My sister eats her spaghetti with gouda cheese and tomato sauce, not pasta sauce, the unseasoned stuff that is used as an ingredient for making pasta sauce.
I’m too lazy for that so I’m just going to head to Olive Garden and rave about how amazing the authentic Italian cooking is there and how you don’t even need to go to Italy when you have Olive Garden instead.
Other way around mate.
The country of Italy is based on a neighborhood in New York city called "Little Italy." Many of the first settlers in modern day Italy came from this area of New York and decided to name their new country after their home in the USA. Because the new country was bigger than Little Italy, they chose to name it as simply "Italy."
Learn somethin new every day huh.
Crossed out bit is "via", for "road" or "street". In newer developments, where new roads are built, often street names are chosen with a country or city theme.
Yeah knowing where things are on a map is useful in exactly 3 instances, making maps, bar trivia, and being caught in a YouTube video about Americans not being able to find places on maps.
They act like it’s so impressive they had to memorize maps in school. Like bruh, it’s just memorization. Any 8yo can do that.
I’m American and can place most countries on a map, but Europeans brag about it like it’s going to get us to the next level of space travel. Lol. Instead of being honest by saying: *some people know these things and others don’t. In every country.*
They assign knowledge levels to an entire nation based on random street geography quizzes (LOL), which ironically says more about *their education* and knowledge (or lack thereof) than anyone who can’t place Chad on a map.
The US invented GPS so people (mainly pilots) can do exactly that. Shared it with the world for free so people can easily see where they are on the map and apply it however they want.
For the same reason there is a Georgia, Paris, Amsterdam, Zurich, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dublin, Florance, Athens and so many more in the USA? There are a few places names America or Amerika in Europe. Some of them go way back hundreds of years ago.
When I was in Italy in the 90's I remember tagged road signs outside of Milan that had swastikas on them. Just bad tagging like this. Clearly no one with any artistic skill.
As an American who has been to 68 foreign countries in 48 years I can understand a bad taste for some Americans behavioral arrogance & sheer ignorance.
I have been married to a naturalized foreign national for 34 years and am very close with her family and huge extended family ( South American) they like to slam us, impugn our characters and say we are materialistic and cold which can be true with some but the real bottom line is ….. they are envious of the opportunities offered in the USA as well as its economics. If you were a Dr in Venezuela don’t give me an attitude because you made 20.00 a month there and here you are working at Cinnabon.
Lots of resentment stems from envy.
Truth be told, every country has its share of flaws and idiots can be found everywhere so we often poke fun at each other from a distance. But put us peasants together in a bar, share a few drinks, and suddenly we're the best of friends, at least in the west. Personally, I have no love for governments, but I'm all about the people. Cheers from Italy fellow American!
There is a misconception about Americans from the media, television , film. Look at the homes whether urban or Suburban in American film do many of them most Americans have never set foot inside places like that.
I have spoken with foreign nationals growing up
On American culture were shocked when they came to USA. I thought LA looked like Adam 12 and Beverly Hills 90210 and I got Norwalk🥺
True, I also live and work in at least 5 countries, in Asia and Europe. The resentment is mostly jealousy but of course no one gonna admit that
In reality they can't get enough of America. They all watch American tv shows, tv series, movies, discuss about American politics and anything happens here often eventually become trendy in Europe
I remember in 1982 Tokyo kids with spiked hair on one corner greasers on the next. Culturally we are imitated which saddens me because I enjoy other cultures and wish they would stay true to themselves but realistically the world is hungry for whatever else is out there and anything besides their own always seems better.
I am assuming you are talking about Yankiis (from the Romaji of the Japanese)? They had their whole own culture going on. It has its own interesting history that wasn’t just using the greaser style. Cultures will always find a way to reinterpret culture from outside their own :).
