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blake murphy
 
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Default Elbow Mac or Spirals - Macaroni and Cheese

On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 23:01:13 GMT, (Curly
Sue) wrote:

>On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 22:31:10 GMT, blake murphy >
>wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:21:03 -0500, Goomba38 >
>>wrote:
>>>
>>>My very Italian father *hates* elbow shaped macaroni. He skeeves it and claims
>>>it is so.. so.. American. LOL
>>>Goomba
>>>

>>i sorta get it by context, but i don't think i've ever seen the word
>>'skeeve.' could you elaborate a little?
>>

>
>It's an Anglicization of an Italian word (where the verbs don't end in
>"s"). In some Italian dialects it's pronounced "schkeev."

<snip>
>Sue(tm)
>Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!


thanks, sue.

your pal,
blake