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Stinky cooking odours a crime, Italy's supreme court rules olfactory molestation

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Seriously.

[FONT=&quot]C[/FONT][FONT=&quot]ooking may be a national passion, but Italians who allow the pungent aroma of a simmering pot of pasta sauce or a vat of deep fried fish to waft into a neighbour’s home are committing a crime, the country’s highest court has ruled.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In the best traditions of legalese the world over, the Court of Cassation in Rome even came up with a term for the offence – “olfactory molestation”.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The ruling emerged from a long-running battle between neighbours in an apartment block in the town of Monfalcone on the Adriatic coast, close to the border with Slovenia.[/FONT]
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Stinky cooking odours constitute a crime, Italy's supreme court rules
 
Italy is mad at cooking?

:shock:
 
They take cooking seriously over there. In Italy pizza is always made to order fresh (Pizza Hut tried and failed to expand there) and its eaten with a knife and fork.
 
Beaudreaux said:
Italy's court system has always been pretty crazy, but DAYUM. Olfactory molestation?

They better not come near my house when I have some stewed cabbage, fried livermush, fresh chopped onions, and soaked from dry pintos cooking. That stuff smells before, during, and potentially for a long time after depending on sphincter control and how many Tums you have.
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I shall fart in their general direction.
 
My Mom's Calabrese' in blood, but born here.

She takes her sauce so seriously, that on Wednesdays & Thursdays she shops for her ingredients at 5 or 6 different local retailers, making sure to get the best most authentic ingredients available in the city, including what's considered the most old-school but critical ingredient - a neckbone! Try finding those, these days! She starts cooking by making the meatballs on Friday afternoon, browning the meats on Friday night (8 or 10 lbs of varied meats all browned individually), then continues by cooking all day Saturday starting super early first thing in the morning - 4:30 or 5:00A! It's finally ready at mid-afternoon dinner time, which is determined by the arrival of the fresh bread.

That's the way her mother did it when she was a child, and the way she's done it all her life.

[Today she still makes one of us drive 20+ miles from her suburban house, all the way back to her old family neighborhood for fresh old-school crusty round bread from the Barese' bakery that we've been going to for 4 generations - since my maternal grandparents came over from Italy. This bread-run is on the Saturday afternoon just before the meal but after 1:30P, so the bread will be fresh out of the oven from the mid-day baking. When we lived near the bakery, she made my father get in line for the bread at 1:00P so he would be able to get it not only fresh, but hot right out of the oven when it came out, so he could bring it home still warm! He would call her from a payphone when he was leaving the bakery, the pasta would be immediately dropped, and dinner served soon as as my pop came through the door with their prized fresh warm bread!]

So, with all that above said:

If she and her family were exposed to other families' cooking oders while she is serving her prized family sauce - yes! She would definitely consider it a crime!

:mrgreen:
 
PoS said:
They take cooking seriously over there. In Italy pizza is always made to order fresh (Pizza Hut tried and failed to expand there) and its eaten with a knife and fork.
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Rightly so. Pizza Hut is not pizza.
 
From the linked article:
The judges in Rome said the couple’s enthusiastic cooking resulted in “the emission of odours and noises in the overhead apartment on the third floor,” owned by another couple. The smells were so strong that they were “beyond the limits of tolerability” and constituted what the court called “olfactory molestation”.
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How did the judges know that? Did they just take the plaintiff's word? How does one prove that something smelled bad when said smell is not present?
 
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