On Sep 7, 12:18*am, "ViLco" > wrote:
> 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

Poor people emigrate for a better life. People who have a pretty good
life stay put. Italians in America are mostly from Sicilia, Napoli,
and Calabria.