ricotta cheese I felt nauseous and told my friends I didn’t like it and they told the waitress for me and sent it back. She very kindly gave me something else. That was also my first experience of how great American restaurants are, because there’s no way I would have sent that back if I was in my own country. I would have left it, paid for it and gone home to eat dinner instead. I’m used to lasagna with bechamel sauce which is how my friend from Rimini taught me to make lasagna when I was 17. Now that’s delicious!!
In the states the Greek version (Pastitsio) is usually made with Béchamel sauce, but otherwise its pretty rare.
Interesting. I used to like ricotta. One dayyears ago I made a little appetizer w it.. puked immediately. Me be it was expired. I dont think so. I quit cheese 4 yrs ago (it makes me sick). Miss it
@@Solidaritas1 watch Asemeri. Greek asmr girl. Such great content
I LOVE ricotta cheese. Don't care for bechamel at all.
il piatto con le fettuccine Alfredo, gli spaghetti con meatballs e le "lasagne" tutto mischiato nello stesso piatto, che viene spacciato per cibo italiano, è un colpo al cuore.😄
Che schifo!
Che porcherie mangiano negli USA? Quando mancano le basi....
Why are you torturing a real Italian with this garbage. Fizolies is terrible, and I’m not even Italian.
Le atrocita' che fanno gli americani con Il cibo Italiano non hanno confini!
Nah it's better than your bland unseasoned food. Italy was once good, in the Roman times lol
I think that comparing Italian American food (especially fast food) to authentic Italian food is so funny. Not the same at all.
It's the same kind of thing as looking at some of the "American" food you can get in Japan or similar things, every place takes things and adapts it to both what they have and what the locals like, especially with multigenerational immigrant developments. Hell, you can even look at parts of europe and what they view as "american food" outside of the international fast food chains...and you have things like the source for most of the worlds take on Mexican food comes from either Taco Bell or ChiChi's menus...
Then you add the fast food take on things from there which heavily simplifies things anyway.
The big mistake for a lot of these videos is not going inside and eating there
Exactly
It’s no an American concept about garlic it’s that when the poooor from Calabrian and Sicily came to America they found a bounty they had never seen before so the Italians used more garlic and meat than their relatives in the old country could never imagine
I think people forget histories, even the Italians themselves. The class/poor immigrants who came to the US are not the same as the families who stayed in Italy. In some ways the recipes and cooking are probably no longer available in Italy. Migration does strange things to the country they leave behind but a lot of times pride plays a part in a negative opinion of something they don't understand.
@@Shuan-t1h Without controversy, the vast majority of those immigrants came from southern Italy and therefore represented the population of a third of the Italian territory and are traditionally different from those in the center who are different from those in the north. Even today.
We have not forgotten our history, it is that the history of the immigrants who settled in the USA does not belong to us, it belongs to the Americans as those people became US citizens; it is you who have a distorted vision of what it is to be Italian and you are confirming that it is an American concept (deriving from this distorted vision) to put garlic in all Italian dishes.
P.S. I'm Italian and I don't like garlic at all.
@@art3mide644I'm Scots, have worked from north to south in Italy. Every 30 Kms, more or less, the cuisine changes. Also lived in Sicily, Rome, and a lot of time in the Veneto. I also hate garlic...
@@JamesCrichton-m1g I love Scotland, I have visited it 3 years in a row on my summer holidays.
Fazoli's fun fact: The concept of the casual Italian-American dinner, Fazoli's, began in 1988. Two years later, the Fazoli's system was established. Fazoli's started with five locations in the Lexington, Kentucky, area. Fazoli's was originally managed by Jerrico Inc. but later was put up for sale and sold to Duskin Co. Ltd so that Jerrico Inc. could focus on Long John Silver's.
Thanks fearless leader!
wow. me (european) don’t know what to say than; wow respect for remembering that 🫡
Thx for the info; so disappointing the food here
Kentucky?
Supremely fun facts my guy!
When you said "meatball sandwich with pepperoni", I had instant acid reflux. LOL
I ate one the Subway makes and I didn't like the pepperoni in it
my grandpa is a dentist in italy and he lowkey was shading us when he visited (different country) saying we're very crazy in using a lot of garlic in our food haha
😂😂😂😂love the reactions as always and iconic couple goals as always❤❤
“What the hell is this amore?” 😂 😂 😂 I died laughing
I'm not Italian, I have no Italian DNA, but I am autistic and have always had a weird palate. I'd never heard the no chicken with pasta rule until I found this channel, but always as a kid I refused to mix chicken and pasta and I always told my mom that it just didn't make sense together. Now I know why, it wasn't meant to be.
His look of panic at 9:56 at her comparing the next dish to Olive Garden's "Tour of Italy" BWAHAHAHHAHA
Over 25 years of visiting the USA I have never had a good Italian meal. Frequently I was told that I had NEVER had a proper Italian meal. Ho lavorato in Italia per quasi 30 anni. I miei amici hanno due ristoranti, quindi penso di poter giudicare. keep up the good work!
