Subject: Italians

[gina2000]

LOL! You're living my life!!!

.....and it's sauce, NOT gravy!!!

 

[babar]

umm, it's gravy, not sauce!

 

[Blondie]

It's gravy if it has meat in it (roast pork or meatballs.)

Sauce if it's without.

And don't forget to add Locatelli and Sfogliatelleto to the manicotti, mozzerella and ricotta!

 

[Pin Wizard]

Do you know why most men from Italy are named Tony?
>On the boat over to America they put a sticker on them that said TO NY.

ROFLMAO!

 

[Tony-NJ]

Do you know why most men from Italy are named Tony?
>On the boat over to America they put a sticker on them that said TO NY.

ROFLMAO!

Hey - It was either Tony or Guido!!!!

 

[Pin Wizard]

What? No Joe? I dated an Italian Joe. And his brother was Frank.

 

[springsteenmickey]

Oh eh, eh oh - wadda you getting at?

I am Italian and found the list hilarious, true and not the least bit insulting. It is fun to laugh at yourself, that is if you can take it. I guess the only problem with this is what the reaction would be if the list were on other races.

 

[lizzie64]

Originally posted by Blondie
It's gravy if it has meat in it (roast pork or meatballs.)

Sauce if it's without.

And don't forget to add Locatelli and Sfogliatelleto to the manicotti, mozzerella and ricotta!

That's exactly how it was explained to me when i met my husbands family.

And my husband has 6 cousins named Frank. Yikes!!!

 

[springsteenmickey]

You cakes, it is SAUCE, with or without meat! Gravy is for those cake meals - Roast Beef or fries!

You will not find an Italian in italy asking for gravy, it is always sauce!

And I'll be frank about something - I have 4 or 5 cousins named Frank

 

[aprincessmom]

You've been hit with a wooden spoon or had a shoe thrown at you.

OMG!!!!

We had a family reunion yesterday and were laughing about the time my nana threw a shoe at one of my cousins and then DEMANDED SHE BRING IT BACK to her -- which stupidly she did -- only to have it thrown back at her!

We were laughing so hard we cried!!!

Thanks for the laughs!

 

[Wagamama]

your all nuts!! It's sauce! Gravy is what you pour over mashed potatoes!!!

 

[smiley]

Yeah, well I'm not Italian, but my hubby's family is and they call it sauce. But your description of his family is right on.

Does anyone know what happened to that Italian family that was on the ABC reality television show where one of them would inherit a million dollars?

 

[rae519]

Thanks for one of the best threads on the boards - ever!!!!

Rae

 

[Blondie]

Anthony and Paul are the big names in our families.

There's also several Christopher and Franks, but Anthony wins out!

I even named my oldest Anthony!

 

[anniet]

Gravy not sauce.....and I must confess I was 14 years old a freshman in high school when my cooking teacher said "Tomorrow we will be cooking Past-a" (that's how she pronounced it) and I had NO IDEA what she meant.

I almost fell of my chair the next day when she pulled out a box of what my whole family called (in our pronunciation) BASta.

But I find you're post so untrue....it was my father who made the best meatballs, not my mother!





Oh, yeah, and I too got "the look" when my Dad said we were Sicilians not Italians and I asked "What's the difference?" I also got a very firm answer "Sicilians are a much better class of Italians!"

 

[Loubon]

I used to stick to that damn plastic on the furniture when I was a kid and wore shorts!

PS Sicilian (not Italian) on both sides and it is sauce (not gravy).

And I love Calamari, not that anyone asked.

 

[TiggerPiglet]

Oh, the old sauce/gravy debate. Well, I have family from the other side and they all call it gravy, I call it sauce, but as my family says, I'm Americanized

 

[d.kurz]

Originally posted by Blondie


I even named my oldest Anthony!

Do you pronounce it Antnee?? LOL!

I grew up Irish in an Italian neighborhood. They called us Mayonnaise Faces!! And I go back and forth calling it sauce and gravy depending on to whom I am speaking!

And add to the list with ricotta, my FAVORITE Italian dish... GNOCCHI. But they gotta be homemade. And I make some mean gnocchi for an Irish girl!

 

[Margie J]

1/2 Italian here or to be specific ........... Sicilian. Mama had a mafioso maiden name to boot.


You have at least 5 cousins living in the same town or street. All five of those cousins are named after your grandfather or grandmother.

- Get this, in my family two sisters married two brothers (one set were my GP's). Each pair had two daughters named after the Paternal GM then the Maternal GM, of course. There were lots of cousins on both side, mostly girls so they were also named after those same GP's. Hence, we have plenty of Marianna's and Josephine's and variants of those named to keep them all straight.


And you REALLY, REALLY know you're Italian when: Your grandfather had a fig tree.

- In his own greenhouse!


You eat Sunday dinner at 2:00.

- You had to be really sick or in the hospital to miss this.


Christmas Eve . . . only fish.

- Baccalau (sp) salad, smelts, pasta with anchovies, anise tops and capers


You know how to pronounce "manicotti" and "mozzarella."

- As mentioned, don't forget the ricotta.

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OMG, I just saw this one too:
I almost fell of my chair the next day when she pulled out a box of what my whole family called (in our pronunciation) BASta.

- If you drop the BASta on the floor you have to clean it up with the WACKum cleaner.

 

[April76]

LOL!!!!!

The posts about the marriages, the names after GP's, etc. got me laughing.....

My husband has done extensive family history research and it gets amusing that there seems to be a few last names that keep coming up no matter how far he goes (sets of siblings from one family marry a set from another family, etc.)...... I just call it "The Circle of Life".