Is there a dish in the world that exhibits American comfort food more than spaghetti with meatballs?
I hear you man. It's probably my favorite. The spaghetti, tomato sauce and meatballs are amazing to have any day of the week!
Darn straight!  And there's a reason I said "American."  Though it may be inspired by Italian dishes, it was Italian-American immigrants that came up with the dish.
Really? That's pretty funny. I knew that Italian writers will mock the dish and say it's not really Italian. In Italy it's made only with an egg based pasta. Have you ever had the real stuff?
The "real stuff" is the American stuff.  But I know you can't order spaghetti and meatballs in Italy.  You can order spaghetti and a bolognese stew which are the two components, but you can't order them mixed together.
Wow, who would have thought? My favorite is probably a baked pasta dish from Apulia that adds mortadella, or salami and baked with rigatoni, tomato sauce, and mozzarella. All this wrapped up into a pastry.
Now that does sound tasty!  I'd certainly like to try that some time!  Can't have spaghetti and meatballs every day, you know?
Yeah, you'd get pretty fat like that. Although any Italian cuisine is good. I like all the food from Italy.