As a European I´m totally with her. Less is more. Less ingredients, fresh products, hand crafted dough from the scratch, more nature, more taste, more healthy.
The European Union requires real fresh vegetables and fruit. Look at sites by Americans who comment on Europe and they all notice that those things are much better than in the US.
As a German I’m with her. If the pizza is dripping with oil, if all you can taste is the “cheese”, no seasoning, no proper tomato sauce, just greasy spongy dough and “cheese”, then I don’t want whatever this is (because it’s not Pizza). I genuinely love Italian pizza and what they serve you in many places all over Europe. I gave American pizza many chances but all I ever got was a stomachache from all the grease and lots of disappointment. Pizza isn’t supposed to taste overly greasy nor sweet.
@@amyb1078 to be honest I've lived all 26 years of my live in Italy and have not seen one single Domino's ever... they probably closed because we didn't like it... or because there was just to much better quality competition.
@amyb1078 they didn't that is the point. Also personally i ordered at Domino's myself, (I'm italian by the way) and the prices were not good either for a smaller pizza than average, that also taste like 99% cheese and soggy dough...
As an italian i can say that we didn't like it and that's the reason why they closed, also i think there was only one or two dominos in all italy (in milan)@@amyb1078
To be honest i have never seen a dominos, we have big fast food chains but mostly in places like malls or where tourists are, but no american pizza places, because we just go to local places that serve it faster, cheaper and healthier
@@gabrielesantucci6189 Depends where you go mate. London has some amazing restaurants, Ireland and Scotland too, also our food is not filled with chemicals, so that's A bonus. Have you been lately?
@@1151994mp 125 grams from cowmilk is 2,05 euros., 125gr of mozzarella de Buffalo is 3,25 in my supermarket and I pay a bit more for the Buffalo one from Italy at the cheese store.
@@annehoogyou are wrong. In Italy, fiordilatte mozzarella, which is made from cow's milk, which is still an excellent product, is distinguished from buffalo mozzarella which has a more intense flavour. Both can be made well or badly and can also be found good in supermarkets. Where I come from, cow's milk mozzarella costs around €12/kg in the supermarket while buffalo mozzarella costs around €18/kg. Both have nothing to do with the industrial, non-fresh, greasy, shoddy products that Domino's puts in its pizzas. Even in Italy I happened to go to really poor pizzerias that used a similar product, the pizzas were oily (animal and non-vegetable fats coming from that cheese) and smelly, I never went back. Pizza with cow or buffalo mozzarella is clearly distinguishable by color and consistency, the oil is only EV olive and the mozzarella releases the watery and non-oily moist part.
@@stefanomartello3786 I have been visiting my friends in Naples every summer for many years, so I can hardly be considered a normal tourist, and consequently not just any pizza is valid for me. I am Spanish, I am lucky to have Italy very close.
@@taranvainas Well then I might have misunderstood your initial statement. I tought you meant that when you come to italy you'll change your mind and start thinking italian food is not good. It's true that as you said not all pizza is good, that is why I don't like tourist traps' food. Many people I heard (mostly americans) come to Italy, eat twice in a shitty tourist trap and come back to their country thinking italian food is shit
@@stefanomartello3786 I love Italian food, and I have the enormous fortune to enjoy all those homemade dishes that tourists don't even know exist (they believe that in Italy people only eat pizza and pasta). The quality and variety are endless. I always discover new dishes. And another thing I love about Italy, as well as my country, Spain, is that cooking is not the exclusive territory of women. In Spain something similar happens to us with paella: no Spaniard would eat paella in one of those places designed for tourists. And we are especially offended that in foreign countries they call any yellow rice "with things" paella, and they like it!
This reminds me of being in Amalfi last year. They had "frappuccino's" on the menu. I said to the waiter " Not very Italian" he replied "It's for the Americans, they don't know coffee" and laughed and winked.
@@Kiba_a.z A coffee that is part of the post-frappe (a type of Greek coffee) era. It is sweet and cool, suitable for the hot summer. It's like a coffee milk shake, with lots of calories. Marketing product.
I feel Italians struggle with the American pizza. It's like when an American tells me he eats bread but turns out he's eating a chemical oversweet brioche and my french heart hurts. You can call it the same, but it's not the same. Everything except for the shape and the name is different.
Americans don't bake bread, only bread-like products. My uncle living in the USA claimed that it was a country of substitutes, not only culinary ones. For example, houses pretend to be houses.
Why are Americans obsessed with avoiding “fancy” foods? It’s a bizarre form of inverted snobbery. What you call fancy is just normal healthy food to Europeans.
The issue is that the big corporations in the US have told the Americans that they can't possibly replicate food on their own They told them they have to buy their stuff because otherwise they starve What she did is completely basic Pizza dough is not magic, flour, water, salt and yeast Presto you have your dough after ~30 minutes Yes it has to calm down for ~8 hours, so what you don't even have to watch it For the sauce take some tomatoes from a can, mix them into a mash if you don't like their consistency Mix the garlic, salt, a little sugar, pepper, oregano and basil into the tomato sauce Roll out the dough, put the sauce on it and whatever you otherwise want It's not magic, children can do it
@@TyonKree I agree, and it’s definitely something children can do, my sister used to cook with my nephew before he even started school. He was so used to properly prepared food that the first time he encountered fast food at McDonald’s at his friend’s 5th birthday party he refused to eat anything.
Dear Ryan... from an Italian, born and living in Italy, US pizza is not even decent. Please, please, come to Italy, be my guest, it will be my personal pleasure to guide you to eat some GOOD pizza, and good food in general.
true, Dominos is also one of the worst offenders, i tried that crap once and never again. But Italy in general is special for Pizza, i cant find anything close to it in Austria.
Italian here.🇮🇹 I don't understand why you americans think that in Italy we put garlic everywhere. In reality here in italy many of us actually remove it from the pan halfway through cooking and throw it away! ☹️🤷♂️ps and it's true...there is no such thing as garlic bread. We have bruschetta with very little garlic rubbed on the bread and tomato...that's it!!!😉👍
I always keep saying that we in Italy don't want to feel the smell of garlic. I use to put one piece when I cook, and at the end, I throw it away so nobody has to eat it.
It's kind of funny that it's a niche, leftover dish in Italy itself, but your neightbours really ran with it. Croatians seem to absolutely love garlic oil and sauces. And in Austria, grilled garlic bread is popular as a side dish for BBQ.
The thing is, if your dough tastes like cardboard, your cheese is plastic and your tomato sauce is sweet like jam, you need a looot of garlic to make it bearable. Americans don't understand that with fresh and good quality ingredients you don't need artificial seasoning. Balance and the subtlety of taste is a foreign concept to a nation that thinks "more is always better".
Americans are convinced in Italy we eat garlic,and garlic bread when is an english dish... i have no idea from where they always took this random ideas...in particular about italy...
Google pizza in Italy, you'll see why she's crying. I'm in England and Italian pizza, like most of their food is simple and beautiful with quality ingredients.
Fun fact. Domino's Pizza opened many pizza outlets in Italy in 2015, only to close in 2022 and return home. It could not hold a candle to Italian artisanal pizzerias.
When I (German) visited Italy for the first time I was courious to eat a real Italian pizza. It looked thin and simple compared to our overloaded pizza. But it was the most delcious thing I ever had. To you Italians: Italian food is the best in the world.❤👍
3:14 "Wisconsin Six Cheese" cannot be "Pizza Margherita", which is an authentic Italian pizza from Naples, created in 1889 and named after the then Italian queen. Its ingredients were chosen to replicate the colours of the Italian flag: basil (green), cheese (white), tomato sauce (red).
How do you make the English, French, Germans and Italians laugh like closest friends til they split their sides? Tell them Wisconsin is famous for cheese, hot dogs are sausage and USA make the best pizza.
Im polish.Italian food is so amazing.Relligion for Italians.I tried Carbonara,Pizza and Lasagne in Rome.Amazing.Thank you Italian friends for this food.❤
US junk food kitchen is simple, collect whatever is lying on the floor in the kitchen, pour a good amount of the cheapest cooking oil over it, then a handful of sugar and finally bake it with cheese and bacon. Then sell it as an expensive original European specialty and dont forget to charge a 30% tip.
@@tabaaza9884 he literally said "US junk food kitchen" - Americans are hella defensive, man. Always coming with the "but you can get good stuff too in this one restaurant in this one town!!" Duh, you can good stuff from almost every cuisine in almost every country, whether you believe it or not. Junk food on the other hand is almost universially questionable. But junk food in the US is a whole new class of disgusting and unhealthy.
1. Extract everything "usefull" out of the food (overprocess the base incrediences) until they are unhealthy but can be made out of the last crappy agricultural product available. 2. Now add chemicals to make it even cheaper (increase volume with cheap garbage) 3. Because it looks like it is (unhealty crap) add artificial colors (who cares that the colors cause cancer and damage the brain), artificial "Taste" and smells like bacon (everything in the US has to taste and smell like bacon). 4. Because the stuff still has no taste fry it in FAT and bury it under a ton of cheap overprocessed half artificial stuff that should simulate cheese (off curse with a ton of bacon aroma). 5. Pack the stuff in a box and print at the box "Freedom", "Patriotic" and "Americas proudly best" 6. Sell the stuff expensive (it has the American flag on the box - this is worth the extra $5 )
He's just your average willfully ignorant American with zero social awareness of his surroundings never leaves his bubble.Imagine if he ever left America he'd be completely out of his comfort zone and the culture shock would blow his mind. Having zero social awareness doesn't help either
I would argue that most people outside of Italy don't know proper Carbonara. Most who know Carbonara probably think of it as a cheesy cream sauce with ham, not Guanciale, Parmegiano and eggs
No pizza in the world can compete with a Italian pizza.They are absolutely fantastic they stand way way way above any other pizza in the world any where TRUST ME
I'm italian and She Is totally right our pizza Is not considered unhealthy, its One pizza for person USUALLY and with less ingredients( Sorry for spelling errors)
When i buy garlic bread here in Denmark it's looks like an baguette, crispy on the outside and garlic butter /w herbs in the middle. Not like oil sponges.
