Italian Guy 🇮🇹 reacts to "4-Course Italian Dinner for a Romantic Date"

Marco in America
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Follow Marco as he reacts to a 4-course meal that it is supposed to be "Italian" and "Romantic".
Enjoy some humor while learning a thing or 2 about Italy.
Ciao!
we have more garlic, because it's very romantic of course. Yeah, no, and...
Opla! Told you! I mean, this is okay for, like, comfort food. Welcome to Marco in
America. Today I'm gonna review a video titled
Four Course Italian Dinner for a Romantic Date, with an accent of course.
Let's see what this channel called Tasty, which is the number one food channel,
suggests us. We have butter, we have garlic, which is very romantic, I would
say, yes. We have... wait, wait, wait, wait. Okay, we have Italian bread, which looks
fairly ugly here. By the way, Italian bread doesn't mean anything. Different
regions in Italy have different kind of bread. So this guy is placing the bread,
a lot of this butter and garlic. Italian seasoning and parmesan cheese. Okay, let's
stop for a second again, and let's go back in time here. Okay, this... can't find it.
This Italian seasoning here, there are some herbs, maybe there is salt. Anyway,
Italian seasoning in Italy does not exist. I guess it's a marketing scam by
someone. Parmesan cheese doesn't look like parmesan at all, doesn't even look
like cheese, to be honest. Should be called parmigiano, by the way. Let's move
on. What are we doing here? I guess this is an appetizer. We have tomatoes, we have
more garlic, because it's very romantic, of course. We have basil, we have olive
oil, we mix everything together, and then... and then, as an appetizer, we have a
bruschetta. Quick lesson. When you say CH, like in this case, you pronounce it
like a K. So you say bruschetta, not bruschetta. Thank you. This, as an appetizer
for a romantic date, I would not recommend this. This is something that
you do when you have nothing to offer. And by the way, you do it ideally in
summer, when you have good, good tomatoes. This is not that great to begin with.
This is parmesan cheese, maybe. Okay, now we have a different person, because the
hands are different, and it seems he's gonna bake something, because I can see
flour and yeast. Salt. That's okay. So this guy's gonna bake stuff for a romantic
date. Well, that's pretty optimistic. I guess the guy knows what he's doing.
There's not much instruction here in this video, which is fairly confusing,
because, yeah, you can see people doing stuff, but you don't know what that means.
So this guy is working the dough, he's making a mess, which is something that I
often do, so it's okay. Working the dough, working the dough, cover for one hour.
Yeah, no, no, it's not gonna be like that after just one hour. That's, that's not
possible. Unless you put a lot of yeast, a lot, which is not something you want to
do, regardless of a romantic date or not. Anyway, this guy is working his way up
something, which I'm not sure. Is he making a pizza? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Let's, let's go back a second here. Is this guy baking a pizza? Trying to bake a
pizza, because he's using a cast iron stuff pan here. And as you can see here,
it's very thin, very thin. It's been stretched too much, so most likely it
will burn. It's not even round, by the way. And...
Hopla! Told you! Sorry, I don't want to be the guy who says, I told you, but I did,
and it's burned. So, he did a poor job and it's not... And it's, it's keep... My friend,
what's going on here? Why are you burning this stuff? Okay, he's adding mozzarella
to the burned pizza, which looks terrible! Wait, wait, wait, wait, let's go back. Here it is.
Look, this means that the mozzarella not only... Most likely mozzarella is not good, not good
quality, because it didn't melt, it just burned into bubbles and stuff. And then you don't cook...
I mean, this is supposed to be like the, the main course or what? I mean, after a bruschetta, which
is bread and tomato, you have pizza, which is basically bread, tomato and mozzarella. I'm gonna
say... Where's the love here? I don't see it. Okay, at least it had the basil after cooking this stuff,
which looks fairly terrible and not romantic. But anyway, that might just be me. Another recipe,
I guess. And there is a lot of butter. And, well, I'm not really, I'm not really impressed
so far, because maybe a romantic when it comes to food. I would say seafood, at least. And this
guy's cooking meat. I guess he's making a meat sauce with a lot of salt and pepper. Those carrots
and celeries are not even, are not even properly cooked. But anyway, again, this doesn't look
something so enticing to, to have on a menu for a romantic date. Yeah, no. I mean, this is okay for
like comfort food, like in winter is good, of course. But if you have tomatoes, you want good
tomatoes, should be summer. This is not something that you would have on a hot, hot day. Stop, stop
this immediately. I guess now we're moving into the last part of the meal, which is a cake or
something sweet. We start with a brownie mix, which I'm not sure what's in a brownie mix, but we
don't have such a thing in Italy. We add one egg, vegetable oil, which is, which is not something I
would recommend to do, but I guess there is a reason behind. Strong coffee. I'm not sure what
strong coffee means, but let's proceed. In Italy we have coffee, period. So now I think we are going
to bake this beauty, which doesn't look so enticing. Now we're going to add mascarpone cheese,
espresso powder, which sounds terrible. We're going to mix everything together. We're going to,
we're going to add some heavy cream because there's, I mean, you need some calories, right?
Yeah, this is like a bomb. It's like 3000 calories at the end of the meal for a romantic date.
No. Anyway, what are they going to do? Because it doesn't look that nice. This is a lot of stuff,
by the way. Oh, she's making some nice rounded disc.
She's going to make a kind of tiramisu, I guess, which is not a tiramisu, sorry.
Yeah, no, this is not. They chill it and how do they call it? Let me see. Brownie tiramisu,
which is something that doesn't exist and it's not a tiramisu.
You need the right kind of biscuits or cookies or whatever you call them.
Okay, I think this ends the romantic date, which is not that romantic, which is not that Italian,
but what can you do? Can't have everything, I guess. I would give it two stars out of five,
which means you should avoid it. If you have any suggestion for a video I should review,
please post it in the comments. And for the moment...
