Tick-talker Ben Reed spraying ketchup on pizza and slicing up pasta with scissors from the series ‘Pissing off Every Italian I Meet’./Tik-Tok
Recently, an Italian media reported that a TikTok video with the theme of ‘irritating all the Italians I meet’ has become a hot topic online.
On the 2nd (local time), Italian daily newspaper ‘Il Mesa Zero’ introduced a series of videos taken by Ben Reed, an American tick talker with about 2.7 million followers, while traveling in Milan, a city in northern Italy.
In this series, Reed captures the reaction of Italians after performing taboo actions when eating in Italy.
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He pours bottled water into his espresso, dips his sandwich in cappuccino, and cuts the noodles with scissors with every bite of pasta. These are all taboo actions in Italy.
Every time Reed does something like this, locals in Italy are shocked. Employees, as well as customers around them, hold their heads or shake their heads. He took off his sunglasses and gave a look of disbelief, and some customers reported it to the restaurant manager. There was also a case where a worse employee intervened, saying, “You shouldn’t act like that.”
In particular, when Reed sprinkled a lot of ketchup on the margherita pizza, the restaurant manager walked up and threw the ketchup bottle. In Italy, ketchup is not eaten with pizza.
The employee took the glass when I put ice in the wine./TikTok
Also, when Reed put ice in red wine at a restaurant, the restaurant clerk sighed, then took Reed’s glass and demanded that he leave the restaurant.
The media reported that Reed’s ‘food insult’ video has surpassed 10 million views. Among netizens, reactions such as “I’m not Italian, but I’m in tears” and “As an Italian, my heart starts beating” came out, while others said, “It’s rude to customers who pay for food.” Domestic netizens responded by saying, “Is this how foreigners feel when eating ssam?”
In Italy, which is famous for its food pride, it is considered an insult to food to add ingredients that should not be added to food.
Domino’s Pizza, the world’s No. 1 pizza brand, entered the Italian market with American-style toppings such as bacon and pineapple, but withdrew from the market last year after seven years.
He is also very proud of his coffee. When Starbucks tried to open its first store in Milan in 2018, Italian citizens showed strong protests, such as setting fire to trees planted by Starbucks in Piazza Duomo.
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2023-08-03 22:42:00