November 19, 2024 • 16 mins
Our friend Filippo is visiting from Italy and he is sharing what he loves and hates about American food and pop culture! Plus, he shares what some Italians really think of Americans.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast?
Fine ELVISI.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
All right, I guess I'll start.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Welcome to the fifteen minute Morning your podcast. Johnny's hanging
out in Columbus. Hi, Scotty Bees.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
In the next.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Studio, Garrett's over here, and Daniello and our friend from Italy, Filippo.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hiy who?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
So what brings you back so quickly?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You were here two months ago.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
He wants to move here. We've already established this.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Thank you. Remember, Yeah, I feel when I entered the
building this morning, you were like you again. Now I'm no,
I'm joking. I'm joking. No, But I love New York
City so much so whenever I have free time from work,
I tried to to come here.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Now I have a question, like, it's not cheap to
just get on a flight though and come over, is it?
Or can you find cheaper flights?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You can find cheaper flights, especially if you like find
flights from Monday to Thursday or in particular, yeah hours,
and I think November is a good period of the
year to travel to New York City, especially from Italy.
There are times like Christmas or or Spring where it's
(01:28):
much more expensive. Flights are much more expensive, but now
they're just fine.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah next week if you try to come here, you'd
be like, no, I'm staying home.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I'm staying I tell.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
You Christmas Day is cheap to fly. And I'll tell
you how I found that out. I remember I told.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You this story.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
We had a friend from England and we had said
to her, whenever you want to come visit, you come
visit whenever. Whenever she calls us up, she goes, I.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Booked my flight. I'm coming in on Christmas Day. We
were like, you're not a great, great deal.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
And wait, that's your own fault though, for saying how
many time.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Because people take us seriously, but seriously, who would do that?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And not only anytime, any time, Not.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Only did we have to leave our family gathering to
go get her, it was the year of that massive,
ridiculous snowstorm and they diverted her plane from one airport
to the other. So as we're driving together her, we
get the thing, Oh, the plane's going someplace else.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
We're like, what is happening right now?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Is what a great it was?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
We did have a fun time with her, but it
was it was a little crazy it was a little crazy.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
We found out something fun from Felipo because we were
talking about how here in the US Halloween Thank god
it's there because it keeps Christmas from scooting up any
further than it usually does.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, right, we have the Halloween Thanksgiving buffer here it's
the block.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Well, Thanksgiving's not really doing a lot. Thanksgivings getting trucked
by Christmas.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You are Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
People are celebrating Halloween, however, because in Europe they don't
really celebrate Halloween, celebrty Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
He said that there are people.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Who start celebrating Christmas and prepare not celebrating, but preparing
for Christmas at the end of summer.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah wow, yeah, I understood. I learned that during my
radio show in Italy. I think it was like a
year ago. It was August, and as a joke I said, like, okay,
it's ninety days till Christmas. But as a joke, I
want actually my listeners to insult me for saying that.
But there were people who were like, oh, no, we
love Christmas and even if I mean, summer is ending,
(03:28):
so we're about to prepare, you know, for it. So
we're going to get presents and to start making decorations.
So it's yeah, because Halloween is not so popular in
Italy and we don't have Thanksgiving, so right after summer
you think about Christmas and New Year's Eve.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
At the risk of sounding stupid, do you have any
important massive holidays there that we don't.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
We have a holiday that is called Ferragosto, which is
August fifteenth, but we don't do anything particular because it's summer,
so you go to the beach or you stay with your.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Friends, celebrate it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It's a religious thing. We have that, and then we
have let me think about it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Give the King's Day in like May. Oh, that's Spain.
We have the yeah, something similar though.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
On April twenty twenty fifth that we have the Day
of Freedom of Liberation, which is when basically fascism ended
in Italy and so it's a very important day for us.
July fourth, I guess, right, yeah, sort of, yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
You have nothing between Halloween and Christmas though, no, No,
you know I know that our friends from the UK,
they're they're going to be on holiday here next week
and they're like, hey, can we come up and have
a studio for our afternoon drive people? And we want
to be there Monday through Friday next week and I'm like,
that's Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I said.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
They're like, so they want to be but we're going
to probably get them a studio and hook them up.
