Happy St. Joseph's Day!!!

[KillahBee]

I know 99.999% of you have no clue what this day is, even Italians not from where I am from. But nonetheless, this was always a huge day for me and the area I grew up in. Everybody dresses in red and picks up zeppoli at the bakery. The bakeries in RI stay open the night before St. Joseph's Day baking zeppoli to have enough for today.

A little info on the day:

http://riroads.com/members/stjosephsday.htm

 

[hamstershaver]

are you going to wear your red shoes today?

 

[foreigngirl]

happy St.Joseph day to you Killah

 

[superqt4u2nv]

I can't believe Jr. shot Tony

 

[nycgirl]

I zeppolies.

 

[KillahBee]

fuggin racist

 

[foreigngirl]

hey Killah, can you explain to me the difference between the Italians from the peninsula and the Sicilian Italians? I never understood why its getting separate and not say just "Italian" instead of "I'm Sicilian".

 

[PICK3]

karma thread

 

[KillahBee]

To be honest, Fg - I don't know. It seems like it has been like that over here for a while. I'm sure there are a lot of reasons tha tgo back decently far in history (a subject I am very ignorant with).

 

[foreigngirl]

To be honest, Fg - I don't know. It seems like it has been like that over here for a while. I'm sure there are a lot of reasons tha tgo back decently far in history (a subject I am very ignorant with).

I just wanted to get a point of view from a italian person on that. I have one friend that his dad came here from Rome and he has no problem saying he is Italian. On the other hand, my sister-in-laws husband says specificaly that he is Sicilian and he looks like a latino, totally different from the guy from Rome

 

[sawastea]

 

[Gymgurl]

Happy St. Joes day Killah...now got eat some zeppolies fatty

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Happy St. Joseph's day. And zeppoli sounds great.

 

[superqt4u2nv]

I just wanted to get a point of view from a italian person on that. I have one friend that his dad came here from Rome and he has no problem saying he is Italian. On the other hand, my sister-in-laws husband says specificaly that he is Sicilian and he looks like a latino, totally different from the guy from Rome

Northern Italian's IE the guy from Rome (or further north or Rome) a are typicaly lighter and have fairer hair then southerners who have darker complexions hair and eyes. Do to a number of factors one being climate the other being that Northern Italian also being so close to Austria Germany etc there blood my not run pure Italian.

 

[swole]

Northern Italian's IE the guy from Rome (or further north or Rome) a are typicaly lighter and have fairer hair then southerners who have darker complexions hair and eyes. Do to a number of factors one being climate the other being that Northern Italian also being so close to Austria Germany etc there blood my not run pure Italian.

I never heard of St. Josephs, but just asked my mother about it and she started going off on a 15 minute story...so happy St. Joseph's day nonetheless.

SuperQT's reply was pretty much the difference in a nutshell. Mainlaind Italians are lighter while Sicilians are darker. Mom's telling me how Sicilians are oftentimes shunned to a certain degree and thought less of by mainlaind Italians. My family is from Naples and Rome, but I don't give shit where you're from. If you're Italian, you're Italian.

KB, what part of Italy is your family from?

 

[Smurfy]

The Moore's invaded Sicily back in the day and the Moore's are black and they prodreated with the Sicilians which is why people make remarks about Sicilians being part black (true to a certain extent but who cares and it was so long ago, that the blood lines are now watered way down). I have relatives from both Italy and Sicily and I always thought Sicily was a different country. Isnt it? Which would also explain why those from Sicily are not referred to as ItaliaNs


brb more coffee cake

 

[SoreArms]

I'm going to start making threads about obscure Mexican hollidays

 

[foreigngirl]

I know why are they darker, I just didnt know why mainland italians separated them. But thanks SMURFY for explaining that better

 

[KillahBee]

I'm going to start making threads about obscure Mexican hollidays

FAR from obscure. my entire state celebrated the hell outta this day since I was born.

Swole - a little town called Itri, not far from Rome. the city I grew up in (Cranston) has some sort of sister city relationship with Itri.

 

[Whiskey]

Okaaaaaaaaaaay... Well..... *&%# Heritage day(s) is coming up sometime soon.

Town i'm from, we have a small party like carnival thing downtown---Go rednecks!!!

Whiskey

 

[SC4EVA]

=)

 

[pintoca]

KIllah, you called José?

 

[KillahBee]

KIllah, you called José?

nope

 

[sawastea]

Speaking of Italians, I saw Gladiator last night.

 

[Raptorex]

Happy St. Joseph's Day bro.