That would be so much better than admitting how stupid this whole thing was...
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Can you imagine what it musta sounded like and felt like to be inside that bunker during that bombardment? Holy shit.
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I found this posted on a friend's page on Fakebook. It's worth reposting here. These are dishes and traditions that are wrongly associated to Italy, but are in fact products of Italian-American subculture:
Feast of 7 fishes.
You can swear on your grandma, but this is not an Italian tradition. It might have started in a small village in Sicily or Greenwich village, but it's pretty much unknown in Italy.
Yes, it's traditional to have a fish dinner on Christmas Eve, but we don't bother counting how many courses are served. This is, however, exactly what I'll be doing on Christmas Eve, as I have been doing for the past almost 50 years.
Wedding soup.
That's a mistranslation. Zuppa maritata has disputed origins in Naples and it means wedded or married soup,
referring to both meat and vegetables "marrying" nicely into the broth. Hungarians and Irish serve soups at their weddings, not Italians.
Gravy.
English word derived from Old French "grevé", meaning meat drippings. No one in Italy uses it in reference to a meaty tomato sauce.
In UK and most of the States is referred to brown reduced stock served on roasts. Italian-Americans in NJ area started it.
Same for Sunday sauce. We just call it sugo, salsa or ragù.
Chicken parm.
The only "parmigiana" known in Italy is the eggplant one. We do it grudgingly with chicken or veal escalopes in tomato sauce and cheese.
Alfredo.
While a simple butter and parmesan emulsion and fettuccini was allegedly created in a Roman trattoria decades ago,
this dish has evolved into a creamy garlicky sauce that has nothing to do with Italian pasta sauces and it's unknown in Italy apart from tourist traps.
Creamy clams.
Just... don't. We're not French.
Pepperoni and Bologna
Those cured meats are 100% American. Might be great as pizza toppings or as sandwich fillings,
but Italians have no idea of the existence of these cheap processed meats. Rightly so.
Meatballs.
Yes, they do exist in Italy. No, they are not served with pasta. In fact pasta, being first course (primo), isn't normally topped with any large protein.
Same with risotto. Meatballs are served as "secondo" - second course. Often the sauce meatballs are cooked in is used for pasta, which is great. Yet, even those meatballs are eaten after the pasta, with bread and veggies.
If you bake your meatballs instead of frying them in blended olive oil, you are almost certainly going to go to hell for all eternity. Juss' sayin'...
Garlic.
People worldwide assume that Italians love garlic and put loads in their food. We don't.
Those who do are most likely Italian-Americans. We use just enough together with other ingredients, but garlic should never overpower a dish. We are not Filipino or the Spanish.
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I am NEVER ever gonna pay $ 40 or more
again for jeans - not when these are available...
again for jeans - not when these are available...
Cheaper even than what you can get at any WalMart or Rural King -
and they're well made and durable.
and they're well made and durable.
Did I mention they're less than $ 15.00?
Find them here:
Rustler Classic Men's Regular 5 Pocket Jean
Rustler Classic Men's Regular 5 Pocket Jean
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That's my paternal Grandmother Camille when she was 18. She was already a successful professional ballroom dancer at that time.
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These Uber-liberal scumbag 'Governors' (there's a fuckin' joke in that title, too) like this fuckin' dooshtool in Jersey spend and tax like it's nobody's business, always living two cents away from bankruptcy and failure, and now they're all sucking Biden's dick to get bailed out for all the bonehead business shutdowns that they themselves ordered.
Fuck 'em - let 'em all fail. They haven't lived within their own means in 50 years. It's about time that bell gets rung.
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I hated the societal shift in the late 70's. I hated the music and I hated this movie especially. I hated discos and I hated the people that liked the discos. I couldn't - and never would've - gone to a disco even if all the chics were naked. Who am I bullshitting - of course if they were all naked, but fuck...
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And while I'm on this rant, fuck these fuckin' jerkoffs too.
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the very first time I ever saw her.
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Even if you're not interested in a specific item I feature, when you get to Amazon from here and find what you want, I still get credit for your visit there. Thanks again - it makes this whole silly thing worthwhile to me!
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Celebrating Christmas in Key West.
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It's bad enough with the hurricanes. Now they're naming friggin' snow storms? When did this nonsense start?
Man-made stuff outweighs Earth’s total biomass for the first time, yet another crazy new study finds.
How do I get that job? I gotta get that job.
Materials manufactured by humans now weigh more than those made by nature, a new study finds. The total mass of man-made “stuff” – including concrete, asphalt, bricks, metals, plastics, wood and glass – now outweighs the total mass of all living stuff – including humans, animals, plants fungi, and all the microorganisms that make up living soil, say researchers who tallied it all up.
In 1900, the weight of human-produced things was only 3% of Earth’s biomass. But the weight of human productivity has been doubling rapidly, every 20 years or so since then, until it finally reached over 100% this year.
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'Use the force, Luke.' Excellent.
This is friggin' brilliant. Get one for yourself here:
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This fuckin' guy need to get smacked really fuckin'
hard, ya know what I'm sayin' here?
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Pitchers and catchers report in two months.
This fuckin' COVID bullshit better be over by then.
Seven Arts Cafe in Greenwich Village in 1959.
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Mamie Van Dorn. Wanna bet she was high maintenance?
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These are good sweat socks and
this is a really good price for them.
Find 'em for yourself here:
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I'm old school I guess. I can't get my head around any 'currency' that I can't hold in my hand. I know one guy who got in to this shit about five years ago. He's made so much friggin' money on this shit it's crazy, but he can't get out of it. He's hooked.
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I'll leave you with this. I'm sure you're not
disappointed in me for doing so.
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Military police officers patrolling on
water buffaloes in Soure, Brazil.
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Senate Homeland Security panel chair Ron Johnson, accused his Democratic counterpart Gary Peters of telling 'lies' at a Wednesday hearing on election 'irregularities.' Fired former cyber security director Chris Krebs testified and called to stop 'undermining confidence in democracy.' President Trump was evidently watching, and tweeted that Johnson was doing an 'excellent job.' Like a buncha little kids in a spitting contest.
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Your comments about the origins of Italian food are spot on. However the same holds true for most other European countries who have large populations here. The food here for most cultures is better than the “Old Country’” versions. Why’s? Because of the year round availability of ingredients we enjoy in the USA. Hell I traveled in the interior of Mexico and the food was so bland that I’ve hospital food served to me that was spicier. As far as the seafood on Xmas eve. We had it all the time and when relatives came from Sicily they said they did too. It all depends on what part of the boot the families came from. My parents both came from near a seaside city called Ragusa they ate seafood all of the time. Now though when we were kids are hiolday fare consisted of eel and perhaps baked clams and whatever fish was reasonable at the local market. Now we have shrimp and crab and still the baked clams though. You’re spot on about how American/Italians eat pasta though, people from the boot are appalled at the way we eat ours
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