Sorry to repeat this.... if I did say it already...

getting bad when I can't remember what I've said.

This last NYE I was in England... we went to the home of one of my son's friends who is Italian, as is his wife. Their parents were in from Italy for NYE. Italians come prepared.... no chance they were going to risk English food, they brought their own... and enough for several families for several weeks.

They loved me.... or my story... granddad who came to American from Italy, worked to get enough money to bring his family to America, bought a small patch of land and started a farm.

So anyway... they each had their own homemade Limoncello... their own homemade prosciutto, olives, cheeses, you name it, they had it, all home made. Probably the best I've ever eaten... .but the BEST part...

Was the feuding between them on whose delicacies were best and which I like the most. To an outsider it would have much appeared like the police should have been called in... but I'm Italian and understand it was just conversation. The cursing, the overly exuberant gestures, the storming out and then back into the room. IOW, normal.

So the Limoncello.... I can't handle much alcohol these days.... so when I had to taste this one, then that one, then retest this one and that one again... while they watched for me to give my judgement - - I knew I was in trouble. My son to the rescue... knowing this was going to happen he and his friend, (who knew it was going to happen as well), had prepared a counterfeit bottle of Limoncello... no alcohol. Unbeknownst to the feuding Dad's I was drinking straight lemonade. Oh sure, I tasted the real stuff... it was sublime... but I doubt if I had more than a full shot between both.

And to note: THEY kept drinking the real stuff all that time.... I don't know how they did it. - JamesJM