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Now it is time for another addition of the Seventeen Phrases you  Never heard my Italian Grandmother say:

• Ok you have eaten enough
• Let’s not have any bread today
• Let’s have something instead of macaroni on Sunday
• It’s ok if the people who live across the street don’t come to the butcher shop we will forget one day
• Don’t eat so you can eat a lot at the banquet
• Don’t invite any friends over for dinner we want to eat alone
• I am tired so let’s close today
• You better give me a lot of gifts on my Birthday
• Let’s stop eating anything with tomatoes in it
• Please, no garlic
• Will you pass the butter for the bread
• Let’s pretend we are not Italian
• Let’s add filler to the Sausage
• What? No Mayonaisse for our sandwich?
• When you go visiting a friend do not bring anything
• Let’s only eat macaroni once a week.
• No more hugs and kisses

“Quello che bambini hanno bisogno della maggior parte è l’essenziale che nonni provvedono in abbondanza. Danno amore incondizionato, gentilezza, pazienza, umorismo, conforta, lezioni in vita e, molto importanti,“biscotti .”

“What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life and, most importantly, “cookies.” ~Rudolph Giuliani

Send me phrases your Grandmother never said.