I once yelled at a Sicilian girl of about 8 in Palermo who was up to no good. Believe me, I won’t be doing THAT again.
My husband’s stepmother and her family are from Palermo. Good gravy, those people are *vivid*! Great cooking, though. “Eat more, you have to eat more. It not good for da baby for you to be da skinny!” (When you look like an eggplant, it’s nice to have someone think you’re skinny ... ;-).