Got this from a relative and just wanted to share with everyone.
- All Italians have a $40,000 kitchen, but use the $179 stove from American Appliance in the basement to cook.
- The living room couch was covered with plastic.
- Strohmeman and Wonder Bread was for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches only.
- There is some sort of religious statue in the hallway, living room,front,porch and backyard.
- A portrait of the Pope and Frank Sinatra in the dining room.
- God forbid if anyone EVER attempted to eat Chef Boy-ar-dee, Franco-American, Ragu, Prego or anything else in a jar or can (tomato paste is the exception).
- The following are Italian Holidays- First weekend in October- Grapes for the Wine, 3rd weekend in August- Tomatoes for the Gravy. Speaking of which, it's GRAVY and not Sauce.
- Meatballs are made with Pork, Veal and Beef. We are Italians, we don't care about cholesteral so turkey is an infamnia.
- Turkey is served on Thanksgiviing, AFTER the manicotti, gnocchi,lasagna.
- If anyone EVER says ES-CAROLE, slap em in the face--its SHCAROLE. For that matter, if they ever say ITALIAN WEDDING SOUP, let the idiot know that there is no wedding nor is their an Italian in the soup. Also, the tiny meatballs must be made by hand.
- No matter how hard you know you were going to get smacked, you still came home from church after communion, you stuck half a loaf of bread in the gravy pot, snuck out a fried meatball and chowed down- you'll make up for it next week at confession.
- Sunday dinner was at 1:00 and of course was pasta.
- Getting screamed at by mom- half the sentence was English, the other half Italian.
- Italian mothers never threw a baseball in their life, but can nail you in the head with a shoe thrown from the kitchen, while you're in the living room.