@@Phiyedough Its cheaper than the ingredients, unless you can use the rest of the garlic and herbs for something else. My baker doesn't even have the bread in that size.
Domino's tried their luck in Italy but started closing down in 2022, I think. They had actually planned to have 880 restaurants by 2030, like what the hell were they thinking?? 😂 It's like they knew absolutely nothing about the country before opening their business there.
Exactly. Italy is FULL of pizza restaurants, take away pizza shops, delivery pizza shops... of any price point and of any quality... but also in the cheapest ones (the lowest quality), the ones that generally are "pizza and kebab" shops owned by Egyptian or Turkish people, THEY MAKE THEIR OWN FRESH DOUGH!!! Come on... what the hell is the Domino idea to have few production plants of dough, and then send it to all the shops.. that's disgusting. The dough can't be as good and as well leavened as a freshly made one! In Italy eating is first of all a pleasure... then a business... in USA, from what I see from the video, everything must be first of all a business... Even if you look at the firs comment by Ryan: "well the Domino's stock has done very well"... who cares if their pizza is s*it...
@@BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele Plus, the American palate is very different. In Italy, you cook with only few and simple but FRESH regional ingredients to create magic. That's what people are used to and grow up on. Homecooked, high-quality meals. Preserving the traditions in cooking is also extremely important in Italy so I have no idea why anyone actually believed that Americanized pizza would be a hit there. 😅
@@SatieSatie well... I can understand that between teens could be a thing... "Let's eat American, that's cool!", but you have to build proper restaurant to enjoy the "American experience" just like Mc Donalds, that we have, and it's well established... Even if it's generally not considered a proper meal, instead a "teenager" kind of thing, or for kid's birthday party... But McDonald's in Italy works with the restaurants you eat in! Delivery and drive through is almost not existent... Building a chain of fast food only for delivery in Italy, like Domino's was, will lead you to bankrupt...
McDonald had the sane business plan to come in terms with the local palate, and local business rules, wherever they were going. Then, of course, they also have lots of money and a lot of lobby power, but still they managed to integrate into italian market and italian taste buds. They acquired previous local burger fast foods, managed to mantain their previous food providers' network, managed to comply with EU and Italy strict food regulations (especially true for large and foreign realities like McDonald) and so even McDonalds here have healthier standards than abroad. I wouldn't be surprised to see 'muricans disliking what our McDonald's has to offer, and maybe find 'unflavourful' its products hahahahah
@@PetoDiTacchino yes, this makes more sense, the Italian McDonald's ads focus on Italian origin of the ingredients and meat, and some "speciality" receipes inspired by Italian traditional cousin, such as salads. By the way... Very very few people here consider McDonald's and fast food in general as a viable alternative to a meal on a regular basis, for example it's extremely rare that people eat fast food at lunch breaks at work.... We mostly consider the fast food as "a treat" for some informal occasions such as birthday for children and so on...
I must say that I tried once Domino's Pizza here in Germany as an Italian. So-called "Italian" restaurants over here in Germany are usually terrible enough. But Domino's was straight up from hell. I couldn't even enjoy that food if I were drunk. Inedible. So, I am totally with her.
Looked it up, and garlic bread was indeed invented in Italy, so maybe the Italian lady meant the kind that Americans call "garlic bread", because in Italy it's literally a slice of bread (real bread like ciabatta) rubbed with real olive oil and garlic. It's called bruschetta. Maybe the source I'm looking at is wrong, but that's what it says.
I’m with her on the thick American non-crusty crust ;-) Always real Italian, thin crispy crust, thin covering ;-) and no oil dripping out. And yes Ryan, that’s a delicacy, and it doesn’t need to be more expensive than what you consider to be ‘pizza’.
Dear Ryan. I'm 56 years old and from Germany. I was in holidays in Italy with my parents for the first time in 1973 and since then I made it at least "over the Alps" about 15 more times. I love the country, the people, the cultural heritage and of course the food. Viva l'Italia 😍. But - as with most dishes from other countries - they are usually "adapted" to the preferred taste of the country YOU live in. Hardly any restaurant will survive in the long run if it offers the genuine original recipes - which only very few customers would like. For example - eat dishes from China, Thailand or Turkey - they mostly will have not much to do with those you get in restaurants in Germany. Authentic restaurants are hard to find, mostly in big cities, of course. Best regards - keep up the good work. ☺
When I lived in the States, as a Brit, I had various pizzas from various companies, in the 7 years I was there. Generally they weren't as good, from my point of view, as what I can get in UK supermarkets!
It is no comparison. Italian pizza is not American pizza. And other way around. Italian pizza is handmade. From fresh ingredients. Thin and with only a few ingredients. And hot. As you eat it in a restaurant. In small bites. Undisturbed by anyone. It is round and as big as your plate not as big as a cartwheel sliced in pieces. And it is not delivered and semi-warm. Once you have been in Italy and tasted the real thing you will know. They don't cut corners. You get the real thing.
Pizza in italy is big (in diameter, NOT in thickness). It's delievered. In cardboard boxes. Most places have a delivery option with, btw, "custom" cardboard boxes with their own logo on the box. But yes you're 100% right, it comes hot and you eat it hot. They don't cut corners for ingredients. It's always hand made at the moment. Completely different from American pizza.
Hi, I follow your channel, and also Pastagrammar, which I consider to be the best gastronomic channel I know. It is aimed at the American public, explaining the countless recipes of Italian cuisine and showing Aspects of the real life of my country.
@@amyb1078 Domino's, New York pizza, Pizza Hut....By poring avast amount of money into marketing, it all here in Europe...and they have things in common: It's not pizza and if you would disregard that: too much bread, too much sugar, too much fat, fake cheese, taste comes from US Chemical instead of ingredients.
I agree :) Coming from Slovenia (a country borderind Italy in Europe) we have the same taste in pizza as the Italians. I find the American pizza dripping with oil and covered in cheese other than mozzarella...inedlible lol :)
Slovenian pizzas are superb, most of our pizza bakers were trained in Italy, some add ketchup or tobacco because they like it, not because the pizza is bad.@@lilg2300
@@lilg2300that was Slovakia, a totally different country bordering Hungary and Poland (amongst others) but in many ways understandable as the names are very similar and up until the 1990's were parts of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia respectively. Both are lovely countries, even if Slovenia is more enticing for the climate :D
@@0xFAB10 Really, jeez, yeah then saying their pizzas were great quality seems odd :D Thanks for correcting me, I was sure it was Slovakia, probably fooled about the Polish saying they also had ketchup on their pizzas made me think it's that region.. Me bad :D
Pasta grammar has several videos, in one of them Eva also tried New York pizza (if I recall well, she didn't like it) and Chicago pizza (she told that it's not a pizza, but it's similar to what in Italy we call "torta salata" (salted cake). The leaves on Eva's pizza were leaves of basil (the pizza margherita must have basil, mozzarella and tomato sauce, the colors of the Italian flag).
In Europe, we consider all American foods to be unhealthy - It really is hilarious when I see Americans judging British food when they come over, probably because they are missing their drugs fix!
In addition to British food not having all of the dangerous chemicals, we have a lot less sugar in just about everything. US standard bread has 6 times more sugar than UK standard bread.
@@janosnagy3096 no my friend, only uneducated people that believe everything they hear on the internet believe that.. the UK has the 3rd most 3* Michelin restaurants, with only France and Japan ranking higher.
That is what surprised me, the first time I actually had an Italian Pizza. I honestly thought that NY style was like Italian Pizza. It's not, but I still like it. 😉
Traditional Italian pizzas are amazing, but I recommend everyone visiting Italy to try "pizza al taglio", which is found both in bakeries and in small street stalls, and if I remember correctly they are served from 11 in the morning and from five in the afternoon. They are designed to kill hunger mid-morning and mid-afternoon when you are away from home. They are large pizzas that they sell by weight, you mark the amount you are going to eat. You will touch the sky.
There are no big foreign corporate franchises in Italy. They make and sell their own deliciousness everywhere! You walk a block and walk into an aromatic kitchen where they make your favourite pasta or pizza. The French use lots of garlic, Italians, barely any!
@@BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele recently an Italian comedian said he likes Domino's but you can like it only if you think you are not eating a pizza, but something else. The food industry work "scientifically" on the taste, using something called "bliss point", which leads to a sort of food addiction, they reach the bliss point using 3 ingredients: fats, sugars and salt. And they can reach that bliss point with any ingredient, doesn't matter the quality. A proper Italian pizza has few fats and very few sugars, Domino's pizza has 5 times more sugars and around 2.5 times more fats. Humans loves sugar and fats.
@@dnocturn84 Wich is no more true, then. French sometimes use garlic in cooking (just as Italian does), but not a lot, barely, in fact… Most of the French never use it to be true and don't have some in their kitchen. And garlic is more an italian and metiderranean thing than a french one when you compare recipes. Garlic is just an ingredient. In a pizza sauce ? Why not ? But never too much.
Sorry, but Naples in Italy was the very first country to deliver pizza to your home. That was in 1889. Then India was the second country to do so in 1890's. Then UK "Meals on Wheels", ..... And so on ...🍕
But the Bombay system is more precise and DELIVERS FROM HOME kitchen TO the WORKER from that home; not from a business kitchem. THE REAL "FOODE" FROM LA MAMMA
3:39 If the video as filmed in the US, 100% sure it's fake Feta. If it were in the EU, by law it would have to be real Feta, from Greece, produced according to the specifications of that traditional PDO cheese.
