Italians would have to try really hard to make Italian food bland and unappetizing (unless we are talking Piedmontese..)
People like what they're used to. The refugees aren't being fed normal Italian food - it's pasta in tomato sauce day-in and day-out. Obviously beggars can't be choosers, and they're acting like spoiled brats, but I can understand being bored with the same thing over and over. But not enough to mount a protest over, while a refugee in a foreign country. The problem is that the EU has this laundry list of illegal alien rights that precludes the Italian authorities from chloroforming the illegals, taking them hundreds of miles out into the Atlantic, and putting them on life rafts with paddles, a GPS and several weeks' worth of water and food, so they can make their way home, via slow raft to Africa.
“Italians would have to try really hard to make Italian food bland and unappetizing (unless we are talking Piedmontese..)”
Not taking the side of these ungrateful layabout complainers, but no matter how “good” the local food is (Thailand, for example), I get very sick and tired of the food after a few weeks in just about every country I travel to. I live in a fairly small city in the scheme of things, but there is restaurants literally from all over the earth here, and there are great asian and mexican markets to obtain unique ingredients to make almost anything. In most of the rest of the world, you have to be in a pretty large city to even remotely have the diversity of food the average american town has.
The best meal I ever had was in the Piemonte! Every course featured truffles! ;)