playful ethnic stereotypes
Mom and I had a rousing conversation about how all our traditional family recipes are pronounced and spelled totally differently from their official versions. (e.g. what was "pungwai" to my grandma turned out to be, um, "pancotto" to Wikipedia . No foolin.)
You know what I really love about being Italian-American? When a redneck family gets something dead-wrong, it's "ignorant." When an Italian family does it, it's "rustic." :D