Oh Italian Food.... (In America)

I'm terribly biased in food. Growing up in an Asian enviroment where rice with stir-fried everything has caused my taste to be of a less insipid than most Americans. Chicken tenders? Tasteless. Steak? Bland. Salmon fillet? A banal taste. Of course, there are those special recipes where the flavor is just "locked in" and the meat is tender, in that case I it's wonderfully delicious.
One afternoon at school, they hot lunch was spaghetti with meat balls. I decided against it, which was a pretty good idea. By the time I got home, I learned that my dinner was going to be lasagna. Somehow, the differences between the two foods just don't quite add up.

A quick search of ravioli, tortellini, spaghetti and lasagna from Wikipedia:

Ravioli: Ravioli (plural; singular: raviolo) are a type of filled pasta composed of a filling sealed between

Tortellini: Tortellini is a kind of ring-shaped pasta.

Spaghetti: Spaghetti is a long, thin, cylindrical pasta of Italian origin.

Lasagna: Lasagna (singular, Italian pronunciation: [laˈzaɲa]; plural lasagne [laˈzaɲe]) is both a form of pasta in sheets (sometimes rippled, though seldom so in Northern Italy)...

All four dishes are usually served with tomatoes and cheese with other seasonings that can be used between all four. Seemingly, all the Italian foods popular in America are made with some sort of pasta. Pizza for instance, tomatoes, cheese and dough. Here's an equation you should know:

Pasta == Dough

Therefore pizza is made out of tomatoes, cheese and pasta. Q.E.D.

Now this isn't a rant on how Italian food is terrible. I love Olive Garden's bread sticks and some of their pastas but more of a criticism against the food choice of Americans from the Italian cruisine. 

-runiteking1

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