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 (it should be al dente not mushy) 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 Despair Line.
Finally you have 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, and European Food According To The Greeks along with Yanko Tsvetkov’s 3 books:
- Atlas of Prejudice: The Complete Stereotype Map Collection
- Atlas of Prejudice: Mapping Stereotypes Volume 1
- Atlas of Prejudice 2: Chasing Horizons
Also have a look at the following maps:
- The Many Disgusting Dishes & Culinary Horrors of Europe
- European Food According To The Greeks
- European Food According to The French
- 20 Ways To Divide Europe By Stereotype
- Europe According to the Vikings in 1000 AD
- 12 Ways To Break The USA
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Evolved One says
Hehehehehe…..hehehehehhhee……teeheeee
Simone Tulumello says
this for Italians who don’t know well Hiberian Peninsula… 😉
vrkas says
“Map created by Yanko Tsvetkov”. I didn’t know Tsvetkov was an Italian surname.
Simone Tulumello says
Exactly, in fact he has no idea of what Italians think that of Spanish and Portuguese food…
bobthechef says
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.
gargara says
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
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
It isn’t. This is an immigrant. At least i think.
deltasucks says
gli iberici fanno schifo, meglio i francesi
Alexandros Sarafianos says
Spaghetti comes from Chinese noodles brought back by Marco Polo, so the fake spaghetti is the one in Italy.
gargara says
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.
Rob says
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.
Eduardo says
Hahahahahaha!
There’s always one repeating this nonsense!
Stefano Vee Bochicchio says
peccato che ora gli spaghetti cinesi fanno schifo la merda
Stefano Vee Bochicchio says
boom! continua a mangiare patatine fritte va
david says
Yes, spaghetti. But not pasta, as Etruscan already had pasta , so?
multifarkukutya says
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…
deltasucks says
wrong
Alessandro Codoni says
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.
Costanza Preda says
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..
Alessandro Codoni says
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.
Giampaolo Grisòli says
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.
Antonio says
This is not a prejudice. This is just the pure and undisputed truth. Amen.
Michele Arcangelo says
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.
deltasucks says
Italy and France have the best food. not spain and portugal, fanno cagare il cazzo.
multifarkukutya says
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…
Giampaolo Grisòli says
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.
multifarkukutya says
Are you joking?… :O
Aldo Marx says
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.
deltasucks says
not true
Zoran says
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).
deltasucks says
you have no taste
Phil Davey says
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….
Socalmsf says
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 🇮🇹
Graeme says
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.