DSP's Untalian Ancestry - 1/4 = at least 1/2

[Raven'sChild]

There have been many posts about D$P and his touting his Italian heritage. and while until recently completely omitting his 1/4 Polish heritage and admitting that he is only 1/4th Italian. The post asked for folks to talk about how they relate to their Cultural Heritage. Being the curious creature I am, I created this thread as to be a place folks could do just that without the worry of being said to be pwrlvling.

Ooooookay, D$P Loooves saying that he is Italian while knowing next to nothing about Italy, Italian cuisine or the various Italian cultures. His mother appears to embrace her Polish background more than her Italian as D$P has stated that she made periogi, kielbasa...and "spaghetti cake" ( aka Kugel to the Litvaks [ Jews from northern Poland ] or Kigel to the Galitzainers [ Jews from southeastern Poland ]. D$P 1/4 Jewish, but doesn't know it due to his mother or one of her parents possibly converting to Catholicism? ). D$P does NOT have a Family recipe for anything other than his Americanized candied Italian tomato based meatball sauce. He goes so far as to say he doesn't even know what Alfredo Sauce is. Thus, we have three Polish dishes he says his mother makes annnnnd only one barely Italian gravy*.

*Gravy or Sunday Gravy is what most Traditional Italian/American Italian families would call his 'sauce'. Minus all that SUGAR!.

 

[Exorbital Columnations]

So am I to understand that you consider your ethnic heritage and your cultural heritage to be the same? I'll play along here and say I'm a proud le 56%er but I don't really consider any of my ethnic forebears to be my cultural forebears as most of them emigrated to this country in the 40-60s from many disparate nations. That's not to say I wouldn't like to go and visit, see what my kin lived like back in the bad old days, but I definitely resist thinking of their cultural norms as being heritable. Anybody can move to this country and make the decision to assimilate to it's values. Of course, our government in it's infinite wisdom decided to write multiculturalism into our institutions so you don't have to assimilate, but in the long run I think it's better to become like your neighbours.

Also: This thread would be better served in Deep Thoughts, I think. You could still shit-talk DSP in the OP.

 

[We Are The Witches]

Can I ask you what prompted you to make this thread?
I can only speculate, but I'd rather have the answer that you'll give me, if you choose to do so.

 

[Yellow Yam Scam]

I will give you a powerlevel rating and there is nothing you can do to stop me.

 

[Raven'sChild]

Can I ask you what prompted you to make this thread?
I can only speculate, but I'd rather have the answer that you'll give me, if you choose to do so.

There was a post in the Main thread asking folks 'how they express their cultural heritage'. Being curious and wanting to give folks a place to do so without PwrLvl ....I made the thread for folks to reply...freely.

 

[saralovesjuicyfruit]

So you're much more privileged than DSP (and probably most Americans) by virtue of having 'ancestral homes' and close family ties. Congratulations.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I'm a spaghetti nigger, so I eat a lotah spaghetti.

Oh, and lots of garlic.

 

[UA 674]

Hide your powerlevel. Avoid revealing intimate, personal details about yourself in public boards. These threads are not your personal blog and we are not an asylum.

Also, I drink, so that must automatically make me Irish.

 

[Madam Nekromantik]

Both sides of my family ran away from their ancestral homes. Pretty sure one side was just a boatload of criminals dumped in America.

 

[drtoboggan]

Powerleveling is for faggots.

 

[Some JERK]

I'm American, honey. Our names don't mean shit.

 

[Prince Lotor]

IRL if asked about it I tell people that I am Chinese ethnically and somewhat culturally. About 90% of the time people believe me, I in no way look ethnically Chinese. I tell them I was born and raised there until I was 6, then just spout off some shit from Google maps and Wikipedia. Then they'll start telling me how they can see it in my facial features now that they "know". I had one girl say, 'Ohhh, is that why you make everyone take off their shoes when they come in your house?' I said, 'No! That's Japanese. The Japanese are bigoted assholes! We don't do that shit where I'm from.'

Moral of the story: Human stupidity and gullibility are Universal Constants.

 

[We Are The Witches]

I had one girl say, 'Ohhh, is that why you make everyone take off their shoes when they come in your house?' I said, 'No! That's Japanese. The Japanese are bigoted assholes! We don't do that shit where I'm from.'

I don't have anything particularly important to do right now, so I might as well point out the following:
She implied in her question that you (yourself, not chinese in general, otherwise it makes little sense for her to ask that) make everyone take off their shoes when they come to your house, but then you say that this is not what you do where you're from, supposedly because you're "Chinese".

So do you make everyone take off their shoes when they go to your house or not?

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

What @Some JERK said a thousand times over. To those of us not infected by the SJW virus, your name and skin color does not matter. We don't care about your cultural/ethnic/sexual/made up identity. To quote Martin Luther King, Jr., "...they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
In other words, who you are is more important than what you are.

 

[OB 946]

There have been many posts about D$P and his touting his Italian heritage. and while until recently completely omitting his 1/4 Polish heritage and admitting that he is only 1/4th Italian. The post asked for folks to talk about how they relate to their Cultural Heritage. Being the curious creature I am, I created this thread as to be a place folks could do just that without the worry of being said to be pwrlvling.

