You mean you would order food at the restaurant with a cocktail? If so, nobody does this in Italy as one either drinks wine, beer, or water while having lunch or dinner
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Say what?! 😂 
Precisely, yes. It's not uncommon in the States to start a meal with a cocktail. I guess usually finished before you get any food served, but even that didn't seem to please them. Let alone asking for a second cocktail AFTER my food had been served. I got some serious sneers. What can I say, I was on vacation and trying to catch a little buzz
Italian dining norms dictated by EU cultural homogenization and tourist industry profiteers like George Soros' funded NGOs.