Today, Anthony wears a track suit, still lives with his mother after his second divorce, and sits around outside of Lucca's with scratch tickets and a coffee dark.
Ash Wednesday is usually a meatless day, as Anonymous says, and many Catholics also limit themselves to one full meal in the evening or the intake equivalent of one full meal spread across the whole day.
Fast and Abstinence rules apply on both Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, and if you're between the ages of 18 and 56 they are not optional. However, the fine print mentions that one's eating is to be just enough to maintain strength; thus the equation of two smaller meals which would together be the equivalent of one full meal.
Compared to Lenten regulations from the Middle Ages, this is a walk in the park. Imagine subsisting for 6 weeks on meals when regulations prohibited all dairy, fish on both Wednesdays and Fridays, and at this time of year the winter stores are down to onions and other root vegetables. Better love your salted herring!
When I was a kid, this ad was one of those I actually looked forward to seeing. As a matter of fact, there were a whole bunch of great Alka-Seltzer ads from that time period.
Allegedly for the Prince Spaghetti Pasta but really for the sauce, a classic bait and switch... unless your mother could could make sauce like ?an(t)-th?-n? 's.
-Anthony would have to pay $20 to park to visit his mother
-His parents would be a gay couple who decided to move out of the south end
-It would be low carb wheat spaghetti
If all the kids are named "anthony!", you might get a bigger, hungrier one - or even a hoarde of Anthonies - turning up at your door!
In one of the trailer courts I grew up in, there was a repeat signalling culture ... a mom calling her kids would hear another mom calling in her young and add the names to the list being paged.
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Today, Anthony wears a track
Today, Anthony wears a track suit, still lives with his mother after his second divorce, and sits around outside of Lucca's with scratch tickets and a coffee dark.
and he lives in revere
and he lives in revere
This Wednesday
There will probably be fasting in the Italian North End tonight, so that means no meat sauce at the very least.
Ah, true!
Sorry, I should've waited for another Wednesday to post this.
Catholics fast?
You think Catholics fast? I think they they go meatless on Ash Wednesday so, meatless spaghetti marinara sauce thank you very much.
No Meat, Limited Intake
Ash Wednesday is usually a meatless day, as Anonymous says, and many Catholics also limit themselves to one full meal in the evening or the intake equivalent of one full meal spread across the whole day.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Fast and Abstinence rules
Fast and Abstinence rules apply on both Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, and if you're between the ages of 18 and 56 they are not optional. However, the fine print mentions that one's eating is to be just enough to maintain strength; thus the equation of two smaller meals which would together be the equivalent of one full meal.
Compared to Lenten regulations from the Middle Ages, this is a walk in the park. Imagine subsisting for 6 weeks on meals when regulations prohibited all dairy, fish on both Wednesdays and Fridays, and at this time of year the winter stores are down to onions and other root vegetables. Better love your salted herring!
So this would not be Anthony's grandparents tonight?
Favorite Commercial
When I was a kid, this ad was one of those I actually looked forward to seeing. As a matter of fact, there were a whole bunch of great Alka-Seltzer ads from that time period.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Little Anthony
Fast? That little guy was positively sprinting through the North End!
positively sprinting through the North End
Allegedly for the Prince Spaghetti Pasta but really for the sauce, a classic bait and switch... unless your mother could could make sauce like ?an(t)-th?-n? 's.
WASPs on fasting
From "Annie Hall":
DAD HALL
Fast?
ALVY'S FATHER
Yeah, no food. You know, we have to atone for our sins.
MOM HALL
What sins? I don't understand.
ALVY'S FATHER
Tell you the truth, neither do we.
all in all
It's a great commercial, and it made me want to cook up a plate of spaghetti with sauce!
I still remember that commercial
from when I was a kid. Today, so many Italians have left the North End. The Prince Spaghetti company once stood at 92 Prince Street.
I thought it was in Lowell.
I thought it was in Lowell.
If that was filmed in today's north end...
-Anthony would have to pay $20 to park to visit his mother
-His parents would be a gay couple who decided to move out of the south end
-It would be low carb wheat spaghetti
...
becuase all of the stereotypes amassing in your brain are true in real life.
1 outta 3
Well, he's right about the parking part.
God, I love that commercial.
Little Anthony wasn't sprinting home for nothing, ya know!!
Pasta power from the past
Before cellphones this was how mothers everywhere got a hold of their kids :=). And it worked! (Well, maybe they used a landline sometimes).
Misclassification Problem
If all the kids are named "anthony!", you might get a bigger, hungrier one - or even a hoarde of Anthonies - turning up at your door!
In one of the trailer courts I grew up in, there was a repeat signalling culture ... a mom calling her kids would hear another mom calling in her young and add the names to the list being paged.
I spent the whole day........
.........craving a plate of spaghetti & marinara sauce.
I just finished it.
Mmmm
But next time, you might want to make enough for the rest of us :-).
i thought...
...I'd made enough for everyone, but then I looked at my empty plate.
It's weird...
...that I still eat pasta every Wednesday because of this commercial, isn't it?
Gawd.....you're all making me hungry!
(lol)