Ooooookay, D$P Loooves saying that he is Italian while knowing next to nothing about Italy, Italian cuisine or the various Italian cultures. His mother appears to embrace her Polish background more than her Italian as D$P has stated that she made periogi, kielbasa...and "spaghetti cake" ( aka Kugel to the Litvaks [ Jews from northern Poland ] or Kigel to the Galitzainers [ Jews from southeastern Poland ]. D$P 1/4 Jewish, but doesn't know it due to his mother or one of her parents possibly converting to Catholicism? ). D$P does NOT have a Family recipe for anything other than his Americanized candied Italian tomato based meatball sauce. He goes so far as to say he doesn't even know what Alfredo Sauce is. Thus, we have three Polish dishes he says his mother makes annnnnd only one barely Italian gravy*.

*Gravy or Sunday Gravy is what most Traditional Italian/American Italian families would call his 'sauce'. Minus all that SUGAR!.

But I digress:
I am Scottish (Father), Swedish/Cuban (Mother).
I leaned to speak Spanish in High School to honor my Grandfather's heritage ( him having died before I was born, but I take after him the most with my Olive skin and Hazel eyes....and folks in the family saying as much ). I learned Gaelic while growing up as well as learning how to play the bagpipes, tinwhistle, step dance and the words to every Scottish song ever...due to everyone singing them all the time. I picked up Swedish while spending Summers at my Grandmother's house....yeah, my parent's are 'those kind' that would vacation abroad together and send me to Summer with my Grandmother until I was older. It's a good thing, I think as I when I was young I'd not have appreciated the trips and most likely have been a detriment to their enjoyment. I say this as once I was older, I was taken with them and it was a whirlwind of sights, sounds and experiences, museums, botanical gardens, zoos, historical places, dining, concerts, operas, safaris, sailing, scuba diving, trekking, camping, and light mountaineering ( my father and I climbed Beirthorn, Mt Rainer, Mont Blanc, Mt Helgafell, Tofana di Rozes, Gran Paradiso and Kilimanjaro ....Almost. The weather turned and we did not summit that one. ).

I have been to my ancestral 'homes' and spent time with my relations abroad ( Nas Gotland, Croy Scotland and Florida Cuba ). I have learned to cook foods related to my cultural heritage either as them being cooked in my childhood home, holiday traditions or whilst visiting relations. I have ALSO learned how many of the dishes have been AMERICANIZED due to the inability to easily obtain traditional ingredients in the pre-Internet age. I will at this point say that my Grandmother had the original recipes and they were past down as footnotes in the American versions should the maker be able to obtain the 'authentic' ingredients ....hahaha one or more 3x5 notecards stapled together with or with out newspaper clippings taped to them and a metric on of notes crammed into every available space front and back which was 'back in the day' the way recipes were handed down....NOT spiral bound notebooks a la D$P Candied Red Sauce. ( Super Duper Uber PwrLvlv: I have the ORIGINAL recipes my Grandmother's mother brought with her to America written in Swedish by her mother ( my great-great grandmother ) in a box made from the wood of her ( my Great-Grandmother's) baby cradle. How f*ing awesome is that!!!!!111one....okay, I will at this time say that, well I am old, possibly what many would consider very, very old....having been born before man landed on the Moon.

I have worn and still wear 'cultural outfits' either by choice because I like them, whilst celebrating a Holidays or showing support for the cultures I identify with ( mainly this would be my 1/4th Cuban heritage. Having inherited the keys to my Grandfather's parent's home, the home my Grandfather and Grandmother wintered in as well as holding the deeds to the lands [ hahaha my grandfather was a Celery Farm Baron] owned by the family pre-1959.) On a side note: My Grandfather was part and parcel the result as to why you get Fern Fronds in your floral arrangements today! He started selling fern fronds during the Great Depression to floral display makers in Pennsylvania where my Grandmother's people settled to bulk up bouquets.

Thinks that's about enough Cultural Pwrlvling for me.

How about YOU?

Wew lad.

I don't.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

What @Some JERK said a thousand times over. To those of us not infected by the SJW virus, your name and skin color does not matter. We don't care about your cultural/ethnic/sexual/made up identity. To quote Martin Luther King, Jr., "...they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
In other words, who you are is more important than what you are.

To quote Martin Luther King, Jr. "Ha ha ha. Rape her harder!"

 

[SparklyFetuses]

Some people forget that faggotry has no cultural heritage.

