[AdamJacobMuller]

> I don't know what the big deal is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

Its an extension of this, "your Italian food isn't real Italian food".

Combine with nit-picking the language people use to delegitimize their positions.

I'm just glad we have a very wide variety of different things. I love tracking down/cooking both things that are very, very traditional Italian dishes (my family is all from Italy originally) and I also enjoy lots of American bastardizations of those dishes and there's nothing wrong with liking both. I absolutely love cooking dishes from recipes that are from the era in my family where they immigrated to the USA (great-grandmother, pre-WWI), they have a mix of traditional Italian with practical realities of the fact that they were now in the USA, which resulted in them having less access to traditional ingredients (and being dirt poor for a good while).