Cool Italian - Food

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There really is no need to explain how important food is in Italy. Italians don't go for a quick drink, they go for a quick pizza.
Friendships, relationships, dates, celebrations, business... it all happens around the table. Italians say that everything has a better outcome a stomaco pieno, on a full stomach.

(* = familiar, ** = very familiar, *** = vulgar, R = plain rude, Lit. = Literally)

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Click here for a transcript of all the expressions in "Food".


Argument	Class	Drinking	Family

Food	Friends	Going out	Health

Interjections	Money	Moods	Music

Play up/Play down	Politics	Professions	Pulling

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