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Tina Fey, Colman Domingo, and Will Forte take on a blind taste test of Italian and American foods inspired by season two of The Four Seasons.
The trio confidently mixes up several pairings, leading to plenty of jokes, surprise reveals, and spirited debates.
While the group struggles with many of the guesses, they instantly recognize the authentic Italian espresso.
Think you could tell the difference between Italian gelato and American ice cream? Between authentic mozzarella and string cheese? Between a proper Italian espresso and a cup of Folgers? Tina Fey, Colman Domingo, and Will Forte thought they could, too. But as the stars of “The Four Seasons” showed, nobody is perfect.
They were wrong. A lot.
The three stars sit down with Food & Wine for a blind taste test with a simple enough premise: guess which food is Italian and which is American, then pick a favorite, all in honor of season two of their hit Netflix show, which sees the gang take their annual group trip abroad to Italy. And while you’d think they’d be great at guessing after filming across the European nation, what follows is eight minutes of confident incorrectness, genuine surprise, and a deeply felt group grievance against burrata.
The first round was a win, with the trio correctly identifying Nutella; however, they then promptly assumed it was American. “We identified Nutella, but we tried to colonize it and claim it as our own,” Fey deadpans in classic Fey fashion.
Things don’t get much smoother for the group from there. The mozzarella round sparks a massive (and unprompted) debate about burrata, which all three agree is overrated and overhyped. “Burrata’s got a good publicist,” Fey says. “There’s nothing the burrata’s giving,” Domingo says. Forte perhaps has the best take, adding, “Burrata is like when you go to an art museum, and somebody’s put up a painting, but they’ve just painted it white. It’s still wet. White.”
The beverages round is perhaps the funniest of all. Domingo clocks one of the drinks as “like an Amaro cocktail, something bitter — that’s Italian.” He got that one right.
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The gelato-versus-ice cream round proves tricky for the group. While they correctly identify the Italian option as creamier and the American as chunkier, “in Europe they like to flake their chocolate, and we chunk it,” Fey says, they still somehow manage to get confused about which is which. Forte’s solution is to mix both together, which is, honestly, a great take.
At least the espresso round is the easiest. With one sip of Italian espresso, they all guessed correctly. However, this too sends the group into a tangent, this time about red eyes, cortados, and a chocolate espresso candy called Pocket Coffee that Forte discovered in Italy and bought in bulk to share with friends.
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