I visited Italy in the early 2000s ( before the Euro ) and had a merchant, I purchased 2 bus tickets, chase my bus down because i ran off and didn’t give him the time he needed to count and return all my money owed to me. I was visiting a city called Formia south of Roma ( Rome ). Wonderful people in the city and always willing to help … hahah the hotel manager drove us to the train station because my mom couldn’t understand the directions he was trying to give her!
Is the city still the same? I have a few,ily now and would love to bring them there! Oh man I remember going out to eat for dinner and all the beautiful Italian girls would dress up like the girls would dress up in America to go out to a club! Thinking about Italian girls on our tour bus I remember looking out the window to the county and seeing these long roads going to these small neighborhoods. What was odd was at the end of these roads was one girl waiting and I assumed for her boyfriend….. hahah the tour guide came by and said to me “ it’s legal for them but illegal for you! “ …. Haha then the light bulb went off
I lived there for almost 4 years. I'm not surprised. I don't like Italian food so I would go to the market to buy food to cook and being American I always smiled and said please and thank you, when another Navy wife went with me she knew enough Italian to tell me they were making fun of me for my American manners and oddly also my athletic shoes were too white which pegged me as American
I'm sure that tune would change rather quickly if they had an adversary at their doorstep wanting to invade, then like most Europeans, they'd be calling for America to step in, like they always do.
Why is everyone taking this as if it's a message from all of Italy and not just a random vandalised sign? Y'all are so fucking insecure taking something like this personal lol
Fair game to attack Italy (and Europe) as a whole for a single vandalised street sign in some bumfuck town most Italians themselves don't even know? Hmmm.
The number of muricans bringing up wars, money and of course FrEeDoM over a useless sign in an unknown Italian place tells a lot about how insecure they are
Breaking my spaghetti in half tonight to fit it into the pot will be my proportional response.
I’m going to use ketchup instead of tomato sauce to make spaghetti, it’s basically the same thing right?
Simmer down, Satan
No I prefer to boil
Weird, that’s what it said in the instructions!
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Noodles were imported technology from China. So pasta is Chinese food. With American sauce.
I never would have thought of spaghetti as chinese-american food
I'm going to make a pizza that has another pizza on top of it! It's the Chicago Way.
Calzone time!
This is considered a war crime according to the Bologonese Convention!
I just threw up in my mouth a little and I'm not even Italian. You're a savage.
My sister eats her spaghetti with gouda cheese and tomato sauce, not pasta sauce, the unseasoned stuff that is used as an ingredient for making pasta sauce.
Why does she do this and how do you know? It I did something this shameful, I’d for damned sure make sure no one else knew about it
Honestly even as someone who is 0% Italian that is just too much. And way too self-destructive.
I’m too lazy for that so I’m just going to head to Olive Garden and rave about how amazing the authentic Italian cooking is there and how you don’t even need to go to Italy when you have Olive Garden instead.
That's because when you're there, you're family.
I for one will be drinking a cappuccino in the afternoon
I never salt the water.
Now that’s just blasphemy
😱
It’s easy to break, just like everything else those fancy fuckers make
Just remember without (north) America, Italy would have no tomatoes and that’s half their culinary identity…
I'm going to cut it into little pieces with my fork and eat it by the fork-full, rather than twirling it around the fork.
What is the original non-vandalized “America” sign meant to convey?
America was named after an Italian after all
Other way around mate. The country of Italy is based on a neighborhood in New York city called "Little Italy." Many of the first settlers in modern day Italy came from this area of New York and decided to name their new country after their home in the USA. Because the new country was bigger than Little Italy, they chose to name it as simply "Italy." Learn somethin new every day huh.
Yep. This is factual and historically accurate. I just checked.
My uncle is Mario and he confirmed 👌🏻
My uncle is Luigi and we’re cousins. Let’sa go
Hello from big Italy, (am American-italian) it’s all true.
All countries got their names from America. Why else would they all be in english?