 

[millais]

If he ever travels to Italy, he should title the inevitable vlahg series as "A Connecticut Yankee in Foggia, Italy"

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Ooooookay, D$P Loooves saying that he is Italian while knowing next to nothing about Italy, Italian cuisine or the various Italian cultures. His mother appears to embrace her Polish background more than her Italian as D$P has stated that she made periogi, kielbasa...and "spaghetti cake" ( aka Kugel to the Litvaks [ Jews from northern Poland ] or Kigel to the Galitzainers [ Jews from southeastern Poland ]. D$P 1/4 Jewish, but doesn't know it due to his mother or one of her parents possibly converting to Catholicism? ). D$P does NOT have a Family recipe for anything other than his Americanized candied Italian tomato based meatball sauce. He goes so far as to say he doesn't even know what Alfredo Sauce is. Thus, we have three Polish dishes he says his mother makes annnnnd only one barely Italian gravy*

I know the answer is autism, but why the fuck wouldn’t he make pierogi? Potato filling is an perfectly normal thing to use a goddamn food mill for compared to tomatoes that you can easily break on the side of the pan for better results; and it fills his starch on starch fetish if he wants to go full basic bitch with it.
As for personal heritage affecting me, there’s probably not much to say. I cringe when I hear people refering to every American as a yankee, but anything else’ll just devolve into arguments about hypocrisy.

 

[Done]

There have been many posts about D$P and his touting his Italian heritage. and while until recently completely omitting his 1/4 Polish heritage and admitting that he is only 1/4th Italian. The post asked for folks to talk about how they relate to their Cultural Heritage. Being the curious creature I am, I created this thread as to be a place folks could do just that without the worry of being said to be pwrlvling.

Ooooookay, D$P Loooves saying that he is Italian while knowing next to nothing about Italy, Italian cuisine or the various Italian cultures. His mother appears to embrace her Polish background more than her Italian as D$P has stated that she made periogi, kielbasa...and "spaghetti cake" ( aka Kugel to the Litvaks [ Jews from northern Poland ] or Kigel to the Galitzainers [ Jews from southeastern Poland ]. D$P 1/4 Jewish, but doesn't know it due to his mother or one of her parents possibly converting to Catholicism? ). D$P does NOT have a Family recipe for anything other than his Americanized candied Italian tomato based meatball sauce. He goes so far as to say he doesn't even know what Alfredo Sauce is. Thus, we have three Polish dishes he says his mother makes annnnnd only one barely Italian gravy*.

*Gravy or Sunday Gravy is what most Traditional Italian/American Italian families would call his 'sauce'. Minus all that SUGAR!.

But I digress:
I am Scottish (Father), Swedish/Cuban (Mother).
I leaned to speak Spanish in High School to honor my Grandfather's heritage ( him having died before I was born, but I take after him the most with my Olive skin and Hazel eyes....and folks in the family saying as much ). I learned Gaelic while growing up as well as learning how to play the bagpipes, tinwhistle, step dance and the words to every Scottish song ever...due to everyone singing them all the time. I picked up Swedish while spending Summers at my Grandmother's house....yeah, my parent's are 'those kind' that would vacation abroad together and send me to Summer with my Grandmother until I was older. It's a good thing, I think as I when I was young I'd not have appreciated the trips and most likely have been a detriment to their enjoyment. I say this as once I was older, I was taken with them and it was a whirlwind of sights, sounds and experiences, museums, botanical gardens, zoos, historical places, dining, concerts, operas, safaris, sailing, scuba diving, trekking, camping, and light mountaineering ( my father and I climbed Beirthorn, Mt Rainer, Mont Blanc, Mt Helgafell, Tofana di Rozes, Gran Paradiso and Kilimanjaro ....Almost. The weather turned and we did not summit that one. ).

I have been to my ancestral 'homes' and spent time with my relations abroad ( Nas Gotland, Croy Scotland and Florida Cuba ). I have learned to cook foods related to my cultural heritage either as them being cooked in my childhood home, holiday traditions or whilst visiting relations. I have ALSO learned how many of the dishes have been AMERICANIZED due to the inability to easily obtain traditional ingredients in the pre-Internet age. I will at this point say that my Grandmother had the original recipes and they were past down as footnotes in the American versions should the maker be able to obtain the 'authentic' ingredients ....hahaha one or more 3x5 notecards stapled together with or with out newspaper clippings taped to them and a metric on of notes crammed into every available space front and back which was 'back in the day' the way recipes were handed down....NOT spiral bound notebooks a la D$P Candied Red Sauce. ( Super Duper Uber PwrLvlv: I have the ORIGINAL recipes my Grandmother's mother brought with her to America written in Swedish by her mother ( my great-great grandmother ) in a box made from the wood of her ( my Great-Grandmother's) baby cradle. How f*ing awesome is that!!!!!111one....okay, I will at this time say that, well I am old, possibly what many would consider very, very old....having been born before man landed on the Moon.

I have worn and still wear 'cultural outfits' either by choice because I like them, whilst celebrating a Holidays or showing support for the cultures I identify with ( mainly this would be my 1/4th Cuban heritage. Having inherited the keys to my Grandfather's parent's home, the home my Grandfather and Grandmother wintered in as well as holding the deeds to the lands [ hahaha my grandfather was a Celery Farm Baron] owned by the family pre-1959.) On a side note: My Grandfather was part and parcel the result as to why you get Fern Fronds in your floral arrangements today! He started selling fern fronds during the Great Depression to floral display makers in Pennsylvania where my Grandmother's people settled to bulk up bouquets.

Thinks that's about enough Cultural Pwrlvling for me.

How about YOU?

All that text.. just to prove that DSP's authentic Italian sauce isn't really authentic.