Outrage in Italy as Heinz launches canned pasta carbonara

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1. Of course it will be gross, as all canned pasta is. Only kids and stoners will eat it.

2. The only canned foods I eat sometimes from this company are baked beans, everything else is just not my cup of tea.

3. My condolences to our Italian friends.
   This is blasphemy 🤣🤟🇮🇹

4. THEY DID WHAT

5. Oh no

6. Burn them! Burn them to ashes! Heresy!

7. What’s next? Spaghetti in compact packaging half the length?

8. outrage?
   I am in outrage for the fucking Russia bombing Ukrainian infrastructure.
   not for this.

9. As I said in the other thread, I can guarantee no one in Italy gives half a fuck about what the British put in their cans.

   The most emotional reaction you can expect would be a chuckle followed by “lol look at the shit some people eat”.

10. As if Italians care lol. The only emotion other Europeans have towards Brits and their cans is pity that they actually accept eating stuff like this. Before anyone comes for me, I live in England and I know people in poverty rely on canned food. The issue is no one being outraged that in 2024 they eat dinner from a can like theyra out on trails in Americas 1800s

11. Bruh

12. It’s been like this for thousands of years. The Roman Empire was right, barbarians.

13. No, the real crime would be trying to sell this stuff in Italy.

14. I’m not even Italian and the thoughts of that make me feel slightly sick.

    Heinz is one of those companies that is a bit lost. The only products they seem to be well known for here are ketchup and baked beans. They try other stuff but it’s almost invariably some stodgy mess in a can or a jar.

    Canned carbonara is as likely to be bought in the UK as it is in Italy. It’s a product without a market that’s probably only useful for someone planning a trip to space or American ‘preppers’ who are getting their basement stocked up for the End of Days. It’s certainly not some exciting new product. I’d doubt many people have even heard of it.

    I saw two Italian food bloggers going around supermarkets here in Ireland pulling out some obscure can of Tesco (supermarket chain) own brand canned pasta, which looked about as appetising as catfood, and is extremely unlikely to be selling very much, and then went on as if this was typical Irish cuisine or how we made pasta, completely ignoring that most supermarkets have entire aisles of very good Italian or Italian inspired ingredients and loads of high quality pastas.

    I’m sure if I trawl the less visited shelves of supermarkets in Italy or anywhere else I’m going to find a few bizarre canned products gathering dust on a shelf somewhere too.

    They then went around feigning stereotyped shock at ‘flat white’ coffees being served after 1pm and calling them cappuccinos. It’s as if places that are far away might not do everything exactly the same as they do in your home town.

    It’s just rather predictable and boring tabloidy clickbait nonsense featuring allegedly outraged Italians who’ve spotted a pizza with a pineapple slice on it etc etc

15. Who? 

16. Outrage is a bit of an exaggeration… The biggest reaction you’re gonna get from us is: “Ew?”. People watch too much YouTube/Tiktok. 

17. “Outrage in Italy” = we asked a couple chefs and they said they didn’t like it

18. I’m sure they will get over it. Eventually

19. now this here, this is what I subscribe to r/europe for, some real fucking news for once

20. The linked article quotes:
    Speaking to The Times, the chef of Rome’s Michelin-starred Pipero restaurant, Alessandro Pipero, compared the new canned product to “cat food”, whereas Ciara Tassoni, who manages Italian restaurant Bottega Prelibato in east London, called it “a disgrace” which “couldn’t be any further from authentic carbonara”

21. I don’t really care. Brits commits more heinous culinary crimes with carbonara – like serving it with porcini or other mushrooms – so this canned pasta isn’t really so outrageous. 

22. With cream?

23. Hi, italian here.

    Never heard of this canned pasta and I frankly dont care, I can guarantee it’s the same for almost everyone I know

24. thelocal.xx is not local.

25. We dont care, we always knew British eat like shit just like the rest of Europe north of the alps

26. Italian colleague of mine told me about how Dominos got harassed out of Naples so one can only imagine what will happen here

27. Outrage?

    Nobody cares.

    Nobody will ever buy it (except to gift it for laughter).

    Nobody will ever eat it.

    Lastly, nobody’s willing to pay 2,50€ for that trash.

28. Yes, a real “outrage”! All my friends in Italy have literally dropped all work and have taken to the streets in protest! There’s rioting everywhere and Italian society is on the brink of collapse. What will Italy even do if this world-ending tragedy of canned pasta isn’t curbed?

    Seriously though, these over the top headlines are getting fucking ridiculous.

29. Low stakes conspiracy: Heinz payed off media outlets to report stuff like this as a marketing strategy

30. This should be the least of their concerns, given what climate change is doing over there.

31. Ok.

    Don’t buy it. At the moment they doesn’t sell that they will stop making it.

32. outrage deez nuts clickbait title