Yeah, great thread.... splitting hairs about the difference between the best cuisines in the world when I live in Costa Rica, land of beans and rice! Whereabouts are you from? I have family in Bari and apparently some in Naples that my family don't talk about (ahem)
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.... Maybe we are family and we didn't know 👀
Who knows. Your family ever been potentially allegedly involved in protection racket? 🙄 🤣
LOL.. maybe not.
Problem with Italy, always the chance of chequered family history! Especially in the south. I always wondered when I was visiting as a kid why so much deference was paid to my great uncle when we walked around. And that's the Italian part of the family I do know. It was only when my dad passed and my uncle mentioned the Naples side of the family and got a proper evil glare from my aunt that I found out there was another branch but they would not elaborate at all!
Yeap.. before a way to keep secrets was making families and alliances between them.. or completely disregard some branches in other cases, because was better to not mention or remember 😅..
South Italy is a parallel world, difficult to explain if you don't live it or have direct experience about it 👀🫠
Exactly, hard to explain to outsiders. Last time I was in Bari, was wandering around with some family members and uncle started heading towards historic town center. My aunt (from UK) stopped and asked if it was ok to enter. Response was that outsider have been allowed in safely for a few years. Explaining things like that in this age to people just results in blank stares of incomprehension.
I then took my missus on a little tour around the south and she said she wanted to stop to take a pee. We were driving through Mondragone near Naples. I said I'd rather wait and when she asked why, I said look closer at the people and streets and where we are and pay more attention. After a minute or two she said she was very happy to wait a bit
Man.. there's so much I could and would like to comment and say about it.. but would also dox myself much more than I would like to and then I did 🤣😅