We here in the USA, are addicted to PROCESS FOOD, NEVER FRESH!
I love their breadsticks! Everything else is just okay.
edit: by the way, I freaking love Garlic. I could put it on almost everything.
The crust very well has sugar in it. Sugar feeds the yeast in the dough to make it rise better. It doesn't take much ,so they most likely put too much sugar. I love yalls difference of opinions. He rolled his eyes so hard that I thought he was going to break the window next to him, 🤣😂🤣
At subway they sell meatball subs. No pepperoni but I get spinach, green peppers, olives, tomatoes, cucumbers, pepper, 1row yellow mustard. The 2 of you could split a 12 inch.
You two are adorable and I just love your videos!
I love you guys so muchly. Be yourselves always.
love your channel, you both are semplicemente meraviglioso I just found your channel and absolutely love it keep it up from australia 🇦🇺 grazie tutti
Have you guys made a lasagna video? I would love to see a traditional authentic lasagna
I am half french. So I'm happy to see you both on UA-cam.
Can you do a review and comparison of the different boxed pastas? Like Barilla, de cecco, etc...
I need Alessio to try food from the greatest Italian ever: Chef Boyardee!!!
Bahaha that would be epic
Lol
Or pizza lunchables
He did. Jessi gave him some ravioli & said she made it. LOL!!! He grated a pile of cheese on top of it!! Didn't want to hurt her feelings.
My understanding is that the reason why there is such a heavy use of garlic in Italian-American cuisine, is that many of the early Italian immigrants to the US were poor. Garlic was a cheap and easy way to mask the absence of higher quality/more expensive ingredients in their food and so was used heavily. And while it may not be “authentic” to the original Italian cuisine, it’s something that was introduced by Italian-American immigrants. At least that’s what I had always been told.
They were not real Italians: they came from south Italy, a land closer to north Africa than to north Italy or Europe.
Ive heard it too. Makes me wonder.
@@naveconterossonel sud Italia non usiamo l aglio in maniera eccessiva, ma con parsimonia, perché il sapore Dell aglio può sovrastare gli altri sapori. Infatti anche in alcuni famosi ristoranti lo usano per coprire il pesce che non è fresco.
You guys make me wanna visit italy
Let’s go!!!
I’ve been to fazzolis in Colorado Springs and the breadsticks were pretty good from what I remember. The spaghetti was a little better than my homemade spaghetti made with Raghu then again I was in the military eating MRE’s so everything else was amazing. They had one for one year at a truck stop in Connecticut. It didn’t do too well here. Just like Checkers and Sonic is fading too.
i remember this Fazolis. As a teen, we would go there specifically for the breadsticks. 😂
I was constantly surprised and laughing. I look forward to your reviews/observations with much joy. Thank you.
my son and i used to share the sampler on a regular basis...not because it was amazing, but because it was a cheap meal we could split (and for the hang time...)...
Video divertente..grazie...ma il sorriso di jessi, è la parte migliore😅😅.. davvero contagioso... un saluto dall'italia
E' vero e' super contagioso
Best food ever and ever is Mediterranean diet!!!!! True Mediterranean food… from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece… 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼 Love you guys
It's true tho😊
"What the hell is this??!!"
PERFECT !!
Povero Alessio. Conosco il suo dolore.
Grazie per questo video divertente.
Jessi e una bambola.
Bravo.
Well, you don’t know that maccheroni al pettine from Modena or garganelli romagnoli may have a chicken ragù. So it is not true that there isn’t pasta with chicken. It’s that it is a proper ragù, not just chicken breasts tossed on the pasta. The chicken ragù is made in the same way as preparing pollo alla cacciatora. Then there are also the Roman fettuccine alle rigaglie di pollo (chicken liver, heart and so on).
Esatto !!! E' strano che tanti italiani non lo sappiano ( o non lo vogliano sapere ).
@@emanuelapartis9978 siamo diventati troppo ricchi e abbiamo scordato piatti della tradizione contadina, poveri, di quando c'era poco da mangiare e le bistecche erano alla portata di pochi, mentre un pollo anche i più miseri contadini ogni tanto riuscivano a metterlo in pentola.
Facce di Alessio sono impagabili! Siete fantastici!
The reason that chicken is never added to pasta is very simple and correct: chicken dries out too much if it cooks in a sauce. Italian sausage will never be dry, so that's why you sometimes find it crumbled in a sauce. Same goes for beef: it is crumbled or shredded, and even then it's simmered in milk, for example, for hours, to soften and tenderize it. Meatballs are NEVER served on top of pasta, so the rule holds. I have seen pizza in Italy with meatballs, but they are tiny, almost pea sized, so they won't get overcooked and dry.
