I'm thinking the same thing....fagioli...but I've actually heard "fazool" in some stupid Hollywood raping of the Italian language somewhere...and it was fucking funny, too.
Probably the Hollywood teroni in NYC. The only thing worse than teroni are Hollywood teroni that don't even know their own culture.
I shouldn't be so hard on our southern friends...at least they know how to cook! I'm just a cracker, anyway, LOL!
I always give my friends shit for their refusal to speak anything but Italian, but sometimes they have a right to be proud of their language, especially when some jerkoff gumbah from Brooklyn opens his mouth and butchers it.
Since everything is dubbed (doppiato) in Italy on tv, my friends always say that Italy has the best dubbers in the world. I always respond with, "Yeah, because they're the ONLY ones who do it. Everyone else is speaking English."
That always garners a chuckle or two...sometimes even a guffaw.