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“We don’t eat in an old country store for woke burgers,” one commenter wrote.

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That's not to say there isn't still a huge amount of goodwill towards everyone from the "old country".

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I have an array of friends who learned later in life that their uncles were really their fathers, that Grandma had a whole other family back in the old country.

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The players were immigrants or the sons of immigrants, playing a game that was considered a national pastime in the old country but little more than a waste of time in the new one.

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The bulk of Maniscalco’s most recognizable bits revolve around stories about his hairdresser father, Salvo, whose no-nonsense immigrant wisdom is exported from the old country.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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