A boy bought several ingredients to prepare a carbonara, spending a real fortune: the young man was in the Philippines.
There bacon and egg it is one of the best-known Italian dishes in the world and is part, as many of you will know, of Roman gastronomy. A boy, who lives in the Philippines, decided to prepare a good dish of this specialty of the Eternal City and found himself faced with a bitter realization: he really spent a fortune to be able to purchase the ingredients needed to prepare the dish. Let’s find out together how much he paid for the bacon and the pecorino.
Italian prepares carbonara in the Philippines: ingredients sold at their weight in gold
Mirco Basile he is an Italian who moved to Philippines and who, one day, decided to prepare a good plate of carbonara at home.
For this reason, he headed to the supermarket to buy the ingredients needed to prepare one of the most iconic and well-known dishes in the world of Italian cuisine and, in particular, Roman cuisine.
When he found himself at the checkout, he made a bitter discovery: the pecorino cheese and bacon which, as you know, are the basic ingredients for preparing an excellent carbonara, have staggering prices in the Philippines.
For this reason, Mirco decided to publish a post on Facebook, in which he explained his purchasing experience and how preparing a simple carbonara, in the Philippines, can truly represent a nabob’s idea.
The price of pecorino and bacon
The young man went to a shop specializing in foreign products, which also sold Italian Doliva oil, sold at €30 per litre, but not only that: also other products typically Italian only sold at exorbitant prices. just think, for example, tomato pulp which costs €2.50.
Then there is the mozzarella cheese, sold for six euros, mascarpone for €14 and, finally, ricotta for eight euros. Obviously, these are products that are not accessible to everyone, also considering the fact that locals earn between €200 and €400 a month, therefore they cannot afford these products from such high prices.
Anyway, the guy bought 160g of jowls 160 g of pecorino paying €18, prices worthy of a starred restaurant, even if the higher price is to be attributed to the Grana Padano that the boy purchased and paid €25 per kilo, accompanied by the one-litre pack of milk, sold for €1.50.
In short, on balance Mirco spent more than €46 to prepare a simple carbonara at home. In Italy, as you know, he would have spent less than half if not even less. On the other hand, however, the boy is abroad and, in any case, Italian products have a much higher cost than what you attributed to them in the Italian shops
