I’m Italian and for this I’m obviously fixed with food stuff. So I’m happy to explain the 4 things that maybe you didn’t know about food in Portugal.
- They have so good bolos that you will put on weight as soon as you can imagine.
Portuguese sweets are so sweet, so good, so big, so full of cream. They are also quite cheap so you can eat a lot, even without squander all you monthly pocket money. It’s impossible don’t eat at least one per week.
And then sometimes at the end of the lunch you’re going at the bar just for a coffee break, but you notice one mini-size of your favourite bolo… and it will be impossible avoid to eat it drinking the coffee. Unfortunately, sweet are also full of calories.
- They have so good that you will put on weight also without bolos.
Are you one of that oh-I’m-sorry-I-don’t-like-sweet person?
I’m sorry, anyhow in Portugal you will put on weight. They have this wounderful passion for toast sandwich, full of a lot of delicious options: cheese, ham and cheese, codfish, chickpeas, olives… everything totally covered with butter.
- They have a problem with the use of pasta.
I know, for Italians the pasta is the queen of the lunch. For this reason, in Italy it’s impossible (maybe also forbidden…) put pasta in the same dish of something else. On the contrary, in Portugal pasta is a kind of side dish, like salads, potatoes and so on. Portugueses just put white pasta in the same dish of meat (oh my God, it my Granmother read…).
- They give strange name to the pizzas.
Pizza it could be considered a typical italian dish and maybe this is the reason why often people in all over the world used to give italian names to different kind of pizza. Also Portogueses do it, but they give these name in a totally random way. For example, sometimes they used the word “Carbonara” (in Italy is a kind of pasta seasoned with eggs and bacon) in a pizza full of different ingredients, perhaps because one of these is bacon. For us it’s really funny.
