Word: mangioni
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...foodstuffs are rationed, even where they are grown. Southern Italians used to despise northerners as "mangioni di polenta" (eaters of polenta, a staple made of corn meal flour). Now southerners eat polenta instead of bread. Good polenta is so thick it is cut with a string. Today's polenta is so thin it can be poured. Wine can still be had, but it is not plentiful...
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