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European Food According to Italians

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 30 Comments

European Food According to Italians

Map created by Yanko Tsvetkov at Atlas of Prejudice

Yanko Tsvetkov, the man behind the Culinary Horrors of Europe Map, has created another food related map titled: The Culinary Map of Europe According to Italians.

Italy of course is at its core, the only place you can find real food. Then radiating out you have other Mediterranean food that’s mostly safe to eat, although some caution may be advised.

As you go north the food gets more fattening, then tasteless, then aesthetically tasteless and finally arriving at Scandinavian, Scottish Highland and West Irish food which is Toxic.

Also worth noting are a few of the details. Travelling west you have the Overcooked Pasta Meridian and eventually ending up with Fake pizza in America. Travelling east you quickly reach the Muddy Coffee Meridian and ending in Fake pasta in China.

Going north you reach the Supersized Coffee parallel, then the Culinary Dispair Line and finally the San Umberto Nobile line, named after the Italian Arctic explorer and aeronautical engineer who was the first to fly across the polar ice cap from Europe to America (Hey fake pizza’s better than no pizza!)

If you like this map you may also enjoy The Many Disgusting Dishes & Culinary Horrors of Europe, along with Yanko Tsvetkov’s 3 books:

  • Atlas of Prejudice: The Complete Stereotype Map Collection
  • Atlas of Prejudice: Mapping Stereotypes, Vol. 1
  • Atlas of Prejudice 2: Chasing Horizons, Vol. 2

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Comments

  1. Evolved One says

    September 14, 2015 at 9:29 pm

    Hehehehehe…..hehehehehhhee……teeheeee

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  2. Simone Tulumello says

    November 4, 2015 at 8:40 am

    this for Italians who don’t know well Hiberian Peninsula… 😉

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    • vrkas says

      December 11, 2015 at 10:36 am

      “Map created by Yanko Tsvetkov”. I didn’t know Tsvetkov was an Italian surname.

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      • Simone Tulumello says

        December 11, 2015 at 11:21 am

        Exactly, in fact he has no idea of what Italians think that of Spanish and Portuguese food…

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        • bobthechef says

          January 5, 2016 at 6:54 pm

          I’m not sure we can generalize. In any case, every travelled Italian I’ve met has enjoyed certain unnamed cuisines far north of Italy. Not all of them (Scandinavian, English, and Irish food are quiet terrible), but some of them. Also, German food is certainly not in a better place than it’s neighbors.

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          • gargara says

            March 8, 2016 at 9:42 am

            I have been visiting as italian in many places in the world and europe of course doesn’t reflect this map but has something true in it.

        • Giampaolo Grisòli says

          September 1, 2016 at 10:28 pm

          Both are really good. I love paella, arroz negro, hamon serrano, pata negra and the 1000 way portuguise cook cod-fish
          ♥

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      • Anonymous says

        April 22, 2022 at 11:32 am

        It isn’t. This is an immigrant. At least i think.

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  3. Alexandros Sarafianos says

    February 27, 2016 at 12:19 pm

    Spaghetti comes from Chinese noodles brought back by Marco Polo, so the fake spaghetti is the one in Italy.

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    • gargara says

      March 8, 2016 at 9:40 am

      I always hear this bullshit but you never realize that noodles are made
      of rice and spaghetti of grain. Said that we have more than 500 hundred
      kind of pasta and those looking like spaghetti are at least 10 from what
      I remember and not counting in how many variant we cook them. Yes he
      may brought back the idea but I don’t think it is the same thing. So shut hte hell out.

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      • Rob says

        July 10, 2019 at 3:37 am

        Ah, no. Chinese noodles, along with other East Asian countries, use wheat as grain basis for noodle. Also, Chinese have way more than 500 type of noodles. Even Vietnamese, who do make rice noodles, have 1000 types.

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    • Eduardo says

      March 8, 2016 at 4:33 pm

      Hahahahahaha!
      There’s always one repeating this nonsense!

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    • Stefano Vee Bochicchio says

      March 9, 2016 at 1:35 pm

      peccato che ora gli spaghetti cinesi fanno schifo la merda

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    • Stefano Vee Bochicchio says

      March 9, 2016 at 1:39 pm

      boom! continua a mangiare patatine fritte va

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    • david says

      March 25, 2016 at 11:34 am

      Yes, spaghetti. But not pasta, as Etruscan already had pasta , so?