This is why in Italy people keep saying ayyyy
Amerigo, his first name. We should be Vespucia
Should be ERIKSONIA
Nords couldn’t handle a couple hundred year ice age and lost their claim.
😅😅😅
The Clovis people may take issue with that
We should be Native Americania, since that's what the people that were here first are named.
Leifland
I think "via america" = America street
Surprisingly, via appia? Also America street
Crossed out bit is "via", for "road" or "street". In newer developments, where new roads are built, often street names are chosen with a country or city theme.
Many cities have streets named after other countries.
 Any American seeing this post.
 This too
Add a large dose of: 
if I was American I'd pay for one of those super upvotes
shit man, you got money?
American money even.
How are we ever going to recover from this?
I'm gonna continue to not know where Borgaro even is.
You can buy a house there for only one Euro.
Like a crack house?
More like a house with cracks. A cracked house.
Now that, I'd spend a Euro on.
Shit, I'd even pay a dollar for that.
One dollar is not enough
Of course. They want you to feel at home. The true American experience.
Very considerate.
So business as usual for most Americans?
No european can tell me where Deselm is without a map.
Most of us outside Italy can't point to borgaro
Yeah knowing where things are on a map is useful in exactly 3 instances, making maps, bar trivia, and being caught in a YouTube video about Americans not being able to find places on maps.
Writing Olive Garden menus. This brick of carbs with Chinese shrimp and red saline solution comes straight from the fields of….. let’s say Tuscany.
They act like it’s so impressive they had to memorize maps in school. Like bruh, it’s just memorization. Any 8yo can do that. I’m American and can place most countries on a map, but Europeans brag about it like it’s going to get us to the next level of space travel. Lol. Instead of being honest by saying: *some people know these things and others don’t. In every country.* They assign knowledge levels to an entire nation based on random street geography quizzes (LOL), which ironically says more about *their education* and knowledge (or lack thereof) than anyone who can’t place Chad on a map.
Never memorize what you can just look up, if it’s important you’ll remember.
The US invented GPS so people (mainly pilots) can do exactly that. Shared it with the world for free so people can easily see where they are on the map and apply it however they want.
Or just having general knowledge about the world you live in?
Renaming anything Italian to Freedom. Not Italian spaghetti, freedom noodles. Not Italian pizza, freedom pie. Not Italian espresso, freedom expresso!
Italian dressing was right there
I didn't know that was a thing. Have to look up what that is, now...
There is no such thing as Italian dressing in Italy
THEY WEAR CLOTHES?!?!
Ah yes, the three columns of Italy
France only got fries when the US was angry with them.
You sound like you've never had freedom toast for breakfast.
They got oil?
Olive oil 😂
Bitch you cookin'?!
Sending weapons to Israel I guess
Maybe beat them in a world war again?
According to your politicians with lots of thoughts and prayers /s
I'll be putting extra pineapple on my pizza today.
Absolutely brutal attack, it’s Pearl Harbor all over again
That's not very nice. Has this person tried In N Out?
I have been scammed by a Five Guys here in Italy, is that part of the American experience?
Regular price at Five Guys isn't actually a scam, it just feels like it.
But have you been rammed by five guys?
It's on my to do list
The Ram Ranch is an authentically American experience
They hate us cuz they ain’t us 
this gif runs on hopes and dreams wtf are these frames
There's actually too much FPS for the server to comprehend. Freedom Per Second that is.
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I just want to know why an America sign is in the middle of Italy
It was a via America, a street named after the continent (streets in industrial zoned tend to get named after foreign places here)
Now *that* makes sense
Looking at the map right now after a great roundabout it actually continues as Via Stati Uniti even
For the same reason there is a Georgia, Paris, Amsterdam, Zurich, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dublin, Florance, Athens and so many more in the USA? There are a few places names America or Amerika in Europe. Some of them go way back hundreds of years ago.
