Pico Rico wrote:

> We are Northern Italian, and everything we put on pasta (other than
> pesto) was "gravy". We never put red stuff on pasta, it was always
> meaty.

Finally! Someone with a correct vision of italian sauces.

> Marinara Sauce - never heard of it when we were kids. On the
> rare occasion we went out, we went to Italian restaurant, only to
> complain how "tomato-y" things were (vs. meaty stuff that had
> tomatoes in it, of course).

The sad thing about italian immigration to the US is that the majority were
from the south: tomato everywhere.

> I could never figure out why we went to eat food we knew could never be as
> good as home. We should have gone to a different type of cuisine.

LOL
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ViLco
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