But it's just crazy. It made me think the way
Gandhi was saying that. To us, there's like this, There's
there's Labor Day which ends summer, followed by Halloween, followed
by Thanksgiving followed by Christmas.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Well you know where since where my son goes to
college in England, they have class on Thanksgiving celebrating right,
So thankfully the coaches of his of his soccer program,
they do something special for the American kids. They give
them like a Thanksgiving dinner, but they have if they
have classes because it's not a holiday there.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I mean, it was so shocking to me. The first
time I was here in the States for Thanksgiving two
years ago, one of my best American friends invited me
with his family to spend Thanksgiving together. It was shocking
because to me, it is not normal to celebrate something
like Christmas a month before Christmas. So it's like has
Christmas vibe. It's it's like the warm up for the
(05:53):
actual Christmas.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Just no gifts. Yeah, it's Christmas without gifts.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
What did you think of the Thanksgiving food?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Next question? I don't like it either, sorry, guys.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Besides, and they that have flavor like turkey is the worst.
I don't know why people eat it.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Turkeyberry turkey is not bad.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Like I'll go to I'll go to the diner a
day after Thanksgiving, I get a hot open turkey sandwich.
I'll just eat so much turkey. I don't care, never
get sick of it.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I love it with things though, Yeah, I gond to
you right, it's flavorless by itself.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It's like the vanilla of meats.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I do like artichokes, though, stuffed chokes with like like
breadcrumbs and stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Turkey is not bad. I think the problem is. I
mean for me, it's like, uh, sweet potatoes with marshmallows.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You don't like.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
That doesn't make Yeah, it's like eating something solid like salty,
like like potatoes, but with candy is in it so.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That people like the savory and the sweet together. We
like salty sweet.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I know that because my American friend and his family
were very enthusiastic about it.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
But now I well, you got turkeys running around Italy
or not so much we have Okay, I wonder, I
wonder if they taste the same as they do here.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, probably.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
They have an accent.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Wait, okay, so can I ask you another question?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Say we have turkey.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
What is the most bizarre American food aside from sweet
potato castle role that you have encountered. I know you
guys don't have a ton of fast food over there.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Actually, I have to say that I like the rest
of American food, Like, for example, first time I went
to Chicago, I was so scared of Chicago dip dish
pizza because a lot of people were like, you're Italian,
you love pizza, you make pizza. You won't like that, guys. Sometimes,
like last week I was at home in Italy, I
was dreaming of Chicago dish pizza. So yeah, I like
(07:58):
shake Shack the best burgers in the world.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Do you guys break out pop culture? Pretty well?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Right?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I want to hear the food, keep going, keep going?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Uh, I don't know. There are not particular things apart
from sweet potatoes with marshmallow. So I don't like milkshakes
in general. Like I was shocked once, uh with the
same American friend we were having dinner. We were at
a place like shakes. We were having a burger and
he was drinking a milkshake while eating. Probably is just disgusting.
(08:32):
So this is not a cultural thing because.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
It's an insane concept to have a Do you do that?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
There's a change.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
There's a there's a change here called steak and shake.
I mean that's.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Scary, said, yes, Americans.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Some people people do, but if you think about the
concept again, it's crazy because a burger is incredibly unhealthy.
You have fries with that even worse, and then you
wash it down with three scoops of melted ice.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
And then some people even dip their fries in the shake.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, that should be I'm pretty sure that is legal
in Italy and in most European You gotta try it once,
but I have to say sorry, I really like so
one thing that I hate it and now I enjoy
is iced coffee. Okayff it very.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I like to put syrup on my eggs, like you know,
if I'm eating eggs and waffles, I'll put syrup and
then my because my husband's like you know, from England,
he the same thing sweet and savory in my house.