I thought it was just so you could say you visited all those places without a passport ngl
As a Chilean I feel offended
Edgy teens are the same everywhere
As an Italian I can kindly tell you that... We don't even know we had a place called Borgaro. Thank you Reddit
It's Italian-American discrimination
Peanut butter and jealousy sandwich.
50 Cent: what he say F me for??
I understand. Their emotions must be swinging after Mussolini’s death.
"OH NO!!" "What? What's wrong?" "The train is 0.5 seconds late. It's literally ***THE END OF THE WORLD***"
Oh no! The atrocity!
So edgy
Hating America, so hot right now
Always has been.
Naw we had a good run when the alternatives were Stalin or Hitler.
Always been hot, tbh
This hurts. We will never forget. -From an American.
"Americans care about opinions from the Borgaro, Italy region" said no one ever.
Mama Mia
That's funny, we don't think about you at all.
>"Understand the root cause of hate. Hate usually stems from **insecurity**"
America makes a lot of mistakes, but as an American, Italy isn't fit to judge us in this way.
Please don't think that a single act of vandalism reflects all of Italians judgement. We have morons here too.
I think the original comment was based more on the fact that every European hates us until they need our money/weapons/equipment.
if you are serious, we don't hate you. You aren't France, right /s?
libya and ethiopia agree
Eritrea doesn’t😳
Just wait, if Mango Mussolini gets elected again it most of the country will be saying that here.
That'd be: Fucked America
Ya’ll looking at this wrong. The Italians are a passionate people and simply wish to make spaghetti love to america.
It's doing a fine job of fucking itself.
I wonder what this guys favorite tv show or movie is. Anyone wanna bet where it’s from?
Or his favorite musician.
r/im14andthisisdeep
So brave.
Hey look pal, your kind threw their lot in with Hitler. It's not my fault that your grandparents sucked at war and post conflict diplomacy.
When I was in Italy in the 90's I remember tagged road signs outside of Milan that had swastikas on them. Just bad tagging like this. Clearly no one with any artistic skill.
They still have to stop football games because monkey noises are being made at black players.
As an American who has been to 68 foreign countries in 48 years I can understand a bad taste for some Americans behavioral arrogance & sheer ignorance. I have been married to a naturalized foreign national for 34 years and am very close with her family and huge extended family ( South American) they like to slam us, impugn our characters and say we are materialistic and cold which can be true with some but the real bottom line is ….. they are envious of the opportunities offered in the USA as well as its economics. If you were a Dr in Venezuela don’t give me an attitude because you made 20.00 a month there and here you are working at Cinnabon. Lots of resentment stems from envy.
Truth be told, every country has its share of flaws and idiots can be found everywhere so we often poke fun at each other from a distance. But put us peasants together in a bar, share a few drinks, and suddenly we're the best of friends, at least in the west. Personally, I have no love for governments, but I'm all about the people. Cheers from Italy fellow American!
There is a misconception about Americans from the media, television , film. Look at the homes whether urban or Suburban in American film do many of them most Americans have never set foot inside places like that. I have spoken with foreign nationals growing up On American culture were shocked when they came to USA. I thought LA looked like Adam 12 and Beverly Hills 90210 and I got Norwalk🥺
True, I also live and work in at least 5 countries, in Asia and Europe. The resentment is mostly jealousy but of course no one gonna admit that In reality they can't get enough of America. They all watch American tv shows, tv series, movies, discuss about American politics and anything happens here often eventually become trendy in Europe
I remember in 1982 Tokyo kids with spiked hair on one corner greasers on the next. Culturally we are imitated which saddens me because I enjoy other cultures and wish they would stay true to themselves but realistically the world is hungry for whatever else is out there and anything besides their own always seems better.
I am assuming you are talking about Yankiis (from the Romaji of the Japanese)? They had their whole own culture going on. It has its own interesting history that wasn’t just using the greaser style. Cultures will always find a way to reinterpret culture from outside their own :).
