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Si mangia is a fab restaurant, we take our children there regularly for dinner, they are always well looked after, we order one bowl of pasta/ pizza for them and it is brought on two plates, they love the olives too. We always have a great meal and I would highly recommend it to anyone.


If you are against eating pizza then don't order it, there are plenty of other options available.

I do not get the fascination at all. If you want to eat it, fine be my guest, it's your money. But Seriously, do we have to have endless chat about how amazing this basic culinary delight is? We go from conversations about how some establishments make angelic pizza and how amazing the food is - it's so so basic, the average Italian person would literally be peeing themselves with laughter at some of this food snobbery. It's embarrassing to be honest. I love food with thought, a decent ravioli would be my idea of good Italian food with imagination, just as a great rogan josh made from fresh chillies and without the powder and E numbers would be. It's just awkward hearing people singing the praises of such a very very basic dish such as this, a young child can make one of these things and it will probably taste no different to one made by an adult there is ZERO skill involved in my opinion.


I'm sticking with cheese on toast. I'll even add a splash of concentrated tomato pur?e next time to prove just how it tastes no different!


Louisa.

Louisa you can't be serious! As others have wittily pointed out food isn't just about the ingredients used but how they are used. Food is about texture as well-think of the difference between an apple pie and an apple crumble-exactly the same ingredients but completely different experience.

Louisa Wrote:

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> I do not get the fascination at all. If you want

> to eat it, fine be my guest, it's your money. But

> Seriously, do we have to have endless chat about

> how amazing this basic culinary delight is? We go

> from conversations about how some establishments

> make angelic pizza and how amazing the food is -

> it's so so basic, the average Italian person would

> literally be peeing themselves with laughter at

> some of this food snobbery. It's embarrassing to

> be honest. I love food with thought, a decent

> ravioli would be my idea of good Italian food with

> imagination, just as a great rogan josh made from

> fresh chillies and without the powder and E

> numbers would be. It's just awkward hearing people

> singing the praises of such a very very basic dish

> such as this, a young child can make one of these

> things and it will probably taste no different to

> one made by an adult there is ZERO skill involved

> in my opinion.

>

> I'm sticking with cheese on toast. I'll even add a

> splash of concentrated tomato pur?e next time to

> prove just how it tastes no different!

>

> Louisa.


A Rogan Josh should be made with dried chillies not fresh chillies, but this kind of food snobbery is embarrassing, so I'll leave it.

Louisa Wrote:

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> a decent ravioli would be my idea of good Italian food with

> imagination,



So that's basically some dough, with a bit of sauce in the middle.


Hold on, that's a bit like pizza, innit?




You couldn't make it up. (Only you do)

Jeremy Wrote:

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> I actually like cheese on toast, so eating cheese

> on toast + tomate paste + other toppings is fine

> with me.

>

> Four Quarters in Peckham actually have a cheese

> toastie menu. I don't think it's ironic either.



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