myloveitaly:

You know you’re Italian when…

• • You live/have lived somewhere in the tri-state area
  • You’re Roman Catholic
  • You never buy Ricotta, you make it
  • Pasta Carbonara is one of your many favorites
  • You’re a Mammas boy, and proud
  • Your Mammas sauce is so good, you eat it like tomato soup
  • You never skip Sunday dinner.
  • You listen to DJ tiesto
  • Nonna uses the glass Nutella jars for basil
  • You know your father is angry with you when he just shouts your name and gives you that look.
  • On New Years Eve, you have Lentil soup after the stroke of midnight
  • Both Nonna’s ask you in private who cooks better
  • There’s two volumes of speech - loud, and louder
  • After a get together, saying goodbye and Buona notte takes anywhere between 20 minutes, to an hour… moving closer to the door in intervals
  • If you finish your plate too soon and say you’re full, you get a second serving. Thanks Nonna.
  • Your relatives always refer to you as, gioa, bedda, beddu, bella, bambolotta, bambolo, a figilia mia
  • You get aroused when you consume Arancini (Deep fried rice cones)
  • You make sandwiches with mortadella, mozzarella, and prosciutto
  • Your skin is naturally olive tone and/or you bronze easily under the sun
  • For every new car you get, a relative gives you a cornuto and a rosary. Most likely Nonna, since she’s the most holy and religious.
  • If you’re a girl, your middle name is Maria, Vincenza, or Gabriella
  • If you’re a boy, your middle name is Anthony, Mario, or Carmine
  • Gelato > Ice cream.
  • Tombola is always played on Christmas!
  • Holidays consist of thirty-seven entrees of food
  • Dinner is the most important meal of the day. And there’s always fruit, espresso, and dessert afterwards
  • Your famiglia is very important to you, and any fellow Italian friends are treated like family
  • You know a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy…
  • There’s a crucifix, a Madonna and Jesus statue, and a glass candle with Mary on it in every single room at your Nonnis casa
  • You say, minchia more than any other word
  • You wear a gold cross, always.
  • You’ve seen A Bronx Tale, at least 11 times
  • You hate Jersey shore because it doesn’t represent the Italian culture in the least bit.
  • Cursing sounds better in Italian than in English
  • Chicken cutlets and eggplant parmesan! <3
  • You signal the hand under the neck gesture and facial expression for ‘fuck you’. You did it just now.
  • You have at least three refrigerators and two ovens.
  • You grew up hearing sandwich pronounced, “sangwich”
  • You know the FDA is wrong when they stated to eat only three meals a day
  • You started drinking Espresso around eight years old, Nbd.
  • You never know what to expect when you open the margarine container. Because we wash and re use them to save leftovers
  • You consider bread, olio, sale e pepe a nutritious meal.
  • You’ve been to the Vatican, or plan on going there sometimes in your life
  • Nonno had a fig tree
  • You know all the words to, Vivo per lei and L’italiano
  • You’ve been eating Nutella when it was only available in the Italian markets… a decade before it was available at Walmart.
  • Absolutely NO MEAT on Christmas Eve. Stromboli, spinach, and potato pies.
  • Relatives say Pronto, before entering your home
  • You were afraid of getting smacked with the wooden spoon if you were “fresh”
  • Your Mom tied a blessed little red ribbon on your bra strap to keep the Malocchio (evil eye) away
  • You know how to make homemade bread, pasta, tiramisu, and cannolis
  • Nonna gives you tiny laminated prayers before going to the airport to protect you
  • There’s always a bottle on Limoncello in the freezer
You know you’re Italian when…

Not all of it is correct in my family’s circumstance, but still pretty accurate.