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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was the founder of futurism, an artistic and political movement born in the years between the world wars in Italy.
Futurism advocated modernity, industrialism, war, and the values of virility, youth, and courage. In short, the birth of a new and modern man.
Marinetti also proposed to abolish pasta. The artist reckoned this to be one of the worst weaknesses of Italians. He even asked Mussolini to consider making it illegal by law.
In his own words: “Pasta kills the noble, virile and warrior soul of the Italians“.
And especially one of his most (in)famous slogan: “Spaghetti is no food for fighters“.
It didn’t take long before Marinetti was photographed in a restaurant in Milan in front of a bowl full of steaming spaghetti.
Unfortunately for Marinetti, many fascist censors loved pasta. And they did not miss the opportunity to allow the publication of those photos to ridicule the intransigent opponent of the pasta caught while deliberately damaging his “noble, virile and warrior soul“.
In conclusion, either you feel like a fighter or not, it doesn’t matter. Eat pasta and bear in mind that I can provide you with excellent equipment to cook it!
