Poor nutrition sah/woh issue?

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Poor nutrition sah/woh issue?
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Tue, 12-29-2009 - 7:24pm

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:22pm

<<I think people "say" they don't like something without even trying ALL the different varieties. I don't like ALL jarred sauces, I don't like ALL homemade sauces. >>


Who are these people?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 12-31-2009
Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:23pm
Of course there is. Just go to any Italian restaurant but an Italian making Sunday dinner makes "red" sauce.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:23pm

What was that point?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:23pm

Well, I think a lot of people use a word with a lot of meanings generically when they are used to only one thing. Like a family that mostly drinks apple juice will call apple juice just "juice" and the rest of the kinds of juice they will call "grape juice," or "orange juice" so that if someone in that family asks for "juice" everyone knows they mean apple juice. I once knew a child (in England) who insisted that "cereal" was corn flakes and only corn flakes, since that is the only kind his family ever bought. Cheerios or Frosted Flakes were *not* cereal, they were cheerios and frosted flakes. He'd confused the generic with the specific.

At first, frog claimed that to Italians "sauce" meant red sauce, with or without meat, so you putting bechamel sauce in your lasagna seemed to be some kind of travesty; but now there appear to be other kinds of sauces, but Sunday Sauce is always red by her. It is all very confusing.

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Registered: 12-01-2009
Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:24pm
even in my extended (now mostly dead) Italian Family the terms macaroni to describe all pasta and gravy to describe all red sauces was very common -- I'm used to it but I can see it might be disconcerting at first... but my dad never referred to pasta as anything but macaroni -- to him to call it 'pasta' was putting on some kind of airs...
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Registered: 01-08-2009
Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:25pm
I thought SHE stated that.....that you don't need to learn to cook as a child, since cooking is all trial and error anyway. But as I said, maybe I am confused.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:27pm

What is that experience based on?


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:28pm
They did. The thirteen kids and their families made over 2800 cookies, which were packaged as gift trays and sold for between five and eight dollars each, and they came out with over 750 dollars, which is enough to send one of them to central America this summer. But I got really, really sick of making cookies. My son, foster daughter, and I made over 75 dozen ourselves.
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Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:29pm
Yes, and they are Americans, not Italians. Unless of course, you mean, Italian-Americans. In which case, there are a wide variety of traditions. My father's Italian cooking rarely involves red sauce My grandparents didn't call it gravy, they called it sugo and sometimes ragu.


Edited 1/5/2010 2:32 pm ET by merella
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Registered: 05-19-2009
Tue, 01-05-2010 - 2:29pm

Yeah I got that. Your grandma represents every Italian & they all have never used a cookbook. And they all are offended by anyone who would use them, give them one, whatever.

So it doesn't matter if you are also talking about a handful of other Italian women who are also offended by any poor person who might offer a cookbook in their presence. You are under the impression that all are the same.

Snort--pretty funny stuff!

In the ever timely words of Inigio Montoya from The Princess Bride "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

In the frequently relevant (to so many debates on Ivillage) words of Inigio Montoya from The Princess Bride "You keep using that

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