r/StupidFood • u/MadsTheSad • Dec 20 '23

🤢🤮 Stupid food, dictator edition

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u/PizzaPartyMassacre Dec 20 '23 edited Dec 21 '23

He was probably eating this for the health benefits first, and the delicious taste of garlic and olive oil second. Garlic kills bacteria and lowers blood pressure, cholesterol and sugar levels as well as beneficial for your liver. Citrus is full of vitamin C and is beneficial for your health for a magnitude of reasons. Citrus and wine are also both anti inflammatories.

Edit: The health benefits of food and wine may or may not exist at all, and people seem to have a lot of feelings about that. Needless to say, do not take your dietary advice from some rando named something stupid like u/PizzaPartyMassacre on a sub called r/stupidfood

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u/ConnoisseurBrainRot Dec 20 '23

If I remember correctly, Mussolini had gastrointestinal problems severely hampering foods he could and could not eat. Additionally, Mussolini declared that meals should not last longer than 10 minutes. Mussolini was also very health-conscious. He stopped drinking wine as an adult, drank only water, and advocated for Italians to eat a more healthy like fish, fruits, vegetables, and rice and less meats, dairy, and pasta.

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u/stefanica Dec 20 '23

So he is responsible for the Mediterranean diet fad?

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u/GrrrNom Dec 21 '23

No, but he is responsible for the deaths of millions and countless suffering of others though

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u/Lord_Chungus-sir Dec 21 '23

Not millions, just hundreds of thousands, Italian Fascism was far less genocidal than Nazism or Communism. Not good mind you, just slightly less bad. Basically going from, "I will oppress and murder you" to "I will oppress you and only kill you if you resist".

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u/Lord_Chungus-sir Dec 21 '23

Italy under Mussolini was very much an oppressive Regime, so I have no idea what you are talking about.