Last year some friends and I went to Calabria to visit a class mate of us. It was his birthday.
While we were at his birthday party, one of our friend was hungry and on the table there were a lot of typical dishes. He took a plate on the table, he thought that it was a big piece of cake, but he didn’t know how wrong he was! After the first piece of that "strange cake", he changed color and he began to sweat. At first we laughed about that joke, but then we started worrying because we knew that it wasn't a cake at all but a very very spicy sausage. He asked for help and we passed him a glass of milk because it is one of the most effective methods against spicy. Water or other similar drink do not help much against the spicy. Since that day every time our friend eats spicy he holds a glass of milk in his hand.. just in case!
The name of the food our friend confused with a cake is 'nduja or simply duja. The name originates from the Latin word "inducere" that means to introduce. 'nduja consists of meat and spices. The anduja is typically associated to the entire Calabria: it is usually made of fatty pork meat with the addition of Calabrian hot pepper, stuffed into the blind gut and finally smoked. The 'nduja is consumed on a slice of toasted bread or it can taste even better if used fried to cook a sauce.
Glossary
Nduja: meat, and extra spicy spreadable Calabrian. Spicy: having an agreeably pungent taste Spreadable: it’s like a cream that you can spread, for example, on a piece of bread Classmate: when someone is with you in your school classroom Sweat: when you feel hot water evaporates off the surface of your skin Laugh: when someone find something funny he laughs Joke: it’s like a prank, a little game with friends Sausage: highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings Spices: any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food Fatty: containing or composed of fat Blind gut: initial part of the intestine Slice: a thin flat piece cut off of some foods Sauce: flavorful relish served as an accompaniment to food
Welcome to America! The rich country, the powerful world power, where people criticize other people for the skin color, vote inefficient politicians and do war without any reason.
Hey, but we’re in America, don’t they live well here?
This song was very criticized for the irony with which EMINEM talks about subjects like police, racism and the average American man. Eminem is a perfect example of the union between the black culture and the white culture: that’s why our newsroom thinks that the lyrics should be read and understood deeply. Here is the lyrics:
America, hahaha, we love you, how many people are proud to be citizens of this beautiful
Country of ours, the stripes and the stars for the rights that men have died for to protect,
The women and men who have broke their neck's for the freedom of speech the United States
Government has sworn to uphold, or
(You, I want everybody to listen to the words of this song) so we're told...
I never would've dreamed in a million years I'd see,
So many motherfucking people who feel like me, who share the same views
And the same exact beliefs, it's like a fucking army marching in back of me, so many lives I
Touch, so much anger aimed, in no particular direction, just sprays and sprays, and straight
Through your radio waves it plays and plays, 'till it stays stuck in your head for days and
Days, who would of thought, standing in this mirror bleaching my hair, with some peroxide,
Reaching for a t-shirt to wear, that I would catapult to the forefront of rap like this, how
Could I predict my words would have an impact like this, I must've struck a chord, with somebody
Up in the office, cause congress keeps telling me I ain't causing nuthin' but problems, and now
They're saying I'm in trouble with the government, I'm loving it, I shoveled shit all my life,
And now I'm dumping it on...
[Chorus]
White America, I could be one of your kids, white America, little Eric looks just like this,
White America, Erica loves my shit, I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get, white America, I
Could be one of your kids, white America, little Eric looks just like this, white America, Erica
Loves my shit, I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get...
Look at these eyes, baby blue, baby just like yourself, if they were brown, Shady lose, Shady
Sits on the shelf, but Shady's cute, Shady knew, Shady's dimple's would help, make ladies swoon
Baby, {ooh baby}, look at my sales, let's do the math, if I was black, I would've sold half, I
Ain't have to graduate from Lincoln high school to know that, but I could rap, so fuck school,
I'm too cool to go back, gimme the mic, show me where the fucking studio's at, when I was
Underground, no one gave a fuck I was white, no labels wanted to sign me, almost gave up, I was
Like, fuck it, until I met Dre, the only one to look past, gave me a chance, and I lit a fire up
Under his ass, helped him get back to the top, every fan black that I got, was probably his in
Exchange for every white fan that he's got, like damn, we just swapped, sitting back looking at
Shit, wow, I'm like my skin is it starting to work to my benefit now, it's...
[Chorus]
See the problem is, I speak to suburban kids, who otherwise would of never knew these words
Exist, whose mom's probably would of never gave two squirts of piss, 'till I created so much
Motherfucking turbulence, straight out the tube, right into your living room I came, and kids
Flipped when they knew I was produced by Dre, that's all it took, and they were instantly hooked
Right in, and they connected with me too because I looked like them, that's why they put my
Lyrics up under this microscope, searching with a fine tooth comb, it s like this rope, waiting
To choke, tightening around my throat, watching me while I write this, like I don't like this,
Nope, all I hear is, lyrics, lyrics, constant controversy, sponsors working 'round the clock, to
Try to stop my concerts early, surely hip-hop was never a problem in Harlem, only in Boston,
After it bothered the fathers of daughters starting to blossom, so now I'm catching the flack
From these activists when they ragging, acting like I'm the first rapper to smack a bitch, or
Say faggot, shit, just look at me like I'm your closest pal, the poster child, the motherfucking
Spokesman now for...
[Chorus]
So to the parents of America, I am the derringer aimed at little Erica, to attack her
Character, the ringleader of this circus of worthless pawns, sent to lead the march right up to
The steps of congress, and piss on the lawns of the White House, to burn the casket and replace
It with a parental advisory sticker, to spit liquor in the faces of in this democracy of
Hypocrisy, fuck you Ms. Cheney, fuck you Tipper Gore, fuck you with the freest of speech this
Divided states of embarrassment will allow me to have, fuck you, [vocal melody],
He, hahaha, I'm just playing America, you know I love you...
Glossary
Proud: when you are proud you feel satisfaction with yourself (proud=arrogant, sometimes) Citizens: people who live in a country Strips and stars: it is a reference to the American flag Freedom of speech: a situation in which all people can speak freely Sworn: promised Uphold: to support something Believe: for example, I believe in Santa Claus Anger: a strong emotion you feel when you think someone has done you wrong Waves: Eminem means the radio signal Stuck in your head: something fixed in your head Bleaching my hair: make hair lighter, for example make it blonde Ain’t: it is a slang expressions to say “I am not”
Trouble: difficulty Trl: Total Request Live, it is an American TV program Swoon: to faint, to overcome with emotion Give a fuck: not being interested in something Gave a chance: to give an opportunity Suburban: people who doesn’t live in a centre of a city Lyrics: the words of a song Comb: a small plastic or wooden tool you can use to untangle your hair in the morning Choke: when someone suffocates Throat: neck Bothered: when someone is annoyed Faggot: an offensive slang term Pal: friend Derringer: it is a small pistol Worthless: without any value Parental advisory: it’s a sort of parental control on the children’s computer Allow: to consent something
Last year some friends and I went to Calabria to visit a class mate of us. It was his birthday. 
