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Grrr! Talkin' Like a 'Soprano' [It's "mani-got"... not manicotti]
FOXNEWS ^ | July 03, 2006 | By Mike Straka

Posted on 07/04/2006 5:00:11 AM PDT by johnny7

Now that "Paulie Walnuts" and "Sylvio Dante" have re-signed with the Godfather over at the HBO family, "Sopranos" fans can breathe easier. The cast is just about all buttoned up for the final eight episodes of the mob show. If you're like me and wondering why they're even bothering after last season's soap opera that was more a story about a psychotic gay murderer than about old-fashioned crime and punishment: Apparently there are still plenty of fans out there.

July Fourth weekend on the Jersey Shore is a testament to that fact. Near the beach there's an Italian deli that takes its food very seriously. The cold cuts are the best money can buy, the refrigerator is filled with homemade pastas and other Italian specialties and they take pride in their freshly filled cannoli.The owners are transplanted Italian-American New Yawkers who are probably the nicest...

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To: PzLdr
My Mom's people are from Abruzzi.. They drop the "A" at the end of Ricotta , supressatta,and "bracciola", the "i" at the end of "manicotti"; and tend to replace the "Cs" with "Gs". And it's "GRAVY", not "SAUCE"

My father's parents are from Abruzzi - they do the same thing!
My mother's parents are from Lyons. I don't care what they do. ;) (j/k)
41 posted on 07/04/2006 8:58:30 AM PDT by Skel (Dey turk ma jurb!)
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To: Mannaggia l'America

LOL...


42 posted on 07/04/2006 9:00:54 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: johnny7
My grandmother from Sicily pronounced it Caaba-gaul (Capicolla).
43 posted on 07/04/2006 9:06:19 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: veronica

Enjoyed your post. It's a great, great series, full of surprises and insights. I have to credit the writers most of all, but Gandolfini carries the product.


44 posted on 07/04/2006 9:09:14 AM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: itsLUCKY2B

what lovely memories, and they are the same ones that my husband has of his Sicilian born grandparents. I know about the "us" and "them". all 4 of my grandparents came from eastern europe, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine. My Lithuanian grandmother always told me to NEVER marry an Italian, because they are "a different kind of people". She met and liked my husband before she died but didn't live to see me marry an Italian! i also lament the watering down of the culture, and the fact that my kids don't have the same feelings about their heritage that my husband and i each do.


45 posted on 07/04/2006 9:16:42 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
...all 4 of my grandparents came from eastern europe, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine.

My dads side... was from Poland... but his father fought in the Austrian army during WW1 before coming over. Go figure. I tend to think they moved around alot in that part of Europe... from one shell-crater to another.

46 posted on 07/04/2006 9:27:26 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: johnny7

my mom's parents were both from Lithuania but met over here. my Polack granddad met my Ukrainian grandma here too. Eastern Europeans were the "same" kind of people, no matter which country they were from, according to my Lithuanian gram! She did say that the Italians all beat their wives and burned each other's houses down too... ; ) Fortunately, my hub, albeit Italian, is neither wife abuser nor arsonist... LOL!


47 posted on 07/04/2006 9:43:27 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Polacks and wops make good couples... a woman on my paper route told me that 40 years ago. ;)


48 posted on 07/04/2006 10:06:04 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: johnny7

i know, they do, don't they? and they make nice looking kids : )


49 posted on 07/04/2006 10:07:46 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

I'm living proof!


50 posted on 07/04/2006 10:22:52 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: johnny7
The way an Italian co-worker (from Sicily, by the way) put it was that he really couldn't understand very much of what Italian-Americans would say to him (he lived in New York City) because they spoke a 100 year-old dialect that nobody in Italy still speaks. In fact, his "Italian Accent" sounded more Eastern European than Italian to me.
51 posted on 07/04/2006 10:52:52 AM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: DCPatriot

So did the Abruzzi side of my family. Pop's side is Portuguese.


52 posted on 07/04/2006 12:20:57 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: PzLdr

My pop's side was Dutch German...my mom's maiden name was Cirella and my grandmother's was Accordino.


53 posted on 07/04/2006 12:26:18 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: DCPatriot

Mom's maiden name was Liberatore.Don't knowe what Nana's maiden name was.


54 posted on 07/04/2006 12:53:26 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Pharmboy
Great. Maybe you can tell me what "cappa-coo" is

cappicola - an Italian lunchmeat

55 posted on 07/04/2006 1:01:09 PM PDT by Texas Federalist (True statesmen ... are not defined by what they compromise, but what they don’t.)
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To: PzLdr
Didn't your grandmother have any brothers?

I have an original photo of my grandmother's family arriving at Ellis Island. In the photo, she is about 7 or 8 years old.

She got married away at 13. I can still "see" her sitting in the kitchen watching Gomer Pyle, laughing, while holding her ever present rosary beads.

And I can still smell the meatballs frying on the stove every Sunday morning when she made homemade pasta for the extended family.

SIGH! R.I.P Gramma Teresa.

56 posted on 07/04/2006 1:39:31 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: johnny7

i was complimenting YOU as well as my own kiddies : )


57 posted on 07/04/2006 1:53:50 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: DCPatriot

my gram loved Sat Night with Studio Wrestling and Bruno Sammartino, the Crusher, Haystack Calhoun etc.


58 posted on 07/04/2006 1:55:32 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

As long as that's understood... ;)


59 posted on 07/04/2006 1:58:33 PM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: xsmommy

My Gramma preferred Lawrence Welk and that accordian player Myron Floren and of course the Lennon Sisters.


60 posted on 07/04/2006 2:02:18 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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