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Growing Up in the Butcher Shop: “Where To Go?” / “Dove andare?”

Ciao Amici, There where many Italian and American phrases used about where to go back in the day while I was growing up in the butcher shop.When my Dad needed a speciality food item for a recipe he would say we have to go to fifth and gabit to get it in other words a place so far you would have to scratch or substitue the ingrediant to compete the recipe.

Another American phrase used to mean any extremely distant and inaccessible location is “Timbuktu.” Like in the sentence Angelo use to come to dinner often until he moved to tim buk tu. The city of Timbuktu is an actual city in the land locked West African nation of Mali, the city is known for its extreme inaccessibility. An Italian /American phrase I heard often growing up was “Va Fa Napoli.” It literally means “Go to Naples!” One theory says this was said from one Sicilian American in New York to another as an insult.

As if going up north to Naples was such a bad thing. Another guess is that Napoli, you have to remember that the Spaniards, stayed in the southern part of Italy for 400 years, the king of Spain had his headquarters in Napoli, the Italians are not very fond of invaders, that's when one of the phrase “Va Fa Napoli” came about. Another premise is that it is a polite way to tell some one to go someplace opposite of heaven. An additional saying I would hear was Va fa un uovo literary means go lay an egg and the meaning is to do something bad or poorly; to perform poorly on stage. Lastly when I would become frustrated and Grandmom would see I was losing my temper she would tell me to go to the monastery and say “Pazienza detto il monaco” [Patience said the monk], which I need to use more often. Now a day if I become frustrated at times in stead of telling people where to go I tell them to have a nice day!

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