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Pinkcheeks
Supreme Spanko
Username: Pinkcheeks
Post Number: 965
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 03:31 am: | 
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*Hubby and I are both Italian, so my darling daughter sent this to me. SO VERY TRUE when I think back to my Grandmother, a LOT true for my own Mom...and somewhat true for me!!  . It was a nice trip "down memory lane".
Sunday Dinner for Italians
Italians have a $40,000 kitchen, but use
the $259 stove from Sears in the basement to cook.
There is some sort of religious statue
in the hallway, living room, bedroom, front porch and backyard.
The living room is filled with old
wedding favors with poofy net bows and stale almonds(they are too pretty to open).
A portrait of the Pope and Frank Sinatra in the dining room.
God forbid if anyone EVER attempted to
eat Chef Boy-are-dee, Franco American, Ragu, Prego or anything else in a
jar or can (tomato paste is the exception).
Meatballs are made with Pork, Veal and
Beef. We are Italians, we don't care about
cholesterol.
Turkey is served on Thanksgiving, AFTER
the manicotti, gnocchi, lasagna and soup.
If anyone EVER says ES-CAROLE, slap 'em
in the face -- it's SHCAROLE.
If they ever say ITALIAN WEDDING SOUP,
let the idiot know that there is no wedding, nor is there 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 and you stuck half a loaf of bread in the sauce pot,snuck out a meatball and chowed down...you'll make up for it next
week at confession.
Sunday dinner was at 1:00. The meal went
like this.....
Table is set with everyday dishes...doesn't matter if they don't match...they're
clean, What more do you want?
All the utensils go on the right side of
the plate and the napkin goes on the left. Put a
clean kitchen towel at Nonna & Papa's plate because they won't use napkins.
Homemade wine and bottles of 7up are on the table.
First course, Antipasto...change plates.
Next, Macaroni (Nonna called all spaghetti
Macaroni)...change plates.
After that, Roasted Meats, Roasted
Potatoes, Over-cooked Vegetables... change plates.
THEN and only then (NEVER AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEAL) would you eat the salad (HOMEMADE OIL &VINEGAR DRESSING ONLY)...change plates.
Next, Fruit & Nuts - in the shell (on
paper plates because you ran out of the other ones).
Coffee with Anisette (Espresso for Nonna, "Merican" coffee for the rest) with hard
Cookies (Biscottis) to dip in the coffee.
The kids go play...the men go to lay down. They slept so soundly you could perform brain surgery on them without anaesthesia..the women
clean the kitchen.
Getting screamed at by Mom or Nonna -
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!
"Do I have to be good ALL the time?"
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Buenaventura
Advanced Spanko
Username: Buenaventura
Post Number: 309
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 04:24 pm: |
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Too good pink! Loved it all.For macarroni read spaguetti for a lot of people. |
Tammynx
Moderator/Spanking Aficionado
Username: Tammynx
Post Number: 1482
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 04:51 pm: |
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So true Pink!!
I come from an Italian family as well!! I can relate to it all!! |
Pinkcheeks
Supreme Spanko
Username: Pinkcheeks
Post Number: 968
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 06:37 pm: |
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 ...makes me miss my Nonna!
"Do I have to be good ALL the time?"
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