Eating Macaroni
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| Food vendors hawk their wares by demonstrating the proper way to eat it. To consume macaroni “the Neapolitan way” required that the pasta be “swallowed down in a single, uninterrupted mouthful.” Many tourists took it upon themselves to organize such spectacles. Simply tossing a coin or two to the lazzaroni, the street beggars, would elicit a mad dash to consume the macaroni. |
