Gift ideas for Italian friends
#47
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Re: Gift ideas for Italian friends
It should be like this, but Italians are generally fixated on their own recipes. They even turn their noses up at recipes from different regions although still Italian food, so you can imagine how some of them turn their noses up at "foreign muck". Today's teenagers are much more willing to try new stuff even though that mostly consists of American junk.
#48
Re: Gift ideas for Italian friends
Wikipedia seems to think squashed fly biscuits and flies' graveyards are both OK. The main thing, of course, is that outsiders (people like foreigners) don't know what you're talking about. It's like that with a lot of jargon/slang -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garibaldi_biscuit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garibaldi_biscuit
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Re: Gift ideas for Italian friends
Never believe anything they say in the Chronicle! There was an Italian restaurant in Tynemouth (on the right side of the river across from South Shields) called Garibaldi's. I think the lovely old guy that owned it got homesick and went back to Italy. Perhaps Garibaldi left more than just biscuits up North!!
#52
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😂, Don't have Fairy in these parts BUT I have shared the washing up of gazillions of cooking trays after an outdoor meal andin all honesty I'd have binned them long ago.
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Re: Gift ideas for Italian friends
Hi,I didn't know that.I was just being silly anyway.What I did find out is that Garibaldi's son stayed on and fought for the British in the Boer war,cheers,Brian.