Italians hate to see their delicate cuisine bastardized by foreigners—especially when those foreigners are French. So it was when Italians—or those of us who cared enough to pay attention to bad cooking advice from the other side of the Alps—became outraged over Demotivateur, a French entertainment site that on April 7 published perhaps the most awful carbonara recipe imaginable (the site took the article down, but it's here in cache).

The recipe claimed that carbonara could be made in one pot (while we know no pasta ever should be), and listed onions and crème fraîche among the ingredients. The result can be best commented through the voice of one of Demotivateur's readers: "Pour les anglais, ajoutez de la bière chaude et de la menthe" ("for the English, add warm beer and some mint").

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Source: http://qz.com/