The Italian (and Almost Italian) Thread

[wasteland]

So, who's Italian or Italian American? Let's make a list!

wasteland (I)
Prog Snop (IA)
bout to crash (double-IA)
DreamerTV (I)
Sub Luna Vitrea (S)
hefdaddy42 (Honorary President)
Tick (IA)
TheCountOfNYC (IA)
Phoenix87x (German-I)
TheStraySeed (I)


The one requirement to join the list is to aknowledge the atrocious lie behind the pepperoni pizza. 

[El Barto]

I'm partial to the pizza capricciosa, myself. 

[Chino]

My last name is Italian but my blood also contains;

French
French Canadian
German
Native American
Albanian
African American
Irish
Polish
Greek
... and probably a bunch of other stuff.

I'm a full blown American mutt. My father's mother's side of the family, the Sandersons, came to America in the late 1620s. My grandmother said they came over on the next voyage after the Mayflower. They've been breeding with each wave of immigrants ever since.

[Tick]

My last name is Lenotti so what do you think?

[TheCountOfNYC]

I'm basically full blooded Italian-American.

[Prog Snob]

I'm basically full blooded Italian-American.

What a surprise...another Italian on Staten Island.   

[hefdaddy42]

I had a giant Original Italian sub from Jersey Mike's for lunch.  Does that count?

[lonestar]

I was married to a Sicilian, that should count for something.

[Prog Snob]

I was married to a Sicilian, that should count for something.

You made it out alive.  You're one tough mother fucker.  I can say that because I'm Sicilian. 

[bosk1]

I like Lacuna Coil.

[Sub Luna Vitrea]

No, io non sono italiana ma parlo un po' della lingua.

[Prog Snob]

I love the Italian language.   

[Phoenix87x]

Half Italian, Half German

[wasteland]

I had a giant Original Italian sub from Jersey Mike's for lunch.  Does that count?

hefdaddy42 is the default honorary president of every club or group of two or more people, sayeth the law. So, uh, yeah, it counts.

No, io non sono italiana ma parlo un po' della lingua.

How come, se posso chiedere?

By the way, love the username, one of the best here!

I like Lacuna Coil.

I only know that very oscure song by Depeche Mode they covered a dozen years ago... 

[bout to crash]

My family is kind of from all over Italy, but my mom's side is southern and my dad's northern. My dad was born there but came to the US with my grandparents when he was quite young (I just recently found out his birth name was actually Giovanni, but I've always known him to be John). My dad spoke Italian as a kid but was not really encouraged to do so, so he doesn't really remember it anymore and I never got to learn it . I can understand a few words (mostly curses ) but that's it. I did take several years of Spanish in school, so I can figure out some Italian based on that.

I know I have family in Italy still, but have never met any of them. I'd like to someday!

[wasteland]

Yeah, it's a good place when you don't have to stay forever (or even then, if you are rich enough to not have to seek a job). It's a shame you don't speak Italian, though, I would have liked to hear the accent for once, instead of being the one under scrutiny!

[TheCountOfNYC]

I'm basically full blooded Italian-American.

What a surprise...another Italian on Staten Island.   

Yet our pizza will never touch Brooklyn's.

[Sub Luna Vitrea]

No, io non sono italiana ma parlo un po' della lingua.

How come, se posso chiedere?

I'm just a language geek... if a language exists then I either speak it, am learning it or have plans to get around to it.

By the way, love the username, one of the best here!

Thank you!

[cramx3]

50% Italian, father's side is 100%.

Love my grandma's meatballs!

[Chino]

50% Italian, father's side is 100%.

Love my grandma's meatballs!

I'm always curious when I hear people say that someone in their family is 100% of anything. If you figure four generations per century, you've had over 4000 bloodlines (individual people) manifest to create you in just the last 300 years. That number jumps to over 65,500 bloodlines in the last 400 years, and it breaks a million people by 500 years. I feel like people would be pretty amazed if they had the ability to really see where all of there ancestors came from.

[cramx3]

50% Italian, father's side is 100%.

Love my grandma's meatballs!

I'm always curious when I hear people say that someone in their family is 100% of anything. If you figure four generations per century, you've had over 4000 bloodlines (individual people) manifest to create you in just the last 300 years. That number jumps to over 65,500 bloodlines in the last 400 years, and it breaks a million people by 500 years. I feel like people would be pretty amazed if they had the ability to really see where all of there ancestors came from.

Well if you want to break it down like that then we are all 100% African? 

[Chino]

50% Italian, father's side is 100%.

Love my grandma's meatballs!

I'm always curious when I hear people say that someone in their family is 100% of anything. If you figure four generations per century, you've had over 4000 bloodlines (individual people) manifest to create you in just the last 300 years. That number jumps to over 65,500 bloodlines in the last 400 years, and it breaks a million people by 500 years. I feel like people would be pretty amazed if they had the ability to really see where all of there ancestors came from.

Well if you want to break it down like that then we are all 100% African?

