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> I have to go somewhere and hide because I will be fully covered with bumps and bubbles on the whole body. [...] He's had to swear off bread and pizza, which can make outings in Italy a touch awkward. "It's quite hard in Naples not to eat pizza," he explains. "People would say, 'Don't you like pizza? Why are you having pasta? That's strange.'"

Love the inventive spirit but damn that's judgemental.

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It was also my experience that lots of places in Italy don't understand the concept of "no dairy". We tried to look up how to say it, but it loosely translates to "no milk".

My brother told every restaurant, "No milk, please." Then they'd give him cheese.

So we learned to say, "No milk or cheese."

So they gave him pasta in a cream sauce. No milk. No cheese. Just butter.

“Non latticini”?

"sono intollerante al lattosio"

I'm 85% sure we said this exact phrase. Definitely tried out "lattosio", but no luck.

Yep, tried this. Latticini I think is the right word, but people definitely didn't understand the concept of dairy.

This reminds me of a scene in My Big Fat Greek Wedding where the aunt, when told the groom doesn't eat meat, responds with "That's okay, I'll make lamb."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFemw_6a-Tg

A friend of mine got married in NZ and told the caterers they wanted a vegetarian menu. The caterers responded with a lamb focused menu.

This was right around when My Big Fat Greek Wedding came out so it came up a lot in the subsequent jokes.

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