Italian food is full of stuff like this https://archive.ph/4gwGh kind of a combination of facism era mythmaking then postwar recovery era mythmaking

The defining feature of 'invented tradition' as a term is that it's presented or perceived as older than it is. The 'perceived' part gets weird when the tradition escapes its founding environment.

I will admit that I thought ciabatta was older than 1982, but I do wonder what the perception and presentation of it was like when it did come out in Italy at the time.

From a Newsweek article, sliced bread was invented in 1928. French fries and baguettes in the 1920s. https://www.newsweek.com/food-invented-last-100-years-164336...

Heinz invented beans on toast in 1927 https://www.internationelle.org/beans-on-toast/