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CW: Fascist imagery | Fascist Italy poster encouraging Italians to stop eating pasta
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This was an attempt to encourage Italians to eat more rice and decrease reliance on food imports by 
and wheat was imported while rice was more easily grown in Italy, and no they did not think of making rice noodles to replace pasta
Funnily enough, most lasagna was traditionally made with fresh egg pasta sheets, which is the way it's made in the North. There is Southern lasagna made with non-egg pasta, but it's not the most well known variant. So Garfield's antifascist bona fides are kind of shaky.