Aaah, giant meatball. The hallmark of a d grade Italian restaurant.
Anon eats Italian
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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Jackusflackus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This isn’t necessarily true. Italian meatballs are usually small, but polpette alla Napoletana are often on the larger side. You just need to be discerning.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Christ, that website has five layers of shit in the way.
wabasso@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Fake: No. Anon went with their parents. Gay: No. Less than two balls present.
coffee_tacos@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Fake: anon left the house. Gay: anon wanted more balls
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Did it roll right out the door?
idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I always thought that song was so sad until recently when i looked up the full lyrics to the song and realized it had a happy ending.
The song was a parody of “On top of old smoky” and it was popularized by Tom Glazer who sang the song in 1963.
The lyrics he sang was
On top of spagetti all covered with cheese I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed
It rolled off the table, it rolled on the floor And then my poor meatball rolled out of the door
It rolled in the garden and under a bush And then my poor meatball was nothing but mush.
The mush was as tasty as tasty could be, And early next summer it grew to a tree.
The tree was all covered with beautiful moss It grew great big meatballs and tomato sauce.
So if you eat spaghetti all covered with cheesw, Hold on to your meatball and don’t ever sneeze.
xspurnx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
First thought this was a Aqua Teen Hunger Force reference - but this is much better. Thanks!
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That looks like the meatball they didn’t expect anyone to order.
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That’s just a round meatloaf.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, a meatloaf is early Borg protein, this is advanced Borg protein.
We are fed.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The question is whether it’s actually cooked. I don’t even know how long that meatball would need to sit, cooking in sauce. Small meatballs require 15 minutes to drink in the flavor but only 10 to cook completely through. This monster needs at least an hour on medium-low for a pink center. Is that even safe? How long can you let bacteria live in pleasant warmth and multiply before turning dangerous? Not to mention the lack of char, meaning this is just a boiled meatball with the texture of boiled meatball.
dmention7@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Whenever I’ve made homemade meatballs, we just bake them in the oven to cook, then either add to the sauce or serve separately.
I guess you’d just cook this monster like a lil meatloaf.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If it had been baked, there’d surely be some dark bits, right?
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I would guarantee this thing is overcooked to hell, dry as a paper towel in the center. It probably swam in day-old red sauce in a pot for 90 minutes to prevent lawsuits, then cooled off, cooking another 20 holdover minutes. Then into the fridge to be microwaved when anon orders it.
nuggsy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My nan got a recipe from this Italian lady, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The recipe says to cook the sauce for one hour and then you add the meatballs and cook them for 1.5 hrs.
LOLseas@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You must giveth the recipeth hereth noweth.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I personally can’t stand overcooking meat. Searing the exterior to trap the juices and then letting the meatball split or the sauce overcook just pisses me off. Why go to the effort of sealing in the juices if they’re just going to render out? My parents had many recipes involving overcooked ground beef, and all of them bother me. They might have been what spurred me into becoming a vegetarian. I honestly can’t remember, but there was a straw, camel, and a back to break
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
i smoke my meatballs/MOINKs for about two hours at 225. they’re about 2/3 that size. they typically don’t have char marks, but they have smoke ring.
Master@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
God damn it why did I click that link. I knew better but now im hungry!
ngwoo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why would this be unsafe compared to something like a pot roast that cooks in simmering liquid much slower
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Temperature. Granted, liquids more quickly convey energy to solids than gas, but a low simmering pot of sauce should be below pot roast temps. Which is fine for a tiny seared meatball, but for a half kilo beef sphere? That meatball is like 5 cm thick. It would take a while to heat up the center unless you’re upping the temp, but then you’re interfering with the sauce. In short, it’s a major recipe change.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Meatballs like that are a common dish in the Netherlands (gehaktbal). But mostly served with potatoes and vegetables. Or as a snack, cut in slices with onion slices in between and with peanut sause (bere bal or bere hap, bear ball or bear snack).
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I ate dinner at a friend’s house way back when I was in middle school (not like overtly Italian, pretty WASP-y), and his parents made spaghetti and meatballs, and the meatballs were about this size. I remember the meal being pretty delicious though.
Why the fuck do I even remember this bullshit?
cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Tablecloth checks out.
blackbeards_bounty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Betting this is (was?) Buca di Beppo. God I miss that place
wieson@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Americans only know chain restaurants smh in sadness
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
They were just expressing they have fond memories of eating at a restaurant, calm down lol
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Well, I could mention local restaurants, but:
- That would dox my location
- You wouldn’t recognize them anyway
glitch1985@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There is some editing fuckery going on unless those are giant rigatoni noodles as well.
remon@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Look like normal sized rigatoni to me.
Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Not everyone has a large rigatoni
Master@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Brocolli in the back and fork on the left. Looks like a half size plate. Still big but not as massive as it seems.
Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Looks like a regular size dinner plate to me
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They want you to sit on it. Duh. It wouldn’t be anus shaped otherwise
TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sir, this is a Wendionelli’s.
chellomere@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you think this is buttplug shaped you may need glasses. Or see a proctologist.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
What restaurant, though. That looks fantastic.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
dude there’s a… you know i always thought it was a chinese place but now i’m not so sure. at very least it was a southeast asian restaurant i used to live down the street from, and they had this meatball over rice they’d serve. i eyeballed it lustfully every time someone would order it but never worked up the courage. maybe in two weeks i’ll ask the wife
levzzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m going to Alice.
0ops@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Wow. That looks violently delicious.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It looks practically pregnant with murderous potential
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That looks very unhealthy. I want it.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Have you seen what most of us Americans eat!?
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I have never tasted a meatball that size that wasn’t poorly cooked.
and the ones that I haven’t tasted but have seen looked dry as fuck
I am skeptical
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Feels like some old fart just didn’t feel like rolling 30 balls, so makes 4 instead and calls it marketing. And probably Gordon Ramsay restaurant show levels of delusion about how “everyone loves it”.
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t want to imagine that cereal mascot
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I do
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They should put a popsicle stick in it and sell it at food trucks.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Deep fried.