if I go to a nice Italian restaurant, I get nice olive oil and bread for dipping before my grilled chicken arrives. The Mediterranean diet is good. But if I coat chicken in bread crumbs and fry it in olive, that’s bad. Why?

Question

I’m consuming the exact same ingredients – olive oil, bread, and chicken. But fir some reason, one style is healthy and the other is not. What makes it unhealthy? Why aren’t both methods “Mediterranean”?

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Answer 1

Greek here. We don’t coat chicken in breadcrumbs then pan fry it. Maybe Italians do but even then if the do its probably not an everyday thing.

Ethnic restaurants in the US tend to take traditional foods and either a) fry things that traditionally weren’t or b) throw cheese on top of stuff.

Also the bread thing is weird. In Greece your bread comes with food (usually salad or appetizers). The only olive oil you would dip your bread in would be the leftover oil from a salad. Here in America we take the healthy party of that out and serve the unhealthy parts.

But then again if Americans aren’t eating something within 5 minutes of sitting down we get REALLY cranky.