He thinks is disgusting, but he'll eat everything pickled like
he loves, you know, pickled onions, and I'm just like,
that is disgusting.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I know that.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Marmite or that you know, Reggie Might. It's Veggie Might,
but in England it's called marmite. I think it tastes
like your back garden or twigs, but oh.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Wait, he loves it twigs.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Actually, I have a question. Sorry, sorry, no, have you
tried chicken and waffles? Not yet?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Okay, at some point maybe before you go back, just
try the chicken and waffles.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I know it sounds crazy, it's you.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Might like it.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Do you actually like it? Or okay? I think it's.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I grew up not liking chicken and waffles, Like, wait,
what you're gonna pour maple syrup on chicken? But it
does taste great, it does.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I will try a salty sweet baby. I have a
question for you, because we always say everyone says Italian
food is amazing, do you have an it? Is there
any Italian food that you actually don't like or you
don't find particularly interesting?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Or no? I mean it's hard, you know what?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Okay? I got you?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Well on that on those baccalao.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
What do you call it?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Bacala?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
But it's it's okay. But then you guys eat sardines.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of that, so I
agree you.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Guys love sardines.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I know.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
It's like it's fish desserts, dessert.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Then that Italian is a kind of fish and it's awful,
it smells awful.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Do you do the.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Seven fishes on Christmas Eve? Is that a big thing
in Italy?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Uh? It depends where you are in the country, so
it's not a huge tradition. But yeah, I don't remember
if on Christmas Eve because like Christmas Eve is very
popular in the South, but in the North you don't
celebrate Christmas Eve really the big Christmas uh dinner or
lunches on.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
And is it more Christmas lunch or Christmas dinner?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Uh, Christmas lunch that goes on for hours and hours
like here, I think this is a worldwide thing.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
So yeah, I wanted to know earlier. What are what
are you guys talking about? Pop culture wise? What I
want to see? What what you what you look at
through the American the Italian lens on what what Americans
are like and what's going on here now, like talk
about like celebrities, judge us, Yeah, what's happening, what's the
talk of the time.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
There's a lot of talks about politics, of course because
of the elections, and then a lot of Taylor Swift
and Taylor Swift. Yeah, I think when like SNL stuff
go viral, Yeah, there's a lot of it makes it
over there. Huh yeah, yeah, definitely, And a lot of
late night talk shows, like especially Felon are are very
(12:18):
popular in Italy. So we now, I think, as a
country and as Europeans in general, I would say, we
are so fascinated by the American pop ca.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
So you love us. We're not fools, do you right?
What do you mean people say that they that a
lot of.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Americans there are a lot of stereotypes. Yeah, there are
people who say, oh, Americans are dumb.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
They're lazy, they take us for a joke sometimes. But
I wanted to just clear that up that it's not
exactly like that in these other countries, that they actually
love us and maybe look up to us.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, that's definitely too much, but it is true. It
is true. But yeah, I'm saying, next time you're in Italy,
I will bring you on my show or in a
public square saying this is the example of how you
should live. This is scary. I interrupted you, No, I
(13:18):
don't remember typical American No. But I was saying, of course,
there's a lot of stereotypes. But it's the same thing
here with Italian. Of course there's a lot of stereotypes.
But then when you actually meet Italian people, or you
you travel to Italy, you understand that in part all
of that is true, but in part of course it's not.
They're just stereotypes.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
I think a lot of the stereotypes about Italians are
more so coming from Italian Americans. I think when I
hear them and I see, you know, people talking about them,
it's usually.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
About like the scary or the what did you go
to the other day?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Was it like Paison Palooza? We celebrate Italian culture with
all these Italian vendors. So we had a muzzarella making person,
we had amnicello people over here, and then they had
you know, so everyone. It was like all these like
little mom and pops, small little vendors that are Italian
and we all got together at an Italian restaurant and ate
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Italian food. And meatballs and and and.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
And with just meatballs, and I wonder what like a
like an American fest and Italy would look like probably
just you know, all backwards, like your Italian fest.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Is here, right, you know, I mean, we don't have
American parties in Italy.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Bodies a bunch of douchebags doing cast.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
That would be probably chese cake all over the place,
ches cake and yeah, and a lot of baseball or
football caps.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Okay, are they trying to bring that?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I know in certain parts of the country they're trying
to bring American football. Are they trying to do that there?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I don't know if they're trying, but it's not pop
at all. It is crazy. I think that is Sporty
is probably the biggest difference, you know, because your son
is in England. Is the biggest difference between Europe, Italy
and America. We are, of course soccer how you call it,
is very popular, but then it's tennis popular here, yes,
like because in seasonally yea yeah, okay, because in Europe,
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especially in Italy now we have Yannick Singer that is
the number one player in the world and is Italian.
It's so so popular. But when it's about baseball or football.
It's it's not it's not popular at all.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Why don't you end the podcast for us in your
best American accent.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Thank you for listening to the fifteen Minute Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Trying to sound America. Yeah the best way. Yeah, all right,
I know this is not gonna sound American, but.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
We're not judging you. Just did you got this?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Hell, guys, this is John from Wisconsin, and thank you
so much for listening to the fifteen Minutes Morning Show.
This is not a very this is a down battalion
trying to sound American because yeah, exactly a stereotype. But like,
thank you guys. I always have a great time with you.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Thank you
Speaker 1 (16:14):
The fifteen Minute Morning Show.