"Where is the cheese" we normally use mozzarella, the pizza you're describing as fancy to my eyes it's a standard homemade pizza margherita (I'd have added a bit more mozzarella and oregano to be honest). And pizzas here are not as overloaded with toppings and sauces, they are generally very light and depending on where you go you can have two whole pizzas by yourself and not feel bloated at all. We also have delivery like in the U.S, but the quality is the same as restaurants (unless you order from very cheap places)
to be honest, I live in a rural part of Italy, which is culturally pretty mixed with Austria since it's close to the border. But I have never seen a Dominos in my life. Guess they just had some locations in big cities.
I remember how shocked I was when I tried a cappuccino in North America after trying one for the first time in Europe. They were not the same. A cappuccino is not supposed to be a dessert!
As an Italian myself that tried domino’s pizza I 100% agree with her and every European in this enlightened comment section Domino’s pizza is terrible and if Americans think it’s the best pizza in America I can’t even imagine what is the rest of it It felt like he is trying to poison her with whatever that is And at the end her pizza was just perfect with that mozzarella the basilico and the sauce she really did a great job
Hello, and thanks for this video. I'm not italian' I'm french. And here we have food trucks making real pizzas in nearly every village. So, about Domino's, what to say ? A first, what the f*** are these "parmesan" things she's eating at first ? Then, pasta are looking like so creapy, and so far away from real carbonara ... And I don't even want to comment the "pizza". As she says, "That IS not possible!"
Even as a German (with a lot of Italians living here and running Pizza Restaurants) I have to say: You will not find a Pizza like the one shown in the video in a Pizza restaurant here. And mostly all pizza restaurants do delivery here! And if you buy a cheap deep frozen pizza in a German grocery shop - well...... there is one named "Pizza American Style", which should explain that it has nothing to do with an original Italian Pizza at all! :) Because "American Style" is different. So believe me - the way Americans make pizza is very, very different from the original!
Pretty funny he considers the one with less* ingredients fancier than the simpler better tasting version, and i think price per pound would be cheaper as well
hi I'm Italian, I was born and raised in Italy, I live in Italy and I agree that Domino's is not "pizza", I would rather include it in the "dirty focaccia" department. As long as Domino's was active in Italy, sometimes I used to go and get a "Domino's meat-pizza" it was my favorite. Ryan, if you ever come to Italy, be my guest, I will take you on a food tour in my city, you will discover how different real Italian food is compared to the Italian food you have in the USA.
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4:08 for answering your question as an Italian and more specifically i'm "Napoletano" from Naples were the Pizza is born! The delivery services we invented it back in the early 1900 😂 when "garzoni"( workers of small shops) literally took your pizza to you on a bike!
The cheese is little Mozzarella cubes, the leaves are Basilikum. Margherita, green, white and red, like the italian flag. The most common Pizza in italy.
In germany our biggest frozen pizza companies like Dr.Oetker or Wagner even have the category "american-style pizza" alongside like "italian-style pizza or OG pizza". I can't stand the american version either xD it's way to oily, way too soft and way to thick. To me, it feels more like a warm cake than a pizza. I mean, the dough-part is as big as the entire italian pizza would be haha
That explains alot. In the UK we have Dr. Oetker italian-style pizzas (pretty good for a frozen one imo) but not the American-style. I always wondered why a German company would specify that a pizza is Italian but now it all makes sense 👍
@@Simon-lt6fe glad to be of help, even if unintentional xD you can just google "Dr. Oetker american style pizza" and you can see what those would look like. They even have spinach and feta apparently
I'm on a quest to find the best frozen pizza in Germany. I recently tried Wagner and the crust was like most German pizza - it's a cracker. I was in Italy and the crust on the pizza was different than any other. It reminded me of fresh Indian Naan with large air pockets and blackened areas. Recently I found a brand of frozen pizza in Germany that tries to simulate that Neopolitan style - it's called Gustavo Gusto. I don't like spongy American pizza crust, so I won't buy Oetker's American style. But I'm happy to have found a good one in Germany. And if I'm not mistaken, Aldi has repackaged Gustavo Gusto with its own label (they call it Gigante). I tried them side by side and couldn't tell which was which.
@@LythaWausW gustavo Gusto is basically our Premium frozen pizza pre-baked by actually pizza bakers. Really Solid, but really expensive compared to the Rest
Garlic bread is said to have originated in Southern Italy as a way to use up leftover bread, which was sliced and rubbed with garlic and olive oil. Over time, the garlic bread recipe evolved as butter, or burro, replaced olive oil, and the bread was toasted or baked instead of being grilled.
Yeah, I had some discussions about that with Italians - the concept of making something out of garlic + olive oil + white bread is absolutely Italian, but as leftover food, they usually don't use it as an appetizer for whatever like in the US, a starter like in Croatia or a side dish to meat like many other European countries do these days.
@@Alias_Anybodyto be honest, we have a completely original and widespread garlic bread thing in Italy, which is bruschetta. That's slightly toasted bread, which is in its simplest form just smeared with garlic. From that you can build up by adding a drop of olive oil, oregano, finely chopped tomato or mozzarella, or even mushrooms, eggplants or whatever. It's commonly used as an appetizer in family barbecues, while you are waiting for the meat to cook, or in pubs and beer venues as snacks (think about it as our answers to nachos).
Yes. We still have THAT. We slice the bread, slightly grill/toast it, rub it with garlic and drizzle some extra virgin olive oil on it. It's a BRUSCHETTA!
I love the way they made up some cr@p and call it Italian. 😁 It reminds me of how "Italian Americans" say Italian words and names with a Mexican Spanish pronounciation.
I've visited different parts of Italy many time over a few decades and eaten pizza. It is usually off the scale. They use few quality ingredients. Trying to compare fast food pizza to these is a sin! Don't get me wrong the fast food pizza's have a place.
the green on the pizza is basilicum (in Italia always with pure tomatoes(saus) and with mozzarella cheese (white colour) And pure pizza dough. Water, salt and flour. And never sugar, also not in the sause
Pasta Grammar is a very "special" channel. She is Italian with all her heart! Love her. Watch her making pasta!! About pizza: Pizza is not a cheese thing. It's a bread/toppings-thing.
Ryan, you should watch some of the reaction videos on the Italia Squisita channel. Some of Italy's best pizza chefs letting rip as even quite famous chefs mess up their beloved pizza. But great insights into the real skill and science behind this very simple food. Btw the current World's Best is based in...London 🇬🇧 🇮🇹
Carbonara is cheese, ham, and egg yolk (some argue also the white), usually with Spaghetti. I won't insist on Pecorino Romano, Pancetta, or Guanciale, but I *will* insist on no cream, your best combination of local ham+cheese, and absolutely spotless technique: You want a creamy, emulsified, sauce, not scrambled eggs, that requires some consideration of temperature. The traditional recipe also lists pepper but depending on your ham+cheese it might already be in there. Alex the French guy made a deep dive on the dish, can only recommend. It absolutely *cannot* be made as delivery food, needs to be served and eaten right away.
@@BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele I'm probably going to be an idiot now, but I can't believe that in a country like the USA you can't get guanciale or pancetta. After all, there are quite a lot of Italians in the USA, people bring their culinary traditions with them. Cream in carbonara is a misconception, this is the first time I've heard of such a thing.
'No matter where are you from, you're lying if you say they don't taste good' My dad almost became sick the first time he tried McDonalds hamburger. :) A lots of American food are too salty/sweet for people like us who grew up eating more traditional diets (I live in rural Romania, in Transilvania)
That pizza has way too much topping. I’ve been to Italy and their pizzas are very different! They don’t drown it in EVO nor bury it in cheese. She made a pizza caprese which has tomato, fresh basil leaves and torn baby mozzarella. Simple flavours that are made to go together.
@@Jeni10 caprese salad is only mozzarella fresh tomato slices and one two leafs of basilico. With olive oil a d salt. Pizza with cooked salsa di pomodoro cooked mozzarella is Margherita.
I'm a Brit and even I know what proper pizza looks and tastes like. It so funny to me how many Americans and Brits don't no what proper healthy food looks like!
I don't know why you think Americans are the only ones who get pizza delivered. I don't know either how it is in other European countries, but in Germany you can have not only pizza (Italian or from Dominos) but also all other types of food (Indian, Chinese, German...) delivered. So pizza delivery is completely normal here.
The first ever recorded pizza delivery occurred in 1889, when Queen Margherita of Savoy fell ill after eating rotten food in Naples, ITALY. Left hungry and in need of better quality food, the queen and King Umberto I of Italy decided to request authentic Italian pizza be sent to them
I’m Italian and yes, we don’t have garlic bread here. I lived in Ireland for more than two years, I first tried it there and I thought that it was an Irish specialty then people kept asking me if the garlic bread there was as good as the one I had back home in Italy and I realized that for some reason they thought it was an Italian thing. Probably the thing that comes closer ( even though it’s quite different) is bruschetta but in that case it would be just a very thin layer of garlic that could be scratched on the surface of the bread, but very different from the garlic bread I had in Ireland. By the way, yes, we have pizza delivered at home.
I would consider a real Italian pizza like I enjoyed in Sicily pretty healthy too since it's just some thin freshly baked bread with a thin layer of tomato sauce, a little bit of cheese and herbs. Just the tomato sauce alone contains more flavor then 3 domino pizza's combined because of the way they make the sauce.
There are plenty of examples of dishes that have been imported into the USA and transformed into something unrecognisable to the culture where they originated - usually because the immigrants who imported them had to substitute for ingredients that weren't available in the US, and to cater the the locals' taste. Pizza is one, but so is garlic bread - the olive oil used for bruschetta wasn't available in the US, so it was subbed for butter which was; at least the Americans had the decency to change the name and not pretend it's bruschetta!
