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Old 04-04-2011, 04:10 PM   #1
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Well, the story on the three beans is sketchy. It's called being served "con mosca", which actually means "with flies", the prevailing wisdom being that passing flies would see a few of their dead brothers floating in the sweet liquid, and avoid it.
I had always heard from old Italians it was for luck. Whatever the reason it is still something I have to fish out of the glass with a fork so I order it without. The fire is just burning up perfectly good alcohol so I'm not interested in that either.
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Old 04-04-2011, 04:13 PM   #2
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I had always heard from old Italians it was for luck.
Well, they have a lot of flies there. I suppose any day one of them doesn't end up floating dead in your fucking Sambuca is probably a lucky one.
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