Who knows if they will also argue about the menu for the primaries. No, not the one related to the dish to be served as a candidate or the programmatic statements. But precisely what is to be served on the tables.
In recent days there has been a controversy more about the culatello than a thunderbolt for the Festa dell’Unità in Modena that still makes people talk. It happened that the Pd had to endure verbal insults from the “Aria” network – environmentalists, vegans, etc. – precisely because of the food prepared for the traditional festival. It is known that once cannelloni, lasagna, and cold cuts were the most popular and still hold strong at the counters today. But now there are also the guardians of politically correct dishes who do not want to hear about it.
And since nothing goes well for the Pd, this was missing too: “Choosing what to eat today – those from Aria wrote to the Modena Pd – is one of the daily acts with which we can have the greatest impact on society and the environment.
ARGUMENT OVER MEAT
With these words we wrote to the Modena Democratic Party, raising a deep reflection on the coherence between the ecological claims of politics and the choices made at the Festa dell’Unità 2026.” In short, political coherence is measured at the table. But it seems more like a quarrel that makes the left look smaller than it already is.
On one side, associations that treat the Festa’s menu as if it were the common agricultural policy or the emissions inventory. On the other, a Pd that has no clear line on food, territory, and livestock farming and therefore ends up defending the salamella as if it were a principle. The result is a discussion from a festival elevated to a test of climate coherence.
Moreover, those from the protesting association claim, “we have highlighted how the Festa historically represents a moment of collective participation: taking part in it is a political act, as are organizing it, building it, and carrying it out. For this reason, we know that every choice made within it has a political value, including that of food.
WHAT’S ON THE MENU
However, from the analysis of the official menus of the restaurants present, a strongly unbalanced offer would emerge: options without animal products are relegated to marginal side dishes or reduced to a single alternative compared to dozens of proposals based on meat and fish.” Poor comrades… imagine, say, the face of any Bersani. But how could they say, they must have burst out, the Festa dell’Unità is a popular event that lives on cash, queues, and Emilian dishes.
Salamella, cotechino, fried fish, and meat seconds are not an accident: they are the product that people buy. The same Pd of Modena this year increased the covers precisely to raise cash and contain the debt.
FOOD TRANSITION
Asking for climate coherence is legitimate; expecting a three-week event to become a food transition laboratory is another matter. Something to laugh about in front of the serious conflict. If we then think that everything happens in Bonaccini’s land, there is reason to suspect some gastronomic infiltration by the ignorant right…
At this rate, it will be necessary to ban any traditional dish so as not to disturb the never satisfied. The problem is that we cannot be asked to sympathize with the martyrized festival-goers who also have rightly ample stomachs. But you know, these are the ones who criticized castor oil and now ban sausage grills and fried fish. There are no more communists like before if they give space to such demands. Yet the festival costs and the food must please the customer. Or would they want them to eat “Aria”? Get serious, please, otherwise Conte will get angry too, who already does not want the woke, let alone vegan food…
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