Who first invented garlic bread? It is said to have originated in Southern Italy as a way to use up leftover bread, which was sliced and rubbed with garlic and olive oil. Over time, the garlic bread recipe evolved as butter, or burro, replaced olive oil, and the bread was toasted or baked instead of being grilled.
Eva also has a video on bruschetta (the food you are referring to). The garlic is supposed to barely touch the bread. Garlic is potent, it's one of those flavours that must be minimal to exhalt the food instead of overpowering it
I am Italian, born and raised in Naples, the home of pizza. Many times I happen to see reels on Instagram of American pizzas that seem decidedly more inviting and good than Domino's, but they are still different. They are rich in different ingredients and much larger, I think that 3 or 4 people can eat with just one pizza (here you can eat one pizza each). The Neapolitan Margherita pizza has very few ingredients (tomato sauce, oil, mozzarella and a couple of basil leaves), but of very high quality and it is the simplicity that makes it taste great. Obviously such a large chain could decide to use medium quality ingredients. In addition to being completely different visually, as you can easily search on Google, the much stronger taste resulting from many more ingredients can probably trigger the palate of a person accustomed to simpler flavours. On the other hand, I hope that in the future you will come to Naples and taste one, so you will be able to understand well what I mean.
I agree with that lady. Italian food is delicious because they use healthy, high quality and natural ingredients, and they know how to cook properly, keeping their traditions. In Italy, food is an art work.
As an Italian who had to survive outside my country (I've lived abroad for a while), I can say that Domino's pizza is at least acceptable. When you order a pizza in another country, you already know that you won't get the same thing that you have at home. So, why be so picky? Btw, it's true, Domino's pizza is really sweet... I think it depends on the sauce. We are not used to it. And the amount of ingredients... we keep everything much more simple. LESS IS BETTER! I never tried Domino's in the States, but I've heard that you use a lot of garlic overthere. We are not used to it, especially on pizza (with few exceptions). The pizza that she prepares at home is not fancy, it is just simple :) And it's really easy to prepare, it just requires time for the dough to rise. You should try, you just need few fresh ingredients and you will be amazed how easy it is. You should try and impress your wife! Buon appetito! :D
Hi from Bulgaria. I remember when we visited Italy in 1982 with my family we were realy surprised in Rome to eat pizza with just tomato sauce and basil. But it tasted as hеaven.
Australian here. I have been to Italy twice. Every city and region has its own regional cuisine and pasta/spaghetti. The cheese on the homemade version is Mozzarella. In Campagnia (Napoli area) they use Buffalo Mozzarella and the fertile volcanic soils there give the tomatoes a very distinctive taste. Even the water affects the taste. That said I tried a Domino's' Italian style pizza in Turkey and it was okay. Better than okay in fact. But authentic Italian food in Italy is unbeatable. Probably why it's my favourite country in Europe. Greece would be my 2nd favourite. Love the seafood but not a huge fan of zucchini and eggplant / aubergine used in Moussaka and Souvlaki. The lemon basel cuttlefish I had in Crete was to die for.
Ryan, If I were you I wouldn't try genuine Italian pizza. You would never want to eat a Domino's "thing" again. It would be like driving an Aston Martin for a month and then going back to driving a Toyota.
Garlic bread was actually invented in Bolton, Lancashire, England. It was such an amazing new thing, the inhabitants all went round shouting "Garlic bread? GARLIC bread? Garlic BREAD? Garlic? And bread?"
@@user-wc8fp4cx6c It's like calling anything with chocolate and cherries "black forest"-something. When it really has nothing to do with black-forest cake.
Best Pizza I ever had was in Italy, second best in Croatia. The classical Italian thin pizza is just so much better than the US style thick pizza, not to mention Italians really know how to make it best. Unfortunatelly even here in Czechia, the US style is what you usually get when you order a delivery. But there are few restaurants that make the classical product and these are worth visiting.
11:50 “It’s way fancier” No Ryan, hear me out, that’s absolutely not a fancy pizza😭 That’s the homemade, spartan pizza that even children in Italy are able to do! It’s always interesting to see how Americans find Italian “nonna” kind of food fancy when it’s really just food being simple and genuine…
As a European I´m totally with her. Less is more. Less ingredients, fresh products, hand crafted dough from the scratch, more nature, more taste, more healthy.
The European Union requires real fresh vegetables and fruit. Look at sites by Americans who comment on Europe and they all notice that those things are much better than in the US.
Yes, but where was the Cheese?
And what about the Ham and Pineapple?
Sorry 😁
Na - both are awesome. Italian Pizza is real food and american perfect for fastfood and TV
@@stephenlee5929there were mozzarella cheese
@@stephenlee5929Americans stuff....not for italians!👍😉🇮🇹
As a German I’m with her.
If the pizza is dripping with oil, if all you can taste is the “cheese”, no seasoning, no proper tomato sauce, just greasy spongy dough and “cheese”, then I don’t want whatever this is (because it’s not Pizza).
I genuinely love Italian pizza and what they serve you in many places all over Europe.
I gave American pizza many chances but all I ever got was a stomachache from all the grease and lots of disappointment.
Pizza isn’t supposed to taste overly greasy nor sweet.
Thanks they don't know....peperoni pizza is not salame it's a vegetable 😂
Have you tried New York pizza? I heard it's delicious (I haven't eaten it, I don't know)
@@igormatkowski5488 I have. It’s greasy
@@Reckoning2943 thanks you
@@Reckoning2943 Greasy pizza... 🤮
Based on her reaction it's no wonder Domino's closed ALL their restaurants in Italy last year. True fact!
I'm shocked that Domino's had restaurants in Italy. We hate Domino's in the U.S., so why did Italians like it?
@@amyb1078 to be honest I've lived all 26 years of my live in Italy and have not seen one single Domino's ever... they probably closed because we didn't like it... or because there was just to much better quality competition.
@amyb1078 they didn't that is the point. Also personally i ordered at Domino's myself, (I'm italian by the way) and the prices were not good either for a smaller pizza than average, that also taste like 99% cheese and soggy dough...
As an italian i can say that we didn't like it and that's the reason why they closed, also i think there was only one or two dominos in all italy (in milan)@@amyb1078
To be honest i have never seen a dominos, we have big fast food chains but mostly in places like malls or where tourists are, but no american pizza places, because we just go to local places that serve it faster, cheaper and healthier
Nobody ruins real food like the USA does
you forgot about the brits 😁
@@tihomirrasperic😂😂😂👍👏👏👏
@@tihomirrasperic You obviously have never been to the UK then.
Just showing your ignorance.
@@DazUK1Come on man, no offense but UK is not a culinary paradise!!! 🤷♂️😂😂😂
@@gabrielesantucci6189 Depends where you go mate. London has some amazing restaurants, Ireland and Scotland too, also our food is not filled with chemicals, so that's A bonus. Have you been lately?
the cheese she puts on her pizza is real mozzarella not the the crap from the US and the Parmesan cheese on that bread is mostly also fake
With cheap supermarket mozzarello that pizza would've been covered in oil.
@@annehoog what is a cheap mozzarella? real mozzarella already costs like 1€
@@1151994mp 125 grams from cowmilk is 2,05 euros., 125gr of mozzarella de Buffalo is 3,25 in my supermarket and I pay a bit more for the Buffalo one from Italy at the cheese store.
@@annehoogyou are wrong. In Italy, fiordilatte mozzarella, which is made from cow's milk, which is still an excellent product, is distinguished from buffalo mozzarella which has a more intense flavour. Both can be made well or badly and can also be found good in supermarkets. Where I come from, cow's milk mozzarella costs around €12/kg in the supermarket while buffalo mozzarella costs around €18/kg. Both have nothing to do with the industrial, non-fresh, greasy, shoddy products that Domino's puts in its pizzas. Even in Italy I happened to go to really poor pizzerias that used a similar product, the pizzas were oily (animal and non-vegetable fats coming from that cheese) and smelly, I never went back. Pizza with cow or buffalo mozzarella is clearly distinguishable by color and consistency, the oil is only EV olive and the mozzarella releases the watery and non-oily moist part.
@@1151994mp for the good mozzarella i pay 3 a 4 euro in Belgium
"¿How could you not like this?". When you try the food in Italy you will change your question to "¿How could I like this?", believe me.
Tell me you only ate in tourist traps without telling me you only ate in tourist traps 😂 tourist traps food is often shit
He'll be hooked in no time 😂
@@stefanomartello3786 I have been visiting my friends in Naples every summer for many years, so I can hardly be considered a normal tourist, and consequently not just any pizza is valid for me. I am Spanish, I am lucky to have Italy very close.
@@taranvainas Well then I might have misunderstood your initial statement. I tought you meant that when you come to italy you'll change your mind and start thinking italian food is not good. It's true that as you said not all pizza is good, that is why I don't like tourist traps' food. Many people I heard (mostly americans) come to Italy, eat twice in a shitty tourist trap and come back to their country thinking italian food is shit
@@stefanomartello3786 I love Italian food, and I have the enormous fortune to enjoy all those homemade dishes that tourists don't even know exist (they believe that in Italy people only eat pizza and pasta). The quality and variety are endless. I always discover new dishes. And another thing I love about Italy, as well as my country, Spain, is that cooking is not the exclusive territory of women.
In Spain something similar happens to us with paella: no Spaniard would eat paella in one of those places designed for tourists. And we are especially offended that in foreign countries they call any yellow rice "with things" paella, and they like it!
This reminds me of being in Amalfi last year. They had "frappuccino's" on the menu. I said to the waiter " Not very Italian" he replied "It's for the Americans, they don't know coffee" and laughed and winked.
what even is a frappucino? 😂
@@Kiba_a.z ask an American
those fUncy names for stupid. It was an era when you would like ristretto in here, you needed to order piccolo XD (not us, middle of EU)
@@Kiba_a.z A coffee that is part of the post-frappe (a type of Greek coffee) era. It is sweet and cool, suitable for the hot summer. It's like a coffee milk shake, with lots of calories. Marketing product.
