https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002gqz2 41:00

Approx transcript:

> by the 1970s Italy had left its peasant origins behind it had become an industrial consumerist, democracy, and at that point, people start to get nostalgic, and they make the past simple for themselves by turning it into recipes, turning into simple forms. And that has become actually, and this is another novelty, very politicised in recent years. The current government, which of all the various right wing parties have been in power since 1994, is the one that most is most proud of its sort of fascist DNA, if I feel like, it's linked to historical links to Mussolini's fascist Party. They've really wedded themselves to this idea, this food nostalgia, this idea of defending Italian culture against contamination from abroad or wherever it might be.

we all agree what pizza means at least till the point we need to duke it out over pineapple (which is not pizza)

i'm reminded of an old Lake Wobegon piece about Minnesota tacos (pronounced to rhyme with tack-o). they're made with folded over white bread and with your flannel sleeves rolled up because the juice will run down your arms

This legislation in general makes for good mockery.

But I still can't shake the idea of there being some foods with specific names that legally enforce certain geographical areas for produce and recipe requirements.

It certainly has potential for absurdity though, and it is surely exploited for some useless bureaucracy (like it's hinted at in the books by Houellebecq)

Stromboli is closer to folded up pizza as it typically has mozzarella cheese.

It's a marketing gimmick to promote their pizza brand.

En masse?