In Japan, for a limited time (and I say luckily), McDonald’s will sell Carbonara fries.

https://www.brandeating.com/2018/10/mcdonalds-comes-up-with-carbonara-fries-in-japan.html

I link you also to the official page:

http://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/company/news/2018/1017a/

WHAAAAAAAT??????? This news arrived here in Italy in these days and Italians are quite outraged!
How can you do carbonara fries? But – most important – why do you call this sauce carbonara?
It’s made with bacon, milk and 3 kinds of cheeses.
If you well remember carbonara has completely different ingredients. (see https://www.mylittleitaly.it/2018/10/14/spaghetti-alla-carbonara/ )

If you don’t put eggs you can’t call it carbonara and, what kind of cheeses? And milk doesn’t match!

These fries can be tasty and nice, considering fast food parameters, but was it necessary to abuse the name of an Italian tradition of which Italians are so proud?

This news made me want to make some more researches and I discovered that it’s not really a news. Look at this:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/6089470/morrisons-dirty-carbonara-fries-new/

Morrisons proposed these fries, for instance. Taste of America Dirty Carbonara Fries are topped with bacon lardons, regato cheese and a sprig of parsley, nothing that belongs to the original recipe. They called this dish carbonara improperly but at least they added also “taste of America”, avoiding any reference to Italy except for the name carbonara.

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