@@nkscou9008 I see, so it's a coffee milkshake. I should have guessed that, since frappé means milkshake also in Italian.
I feel Italians struggle with the American pizza. It's like when an American tells me he eats bread but turns out he's eating a chemical oversweet brioche and my french heart hurts.
You can call it the same, but it's not the same. Everything except for the shape and the name is different.
She put mozzarella on it. It's cheese right?
As a German, respectfully, you guys also don't have proper bread, only white wheat based stuff like baguette.
@@bengtolsson5436 yes real fresh mozzarella cheese.
Americans don't bake bread, only bread-like products. My uncle living in the USA claimed that it was a country of substitutes, not only culinary ones. For example, houses pretend to be houses.
@@bengtolsson5436 Maybe even mozzarella di bufala. Yum Yum.
Why are Americans obsessed with avoiding “fancy” foods? It’s a bizarre form of inverted snobbery.
What you call fancy is just normal healthy food to Europeans.
The issue is that the big corporations in the US have told the Americans that they can't possibly replicate food on their own
They told them they have to buy their stuff because otherwise they starve
What she did is completely basic
Pizza dough is not magic, flour, water, salt and yeast
Presto you have your dough after ~30 minutes
Yes it has to calm down for ~8 hours, so what you don't even have to watch it
For the sauce take some tomatoes from a can, mix them into a mash if you don't like their consistency
Mix the garlic, salt, a little sugar, pepper, oregano and basil into the tomato sauce
Roll out the dough, put the sauce on it and whatever you otherwise want
It's not magic, children can do it
@@TyonKree I agree, and it’s definitely something children can do, my sister used to cook with my nephew before he even started school. He was so used to properly prepared food that the first time he encountered fast food at McDonald’s at his friend’s 5th birthday party he refused to eat anything.
arrogance, thats what we are
> It’s a bizarre form of inverted snobbery.
That seems like a surprisingly fitting description of a lot of contemporary American culture…
@@waigl1845 This entire comments section is pretty much a showcase as to why Europeans are stereotyped as being insufferably smug.
Dear Ryan... from an Italian, born and living in Italy, US pizza is not even decent.
Please, please, come to Italy, be my guest, it will be my personal pleasure to guide you to eat some GOOD pizza, and good food in general.
Europe in general has fantastic food.
The US not so much.
Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪🇪🇺
true, Dominos is also one of the worst offenders, i tried that crap once and never again.
But Italy in general is special for Pizza, i cant find anything close to it in Austria.
After the come to Brazil meme, let's do come to Italy
but pizza what she made is very boring -just pastry, standart tomate sauce and tiny drops of chees. Best pizza is with pear and gorgonzolla.
@@Darendddd Pizza alla Diavola forever
Italian here.🇮🇹 I don't understand why you americans think that in Italy we put garlic everywhere. In reality here in italy many of us actually remove it from the pan halfway through cooking and throw it away! ☹️🤷♂️ps and it's true...there is no such thing as garlic bread. We have bruschetta with very little garlic rubbed on the bread and tomato...that's it!!!😉👍
I always keep saying that we in Italy don't want to feel the smell of garlic. I use to put one piece when I cook, and at the end, I throw it away so nobody has to eat it.
It's kind of funny that it's a niche, leftover dish in Italy itself, but your neightbours really ran with it. Croatians seem to absolutely love garlic oil and sauces. And in Austria, grilled garlic bread is popular as a side dish for BBQ.
The thing is, if your dough tastes like cardboard, your cheese is plastic and your tomato sauce is sweet like jam, you need a looot of garlic to make it bearable. Americans don't understand that with fresh and good quality ingredients you don't need artificial seasoning. Balance and the subtlety of taste is a foreign concept to a nation that thinks "more is always better".
Mamma Mia. Ringrazio Dio di non essere nata in America. Da italiano lì sarei impazzito. 🙏🏼🇮🇹
Americans are convinced in Italy we eat garlic,and garlic bread when is an english dish... i have no idea from where they always took this random ideas...in particular about italy...
As an Italian, I agree with Eva, that was not a pizza, I wouldn't eat that.
We do have delivery pizza in Italy, we had it for many years
Google pizza in Italy, you'll see why she's crying. I'm in England and Italian pizza, like most of their food is simple and beautiful with quality ingredients.
capitalism. being stupid. freedom. consumerism. murica
That is why I (as a Swiss) like the italian cuisine. A few good ingredients, sometimes some time, and some love and you have a perfect meal😊
Not every italian dish is simple... we have a lot of good elaborate dish
@@NightLunaLia I didn't say it was, I just said simple ingredients. The result is beautiful food, it was a compliment.
Totally agree. The same in Germany. And still in Italy it tastes better.
Fun fact. Domino's Pizza opened many pizza outlets in Italy in 2015, only to close in 2022 and return home. It could not hold a candle to Italian artisanal pizzerias.
When I (German) visited Italy for the first time I was courious to eat a real Italian pizza. It looked thin and simple compared to our overloaded pizza. But it was the most delcious thing I ever had. To you Italians: Italian food is the best in the world.❤👍
I was in Italy too and tried a few pizzas. Nothing extraordinary
3:14 "Wisconsin Six Cheese" cannot be "Pizza Margherita", which is an authentic Italian pizza from Naples, created in 1889 and named after the then Italian queen. Its ingredients were chosen to replicate the colours of the Italian flag: basil (green), cheese (white), tomato sauce (red).
this was the first known pizza delivery
How do you make the English, French, Germans and Italians laugh like closest friends til they split their sides?
Tell them Wisconsin is famous for cheese, hot dogs are sausage and USA make the best pizza.
Chicago deep dish is not a pizza. It is some kind of baked pie.
Nothing annoys me more than calling a pizza pie it's dough not pastry and the whole definition of a pie is filling enclosed in pastry
Well, Americans sometimes refer to pizza as "pizza pie"
It's soup in a case.
@@gillianhollins3003 Explain to me Shepherd's pie then... Because that certainly doesn't match your description does it.
Quiche
Im polish.Italian food is so amazing.Relligion for Italians.I tried Carbonara,Pizza and Lasagne in Rome.Amazing.Thank you Italian friends for this food.❤
You're welcome whenever you want
@@wieslawszapowal302 ❤️🥰
Polish food is one of the best in the world also. Tasty, great it’s just not popular enough 😊 better more for us
@@KrystianGaleczka5I tasted something Polish, it's certainly better than the crap the Americans make, especially the meat-based things are very good.
Niente proplema
US junk food kitchen is simple, collect whatever is lying on the floor in the kitchen, pour a good amount of the cheapest cooking oil over it, then a handful of sugar and finally bake it with cheese and bacon. Then sell it as an expensive original European specialty and dont forget to charge a 30% tip.
This is probably not true, there are places in the USA where people like to eat well. I like Cajun cuisine.
@@tabaaza9884 he literally said "US junk food kitchen" - Americans are hella defensive, man. Always coming with the "but you can get good stuff too in this one restaurant in this one town!!" Duh, you can good stuff from almost every cuisine in almost every country, whether you believe it or not. Junk food on the other hand is almost universially questionable. But junk food in the US is a whole new class of disgusting and unhealthy.
12:18 USA in a nutshell: managing to make any food fast and unhealthy.
1. Extract everything "usefull" out of the food (overprocess the base incrediences) until they are unhealthy but can be made out of the last crappy agricultural product available.
2. Now add chemicals to make it even cheaper (increase volume with cheap garbage)
3. Because it looks like it is (unhealty crap) add artificial colors (who cares that the colors cause cancer and damage the brain), artificial "Taste" and smells like bacon (everything in the US has to taste and smell like bacon).
4. Because the stuff still has no taste fry it in FAT and bury it under a ton of cheap overprocessed half artificial stuff that should simulate cheese (off curse with a ton of bacon aroma).
5. Pack the stuff in a box and print at the box "Freedom", "Patriotic" and "Americas proudly best"
6. Sell the stuff expensive (it has the American flag on the box - this is worth the extra $5 )
MASS PRODUCTION
How can someone not know carbonara bro what I'm flabbergasted
Cause in USA they eat chicken parmigiano 😅
He's just your average willfully ignorant American with zero social awareness of his surroundings never leaves his bubble.Imagine if he ever left America he'd be completely out of his comfort zone and the culture shock would blow his mind. Having zero social awareness doesn't help either
I would argue that most people outside of Italy don't know proper Carbonara. Most who know Carbonara probably think of it as a cheesy cream sauce with ham, not Guanciale, Parmegiano and eggs
@@Far1988 What? everybody knows that cabonara is just eggs pecorino and guanciale (alternatively pancetta). Also pepper! :D
@@Far1988 im from Germany and I cringe every time someone uses bacon or god forbid cream when making carbonara
No pizza in the world can compete with a Italian pizza.They are absolutely fantastic they stand way way way above any other pizza in the world any where TRUST ME
I'm italian and She Is totally right our pizza Is not considered unhealthy, its One pizza for person USUALLY and with less ingredients( Sorry for spelling errors)
When i buy garlic bread here in Denmark it's looks like an baguette, crispy on the outside and garlic butter /w herbs in the middle. Not like oil sponges.
Same thing in Portugal.
Why would you buy something you could make yourself in a few minutes?
@@Phiyedough Its cheaper than the ingredients, unless you can use the rest of the garlic and herbs for something else. My baker doesn't even have the bread in that size.
@@loboclaud same in uk
Same in the UK.
