2014-06-20
13 分钟Hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish presents international fact ball Brought to you by the QALs in association with visit England calm My name's Andy and I'm here with three of the QALs They are in no particular order Anna James and Anne and today's match is a humdinger It's going to be Italy versus Switzerland.
So There's the whistle interesting facts about Italy take it away I love the fact that in Italy they have a word for the at symbol Which we kind of don't want this company used and their word is chiocchiola,
which means snail because obviously it looks like a snail That is very good.
It's nice.
Yeah, and paparazzi the word paparazzi.
You guys know what that means in Italian Is it buzzing insect?
Yeah, it's buzzing mosquitoes.
Yeah, it's from La Dolce Vita.
Yeah, it's named after the paparazzo character Term is Sue means pick me up.
Yes Boosie lunch that gets you through the afternoon if you want to pick me up.
Yeah I read that confetti obviously it's an Italian sounding word,
but it was also invented in Italy But it was originally candied spices and Italian families would throw it from their balconies to the crowds below Isn't that cool?
That's good at 10% of all food stolen in Italy is Parmesan cheese Wow,
it's pretty pricey when McDonald's first opened in Italy They opened in Roman eight and 1986 and everyone was furious and the designer Valentino tried to close it down It was too noisy and there was an unbearable smell of fried food fouling the air That doesn't sound like McDonald's.
I know I Read the the grand opening of that McDonald's people stood outside handing out pasta There's a traditional Italian food and they said this is what you should be eating none of these burgers Even now they don't want foreign food coming into Italy.
There was a politician called I don't know what his first name was I think is Mr.
Zaya and he was trying to stop all foreign foods from coming in and someone asked him Have you ever eaten a kebab and he said no and I defy anyone to prove the contrary I prefer the dishes of my native veneto and I even refused to eat a pineapple Yeah And the other thing tomatoes out native to Italy are they well pasta isn't a traditional Italian dish at all It was brought over by the Arabs in the 13th century wasn't it and they adopted it as their own But it used to be eaten with honey and sugar before the 17th 18th century pasta wasn't eaten with tomato sauce It was dipped in honey and sugar Mussolini wanted all Italians to eat rice not pasta and he had a national day for rice And there was the national rice board which you know brought free bags of rice to people and it really wanted to encourage them So they could be self-sufficient.
Do they also have a national cheese bar?
Very good my favorite kind of Italian pasta is straws a pretty which these little things which I think they look like cord and the literal Translation for straws a pretty is priest stranglers Chewbacca means slipper.
Yes, and it was invented really recently.