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Kathleen Remembers Trying Pizza
Transcript
SIGRIST: Tell me what that first night in America was like?
SIGRIST: So she fed you?
LAMBERTI:She fed, oh, yes, she fed us. (she laughs) And my Uncle Joe brought in, he brought in a pizza pie. And I, we looked at that and they said, "Now, this is pizza pie." And Mother said, "Oh, what is that?" This dreadful looking stuff. It was awful. Mother said, "Mmm." Didn't eat that. Well, we were very disappointed. When we got his back turned we put it out. We threw it out. But we didn't, we didn't know what it was. To eat tomatoes in a pie. That was dreadful. (she laughs) Then, but we did grow to love it.
Description
Kathleen Magennis Lamberti recalls trying pizza for the first time after immigrating from Ireland to America in 1921 in this excerpt from her Ellis Island oral history interview.
Duration
38 seconds
Credit
Ellis Island Oral History Collection
Date Created
02/25/1994
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