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1. Having 100 pizzas to choose from on the menu.
Want a salad on top of your pizza? You got it. A fried egg in the middle of the pie? Coming right up.
2. Aperitivo Happy Hour.
You mean for only 10 Euros I get this super strong, somehow delicious cocktail plus all I could possibly eat from the spread of appetizers and pasta dishes overflowing the bar top? Happy hour anywhere else just doesn’t get it.
3. Warming up with a cioccolata calda.
This drink changes your definition of hot chocolate permanently. Why would I ever want a watery, chocolate-flavored hot drink again? No, no, I want chocolate that is so hot it’s melted to a liquid. And don’t forget the whipped cream.
4. Coffee-based dessert drinks having their own product line.
Starbucks couldn’t even imagine.
5. Beautiful curse words.
Even when Italians swear, it sounds like they’re singing.
6. Hand gestures
And when a lyrical language like Italian still doesn’t have quite enough expressive power, you always have your hands.
7. Shoes
I’m still in the market for a perfect pair of gold sneakers.
8. Having postcard cities right in your backyard.
Hop on a train and you can spend your weekend floating down the Grand Canal in a touristy gondola or staring in awe at Michelangelo’s Pietà in St. Peter’s Basilica.
9. REAL Gelato
All the American “Italian” restaurants out there really need to stop calling their ice cream “gelato” like it’s going to make their menus look authentic. The real deal isn’t scraped out of a frosty carton at the back of a freezer. It’s served ultra creamy in flavors like pistachio, hazelnut, and stracciatella and then slurped down in a sunny piazza.
10. Focaccia
For when pasta and pizza don’t give you quite enough carbs to get through the day.
11. PDA
When old couples walk down city sidewalks hand in hand and young lovers make out under statues in the middle of public piazzas, you can’t help getting addicted to the Italians’ zest for love and life.
Source: matadornetwork.com