>>21407830No, those two things were relatively popular (and eaten with pasta) in Italy long before mutts laid claim to them. I don't think chucking a bunch of sausage meat and meatballs into a Neapolitan can really count as "inventing" the original dish.
Though the bastardisation of Bolognese especially can't really be blamed on Americans (I think that's actually a bongolian sin - they make it extremely tomato heavy, use no carrot or celery and use red wine and sometimes even oregano; that might come across as autistic hair splitting but the actual proper recipe with milk and white wine and no herbs except bay leaf is much tastier)