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Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:53:51 -0700 marlon from private IP, post #18966243 /all chicken paws who can eat this ?? Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:56:50 -0700 phosita from private IP Reply #11715926 Tell us you've never been to dimsum without telling us you've never been to dimsum. Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:05:09 -0700 marlon from private IP Reply #19137362 what would Sugar say about this? Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:13:06 -0700 phosita from private IP Reply #14554040 Whatever it would be, it would take not more than 2 paragraphs for it to wander off about haplogroups and whatnot, and how - oh my goodness - the Calabrians make a delectable dish out of alpaca hooves. Something like that. Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:24:32 -0700 whiteguyinchina from private IP Reply #18871224 She dated a northern Italian separatist podcaster and his militant followers included the biggest chicken feet supplier in Lombardi. That girl is awesome. Definitely more interesting than me. To answer your question it was served at our buffet lunch here last sunday. Try a cow ankle while you are at it. It is basically a round bone larger than a baseball and you need a plastic glove to it eat because it is so slippery with gooey cartilage. Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:58:00 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #10799628 @phositaTest Never heard of it. As somebody whose mom was born in Calabria in a mountain village in provincia di Catanzaro that was historically provincia di Cosenza not too far from La Sila (note my mom’s ethnic group on 23andme is La Sila), these are things typical to Calabria. Note, many people like to name nduja, but that’s for tourists and mostly in Vibo Valentia. Here is what I grew up with: 1) sopressata that people make at home and hang from the ceilings. I used to really really love it. It’s super addictive, but I haven’t eaten it since 2011 after this guy brainwashed me against pork meat. 2) grispelle (made mostly at christmas, they are these fried rings made from potato and flour, so so good) 3) braciole di patate (potato croquettes that are not really potato croquettes) 4) braciole di riso (rise croquettes) 5) fileja pasta (made at home) 6) homemade ricotta 7) other homemade cheeses 8) ciambelle (donut rings covered in sugar mostly from the beach at Gizzeria Lido) I also think we have the best food in all of Italy in Calabria. I don’t just say this because it’s where my mom is from and where my home is, but because Calabria is so rural that everything is made fresh from the land. Of course, I’m a mountain girl so most of the stuff I named is purely mountain cuisine. We also used to go pick mushrooms in autumn fungi and in late summer these mulberry (a mura) start to grow. You can walk around anywhere in the mountain and just pick them. They grow wild and are so delicious. Closer to the beach of course they eat differently. Keep in mind, I’m half Campanian but not napoletana because my paternal village closer to Foggia and Arbëreshë. With that being said, I had this Sicilian dom guy who destroyed my life that I didn’t sleep for two days over bragging about the granite in Sicily. Well, I think we are superior in Calabria and have the best granite di mandorle. I do have to say talking to a southern guy about southern things like granite is beautiful though. He just can’t handle my continentalness. Dude ate couscous and stuff. After dealing with him, I can see why Mr. Northerner hates Southerners. Southern guys are truly the worst people in the world. To tease the Sicilian guy, I asked him if I could make him polenta and he said assolutamente no. I told him ok then that I would make him melanzane. Btw, my grandmother used to make polenta and lay it out on the wooden table. She had spent time up north in Trento though as my great grandparents were out there way back in the 1940s and two of her sisters ended up settling there. I do miss cooking with my grandmother. Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:06:11 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #15277363 The only thing I liked in Sicily were their cannoli. I normally don’t like cannoli in the USA, but they were pretty bomb in Sicily. We also used to make stuffed peppers at home and stuffed melanzane (eggplant) Sicilian guys are the worst men on earth. Definitely not southern gentleman. Let all the Italian guys scroll and stay home with their mammas. Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:09:56 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #12156071 I have rare genetics (having roots in a group with only 100,000 members in Italy) and they should have appreciated my genetics. Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:32:46 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #18669839 *rice Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:03:10 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #18318413 P.S. To laugh, I didn’t even realize they ate couscous in Sicily. When the dude told me he ate couscous, I joked and called him tunisino. I thought he was eating it as an exotic dish, didn’t know it was typical there at all. That’s pretty mind blowing because never ever saw it in Calabria. Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:06:24 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #11704898 In Abruzzo, they ate lots of meat like arrosticini. Then they eat those olives that are also popular in Marche. Wed, 30 Jul 2025 08:34:52 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #12661778 I also grew up eating zucchini about once a week or every two weeks. Made in a pan with olice oil and bread and cheese. Another important thing I forgot to mention that we eat in Calabria are these fried flowers. They are fried zucchini flowers. Another of my favrorites. https://en.petitchef.com/recipes/main-dish/calabrian-food-favorite-recipe-fried-zucchini-flowers-or-frittelle-di-fiori-di-zucca-fid-1046197 https://memoriediangelina.com/2022/07/23/frittelle-di-fiori-di-zucca-zucchini-blossom-pancakes/ Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:13:41 -0700 marlon from private IP Reply #14282937 a big heaping spoonful of Sugar Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:36:10 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #12567634 @marlonTest p.s. you will never be able to find good soppressata in the usa... or even in the stores in italy. you have to be gifted one by somebody who makes them at home or maybe go to a very small shop in calabria that sells it. Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:38:38 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #14514966 our porcini pate in calabria is also the best. again, almost impossible to find here. at eataly, they sell one from umbria that has a totally different flavor and nowhere near as good and smooth. we also have an onion bruschetta so amazing made with onions from tropea. i'm not even an onion person, but it doesn't really taste like onion. Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:17:36 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #11183016 @phositaTest also while haplogroups may make many people uncomfortable, they are part of our history as humans and tell a story. i think you can talk about haplorgoups respectfully without injecting racism or stating one is superior to another. for somebody like me who has roots in a tiny ethnic minority, i grew up mostly thinking it was just a dialect. i didn't realize the historical and ethnic reality behind my group and other historic minority groups in italy. my mom had a surname that was common throughout italy, that nobody questioned because its from just a normal calabrese village. my surname on the other hand always raised questions because it was italicized, but not italian. Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:08:44 -0700 phosita from private IP Reply #11030394 zerosugar, I suppose you know this dude's work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Luca_Cavalli-Sforza Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:12:22 -0700 marlon from private IP Reply #14248268 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couscous learned a new thing today Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:30:40 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #10042335 @phositaTest Oh of course—Cavalli-Sforza is essential reading if you’ve ever gone down a population genetics rabbit hole. I remember stumbling across his work when I was trying to piece together the genetic imprint of Mediterranean migration patterns, especially through Southern Italy and the Balkans. Pretty mind-blowing how ahead of his time he was. Honestly surprised his name doesn’t come up more often in the mainstream discourse. Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:31:40 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #12647045 @marlonTest happy you enjoyed that. maybe make some! Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:36:11 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #19972897 @phositaTest At the same time, he also had some nonsensical ideas that can be a little extremist especially when you consider rare diseases and other issues which afflict some populations more than others. Anyway, too long of a debate to type out. lolReplies require login.