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    • multifarkukutya says

      September 2, 2016 at 3:55 am

      It’s false that Marco Polo has brought the spaghetti from China to Italy! In fact, the spaghetti was brought from China to Italy much earlier…

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  4. Alessandro Codoni says

    March 9, 2016 at 12:41 pm

    Funny !

    Obviously this is the map for open-minded Italians.

    For all the others the “mostly safe to eat” start in the nearby district, the green area in the nearby region.

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    • Costanza Preda says

      March 10, 2016 at 10:46 pm

      NOPE….open minded italians like myself find this outrageous…iìve travelled all across europe and i have eaten well everywhere i went…i also think that everywhere in the world there are people that don’t like to eat shit…and that’s what reassures me over international cousine..

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      • Alessandro Codoni says

        March 10, 2016 at 11:18 pm

        well it was almost a Joke, like the map.
        I said almost because ther’s one truth in this map and it isn’t related to the taste of recipes.
        Food production, in Italy, has a strong control For thing like pesticides, antibiotics, hormons ecc…
        I enjoy recipes from all the word but I try to avoid meat, vegetables and fish from other countries.

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      • Giampaolo Grisòli says

        September 1, 2016 at 10:26 pm

        It’s a couple of years I’m living outside of Italy, in Denmark and Malawi. About Denmark I can say this map is 100% true.

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  5. Antonio says

    March 13, 2016 at 8:06 am

    This is not a prejudice. This is just the pure and undisputed truth. Amen.

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  6. Michele Arcangelo says

    April 3, 2016 at 8:30 am

    I would say that in Northern Spain “caution is advised”. Food is “mostly safe” in Portugal, Southern Spain, Greece and European Turkey. Also most Italians believe that food in Great Britain, Scandinavia and Russia is “disgusting” and “very disgusting” (and not “literally tasteless” and aestetically tasteless”). If it was “tasteless”, Italian would try the British food.

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  7. multifarkukutya says

    June 21, 2016 at 4:10 pm

    Noone speaks English in Italy – and even less Italians can write down a word in English at all. So this map is fake for sure…

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    • Giampaolo Grisòli says

      September 1, 2016 at 10:23 pm

      Uhmmm…
      I’m italian, I can speack English and I can write down a full sentence in English. Anyway, the reality is that you MUST come in Italy to enjoy 100% good food.

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      • multifarkukutya says

        September 2, 2016 at 3:42 am

        Are you joking?… :O

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      • Aldo Marx says

        September 4, 2016 at 8:22 am

        I am Italian and like you Gianpaolo I can write a sentence in English. This map is complete bullshit and shouldn’t even deserve to be commented. There are many other places in the World where you can eat real fresh and tasty food, including the areas banned and considered bad for food in the map. From the map I would save the whole Spain, and the whole East of Europe for instance just to name a few.

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  8. Zoran says

    December 7, 2016 at 9:17 pm

    I was couple of times in Italy. Food was so bad, tasteless… I really don’t like ITA food (some pizzas are good, but most of them aren’t – other stuff I don’t like).

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  9. Phil Davey says

    March 8, 2017 at 7:39 am

    I was lucky enough to work in a lab in Italy for a time. The food in the company canteen was better than any food I have eaten in restaurants in the UK. God I miss it. And don’t get me started on the hotel I stayed in while I was there. Just a couple of miles from Gorgonzola. Heaven….

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  10. Socalmsf says

    June 26, 2018 at 1:19 am

    I am married to an Italian (from Napoli) and am now considered an Ex-pat. This map was obviously intended to be humorous. Those who don’t see it as such take things and themselves too seriously.
    Many of my Italian friends and family travel and live all over the world. They enjoy food everywhere they go BUT…they consider the food outside of Italy nice, good, maybe tasty, different, a curiosity, but, the best and only “real” food comes from Italy in their opinions. They enjoy world foods in moderation yet when Nonna makes pasta pomodoro, moderation goes out the window. That is what I see as the meaning behind this culinary map. Enjoy and Buon Appetito! Wherever you are eating. Let’s hope it’s in 🇮🇹

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  11. Graeme says

    May 12, 2023 at 3:20 pm

    The prejudice here – not in the OP (which is funny) but in the comments – is on a massive scale. I am well travelled I would say – been to over 30 European countries – and I would say that those who have an open mind will find great food across the continent. If you looking for downhome food from the US you may be disappointed, however.

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