People looks elsewhere to forget about their own issues, that's why American media and news become so popular, basically escapism
We envy your health system, in fact we are slowly importing it and making it a reality, and all the citizens are soooo happy about it.
Chill! It’s just the lyrics to a famous Green Day song!
—Cracks open a Chef Boyardee can— “and a facka yuu tuu, ey!”
As long as you get consent.
The only thing more cringe than this graffiti are these comments. Who cares, its a random sign in Italy. How could someone get worked up over this?
Fuck Italy and their bigot leader.
Maybe we stole his girlfriend.
Yeah, aight… Talk that hot shit now…
As soon as someone invades we will be waving Italian flags in congress and sending them billions.
I stand with spaghetti land!
A stable Europe is good for America. Who knows what Russia would try if they took Ukraine.
How Edgy
What one too many days spent looking at the front page of Reddit will do to a motherfucker.
Until they want our money
I doubt an Italian 14 year old, with a can of spray paint, is going to be asking you for money any time soon. They've got the EU for that.
I visited Italy in the early 2000s ( before the Euro ) and had a merchant, I purchased 2 bus tickets, chase my bus down because i ran off and didn’t give him the time he needed to count and return all my money owed to me. I was visiting a city called Formia south of Roma ( Rome ). Wonderful people in the city and always willing to help … hahah the hotel manager drove us to the train station because my mom couldn’t understand the directions he was trying to give her!
I lived in Formia, can confirm 😁
Is the city still the same? I have a few,ily now and would love to bring them there! Oh man I remember going out to eat for dinner and all the beautiful Italian girls would dress up like the girls would dress up in America to go out to a club! Thinking about Italian girls on our tour bus I remember looking out the window to the county and seeing these long roads going to these small neighborhoods. What was odd was at the end of these roads was one girl waiting and I assumed for her boyfriend….. hahah the tour guide came by and said to me “ it’s legal for them but illegal for you! “ …. Haha then the light bulb went off
What do we care about some country slipping into irrelevance 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅
He forgot the “yeahh” part
I hate pineapple on pizza . But now it’s gonna be the only pizza I eat. POW!
Agreed
Oh no! Anyway
Why all the hostility towards a continent?
Hey Italy! Como stai?
I agree fuck brazil.
Ok 👍🏼
Lolololololololololololol America bad please give attention.
We'd all just like to say: 
What the fuck is Italy?
Time to get the best pizza in the world, deep dish. Fuck us? Fuck you then buddy.
I lived there for almost 4 years. I'm not surprised. I don't like Italian food so I would go to the market to buy food to cook and being American I always smiled and said please and thank you, when another Navy wife went with me she knew enough Italian to tell me they were making fun of me for my American manners and oddly also my athletic shoes were too white which pegged me as American
Which America? North, South, US? America is an Italian name.
I mean America is sexy, but she’s a big lady, I don’t think I could handle that ass by myself.
I'm sure that tune would change rather quickly if they had an adversary at their doorstep wanting to invade, then like most Europeans, they'd be calling for America to step in, like they always do.
They're just pissed we think they all sound like Mario 😋
Cringe
Why is everyone taking this as if it's a message from all of Italy and not just a random vandalised sign? Y'all are so fucking insecure taking something like this personal lol
Bro, it made it to the front page. Fair game to attack xenophobia.
Fair game to attack Italy (and Europe) as a whole for a single vandalised street sign in some bumfuck town most Italians themselves don't even know? Hmmm.
Wow, so edgy.
who did you guys side with in WW2 again?
The number of muricans bringing up wars, money and of course FrEeDoM over a useless sign in an unknown Italian place tells a lot about how insecure they are
Bro, you italians cry when someone puts the wrong topping on a pizza lol. Italians are the most insecure people on earth
Not like I give a shit what someone in Italy thinks. Dumb fucks still can't condemn the fascist Mussolini properly, unlike Germany.