Domino's tried their luck in Italy but started closing down in 2022, I think. They had actually planned to have 880 restaurants by 2030, like what the hell were they thinking?? 😂 It's like they knew absolutely nothing about the country before opening their business there.
Exactly. Italy is FULL of pizza restaurants, take away pizza shops, delivery pizza shops... of any price point and of any quality... but also in the cheapest ones (the lowest quality), the ones that generally are "pizza and kebab" shops owned by Egyptian or Turkish people, THEY MAKE THEIR OWN FRESH DOUGH!!! Come on... what the hell is the Domino idea to have few production plants of dough, and then send it to all the shops.. that's disgusting. The dough can't be as good and as well leavened as a freshly made one!
In Italy eating is first of all a pleasure... then a business... in USA, from what I see from the video, everything must be first of all a business... Even if you look at the firs comment by Ryan: "well the Domino's stock has done very well"... who cares if their pizza is s*it...
@@BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele Plus, the American palate is very different. In Italy, you cook with only few and simple but FRESH regional ingredients to create magic. That's what people are used to and grow up on. Homecooked, high-quality meals. Preserving the traditions in cooking is also extremely important in Italy so I have no idea why anyone actually believed that Americanized pizza would be a hit there. 😅
@@SatieSatie well... I can understand that between teens could be a thing... "Let's eat American, that's cool!", but you have to build proper restaurant to enjoy the "American experience" just like Mc Donalds, that we have, and it's well established... Even if it's generally not considered a proper meal, instead a "teenager" kind of thing, or for kid's birthday party... But McDonald's in Italy works with the restaurants you eat in! Delivery and drive through is almost not existent... Building a chain of fast food only for delivery in Italy, like Domino's was, will lead you to bankrupt...
McDonald had the sane business plan to come in terms with the local palate, and local business rules, wherever they were going.
Then, of course, they also have lots of money and a lot of lobby power, but still they managed to integrate into italian market and italian taste buds.
They acquired previous local burger fast foods, managed to mantain their previous food providers' network, managed to comply with EU and Italy strict food regulations (especially true for large and foreign realities like McDonald) and so even McDonalds here have healthier standards than abroad.
I wouldn't be surprised to see 'muricans disliking what our McDonald's has to offer, and maybe find 'unflavourful' its products hahahahah
@@PetoDiTacchino yes, this makes more sense, the Italian McDonald's ads focus on Italian origin of the ingredients and meat, and some "speciality" receipes inspired by Italian traditional cousin, such as salads. By the way... Very very few people here consider McDonald's and fast food in general as a viable alternative to a meal on a regular basis, for example it's extremely rare that people eat fast food at lunch breaks at work.... We mostly consider the fast food as "a treat" for some informal occasions such as birthday for children and so on...
I must say that I tried once Domino's Pizza here in Germany as an Italian. So-called "Italian" restaurants over here in Germany are usually terrible enough. But Domino's was straight up from hell. I couldn't even enjoy that food if I were drunk. Inedible. So, I am totally with her.
yes ryan the usa invented food delivery and garlic bread! they also invented time, gravity and made the sky blue
What they probably really invented though is "garlic bread" as in "bread completely soaked in so much garlic that it is nothing but disgusting".
The way he jumped from "oh it's not italian" to "so its invented in the us" like those are the only two countries on earth lmao
Don't be so hard to him!
Looked it up, and garlic bread was indeed invented in Italy, so maybe the Italian lady meant the kind that Americans call "garlic bread", because in Italy it's literally a slice of bread (real bread like ciabatta) rubbed with real olive oil and garlic. It's called bruschetta. Maybe the source I'm looking at is wrong, but that's what it says.
😂😂
I’m with her on the thick American non-crusty crust ;-) Always real Italian, thin crispy crust, thin covering ;-) and no oil dripping out. And yes Ryan, that’s a delicacy, and it doesn’t need to be more expensive than what you consider to be ‘pizza’.
all my solidarity with this poor girl
Dear Ryan. I'm 56 years old and from Germany. I was in holidays in Italy with my parents for the first time in 1973 and since then I made it at least "over the Alps" about 15 more times. I love the country, the people, the cultural heritage and of course the food. Viva l'Italia 😍. But - as with most dishes from other countries - they are usually "adapted" to the preferred taste of the country YOU live in. Hardly any restaurant will survive in the long run if it offers the genuine original recipes - which only very few customers would like. For example - eat dishes from China, Thailand or Turkey - they mostly will have not much to do with those you get in restaurants in Germany. Authentic restaurants are hard to find, mostly in big cities, of course. Best regards - keep up the good work. ☺
When I lived in the States, as a Brit, I had various pizzas from various companies, in the 7 years I was there. Generally they weren't as good, from my point of view, as what I can get in UK supermarkets!
Wow! Unless you add a few extra bits those supermarket pizzas are about as exiting as eating a pizza box!
@@Phiyedough some of them arent too bad tbh obviously not as good as restaurant or homemade dough (sorry couldnt help myself)
@@Phiyedoughthat's the point 😉
It is no comparison. Italian pizza is not American pizza. And other way around. Italian pizza is handmade. From fresh ingredients. Thin and with only a few ingredients. And hot. As you eat it in a restaurant. In small bites. Undisturbed by anyone. It is round and as big as your plate not as big as a cartwheel sliced in pieces. And it is not delivered and semi-warm. Once you have been in Italy and tasted the real thing you will know. They don't cut corners. You get the real thing.
You are right about everything ...but...it's delivered in italy too and it's excellent anyway! Ciao 🇮🇹👍😉
Pizza in italy is big (in diameter, NOT in thickness). It's delievered. In cardboard boxes. Most places have a delivery option with, btw, "custom" cardboard boxes with their own logo on the box.
But yes you're 100% right, it comes hot and you eat it hot. They don't cut corners for ingredients. It's always hand made at the moment.
Completely different from American pizza.
Hi, I follow your channel, and also Pastagrammar, which I consider to be the best gastronomic channel I know. It is aimed at the American public, explaining the countless recipes of Italian cuisine and showing Aspects of the real life of my country.
Do you think all American pizza is Domino's?
@@amyb1078 Domino's, New York pizza, Pizza Hut....By poring avast amount of money into marketing, it all here in Europe...and they have things in common: It's not pizza and if you would disregard that: too much bread, too much sugar, too much fat, fake cheese, taste comes from US Chemical instead of ingredients.
I agree :) Coming from Slovenia (a country borderind Italy in Europe) we have the same taste in pizza as the Italians. I find the American pizza dripping with oil and covered in cheese other than mozzarella...inedlible lol :)
In another of his reaction videos we learned that people in Slovenia put ketchup on their pizza, so it can't be that good?!?
Slovenian pizzas are superb, most of our pizza bakers were trained in Italy, some add ketchup or tobacco because they like it, not because the pizza is bad.@@lilg2300
@@lilg2300that was Slovakia, a totally different country bordering Hungary and Poland (amongst others) but in many ways understandable as the names are very similar and up until the 1990's were parts of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia respectively. Both are lovely countries, even if Slovenia is more enticing for the climate :D
@@benibear2995 No man, she was Slovenian.
@@0xFAB10 Really, jeez, yeah then saying their pizzas were great quality seems odd :D Thanks for correcting me, I was sure it was Slovakia, probably fooled about the Polish saying they also had ketchup on their pizzas made me think it's that region.. Me bad :D
11:57 It's not even fancy. The word you're looking for is "authentic" or "homemade"
"Where's the cheese?" Do you not see the mozzarella on it?
if I guess, he doesn't know what mozzarella is, if he doesn't know what carbonara was..
I was so surprised when he asked where the cheese was! And then "Is that a leave on top?" 😅
Pasta grammar has several videos, in one of them Eva also tried New York pizza (if I recall well, she didn't like it) and Chicago pizza (she told that it's not a pizza, but it's similar to what in Italy we call "torta salata" (salted cake). The leaves on Eva's pizza were leaves of basil (the pizza margherita must have basil, mozzarella and tomato sauce, the colors of the Italian flag).
She said it was "edible", then flew back to Italy to show Harper what real pizza is.
In Europe, we consider all American foods to be unhealthy - It really is hilarious when I see Americans judging British food when they come over, probably because they are missing their drugs fix!
i know. america is just that stupid, and we dont seem to want to fix it
In addition to British food not having all of the dangerous chemicals, we have a lot less sugar in just about everything. US standard bread has 6 times more sugar than UK standard bread.
@@Thurgosh_OG US bread is not even considered bread in Europe because there is too much sugar in it
The whole world, including europe agrees that british "food" is not even edible. 🤣🤣
@@janosnagy3096 no my friend, only uneducated people that believe everything they hear on the internet believe that.. the UK has the 3rd most 3* Michelin restaurants, with only France and Japan ranking higher.
I've been to Italy about 10 times and I love the food ,I'm English.
American Pizza is no Pizza. This is like a Marshmallow with toppings. A Pizza is thin and crispy.
chicago
That is what surprised me, the first time I actually had an Italian Pizza. I honestly thought that NY style was like Italian Pizza. It's not, but I still like it. 😉
Not crispy, chewy. Real Neapolitan pizza has an elastic-y crust.
@@aichohvee That's why the Pizza Romana is 100 times better than Neapolitan one.
@@Step_AG Hard disagree.
Traditional Italian pizzas are amazing, but I recommend everyone visiting Italy to try "pizza al taglio", which is found both in bakeries and in small street stalls, and if I remember correctly they are served from 11 in the morning and from five in the afternoon. They are designed to kill hunger mid-morning and mid-afternoon when you are away from home. They are large pizzas that they sell by weight, you mark the amount you are going to eat. You will touch the sky.
There are no big foreign corporate franchises in Italy. They make and sell their own deliciousness everywhere! You walk a block and walk into an aromatic kitchen where they make your favourite pasta or pizza. The French use lots of garlic, Italians, barely any!
