5 Italian Customs that Americans Have Trouble Understanding 🇮🇹🇺🇸

[@CrowIIII]

Travel to Italy is a beautiful experience, guaranteed! It is only necessary to be courteous and respectful, like a good guest in your own home. The people of Italy are generous hosts. You will learn well, eat well, and eventually speak well because you will return again and again.

[@lisawhite1548]

I just got back from spending a month in Italy. We loved it! Whenever I ordered an antipasti or a primi patti the portion size was huge, like the size of a main course. I couldn’t eat all the food I ordered and then I would feel bad for wasting because in Italy they don’t do carry out containers for leftovers. I ended up only ordering one of the three options at each meal and that worked out.

[@marietaylor4468]

Love your channel & I’m learning so much already. The first time I went to a nice restaurant in Italy, I ordered soup and pasta. The waiter was SHOCKED that I ordered two primi - like it wasn’t possible to do that. I politely said that’s what I would like - soup first then pasta, please - and he did bring it così. I left a tip. 🙂

[@italianforamericans2416]

Bravissima Marie :-)

[@curtismathews1582]

Thank you for this channel. I am 50% Italian on my Mother's side and my Grandmother spoke more Italian than English as I was growing up. At 67 I have lost most of what I learned at her knee but you are helping me recover it. Not to be too forward but you are very handsome and if I were 30 years younger......... Grazie for all you do for us!!

[@OldSlyEyes]

Relax man jezz

[@lorenzogasbarrini5036]

I've been to Italy only once, twenty years ago. At one restaurant where we ordered pasta, it was very overcooked. I inquired and was told that was the expectation for Americans.

[@beatrizlopez273]

I love all your videos! So much better than listening to the traditional methods. I feel like I am learning from a friend and listen to you every day in my car when I am driving to work. Keep up the great work! Ciao 😉

[@italianforamericans2416]

That makes me happy Beatriz. Thank you very much. 😃

[@vminerva752]

I love all the information you provide us. Grazie!!

[@italianforamericans2416]

Grazie a te Vincent :-)

[@vincepianalto8925]

I just recently found your channel! I am so excited to begin with your natural method. I am visiting family in Vicenza in May, and then in June will be in Siena for a month with culinary students. Cannot wait to experience Italy properly...

[@italianforamericans2416]

Fantastico Vince! Good luck with everything! 😃

[@anniethecat1046]

I reasently went to visit Italy and these rules are very helpful ❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰🥰 and Italy was belissima 🥰🥰💙💙

[@msr9973]

Was just explaining this Italian breakfast vs American breakfast to co workers. In Italy you won’t find an omelet or skillet on the menu at breakfast. More often espresso/cappuccino and maybe a pastry. Yes we eat very different in the USA. We power eat, consume as much and as fast as we can. In Italy it’s more of a prolonged grazing over smaller plates. Meal in segments.

[@italianforamericans2416]

Exactly! =)

[@catdaddy5192]

True. No wonder there are so many superoverweight peoplein US ☹️

[@gigitrue63]

It was very hard for me to get used to having water without ice in cafes

[@lisaparys4976]

Good information. I used to always just order the first course but I never had any trouble with strange looks but maybe that is okay. I don't know.

[@italianforamericans2416]

Don't worry Lisa, that's okay!!! 😉

[@elizabethfrance3237]

When I visited Milan in 1997, I got my bottom pinched. I laughed it off and wrote it in my travel journal. Should my daughters expect this when they visit in 2024?

[@antonellacastelli6770]

Speriamo proprio di no sarebbe brutto😮

[@DarkPrinceOfClowns]

Do italians have the same Fiesta thing that Spain and Portugal has? With everything closed in the middle of the day and stuff? Or is it just the resturants that closes then? Or ALL food places? Oo

[@msr9973]

Never been to Italy. One say, hopefully in the nearer future. Been studying Italian about a year.

[@glenbellefonte9620]

Non mi piace caffe Americano, ma solo caffe Italiano. Grazie tante Alberto!🇮🇹🇺🇸

[@italianforamericans2416]

Prego carissimo!

[@markfosseth8047]

In Italy the air conditioning is considered a dangerous device, it is preferred to die by the over 100°

[@lisaparys4976]

I thought the pizza with french fries was funny.

[@catdaddy5192]

Do Italians really eat three dishes? Antipast plus both primi and secondi?🤔 As for water, I think we should mention a choice between “naturale” and “frizzante”.

[@italianforamericans2416]

It depends, someone does and someone does not.

[@boomerbutler7569]

What are the feelings between Italian's and Sicilian's? Are Sicilian's thought of as a different group of people more than Italian?

[@youtubeyoutube936]

No more than Romani o Lombardi

[@unitedhearts1341]

I cannot stand cold AC! I wish I could go there

[@FacadeWitch]

Im a Finn watching an Italian explaining culture shocks to Americans

[@unitedhearts1341]

😀

[@alisabir3199]

What does sgualdrina I heard its a dialect word from your city

[@italianforamericans2416]

www.treccani.it/vocabolario/sgualdrina/

[@sarahgold4758]

Are the rules different from Region to Region?

[@lifeisnice23]

Lol, no way, these are common habits from North to South!

[@italianforamericans2416]

exactly =)

[@HarryHelsing]

Hot tip, don't ask for an americano 😂 I made that mistake only once, I got a scolding hot watery coffee in a polystyrene cup and a look of utter disgust!

[@-Colonel-Kernel]

Waiting in line outside a shop, is it 'in line' in the US ? here in England, the correct British expression is : joining the queue.... very important indeed, and from experience in visiting Italy, there were no line or queues by the many busstops. Grazie e saluti da Londra

[@italianforamericans2416]

You're right =) Un abbraccio!

[@unitedhearts1341]

no. i thought you ate salad after meat. Genovesi Grandma said so

[@antoniomaraspin]

Mai sentito parlare di un "tris di primi"? ヅ

[@italianforamericans2416]

A me piace l'idea ;)

[@aldocuneo1140]

If you think you can understand something about italy by this video you are on wrong way. Only stereotipes.

[@Babii6loc]

Gotdamn yall eat too damn much

[@Bradamante68]

No, the portions are smaller than in the US.

[@antonellacastelli6770]

Nessuno e,' obbligato a mangiare 3 portate anzi e' più facile mangiare solo un primo o un secondo soprattutto se devi tornare a lavorare