What would you talk about on your on your podcast?
Fine ELVISI.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
All right, I guess I'll start.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Welcome to the fifteen minute Morning your podcast. Johnny's hanging
out in Columbus. Hi, Scotty Bees.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
In the next.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Studio, Garrett's over here, and Daniello and our friend from Italy, Filippo.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hiy who?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
So what brings you back so quickly?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You were here two months ago.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
He wants to move here. We've already established this.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Thank you. Remember, Yeah, I feel when I entered the
building this morning, you were like you again. Now I'm no,
I'm joking. I'm joking. No, But I love New York
City so much so whenever I have free time from work,
I tried to to come here.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Now I have a question, like, it's not cheap to
just get on a flight though and come over, is it?
Or can you find cheaper flights?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You can find cheaper flights, especially if you like find
flights from Monday to Thursday or in particular, yeah hours,
and I think November is a good period of the
year to travel to New York City, especially from Italy.
There are times like Christmas or or Spring where it's
(01:28):
much more expensive. Flights are much more expensive, but now
they're just fine.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah next week if you try to come here, you'd
be like, no, I'm staying home.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I'm staying I tell.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
You Christmas Day is cheap to fly. And I'll tell
you how I found that out. I remember I told.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You this story.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
We had a friend from England and we had said
to her, whenever you want to come visit, you come
visit whenever. Whenever she calls us up, she goes, I.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Booked my flight. I'm coming in on Christmas Day. We
were like, you're not a great, great deal.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
And wait, that's your own fault though, for saying how
many time.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Because people take us seriously, but seriously, who would do that?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And not only anytime, any time, Not.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Only did we have to leave our family gathering to
go get her, it was the year of that massive,
ridiculous snowstorm and they diverted her plane from one airport
to the other. So as we're driving together her, we
get the thing, Oh, the plane's going someplace else.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
We're like, what is happening right now?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Is what a great it was?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
We did have a fun time with her, but it
was it was a little crazy it was a little crazy.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
We found out something fun from Felipo because we were
talking about how here in the US Halloween Thank god
it's there because it keeps Christmas from scooting up any
further than it usually does.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, right, we have the Halloween Thanksgiving buffer here it's
the block.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Well, Thanksgiving's not really doing a lot. Thanksgivings getting trucked
by Christmas.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You are Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
People are celebrating Halloween, however, because in Europe they don't
really celebrate Halloween, celebrty Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
He said that there are people.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Who start celebrating Christmas and prepare not celebrating, but preparing
for Christmas at the end of summer.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah wow, yeah, I understood. I learned that during my
radio show in Italy. I think it was like a
year ago. It was August, and as a joke I said, like, okay,
it's ninety days till Christmas. But as a joke, I
want actually my listeners to insult me for saying that.
But there were people who were like, oh, no, we
love Christmas and even if I mean, summer is ending,
(03:28):
so we're about to prepare, you know, for it. So
we're going to get presents and to start making decorations.
So it's yeah, because Halloween is not so popular in
Italy and we don't have Thanksgiving, so right after summer
you think about Christmas and New Year's Eve.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
At the risk of sounding stupid, do you have any
important massive holidays there that we don't.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
We have a holiday that is called Ferragosto, which is
August fifteenth, but we don't do anything particular because it's summer,
so you go to the beach or you stay with your.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Friends, celebrate it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It's a religious thing. We have that, and then we
have let me think about it.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Give the King's Day in like May. Oh, that's Spain.
We have the yeah, something similar though.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
On April twenty twenty fifth that we have the Day
of Freedom of Liberation, which is when basically fascism ended
in Italy and so it's a very important day for us.
July fourth, I guess, right, yeah, sort of, yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
You have nothing between Halloween and Christmas though, no, No,
you know I know that our friends from the UK,
they're they're going to be on holiday here next week
and they're like, hey, can we come up and have
a studio for our afternoon drive people? And we want
to be there Monday through Friday next week and I'm like,
that's Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I said.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
They're like, so they want to be but we're going
to probably get them a studio and hook them up.
