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Originally Posted by M. Steng
Well, "actual" Italians (whatever that means)
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People from Italy
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call their marinara sauce "salsa", so they must clearly be wrong since we have a different name for it.
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Salse translation is sauce
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Restaurants might call it bolognese. Some Italian-American families call it gravy.
Why is anything called what it is? It's a regional/cultural thing. We've been calling it that in my family for as long as I can remember. My mom's parents are off the boat and my dad's mom is 2nd generation, is that "actually" Italian enough for you?
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Just curious on how that term was generated, since it's not an actual Italian thing. At least in Southern Italy, where my FIL was born and raised, and we still have a ton of family (100+ cousons, zias, zios), it's not a term. What part of Italy is your family from?