Arancini on the Continent!: culinary contaminations

Eating an arancino on the ferry when you come to Sicily.What else?
This is our WELCOME to all the people coming from the Continent by sea. (Old people still refer to the rest of Italy as the Continent!)
This is enough to me to refuse to buil tthe bridge on the Straits..

In the rest of Italy there are different version, not always successful, of the Sicilian arancino.
Here the Calabrese version: arancino with 'ntuja*..(quite good)

*ntuja is the traditional salmi produced in Calabria, very soft and very spicy made with hot chili pepper.
The word ntuja comes from the French Andouille which means sausage

Buon appetito!
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Mangiare l'arancino sul traghetto è una tradizione anche per noi Siciliani. E' considerato il miglior benvenuto per chi ci raggiunge dal Continente (è così che gli anziani ancora chiamano il resto d'Italia)
Questo già per me basterebbe per non far costruire il ponte...

Nel resto d'Italia si trovano ormai diverse imitazioni degli arancini...
Eccone la versione calabrese : arancini alla 'nduja*

*La 'ntuja è il tipico salame calabrese , morbido e piccantissimo. Il nome deriva dal francese "andouille" che vuol dire salsiccia

Buon appetito!

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