[Chi-townChief]

I'm an American Mongrel but am pretty much of 1/2 German - 1/2 Italian extraction. The Dago side of the family is still pretty fluent in Italian and the holidays always bring lots of Italian food. The German side pretty much dropped the language and culture and became Americans fast, I think, because of Germany's 50-odd years of embarrassing itself.

[Thud]

Trust me, you are far better off with Italian food than German food.

"Why are Germans so atrocity-prone?"

"Their mothers' cooking makes them think it's normal."

[danmar]

I'm an American Mongrel but am pretty much of 1/2 German - 1/2 Italian extraction

That makes two of us; knackwurst over basil pasta never tested so good!