On Sep 9, 12:39*pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:17:33 -0700, sf > wrote:
> >On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 18:47:15 -0700 (PDT), projectile vomit chick
> > wrote:
>
> >> On Sep 6, 2:22*pm, "Dimitri" > wrote:
> >> > I was watching Lidia the other day & I have a tendency to agree with her.
>
> >> > If the meat in the sauce is served separately then it's gravy.
> >> > If the meat is an integral part of the sauce and is not separated out or
> >> > served separately then it's sauce.
>
> >> > Thoughts
>
> >> My thoughts are that I'm sick of hearing about greasy dagos and their
> >> disgusting food every minute of the day.
>
> >> Flame on!
>
> >You can always learn how to fine tune your kill file since it bothers
> >you so much. *Oh, that's right. *You'd rather complain obnoxiously
> >instead of actually doing something to remedy your little problem.
>
> What's a greasy dago?
>
> The WOPS in Brooklyn never called it tomato sauce, it was always
> tomato gravy... *and they never said pasta, it was all macaronis
> (always plural).

of course, macaronis. In Italian, the plural ends in -i. In English,
plurals end in -s. So they took an Italian word (macaroni) and
anglicized it, adding an -s to make it plural. Same as "youse guys".