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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 07:29 PM
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Is it possible to go to an Italian restaurant without hearing "That's Amore" and "Mambo Italiano?"
Seriously, is it even THEORETICALLY possible?

Fuck, there are at least six Italian restaurants within ten minutes of my girlfriend's front door, and not ONE of these places fails to play both of these songs on an hourly basis.

Sorry to rant, but when I'm fucking eating I don't give a flying fuck about the technical term for what happens when the moon hits your eye like a big fucking pizza pie. :mad:

These restaurants all play the same 8-10 songs from a tape apparently called "Biggest Stereotypical Italian hits that No Self-Respecting Restaurant Actually Located in Italy Would Ever Torture its Customers With." I've been to Italy, I KNOW they have more than 8-10 songs there.

FUCK!
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 07:30 PM
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1. You need to get out more
Come to the Boston North End for some excellent Italian food, and no crappy pseudo Italian music.
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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 07:34 PM
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2. Apparently.
But you'd think the DC Metro area would be better about this. Downtown and surrounding area, and it's all the same shitty music that we've all heard too often in every Italian restaurant I've tried.

I'd love to go to Boston and try what you're recommending, but isn't it a shame that I have to travel that far to avoid Dean Martin when I want Italian food? :(
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 07:43 PM
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3. I'm so sorry!
If you do get a chance to come, here is a list of restaurants from the North End, all within walking distance of each other:

http://www.northendboston.com/dining-restaurants.htm

Of these, Piccola Venezia is my favorite.
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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 07:54 PM
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4. Bookmarked, and thanks.
What really sucks is that the food in a lot of these local restaurants is great, but the caricature of Italian life is just intolerable.

It reminds me of a place in London I saw in the 80's; it was a hamburger joint and had every stereotypical piece of decor you'd expect not only from a Texas bar & grill but also a "Happy Days" era burger and shake joint, COMBINED. The word "American" was in the title of the restaurant, and I was embarrassed to walk in there. My Brit friend at the time, who had never been to Canada or the States, took one look and said "Tell me your lot doesn't live like this." I answered "Nobody in the history of the country ever has."
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:59 PM
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12. even Balmer's Little Italy? (eom)
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 11:59 AM
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15. Balmer's Little Italy is great.
But then again, no self-respecting Balmerian would ever consider themselves part of the "DC Metro Area", BWI and BW Parkway not withstanding.
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:28 PM
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5. Maybe they're playing "Mob Hits"



Those are songs number4 and 5 on disc 1.
http://www.mobhits.com/product.asp?s=mobhits&pf_id=mh_1_cd&dept_id=13298
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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:39 PM
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8. Holy crap.
I've got to wonder now...thanks for posting this :)
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:33 PM
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6. Whatsamatta you?
You got-a no respect.
What you think you do?
Why you look-a so sad?
It's-a not so bad.
This a nice-a place.
Ah, shaddup you face!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 02:43 PM
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17. Apparently Latka Gravas had relatives from Italy
Go figure.
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snailly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:37 PM
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7. Wow! Such anger!
Was the meal good? Obviously, the atmosphere sucked to you. Why are you so pissed?
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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:42 PM
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9. It's sort of like the Chinese water torture.
It took a while to get to this point, but I love the food at these restaurants and just can't take that shitty music any more after several hundred plays. I've been reduced to taking their food home and eating it there.

If at any time you've ever had something start to annoy you gradually and eventually just really get on your nerves, you'd probably understand. If not, you wouldn't.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:57 PM
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10. I tried to teach a bird to whistle "That's Amore"
I spent many weeks whistling it to him. He would get really excited hearing it, but he never did whistle it back to me.

FWIW
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:58 PM
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11. I would hope not. Dean was cool.
Order carryout or delivery next time if it bugs you.
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 11:04 PM
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13. There's always Bertolli.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 11:10 PM
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14. Do they cook real Italian food?
Or is it stereotypically Italian food?

You want a good Italian restaurant not too far from you?
Try Fratelli's in Cheverly.

You want a great Italian restaurant not too far from you?
Try Il Pizzico in Rockville.

:hi:
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 02:40 PM
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16. How did they miss "Volare?"
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