Context: In the late 1930s Mussolini decided pasta was too dependent on foreign wheat so he pushed Italians to eat rice instead. The people were not exactly thrilled. This meme is just a dramatic chess move for a policy that made him really unpopular at dinner time.
Mussolini really wanted to anger every part of Italian society.
7 Comments
danc4498@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
Did it work?
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 1d
As in, is Italian cuisine now famously rice-centric? No.
danc4498@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
Did they switch during his time?
kandoh@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 1d
No, and eating pasta became an antifascist sign of resistance so it was even more popular
freeman@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1d
There even is this: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastasciutta_antifascista Altho its more of a post-fashist thing not directly against this rice-push
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1d
No, they tried to push propaganda to make people eat more rice but were 1) openly mocked and 2) they never made pasta illegal despite being fully capable of doing so.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
What? Risotto alla mare, risotto alla fuck my latin isn't good enough to pretend to know Italian for this joke…