But it's just crazy. It made me think the way
Gandhi was saying that. To us, there's like this, There's
there's Labor Day which ends summer, followed by Halloween, followed
by Thanksgiving followed by Christmas.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Well you know where since where my son goes to
college in England, they have class on Thanksgiving celebrating right,
So thankfully the coaches of his of his soccer program,
they do something special for the American kids. They give
them like a Thanksgiving dinner, but they have if they
have classes because it's not a holiday there.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I mean, it was so shocking to me. The first
time I was here in the States for Thanksgiving two
years ago, one of my best American friends invited me
with his family to spend Thanksgiving together. It was shocking
because to me, it is not normal to celebrate something
like Christmas a month before Christmas. So it's like has
Christmas vibe. It's it's like the warm up for the
(05:53):
actual Christmas.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Just no gifts. Yeah, it's Christmas without gifts.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
What did you think of the Thanksgiving food?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Next question? I don't like it either, sorry, guys.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Besides, and they that have flavor like turkey is the worst.
I don't know why people eat it.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Turkeyberry turkey is not bad.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Like I'll go to I'll go to the diner a
day after Thanksgiving, I get a hot open turkey sandwich.
I'll just eat so much turkey. I don't care, never
get sick of it.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I love it with things though, Yeah, I gond to
you right, it's flavorless by itself.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It's like the vanilla of meats.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I do like artichokes, though, stuffed chokes with like like
breadcrumbs and stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Turkey is not bad. I think the problem is. I
mean for me, it's like, uh, sweet potatoes with marshmallows.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You don't like.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
That doesn't make Yeah, it's like eating something solid like salty,
like like potatoes, but with candy is in it so.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That people like the savory and the sweet together. We
like salty sweet.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I know that because my American friend and his family
were very enthusiastic about it.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
But now I well, you got turkeys running around Italy
or not so much we have Okay, I wonder, I
wonder if they taste the same as they do here.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, probably.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
They have an accent.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Wait, okay, so can I ask you another question?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Say we have turkey.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
What is the most bizarre American food aside from sweet
potato castle role that you have encountered. I know you
guys don't have a ton of fast food over there.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Actually, I have to say that I like the rest
of American food, Like, for example, first time I went
to Chicago, I was so scared of Chicago dip dish
pizza because a lot of people were like, you're Italian,
you love pizza, you make pizza. You won't like that, guys. Sometimes,
like last week I was at home in Italy, I
was dreaming of Chicago dish pizza. So yeah, I like
(07:58):
shake Shack the best burgers in the world.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Do you guys break out pop culture? Pretty well?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Right?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I want to hear the food, keep going, keep going?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Uh, I don't know. There are not particular things apart
from sweet potatoes with marshmallow. So I don't like milkshakes
in general. Like I was shocked once, uh with the
same American friend we were having dinner. We were at
a place like shakes. We were having a burger and
he was drinking a milkshake while eating. Probably is just disgusting.
(08:32):
So this is not a cultural thing because.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
It's an insane concept to have a Do you do that?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
There's a change.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
There's a there's a change here called steak and shake.
I mean that's.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Scary, said, yes, Americans.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Some people people do, but if you think about the
concept again, it's crazy because a burger is incredibly unhealthy.
You have fries with that even worse, and then you
wash it down with three scoops of melted ice.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
And then some people even dip their fries in the shake.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, that should be I'm pretty sure that is legal
in Italy and in most European You gotta try it once,
but I have to say sorry, I really like so
one thing that I hate it and now I enjoy
is iced coffee. Okayff it very.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I like to put syrup on my eggs, like you know,
if I'm eating eggs and waffles, I'll put syrup and
then my because my husband's like you know, from England,
he the same thing sweet and savory in my house.
