Pasta consumption around the world

[Angela]

Tunisia I sort of understand, but Venezuela and Iran?


https://i.imgur.com/3UB6pmq.png
See:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/d9bqfm/pasta_consumption_worldwide_italy_is_first/


These are per capita:



Italy (23.5 kg)

Tunisia (17 kg)

Venezuela (12 kg),

Greece (11.1 kg),

Chile (9.4 kg)

United States (9 kg)


See: Italian Tunisia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Tunisians

[Jovialis]

We recently produced over 100 nests of fettuccine from scratch with the pasta machine. We now have pasta for many weeks to come!

[xocdia79]

woa, it's so amazing. i love pasta, i think i will eat it on the weekend but i eat it now

[ratchet_fan]

There's actually a theory that pasta was independently invented in Iran so maybe that explains Iran?