date:May 27, 2013
the Barilla group, said the pasta salad was bringing the McDonald's repertoire ever nearer to the Mediterranean model of eating. Roberto Masi, his counterpart at McDonald's Italia, said the launch was a key step on the process of embracing the tastes, flavours and habits of the Italians.
However, the move may provoke sniping among the gastronomes of the country that spawned the Slow Food movement and is fiercely proud of its cuisine. Italy's biggest-selling daily paper, the Corriere della Sera