/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>he's never had crostatine
I feel bad for you.

>>6569505
France got baba from our babbà which we got from Polish babka.
After Bona Sforza of Naples, Bari and Milan married Sigismund I of Poland, she brought the idea of soffritto/mirepoix there with her (where it took the name 'włoszczyzna' which literally means 'Italian stuff'). Once Siggy died, she was like "You know what? No." and moved back to Italy, taking her new love, babka, back home with her.
Legend has it that the way Philip I of Spain poisoned her was by spiking the liqueur used to make her babka. Babka is difficult for southern Italians to pronounce ('babbêca,' would be an approximation), so it became babbà, which is easily pronounceable by southern Italian tongues.

>>6569508
Grass is greener, I guess. I like our junkfood sweets a whole bunch, like crostate/crostatine Mulino Bianco and stuff like that, but most things from a proper bakery is godfuckingawful to me.

I've tried those. I didn't like them. American packaged sweets ain't got shit on my country's. You whoop our asses good when it comes to salty snacks, though. No other country's salty snack holds a candle to America's.

Your sweets still suck, though. Pic related: a better packaged sweet and these are 'average' where I'm from.

>>3913010
I'm originally from Italy and I hate them back home, too. I just don't like'em. Just not for me. Too sweet, like most of our desserts. I like our prepackaged, mass-produced snack cakes over every single one of our bakery-made by an actual person desserts (except chiocciola and zeppole napoletane; fuck yeah).
Pic related: one of my favourites.