FOOD

Today I’d like to talk about food; ever since I arrived in here I have noticed how different it is all over the world.
How is it possible?
People in here really love peanut butter, and I do too, but I hadn’t known it until I got here because in Italy we don’t eat peanut butter, we eat Nutella! And when I tell to someone that we don’t eat it in my birthplace they are all amazed and they always say, “I was born eating peanut butter.” Well I was born eating Nutella! They would probably love nutella, they just don’t know it.
Our world is supposed to be globalized, everybody has the same television, the same laptop, the same car, and the same phone, but we have different taste because of our habits. We could be able to eat REAL Italian food, REAL American “junk” food (haha), and REAL Mexican food, but we don’t do that, because our brain wants to eat things that he knows.
Another weird thing is how food developed in different ways all over the world.
I went to a lot of Italian Restaurant, I ate there, and I really appreciated their food, but it didn’t taste like the one I was used to call “Italian”. They probably all started by using the same recipe, but then they had to use different toppings or ingredients that they weren’t using at home because people wanted to eat things they were used to eat so now they have pizza with bacon, pizza with ham, even if in Italy it doesn’t exist.
My host-brother’s from Colombia, and he told me that in Colombia they have lasagna with pineapple and watermelon, and now I’m not surprised, they are just eating pizza it a “Colombian way”, they are just using Colombian ingredients in “my food” because that’s what they like.
SAME WORLD, SAME ORIGINS, BUT STILL DIFFERENTS.