Actually Domino's tried to open some stores... they failed in less than 2 years.
@sylvaincastelanelli3587 yes, absolutely no garlic on French pizzas.
@sylvaincastelanelli3587 The comment doesn't say the French use lots of garlic on pizzas. It says they use garlic - in their food - in general.
@@BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele recently an Italian comedian said he likes Domino's but you can like it only if you think you are not eating a pizza, but something else.
The food industry work "scientifically" on the taste, using something called "bliss point", which leads to a sort of food addiction, they reach the bliss point using 3 ingredients: fats, sugars and salt. And they can reach that bliss point with any ingredient, doesn't matter the quality.
A proper Italian pizza has few fats and very few sugars, Domino's pizza has 5 times more sugars and around 2.5 times more fats. Humans loves sugar and fats.
@@dnocturn84 Wich is no more true, then. French sometimes use garlic in cooking (just as Italian does), but not a lot, barely, in fact… Most of the French never use it to be true and don't have some in their kitchen. And garlic is more an italian and metiderranean thing than a french one when you compare recipes. Garlic is just an ingredient. In a pizza sauce ? Why not ? But never too much.
Sorry, but Naples in Italy was the very first country to deliver pizza to your home. That was in 1889. Then India was the second country to do so in 1890's. Then UK "Meals on Wheels", ..... And so on ...🍕
But the Bombay system is more precise and DELIVERS FROM HOME kitchen TO the WORKER from that home; not from a business kitchem. THE REAL "FOODE" FROM LA MAMMA
3:39 If the video as filmed in the US, 100% sure it's fake Feta. If it were in the EU, by law it would have to be real Feta, from Greece, produced according to the specifications of that traditional PDO cheese.
absolutely LOVE pasta grammar's channel, so entertaining!
Ryan - simplicity is not 'fancy'. The less you mess with good food, the better it will taste.
That looked absolutely disgusting. If something like that was delivered to me, I'd demand a refund.
As Vincenzo's Plate would also say "No cream in Carbonara"
No pecorino, no party!
"Where is the cheese" we normally use mozzarella, the pizza you're describing as fancy to my eyes it's a standard homemade pizza margherita (I'd have added a bit more mozzarella and oregano to be honest). And pizzas here are not as overloaded with toppings and sauces, they are generally very light and depending on where you go you can have two whole pizzas by yourself and not feel bloated at all. We also have delivery like in the U.S, but the quality is the same as restaurants (unless you order from very cheap places)
Domino's tried to enter the Italian market, and resisted for a few years, but in 2022 all locations closed due to bankruptcy.
to be honest, I live in a rural part of Italy, which is culturally pretty mixed with Austria since it's close to the border. But I have never seen a Dominos in my life. Guess they just had some locations in big cities.
I remember how shocked I was when I tried a cappuccino in North America after trying one for the first time in Europe. They were not the same. A cappuccino is not supposed to be a dessert!
right, it's supposed to be breakfast.😂
I do not agree with the Italians but cappuccino NEVER AFTER MIDDAY!!
As an Italian myself that tried domino’s pizza I 100% agree with her and every European in this enlightened comment section
Domino’s pizza is terrible and if Americans think it’s the best pizza in America I can’t even imagine what is the rest of it
It felt like he is trying to poison her with whatever that is
And at the end her pizza was just perfect with that mozzarella the basilico and the sauce she really did a great job
Hello, and thanks for this video. I'm not italian' I'm french. And here we have food trucks making real pizzas in nearly every village. So, about Domino's, what to say ?
A first, what the f*** are these "parmesan" things she's eating at first ? Then, pasta are looking like so creapy, and so far away from real carbonara ... And I don't even want to comment the "pizza". As she says, "That IS not possible!"
Belgian here. French pizza trucks are the best!
I leave in Germany near France and we love Flammkuchen (tarte flambé) here. Thanks a lot to Elsass for this invention!
quiche is nice too in fact, a thousand times better than anything 'Domino's' has on offer. what was that man thinking ordering this garbage for her?
When I was at university in France there was an Alsatian restaurant in the town and I always ordered flammkuchen.
Even as a German (with a lot of Italians living here and running Pizza Restaurants) I have to say: You will not find a Pizza like the one shown in the video in a Pizza restaurant here. And mostly all pizza restaurants do delivery here! And if you buy a cheap deep frozen pizza in a German grocery shop - well...... there is one named "Pizza American Style", which should explain that it has nothing to do with an original Italian Pizza at all! :) Because "American Style" is different. So believe me - the way Americans make pizza is very, very different from the original!
Pretty funny he considers the one with less* ingredients fancier than the simpler better tasting version, and i think price per pound would be cheaper as well
hi I'm Italian, I was born and raised in Italy, I live in Italy and I agree that Domino's is not "pizza", I would rather include it in the "dirty focaccia" department. As long as Domino's was active in Italy, sometimes I used to go and get a "Domino's meat-pizza" it was my favorite.
Ryan, if you ever come to Italy, be my guest, I will take you on a food tour in my city, you will discover how different real Italian food is compared to the Italian food you have in the USA.
4:08 for answering your question as an Italian and more specifically i'm "Napoletano" from Naples were the Pizza is born! The delivery services we invented it back in the early 1900 😂 when "garzoni"( workers of small shops) literally took your pizza to you on a bike!
never had dominos in the us , but i did try it in mexico...it was ...an experience....wouldnt categorize it as food though.
The cheese is little Mozzarella cubes, the leaves are Basilikum. Margherita, green, white and red, like the italian flag. The most common Pizza in italy.
In germany our biggest frozen pizza companies like Dr.Oetker or Wagner even have the category "american-style pizza" alongside like "italian-style pizza or OG pizza".
I can't stand the american version either xD it's way to oily, way too soft and way to thick. To me, it feels more like a warm cake than a pizza. I mean, the dough-part is as big as the entire italian pizza would be haha
That explains alot. In the UK we have Dr. Oetker italian-style pizzas (pretty good for a frozen one imo) but not the American-style. I always wondered why a German company would specify that a pizza is Italian but now it all makes sense 👍
En España hay una cosa parecida a la pizza, se llama coca ,"no confundir con otra coca "🤭🤭
@@Simon-lt6fe glad to be of help, even if unintentional xD
you can just google "Dr. Oetker american style pizza" and you can see what those would look like. They even have spinach and feta apparently
I'm on a quest to find the best frozen pizza in Germany. I recently tried Wagner and the crust was like most German pizza - it's a cracker. I was in Italy and the crust on the pizza was different than any other. It reminded me of fresh Indian Naan with large air pockets and blackened areas. Recently I found a brand of frozen pizza in Germany that tries to simulate that Neopolitan style - it's called Gustavo Gusto. I don't like spongy American pizza crust, so I won't buy Oetker's American style. But I'm happy to have found a good one in Germany. And if I'm not mistaken, Aldi has repackaged Gustavo Gusto with its own label (they call it Gigante). I tried them side by side and couldn't tell which was which.
@@LythaWausW gustavo Gusto is basically our Premium frozen pizza pre-baked by actually pizza bakers. Really Solid, but really expensive compared to the Rest
Garlic bread is said to have originated in Southern Italy as a way to use up leftover bread, which was sliced and rubbed with garlic and olive oil. Over time, the garlic bread recipe evolved as butter, or burro, replaced olive oil, and the bread was toasted or baked instead of being grilled.
En España pan pan,(nada de pan de molde) tostado, con un chorrito de aceite y ajo untado ,no necesito nada más 🤤🤤🤭😋
Yeah, I had some discussions about that with Italians - the concept of making something out of garlic + olive oil + white bread is absolutely Italian, but as leftover food, they usually don't use it as an appetizer for whatever like in the US, a starter like in Croatia or a side dish to meat like many other European countries do these days.
@@Alias_Anybody Thank you.😀
@@Alias_Anybodyto be honest, we have a completely original and widespread garlic bread thing in Italy, which is bruschetta.
That's slightly toasted bread, which is in its simplest form just smeared with garlic. From that you can build up by adding a drop of olive oil, oregano, finely chopped tomato or mozzarella, or even mushrooms, eggplants or whatever.
It's commonly used as an appetizer in family barbecues, while you are waiting for the meat to cook, or in pubs and beer venues as snacks (think about it as our answers to nachos).
Yes. We still have THAT. We slice the bread, slightly grill/toast it, rub it with garlic and drizzle some extra virgin olive oil on it. It's a BRUSCHETTA!
I love the way they made up some cr@p and call it Italian. 😁
It reminds me of how "Italian Americans" say Italian words and names with a Mexican Spanish pronounciation.
probably because a lot of americans also speak mexican spanish.
I've visited different parts of Italy many time over a few decades and eaten pizza. It is usually off the scale. They use few quality ingredients. Trying to compare fast food pizza to these is a sin! Don't get me wrong the fast food pizza's have a place.
the green on the pizza is basilicum (in Italia always with pure tomatoes(saus) and with mozzarella cheese (white colour)
And pure pizza dough. Water, salt and flour.
And never sugar, also not in the sause
What is so hard to understand that NO pizza made in the USA can be compared with a genuine Italian pizza?
Amen!
Spinach and feta fancy? LOL we would never 🇮🇹
Italians are passionate people. 😅
Pasta Grammar is a very "special" channel. She is Italian with all her heart! Love her. Watch her making pasta!! About pizza: Pizza is not a cheese thing. It's a bread/toppings-thing.
Actually pizza is the bread.
The best food in the world
As as a uk citizen I love Italy
Ryan, you should watch some of the reaction videos on the Italia Squisita channel. Some of Italy's best pizza chefs letting rip as even quite famous chefs mess up their beloved pizza. But great insights into the real skill and science behind this very simple food. Btw the current World's Best is based in...London 🇬🇧 🇮🇹
11:34 thats perfection! And that is Mozzarella.
