The offending post: Little country boy trying his hand. How'd I do with spaghetti and meatballs?:
Frick that fake tilt shift, who thinks it looks good? 75% of the picture is blurred. I also hate the title, but that's not why we're here.
The top comment:
Good but not Italian, we don't put meatballs on spaghetti, that's american [+81]
So you're telling me that in the entire history of the nation of Italy, no one has ever put a meatball on top of spaghetti? [+4]
We first eat pasta, then as the second plate we eat meatballs [+1]#
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. So basically if you have two Italian foods and you eat them separately, it's Italian. But if you put them on the same plate it's not Italian. Like I said, dumbest thing I've ever heard. [+1]
Well my nonna used to make spaghetti and meatballs ...
Death to all nonna-posters
you can do whatever you want with your food, but it's not Italian. [-1]
The gatekeeping in this sub is off the charts. [+1]
Enter /r/iamveryculinary
Did somebody say "gatekeeping" in a food subreddit? /r/iamveryculinary's monitoring dashboard lights up like a Christmas Tree and it gets reposted there: Someone posted meatballs in the Italian sub. The whole thread is bickering and probably unseen gesturing.
As always the comments are full of hilarity, these really are witty redditors:
If an Italian makes a ball out of meat, they die instantly.
No, the spontaneous combustion only happens when the meatballs touch pasta.
Hot take: if we subtract all the dishes that get eliminated by that sub as "not Italian," Italian cuisine would not be voted the most popular cuisine in the world any more
Where would Italian cuisine be without hot pockets and the Little Caesars lunchtime special?
My hot take is that I don't think Italians do themselves any favors by hyping up Authentic Italian Cuisine(tm) so much. I've been to Italy and I was actually mildly disappointed by the food there at first, I think because it was so ridiculously hyped up in my head.
I'd love to see this Redditor's holiday pictures 
Wait until you see all the mean comments I get for my perfectly dark and precisely reproducible roux for gumbo. The Cajuns go beserk when I say I made it in the microwave instead of wasting 30 minutes stirring it on the stove like their memaw, lol. This is, of course, after they've tasted it and liked it.
This post is sponsored by this week's anti-gatekeeping campaigner @Not_a_R-slur. I'd like to thank
@Lappland for his weeks of dutiful service and I wish him a happy retirement.
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Its about sending a message. Have better opinions
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Spaghetti and meatballs is Italian food and I will ban anyone who disagrees
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Separately yes but not together. Pasta is first course, meat is second course.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_and_meatballs
it's been around for a million years and most definitely italian
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Umm checkmate atheists
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Italy really was sending us their best and brightest.
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Italian Americans despite their stereotypical behavior are somehow less r*pey than their homeland brothers. We take what the rest of the world has and just make it better.
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I really like Italian but I have to admit it's super weird that they eat like this
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That's bullshit. In puglia it's a common meal, spaghetti with meatballs. Also, plenty of pasta with meat on it, like ragu
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U can have Nonna's polpetta as an antipasti bb
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My nonna used to boil chicken breasts in gatorade to make the famous italian dish "gatorade chicken."
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Post it to /r/Italianfood I dare you. Be sure to use the word nonna in the title.
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Wops are just frogs with eggplant blood.
Food is all they got and they are annoyingly smug about it
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God I fricking hate the reverence wops have for their food. Yeah it's good but it's simple as shit and ripe for experimentation
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There was an old Anthony Bourdain episode (can't remember which show, probably No Reservations) where he tries to cook Italian food for some friends in Italy and they just tear him apart over it. They are just not having his american bullshit in their country. He takes it well, since it's all pretty funny, then, as with most of his shows, he hangs around Italy for a while and absorbs some local culture and whatever, and in the end he cooks for the same group again and they give him the thumbs up.
Reddit is like if you took just the first five minutes of the episode and then the rest of the time was just Bourdain being flabbergasted and going off on a 25 minute rant about how those dirty wops just don't appreciate his art.
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Snapshots:
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Little country boy trying his hand. How'd I do with spaghetti and meatballs?:
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Here's what I don't get about all the crying over gatekeeping.
They always act like authenticity “doesn't matter”, and that's why gatekeeping is bad. But if it doesn't matter, then why do they still whine about people who think it does? Obviously, there is some value they assign to authenticity, otherwise they wouldn't try showing off their food on the Italian food sub.
Their whiny reaction to gatekeeping is because deep down they know their food isn't authentic and it bothers them. And rather than learn like from this experience they double down and run to their hug box.
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Food drama is some of the best drama, especially when it involves pooping on Americans.
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I mean it's just a label. If your food tastes good I don't care if it's Italian food or non-Italian food. But don't call your food something that it's not.
It's the same as saying "This is vegetarian dish" about spaghetti & meatballs.
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It's called primi piatti u uncultured American swine
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TBH Italian food is pretty boring but done very well.
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OMG not being the most popular cuisine among amerifat redditors anymore, italians would be truly devastated.
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Anyone who uses their microwave for anything but reheating is subhuman
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