Yeah, no doubt. But I'm talking more about the corners of the world where you may not have ever expected a relative to come from. As far as I know (very little considering it's basically word of mouth), I don't have any Japanese in me. I think it'd be pretty cool to find that maybe 200 years ago a couple slipped in during some unexpected migration.

With the advent of the internet, we are laying the first layer of a fully traceable family lineage. Social media has now created the infrastructure for our decendents hundreds of years from now to have the ability to find out every single person in their gene pool (and even learn about them in great detail). It's pretty awesome to think about it.

[Prog Snob]

Yet our pizza will never touch Brooklyn's.

Yeah, no doubt. But I'm talking more about the corners of the world where you may not have ever expected a relative to come from. As far as I know (very little considering it's basically word of mouth), I don't have any Japanese in me. I think it'd be pretty cool to find that maybe 200 years ago a couple slipped in during some unexpected migration.

With the advent of the internet, we are laying the first layer of a fully traceable family lineage. Social media has now created the infrastructure for our decendents hundreds of years from now to have the ability to find out every single person in their gene pool (and even learn about them in great detail). It's pretty awesome to think about it.

I actually had my DNA tested through Ancestry.com .   I'll break down the percentages for you. 

81% Italy/Greece
10% Caucasus
4% European Jewish
4% Middle East  (I think that means I'm related to Jesus) 
1% North Africa


I've traced my family as far back as the 1700s so far and they are still in Italy. I'm still trying to find out any information further back but that would mean visiting the towns and going through church records.

[Chino]

Yet our pizza will never touch Brooklyn's.

Yeah, no doubt. But I'm talking more about the corners of the world where you may not have ever expected a relative to come from. As far as I know (very little considering it's basically word of mouth), I don't have any Japanese in me. I think it'd be pretty cool to find that maybe 200 years ago a couple slipped in during some unexpected migration.

With the advent of the internet, we are laying the first layer of a fully traceable family lineage. Social media has now created the infrastructure for our decendents hundreds of years from now to have the ability to find out every single person in their gene pool (and even learn about them in great detail). It's pretty awesome to think about it.

I actually had my DNA tested through Ancestry.com .   I'll break down the percentages for you. 

81% Italy/Greece
10% Caucasus
4% European Jewish
4% Middle East  (I think that means I'm related to Jesus) 
1% North Africa


I've traced my family as far back as the 1700s so far and they are still in Italy. I'm still trying to find out any information further back but that would mean visiting the towns and going through church records.

How far back does ancenstry test?

[bout to crash]

It's DNA, I don't think it involves time.

I've been curious about taking one of those tests.

[Tick]

I was married to a Sicilian, that should count for something.

It means never mess with her if death in on the line!










































(movie reference)

[Tick]

I'm basically full blooded Italian-American.

What a surprise...another Italian on Staten Island.   

Yet our pizza will never touch Brooklyn's.

and neither will ever touch New Haven Connecticut's!

[Chino]

It's DNA, I don't think it involves time.

I've been curious about taking one of those tests.

I think it's more a generational thing rather than specific lengths of time (I worded that post a little weird). I'm looking to DNA test my dog, and so far the best bang for the buck I can find is able to determine the most dominant breed in each of my dog's eight great grandparents. So those tests go back three generations.

[Chino]

I'm basically full blooded Italian-American.

What a surprise...another Italian on Staten Island.   

Yet our pizza will never touch Brooklyn's.

and neither will ever touch New Haven Connecticut's!

New Haven had the #1 and the #23 spot on the country's 50 best pizzas.

[bosk1]

This may be considered sacrilege, but...  I really enjoy Costco's pizza.  Yeah, it can't touch a high quality pie from a good mom & pop pizzeria that knows what they are doing.  But for a good quick slice of pepperoni hot out of the over, they just do it right. 

[cramx3]

This may be considered sacrilege, but...  I really enjoy Costco's pizza.  Yeah, it can't touch a high quality pie from a good mom & pop pizzeria that knows what they are doing.  But for a good quick slice of pepperoni hot out of the over, they just do it right.

Well Costco food is great bang for your buck

[wasteland]

One of my favourites, pizza with sauce, cheese, fresh tomatoes and pesto!

[hefdaddy42]

Looks great!

[wasteland]

I'm curious, how much is a pizza on average in the states? Here they range from 4€ to 9€, with most being in the 5-7€ range.

[El Barto]

I'm curious, how much is a pizza on average in the states? Here they range from 4€ to 9€, with most being in the 5-7€ range.

Y'all treat a pizza as an individual meal and size it appropriately. We have big ass pizzas as a meal for several. So, a small pizza here is going to be in that price range. It's just more often that people will buy a couple of larges for about double that, each.

And something that puzzles me, why don't you guys slice pizza before serving it? It's kind of awkward eating an entire pie with a knife and fork.



edit: It's also the case that a pizza here is about twice as bulky as what you guys eat, so putting away one the size of what you posted is going to be challenging. I could eat the pie you posted a pic of, but imagine that with a thicker crust and twice as much toppings and you get your average American pizza (which would probably run $10 or so.