@lowqualityfacts oh-oh-oh! If we're going there...
Empanadas are a Portuguese sailor's rip-off of the pasties eaten by Cornish sailors - and then Malaysian curry-puffs are a rip off of the empanadas brought by the Portuguese to Malacca...
And it will probably all turn out to be originally from Mongolia or somewhere so China can claim it as Chinese like everything else is... 😜
(in fact Eastern European / Russian pierogi, Nepalese momo, chinese dumplings, Japanese gyoza, Korean mandu and Italian ravioli *ARE* all related - I believe Ghengis Khan had something to do with it.)
@mossman @lowqualityfacts I draw your attention to this outstanding work of Italian scholarship: a taxonomic/cladistic approach to filled pasta (pasta ripiena). If this doesn't win an iGNobel (I'm looking at you @MarcAbrahams ) then nothing should. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44187-024-00136-1
@sellathechemist @mossman @lowqualityfacts @MarcAbrahams
I love how one of the sources for their dataset is GialloZafferano.it
Just don't mess with Italians, we'll prove you wrong. If we can not prove you wrong, we'll fabricate you wrong.
Also "the implications of this work will be further discussed"
I'm not really sure whether this is worth an ignobel, but I would not complain if it gets it.
I believe there was another IGnobel about the scientific way to cook pasta.
