I have been to Italy. So if you like Olive Garden or I'm sure Pizza Hut, you clearly don't know Italian cuisine. Its all regional. Pasta in general is a side dish in Italy...not unlimited, all you can eat salad and breadsticks! As far as pizza, most is topped with farm fresh ingredients and cooked in brick ovens. If that's peasant food id love to know what you call the sawdust you're eating...

Peasants who know what they like and don't care if it meets "standards". Like me. I prefer red wine, even with fish or foul.

What kind of red wine is best with white wine?

Biggest give aways? Foods the server must ask how you would like it done. Or, when ordering, the server explains there will be an extra wait for the food.

When you order pasta with sauce, it is probably sitting on the burners ready to scoop onto the plates. Clam sauce is not white! The kitchen served a sauce that was available. To make clam sauce you start with butter in a pan, add wine etc.etc. Obviously, the sauce served the OP was not made to order. If it were, the sauce would have been hot and buttery.

Would settle for either or both.

That ship unfortunately has left the port and no sign of it returning. Even asking for a tip at a take out restaurant where you place an order with cashier and than handed a bag by someone else.

Have been to Italy several times and this is my opinion.

Pasta and other Italian dishes better than here.

Pizza invented over there and perfected in NYC.

BTW like olive garden but all I ever order is salad and soup.

Preaching to the choir. We like a sweet white wine like moscato, irregardless of what we are eating.

Tuscan White
 

Dry here, Vernaccia with a good pasta smothered in truffle sauce. The ambiance of Assisi is preferred.

Stupid order. Next time stick to the menu. This place has been good for many years.
 

Order what's on the menu and you wont have a problem.

Different strokes for different folks!

Yes, it’s already microwave ready or in the boil bag.

Napolinos
 

We stopped going there after they over cooked the shrimp Parmesan twice.

I used to go to Chefs of Napoli II in Inverness just for Luigi's Fried Calamari.

Every country I've ever been in, from one region to the next, the folks from a different region will tell you, "oh, they don't make it properly here". All the great cuisines of the world started off as peasant food, with herbs, spices and sauces to make plain, or even lousy/questionable
food more palatable.
As for brick ovens and grilling over open flame, that is all Peasants had to cook on or in. Fresh fruits and veggies, often wild, were all that was available. Escargot, snails! Peasants so desperate for food tried to hide and flavor snails so they could swallow it. Amazing what butter and garlic can do. No kings chef would have dared serve the monarch snails. Heads would roll.
So, you can stop looking down your nose at those of us who like good food from all countries, regions, and all strata of society. 🤗