If the truth be known, sometimes we get a little desparate and overwhelmed here at the eCool Compound and need to turn off our brains. That’s when we turn on the TV and watch an Italian variety show: we admire the handsomeness and cleverness of the host, we gaze in awe at the costumes and hairstyles sported by his flotilla of dancing women, we giggle at the silly things our suave host does and says, and we listen patiently to the commentary from nervous audience members who greet their entire off-screen family before getting around to asking a question.
That’s not why we watch those shows, though. What we really like are the food commercials. They’re so animated! We can get ourselves whipped up into a frenzy when the cheese rises from the table and starts to sing (Pa-pa-pa-parmigiano! Watch that commerical here), the tomatoes start to dance, and the pasta jumps into the pan on its own. That’s when we know all is right with the world and that makes us happy!
And so we were exceedingly pleased when photographer Susan Sanders made her way up to the eCool Compound with these photos in her trusty camera. It seems sthat she’d been out watching last week’s final stage of the Giro d’Italia, a time trial that took place on the streets of the Eterna, when she found herself surrounded with Italian food products that had grown wheels and were driving about the streets of the city!
A block of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, complete with the kind of cheese knife that should be used for breaking it into chunks, had sprung atop a minivan and was wheeling its way through Rome! A short period later it was followed by a giant jar of zucchini (we think) sott’olio, that is preserved in oil, a delicious appetizer that had mounted a small pickup truck and was crusing through Piazza Venezia.
For more photos by Susan, visit her Rome With a View blog.
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