What every Italian - American, and everyone with such a friend, knows

• You spent your entire childhood thinking that sandwich was pronounced "sangwich.?
• Your family dog understood Italian.
• Every Sunday afternoon of your childhood was spent visiting your grandparents and extended family.
• You've experienced the phenomena of 150 people fitting into 50 square feet of yard during a family cookout.
• You were surprised to discover the FDA recommends you eat three meals a day, not seven.
• You ate pasta for dinner at least three times a week, and every Sunday.
• You grew up thinking no fruit or vegetable had a fixed price and that the price of everything was negotiable through haggling.
• You watched Lawrence Welk and Ed Sullivan every Sunday night.
• You were as tall as your grandmother by the age of seven.
• You thought everyone's last name ended in a vowel.
• You thought nylons were supposed to be worn rolled to the ankles.
• You were surprised to find out that wine was actually sold in stores.
• You never ate meat on Christmas Eve or any Friday for that matter.
• You ate your salad after the main course.
• You thought Catholic was the only religion in the world.
• You were hit at least once with a wooden spoon.
• You thought every meal had to be eaten with a hunk of bread in your left hand.
• You learned to play bocce before you went to school.
• You can understand Italian but you can't speak it.
• You have at least one relative who came over on the boat.
• You grew up calling the bathroom the baccausa.  And you only had one.
• You were surprised to learn most kitchen utensils had another name which didn't end in a vowel.
• All of your uncles fought in a World War.
• You have at least one relative who wore a black dress every day for an entire,year after a funeral.
• You have relatives who aren't really your relatives.
• You have relatives you don't speak to.
• You drank wine before you were a teenager.
• You grew up in a house with a yard that didn't have one patch of dirt that didn't have a flower or a vegetable growing out of it.
• Your grandparent's furniture was as comfortable as sitting on plastic.
  What?!!!  You WERE sitting on plastic.  You thought that talking loud was normal.
• You thought cookies and the Tarantella were common at all weddings.
• You thought everyone got pinched on the cheeks and had money stuffed in their pockets by their relatives.
• Your mother is overly protective of the males in the family, no matter what their age.
• Every lunchmeat you ate ended in a vowel.
• There was a crucifix in every room of the house, including the cellar.
• There was a saint somewhere in the yard.
• Boys didn't do house work because it was women's work.
• You couldn't date a boy without getting approval from your father.
• You know what lemon ice is.
• You called pasta limacaroni."
• You have at least one irrational fear or phobia that can be attributed to your mother.

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