I'm sorry, but never question Italian food rules, especially with regard to pasta dishes. There's always a logical reason.
N Italia la carne di manzo non viene Mai cucinata nel latte!
In Italia
@@fiordaliso5762 It is when it's in sugo alla Bolognese.
Fazoli is just like Chipotle, eat it in the bathroom and avoid the awkward walk of shame! "ops, mi sono fatto la cacca nei pantaloni"
😂😂😂😂😂
Watching this while I'm making chicken spaghetti 😂
That food looked and sounded delicious!
Meatball Peperoni sub looks amazing. This may not be Italian, but what it is, is Italian/American fusion, and I'm hungry to try that, but no Fazoli's in my part of the US.
I want to go to this place. Everything you two have tried looks delicious to me. Simply delicious.
I just love to laugh with you guys! You have the best energy and I agree that the food in Italy never gave me heartburn and I visited many cities along the coast twice, from northern Italy all the way down to Sicily and the food was amazing. What gave me heartburn was the wine! 😂😂😂
Thank you for sharing these videos you are amazing have a wonderful day
You guys are so cute! I stumbled across your channel recently and I'm hooked.
My husband loves meatball subs!
I like grilled veggies on a sub with mozzarella.
Italian cooking is simple, subtle, fresh, and delicious.
I feel you Alessio, as an Italian living in Finland. I really feel you...and the obsession of foreigners with the garlic 🙈 totally relatable unfortunately
You Italians are married to your food. It's weird.
@@jake-qn3tl it's cultural. I don't see anything weird in how we perceive our cuisine as part of our identity.
Plus, you don't have to take my comment that seriously. I am half joking about it 😅
@@giulias.orlando347 No it's definitely not weird. I'm just a Canadian with no real culture lol. Sometimes I wish I had more traditions in my family. I'm sorry I said It was weird.
Fazoli's is the kind of place that makes me glad Soylent exists ('cause it's tastier and more satisfying).
i definitely wanna go to italy to taste authentic italian pasta. i love italian food here!
If you will come in Italy you will find that u have eaten lies for years...lol
Oh my...
Cant you just make a simple tomato sauce from scratch, with crushed peeled tomatoes, oil and a clove of garlic or a shallot...?
You guys should review more italian restuarants
HOW MANY ITALIAN FAST FOOD CHAINS ARE THERE? 😮
@@Y42 There are probably hundred of Italian restaurants in their area alone.
@@daniellelopez3342 I’m talking about fast food chains - not restaurants 😌
and sorry to say; but u rly cute 🙊
Hey in southern Italy, originally Naples they put ricotta in the lasagna and hard boiled eggs. Bechamel is lasagna in the north.
definitely more american than italian! Love your videos :D
Nice to hear your opinions about Fazoli’s. It’s good to know what to try and what to avoid at Fazoli’s!
Yep I’ve never had it and always wondered.
If you guys are ever in Chicago, you NEED to try deep dish pizza. I think it would be so funny to see Alessio's reaction XD only do legit Chicago pizza though!
Why? It isn't a pizza. It is more of a quiche.
@@myrdraal2001 Quiche has an egg-based filling and deep dish most definitely does not, so they are not at all the same thing XD I've heard a lot of variations of the ole "Chicago pizza is just X" but I've never heard that one
@@jazzycrescendo9465 well it definitely isn't a pizza.
It’s oily, heavy, disgusting sauce and very hard to swallow!
Looks like a cheese pie, definitely not pizza
But I’d love to see him try it 😂
My Italian friends call it a casserole! 😊
“what the hell is this Amore?”😂😂😂😂
Italians and their “rules” comes down to hundreds if not thousands of years of tradition. That’s what makes Italy Italy. Thank goodness.
I can’t find a lasagna recipe from Alessio. Is that a video you’ve made before, or is that something coming up?? I’d love to see more recipes from you guys!🧡
@ 12:15 "Tell me what’s wrong with the pasta..." - Well, it would be more efficient to tell what’s right: basically only the hand that’s holding the fork, cause it’s his RIGHT hand 🤣
BTW I have watched quite a few of your videos, and I just can’t stop wondering: which part of Italy does that /aˈmoɹe/ (sometimes even /aˈmoɹ/) pronounciation come from? 😉 Or is it just minor victory of english phonetics? 😇
I’d love for you to try Carrabas Italian Grill
😂😂😂 this video had me rolling in laughter. Damn so good.
I felt validated when Alessio said we use garlic too much. 😂
When I moved to Fl 25 years ago and there was a Fazolis. I tried it once and never went back. They went out of business in central Fl shortly there after.
In college a fazolis side salad and order of breadsticks was my go to lunch (it was about 2 bucks back then!)
