Grandma's Gabagool: Cold Cuts as Metaphor for Italian American Generational Trauma

Watched the show through 3 times the most recent being last summer, and I still think about it almost daily. Today I can't stop thinking about all the cold cut eating and talk in the show, and uncovered more David Chase genius.

Processed Italian meats are the perfect metaphor of Italian American generational trauma.

As a 3rd gen Italian American I know I shouldn't eat a lot but the nostalgia of these meats with my family keeps me coming back for more. It's a literal trauma on my body when I eat it on top of the societal ramifications of living in the drug haze of nostalgia.

Further Italians through economic status having to learn to raise and butcher their meat and preserve it in this process, gives interesting insight on how people in the family are similarly raised for slaughter.