He thinks is disgusting, but he'll eat everything pickled like
he loves, you know, pickled onions, and I'm just like,
that is disgusting.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I know that.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Marmite or that you know, Reggie Might. It's Veggie Might,
but in England it's called marmite. I think it tastes
like your back garden or twigs, but oh.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Wait, he loves it twigs.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Actually, I have a question. Sorry, sorry, no, have you
tried chicken and waffles? Not yet?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Okay, at some point maybe before you go back, just
try the chicken and waffles.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I know it sounds crazy, it's you.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Might like it.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Do you actually like it? Or okay? I think it's.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I grew up not liking chicken and waffles, Like, wait,
what you're gonna pour maple syrup on chicken? But it
does taste great, it does.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I will try a salty sweet baby. I have a
question for you, because we always say everyone says Italian
food is amazing, do you have an it? Is there
any Italian food that you actually don't like or you
don't find particularly interesting?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Or no? I mean it's hard, you know what?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Okay? I got you?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Well on that on those baccalao.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
What do you call it?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Bacala?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
But it's it's okay. But then you guys eat sardines.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of that, so I
agree you.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Guys love sardines.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I know.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
It's like it's fish desserts, dessert.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Then that Italian is a kind of fish and it's awful,
it smells awful.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Do you do the.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Seven fishes on Christmas Eve? Is that a big thing
in Italy?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Uh? It depends where you are in the country, so
it's not a huge tradition. But yeah, I don't remember
if on Christmas Eve because like Christmas Eve is very
popular in the South, but in the North you don't
celebrate Christmas Eve really the big Christmas uh dinner or
lunches on.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
And is it more Christmas lunch or Christmas dinner?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Uh, Christmas lunch that goes on for hours and hours
like here, I think this is a worldwide thing.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
So yeah, I wanted to know earlier. What are what
are you guys talking about? Pop culture wise? What I
want to see? What what you what you look at
through the American the Italian lens on what what Americans
are like and what's going on here now, like talk
about like celebrities, judge us, Yeah, what's happening, what's the
talk of the time.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
There's a lot of talks about politics, of course because
of the elections, and then a lot of Taylor Swift
and Taylor Swift. Yeah, I think when like SNL stuff
go viral, Yeah, there's a lot of it makes it
over there. Huh yeah, yeah, definitely, And a lot of
late night talk shows, like especially Felon are are very
(12:18):
popular in Italy. So we now, I think, as a
country and as Europeans in general, I would say, we
are so fascinated by the American pop ca.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
So you love us. We're not fools, do you right?
What do you mean people say that they that a
lot of.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Americans there are a lot of stereotypes. Yeah, there are
people who say, oh, Americans are dumb.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
They're lazy, they take us for a joke sometimes. But
I wanted to just clear that up that it's not
exactly like that in these other countries, that they actually
love us and maybe look up to us.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, that's definitely too much, but it is true. It
is true. But yeah, I'm saying, next time you're in Italy,
I will bring you on my show or in a
public square saying this is the example of how you
should live. This is scary. I interrupted you, No, I
(13:18):
don't remember typical American No. But I was saying, of course,
there's a lot of stereotypes. But it's the same thing
here with Italian. Of course there's a lot of stereotypes.
But then when you actually meet Italian people, or you
you travel to Italy, you understand that in part all
of that is true, but in part of course it's not.
They're just stereotypes.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
I think a lot of the stereotypes about Italians are
more so coming from Italian Americans. I think when I
hear them and I see, you know, people talking about them,
it's usually.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
About like the scary or the what did you go
to the other day?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Was it like Paison Palooza? We celebrate Italian culture with
all these Italian vendors. So we had a muzzarella making person,
we had amnicello people over here, and then they had
you know, so everyone. It was like all these like
little mom and pops, small little vendors that are Italian
and we all got together at an Italian restaurant and ate
(14:14):
Italian food. And meatballs and and and.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
And with just meatballs, and I wonder what like a
like an American fest and Italy would look like probably
just you know, all backwards, like your Italian fest.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Is here, right, you know, I mean, we don't have
American parties in Italy.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Bodies a bunch of douchebags doing cast.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
That would be probably chese cake all over the place,
ches cake and yeah, and a lot of baseball or
football caps.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Okay, are they trying to bring that?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I know in certain parts of the country they're trying
to bring American football. Are they trying to do that there?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I don't know if they're trying, but it's not pop
at all. It is crazy. I think that is Sporty
is probably the biggest difference, you know, because your son
is in England. Is the biggest difference between Europe, Italy
and America. We are, of course soccer how you call it,
is very popular, but then it's tennis popular here, yes,
like because in seasonally yea yeah, okay, because in Europe,
(15:20):
especially in Italy now we have Yannick Singer that is
the number one player in the world and is Italian.
It's so so popular. But when it's about baseball or football.
It's it's not it's not popular at all.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Why don't you end the podcast for us in your
best American accent.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Thank you for listening to the fifteen Minute Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Trying to sound America. Yeah the best way. Yeah, all right,
I know this is not gonna sound American, but.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
We're not judging you. Just did you got this?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Hell, guys, this is John from Wisconsin, and thank you
so much for listening to the fifteen Minutes Morning Show.
This is not a very this is a down battalion
trying to sound American because yeah, exactly a stereotype. But like,
thank you guys. I always have a great time with you.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Thank you
Speaker 1 (16:14):
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