Hahah I’m glad you chose the pizza. I suggested it on Instagram. Also you are right. That pizza tastes sweet and it’s SO bizarre. I’ve never had pizza like EVER!! I love pizza and have tried SO many different kinds, I make my own from scratch, and have tried different pizza dough recipes, but something just went totally wrong with their pizza. You would think over the years they would have fixed it but nope. Apparently it still tastes the same way it did like 20 years ago. Yuck! Oh and the meatball icky!! The texture is like pate cat food. That is NOT what a meatball texture is like.
Alessio is also not alone in his hatred for Alfredo. One of my biggest pet peeves is white pizza. 🤢
Btw the reason why they over season everything in the states is because we having an obesity issue. When you are obese you inevitably have killed your tastebuds so to make the food more palatable is by over seasoning everything otherwise people can’t taste the food. It’s so sad, but true. This is why I don’t eat out unless I absolutely have to.
What the Hell is this. Love Alessio's reaction. Jessi you set him up LMAO.
I've never heard of Italian fast food (except pizza) and I guess now I know why. The exception being Amato's, which doesn't suck.
having spent time in Italy away from big cities eating at people's homes or "mom &pop's" ristoranti, I can appreciate this review. That isn't close to italian food.
I'm 2 years late on this video but I love Fazolis and hear me out as to why. Yes, it's not the best Italian type food ever! However, I was bitten by a tick and most restaurants will not care that I am allergic to so many things. This place will go out of their way to help me with my allergies.
Beautiful couple, you must carry a gallon of water each when eating American fast foods! Your sub sandwich had 6080mg of sodium!🤦🏾♀️ Italian, French and African foods are fresh, light, packed with fresh herbs, filling, flavorful and free of chemicals. I taught in foreign language schools, so I learned to eat superb foods from my colleagues.❤️
Holy crap that’s a Lot of sodium.
Hey - Just found your channel and love it! Worst restaurant my family has ever been to is Olive Garden, and not necessarily just Italian food.
Ya'll are so entertaining. 😊
Location un Orlando Florida on Colonial drive is the worst all around! If you want food poisoning then by all means go there! Enjoy your long hospital stay afterwards too😂!
I have had food poisoning twice from Fazoli’s. It’s been 10+ years since I had them and I tried again about 6 months ago. Horrid!
Love you guys though! So adorable!
Dude don't. Cook your own. 1000 times better.
I learn so much from Alessio. I would like to see more cooking episodes that involve real recipes.
7:10 When u dont have a culinary history this happens 😂
“What the hell is this amore!?” START W MERCH RAGAZZI
After watching you guys the only thing I'm convinced of is that going to Italy is where you're going to find bland, boring and basically tasteless food. Doesn't sound like a trip I want to make any time soon.
In my opinion, America has improved upon classic Italian dishes. And the meatball sandwich is something we should never even give Italy credit for because it is a classic American invention for the ages
not fast food - but carpenettis in Moody alabama has excellent Italian food. I'm not Italian but of the other Italian places I have tried carpenetti's is waaay above and beyond.
Technically 'breadsticks' are 'grissini'. Here in the UK you can easily find grissini in the supermarkets, and they are called 'breadsticks'
I ate at an authentic Italian restaurant in Alexandria VA, USA.
I ordered of course, spaghetti.
It came with very very little sauce.
At first I thought, what?
The first bite until the last was the most amazing, flavor filled spaghetti I have ever in my life, had!!
I just kept thinking, how did they get all of that wonderful flavor in there?
The owner came out to introduce himself and he was authentic Italian, too!
Loved him. He was so sweet.
I wish I could have that restaurant food every day.😊
Mmm, mmm, good!
Their spaghetti with meat sauce is good and the bread sticks soak up the sauce that left is great. I miss our Fazoli they closed up due to the Covid outbreak brake. And they never reopened.😢 true Italy the food is fresh and great.
my favorite baked spaghetti with meatball was good!
Fazolis was in Minnesota a short time in the 2000s and they had the best breadsticks!
It's good to know I'm not the only one who gets sick from our food. I just make it at home and I don't get sick.
Is it the same thing? Kinda. Italian is just mac n cheese with or without meat
To be fair the only thing I would order from Fazoli's is the veal parmigiana, which I don't even know if they have anymore, and the only reason I ever went there once was because we bought one of those coupon books from a Bot Scout about 20 years ago
Love your videos!
I enjoyed the commentary.
You guys are great!!!
When my Italian Grandma from Nusco would have us over for a holiday dinner, she would have homemade pasta and after the pasta, we had a meat platter,with meatballs, braciola, pork and Chicken but mainly the wings and legs. The chicken was not cooked in the sauce but separately.
Never heard of the Fazoli chain. Apparently not here in the northeast? Not planning to try should i find one.
If you are ever in Dallas, Texas stop by Mimi's Italian. They have the best spaghetti I have ever tasted. They cook it 3 times. It's so good.
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