You cant even dream about such PERFECTION, ART, MASTERPIECE. YOU ARE NOT EVEN WORTHY TO LOOK AT IT! 😂
Carbonara is cheese, ham, and egg yolk (some argue also the white), usually with Spaghetti. I won't insist on Pecorino Romano, Pancetta, or Guanciale, but I *will* insist on no cream, your best combination of local ham+cheese, and absolutely spotless technique: You want a creamy, emulsified, sauce, not scrambled eggs, that requires some consideration of temperature. The traditional recipe also lists pepper but depending on your ham+cheese it might already be in there. Alex the French guy made a deep dive on the dish, can only recommend. It absolutely *cannot* be made as delivery food, needs to be served and eaten right away.
I always add the white of the egg as well as this is the old traditional way where nothing got wasted.
Ham in the carbonara is as bad as putting cream... come on... at least put bacon if you can't have access to guanciale in the US...
@@BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele Some say bacon is just as bad .
@@gregorygant4242 it's not correct, but it's the American ingredient most similar to guanciale. Surely ham has nothing to do with guanciale, trust me!
@@BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele I'm probably going to be an idiot now, but I can't believe that in a country like the USA you can't get guanciale or pancetta. After all, there are quite a lot of Italians in the USA, people bring their culinary traditions with them. Cream in carbonara is a misconception, this is the first time I've heard of such a thing.
'No matter where are you from, you're lying if you say they don't taste good'
My dad almost became sick the first time he tried McDonalds hamburger. :) A lots of American food are too salty/sweet for people like us who grew up eating more traditional diets (I live in rural Romania, in Transilvania)
That pizza has way too much topping. I’ve been to Italy and their pizzas are very different! They don’t drown it in EVO nor bury it in cheese. She made a pizza caprese which has tomato, fresh basil leaves and torn baby mozzarella. Simple flavours that are made to go together.
Pizza .Margherita.
The caprese pizza has fresh mozzarella, not cooked , they put it at the end.
@@lbhh Really? I thought that was a caprese salad!
@@Jeni10 caprese salad is only mozzarella fresh tomato slices and one two leafs of basilico. With olive oil a d salt. Pizza with cooked salsa di pomodoro cooked mozzarella is Margherita.
I'm a Brit and even I know what proper pizza looks and tastes like. It so funny to me how many Americans and Brits don't no what proper healthy food looks like!
Apple in carbonara? Insane.
I don't know why you think Americans are the only ones who get pizza delivered. I don't know either how it is in other European countries, but in Germany you can have not only pizza (Italian or from Dominos) but also all other types of food (Indian, Chinese, German...) delivered. So pizza delivery is completely normal here.
I think everywhere it's the same. In Greece you can take any kind of food. Any kind!
The first ever recorded pizza delivery occurred in 1889, when Queen Margherita of Savoy fell ill after eating rotten food in Naples, ITALY. Left hungry and in need of better quality food, the queen and King Umberto I of Italy decided to request authentic Italian pizza be sent to them
I’m Italian and yes, we don’t have garlic bread here. I lived in Ireland for more than two years, I first tried it there and I thought that it was an Irish specialty then people kept asking me if the garlic bread there was as good as the one I had back home in Italy and I realized that for some reason they thought it was an Italian thing. Probably the thing that comes closer ( even though it’s quite different) is bruschetta but in that case it would be just a very thin layer of garlic that could be scratched on the surface of the bread, but very different from the garlic bread I had in Ireland. By the way, yes, we have pizza delivered at home.
I would consider a real Italian pizza like I enjoyed in Sicily pretty healthy too since it's just some thin freshly baked bread with a thin layer of tomato sauce, a little bit of cheese and herbs. Just the tomato sauce alone contains more flavor then 3 domino pizza's combined because of the way they make the sauce.
I also think that it is healthy food, it is flat bread and with few ingredients.
There are plenty of examples of dishes that have been imported into the USA and transformed into something unrecognisable to the culture where they originated - usually because the immigrants who imported them had to substitute for ingredients that weren't available in the US, and to cater the the locals' taste. Pizza is one, but so is garlic bread - the olive oil used for bruschetta wasn't available in the US, so it was subbed for butter which was; at least the Americans had the decency to change the name and not pretend it's bruschetta!
Who first invented garlic bread?
It is said to have originated in Southern Italy as a way to use up leftover bread, which was sliced and rubbed with garlic and olive oil. Over time, the garlic bread recipe evolved as butter, or burro, replaced olive oil, and the bread was toasted or baked instead of being grilled.
Eva also has a video on bruschetta (the food you are referring to). The garlic is supposed to barely touch the bread. Garlic is potent, it's one of those flavours that must be minimal to exhalt the food instead of overpowering it
I am Italian, born and raised in Naples, the home of pizza. Many times I happen to see reels on Instagram of American pizzas that seem decidedly more inviting and good than Domino's, but they are still different. They are rich in different ingredients and much larger, I think that 3 or 4 people can eat with just one pizza (here you can eat one pizza each). The Neapolitan Margherita pizza has very few ingredients (tomato sauce, oil, mozzarella and a couple of basil leaves), but of very high quality and it is the simplicity that makes it taste great. Obviously such a large chain could decide to use medium quality ingredients. In addition to being completely different visually, as you can easily search on Google, the much stronger taste resulting from many more ingredients can probably trigger the palate of a person accustomed to simpler flavours. On the other hand, I hope that in the future you will come to Naples and taste one, so you will be able to understand well what I mean.
Spinach and feta is Greek, isn't it?
Minus the vinegar
Feta yes, spinach is everywhere
At the party:
The US-Americans: Let's order lots of cheap, fast food!
The Europeans: Let's have a selection of fancy delicacies!
Dominos is Big, just like McDonalds is big, that doesnt mean they are good.
I agree with that lady. Italian food is delicious because they use healthy, high quality and natural ingredients, and they know how to cook properly, keeping their traditions. In Italy, food is an art work.
As an Italian who had to survive outside my country (I've lived abroad for a while), I can say that Domino's pizza is at least acceptable. When you order a pizza in another country, you already know that you won't get the same thing that you have at home. So, why be so picky?
Btw, it's true, Domino's pizza is really sweet... I think it depends on the sauce. We are not used to it.
And the amount of ingredients... we keep everything much more simple.
LESS IS BETTER!
I never tried Domino's in the States, but I've heard that you use a lot of garlic overthere. We are not used to it, especially on pizza (with few exceptions).
The pizza that she prepares at home is not fancy, it is just simple :)
And it's really easy to prepare, it just requires time for the dough to rise.
You should try, you just need few fresh ingredients and you will be amazed how easy it is.
You should try and impress your wife!
Buon appetito! :D
Hi from Bulgaria. I remember when we visited Italy in 1982 with my family we were realy surprised in Rome to eat pizza with just tomato sauce and basil. But it tasted as hеaven.
No Italian could eat that pasta, incredible what they managed to do in that dish.
Australian here. I have been to Italy twice. Every city and region has its own regional cuisine and pasta/spaghetti. The cheese on the homemade version is Mozzarella. In Campagnia (Napoli area) they use Buffalo Mozzarella and the fertile volcanic soils there give the tomatoes a very distinctive taste. Even the water affects the taste. That said I tried a Domino's' Italian style pizza in Turkey and it was okay. Better than okay in fact. But authentic Italian food in Italy is unbeatable. Probably why it's my favourite country in Europe. Greece would be my 2nd favourite. Love the seafood but not a huge fan of zucchini and eggplant / aubergine used in Moussaka and Souvlaki. The lemon basel cuttlefish I had in Crete was to die for.
Ryan, If I were you I wouldn't try genuine Italian pizza. You would never want to eat a Domino's "thing" again. It would be like driving an Aston Martin for a month and then going back to driving a Toyota.
Oddly, Aston did sell a Toyota that had undergone a makeover (trim, new bumper and grille) for a couple of years. The Cygnet, an IQ in new clothes.
Garlic bread was actually invented in Bolton, Lancashire, England. It was such an amazing new thing, the inhabitants all went round shouting "Garlic bread? GARLIC bread? Garlic BREAD? Garlic? And bread?"
Those are basil leaves.
They are added at the end of cooking to make a real Margherita pizza
Eva has her minimum standart that for the US is very very above, she cooks extremely good and her knowledge on italian food is astonishing
Just to be clear. Chicago deep dish is a pie, not a pizza.
they just call it wrong.
Just to confirm. It's pizza. It's sold in restaurants with "pizza" in their name. People come from around the world to eat Chicago pizza.
@@user-wc8fp4cx6c It's like calling anything with chocolate and cherries "black forest"-something. When it really has nothing to do with black-forest cake.
@@user-wc8fp4cx6c It's " pizza" in U.S.A., it's not "pizza" anywhere else.
@@user-wc8fp4cx6c it's a pie and it's disgusting.
The Carbonara killed me. I learned the recipe from an Italian friend in Italy. But also in Germany most „Carbonara“ is just Pasta with cream and ham
garlic bread already existed in the Roman Empire if not earlier than 500 years BC. back then we didn't even know America existed
tried domino's for the first time a couple of months ago, and I actually completely agree with her
Best Pizza I ever had was in Italy, second best in Croatia. The classical Italian thin pizza is just so much better than the US style thick pizza, not to mention Italians really know how to make it best. Unfortunatelly even here in Czechia, the US style is what you usually get when you order a delivery. But there are few restaurants that make the classical product and these are worth visiting.
11:50 “It’s way fancier”
No Ryan, hear me out, that’s absolutely not a fancy pizza😭
That’s the homemade, spartan pizza that even children in Italy are able to do!
It’s always interesting to see how Americans find Italian “nonna” kind of food fancy when it’s really just food being simple and genuine…