if you know any Italian...

...the perhaps you can answer this question.

In French, it's bon apetit. In Spanish, it's buen provecho. We don't say anything in English. What's the pre-meal benediction in Italian?

 

Buon appetito

 

i don't know but when i went to italy in my honeymoon we ate a lot of good food. does that help?

 

Buon appetito (pronounced app-a-tee-toe)

Mangia means eat.

Fame (pronounced Fah-may) means hungry.

 

Grazie, Signore Canucco.

 

My grandmother says that before every meal. She also says it when you finish your plate. And then again after you finish seconds. She says it when you wake up, when you walk in the door from whatever you were doing, when you get out of the shower. That woman wants you to eat, dammit.

 

Bon appetitio.

I only know that because I watch Molto Mario, not because I speak Italian.

 

Thanks, hockeybeat, as well.

One great things about mothers everyhwere: it's easy to make them happy...just consume huge amounts of food in their presence.

Considering that some of the board's most infamous characters are presently logged in and are up to no good, this is an excellent time to go to lunch.

Mangia!

 

irish, you're too skinny.

Eat something.

Now, when are you going to settle down with a nice girl and give me some grandchildren?

What, a mother can't ask?

 

I grew up in a neighborhood that was about 75 percent Italian.
Before dinner, my friends' mothers always said 'Buck, why don't you eat dinner at your own home once in a while?'

 

"Because my mom cooks like the Irish whore she is, Mrs. Spaghettini. Pass the Braziole."