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One thing that’s missing from Italian food culture.

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Officially, I’m still wallowing in expat woes and unable to bring myself to write anything cute and witty about Italy without spewing forth venom and bitterness. I feel like a lot of that could be fixed if I could start my day in a shower that were just&nbsp;appena bigger than a coffin.
Unofficially, I’m just dropping in today for a minute to BLOW YOUR MINDS.
Ready?
So I was watching an old episode of Community with my&nbsp;marito today, and Abed (the character who is obsessed with movies and TV) is checking off&nbsp;his&nbsp;Quintessential College Experience List. One of the items from his list is satisfied when the campus cafeteria erupts into a spontaneous food fight.
As the characters are flinging food back and forth at each other, I happen to look over at my&nbsp;marito and note that puzzled expression he gets when he’s about to say, “Americans are weird”.
Me: “Honey, do you understand what’s happening?”
Him: “Yeah… Sort of… Well… why are they throwing food at each other?”
Me: “It’s a food fight – one of the things on Abed’s ‘Quintessential College Experience List’.”
He turns to me with a furrowed brow.
Me, as it dawns on me why he’s confused: “Oh my god… have you never been in a food fight?”
Him: “Why you throw ze food and not eat it?” (His accent pops out more as he gets more confused and exasperated.)
Me: “You’ve NEVER been in a food fight?”
Him: “Why? Why? Why would you do zis?”
Me: “You’ve never gotten crazy with your friends in the cafeteria and thrown a lump of mashed potatoes at someone?!”
Him: “WE DONTA HAVE ZE CAFTERIA! WE GO HOME TO MAMMA, SHE COOKS! WE EAT IT! WE DONTA THROW IT!”
He was clearly very upset. I let it rest.
But oh my god. Mind blown.
“Cake fight” by David Lee is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Officially, I’m still wallowing in expat woes and unable to bring myself to write anything cute and witty about Italy without spewing forth venom and bitterness. I feel like a lot of that could be fixed if I could start my day in a shower that were just&nbsp;appena bigger than a coffin.
Unofficially, I’m just dropping in today for a minute to BLOW YOUR MINDS.
Ready?
So I was watching an old episode of Community with my&nbsp;marito today, and Abed (the character who is obsessed with movies and TV) is checking off&nbsp;his&nbsp;Quintessential College Experience List. One of the items from his...

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