Probably because Italians "adopted" it and began to develop new ways of preparing and dressing it. It became the basis of Italian diet and there is no typical meal in Italy that doesn't include pasta as a dish. Ana Maria da Costa http://www.all-about-italian-food.com
There is an official statistic for pasta consumption in Italy, but without knowing the exact source (no pun intended), we believe that the average Italian eats something like 28 kilos of pasta per year. That's more than double the next two great pasta easting countries, Venezuela and Tunisia.
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It hasn't really. people just get pregnant and eat more
30kg
They eat about 100,000,000,000,000,000 people every year:)
no
NO
Chinese people eat 88kg of rice a year!
In a formal Italian dinner, the dolce, or dessert, follows fruit and comes before coffee and the digestivo.
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everyday. every minute. every second. every year. They eat pineapples.
i eat about 160lbs of chocolate every 6 months
No.
"Eat them!" as a command (imperative) in English is Mangiali! in Italian.
No they only eat there on weight and that's enough for the rest of the year