From mispronunciations to disrespecting the family, here are 10 Italian pet peeves! If you plan on surrounding yourself with Italians or Italian-Americans, definitely avoid the following.
1. Seeing someone wear a hat at the dinner table
2. When people don’t wipe up all the sugo left on your plate with their bread
3. When guests don’t take their shoes off/ when people put their shoes on the bed
4. When someone uses the towels that are for decoration ONLY
5. When people call Italians “EYE- talians”
6. When people walk into a party empty-handed
7. Anyone who disrespects your family
8. When people think that Kraft cheese goes on pasta…
9. When the waiter in an Italian restaurant doesn’t pronounce dish names correctly
10. Mafia/ Jersey Shore Stereotypes
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