Bluebirds with an Italian Connection

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17-07-23, 10:32
cyril evans awaydays

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Originally Posted by Random in Duquesa

Correct Harry. My dad was from Bardi and took me to my first City game in 66/67 season.
Bracchi ended up a generic name for the cafes that were in every valley town, like station cafe, Blackwood. They sold food quite cheap and had the big silver coffee machine that made frothy coffee so hot it would burn the roof of your mouth away. Asteys in town was the same.

It was always a source of confusion for me as the "bracchi" in Abertridwr was owned by a family with the surname Bracchi!
17-07-23, 10:33
JamesWales

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Leo Fortune-Wests first name is, presumably, Italian. Maybe.
17-07-23, 10:37
Don Corleone

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Binman and I’s grandfather also came from Bardi
17-07-23, 10:50
Baloo

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Tosh managed Catania FC.
17-07-23, 11:02
Taunton Blue Genie

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Originally Posted by Don Corleone

Binman and I’s grandfather also came from Bardi

I's?
17-07-23, 11:08
Wales-Bales

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Originally Posted by Tuerto

Anymore out there? However loose the connection is.

I'm sure a few of the players must have bought the Pink Floyd Live in Pompeii album.
17-07-23, 11:35
The Bloop

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(Mahlon) Romeo and Juliet was set in Verona
17-07-23, 12:36
Bobby Dandruff

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Originally Posted by Rjk

ahem

Oops.
17-07-23, 12:57
binman

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Don Corleone is my brother. Our grandfather was from Bardi and is now buried there

Another link is that my twin 21 year old boys who sit in The Canton were conceived in Bardi as there’s bugger all else to do there 😂😂
17-07-23, 15:58
bobh

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I like pasta and pizza.
17-07-23, 16:07
Harry Lime

Re: Bluebirds with an Italian Connection

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Originally Posted by Random in Duquesa

Correct Harry. My dad was from Bardi and took me to my first City game in 66/67 season.
Bracchi ended up a generic name for the cafes that were in every valley town, like station cafe, Blackwood. They sold food quite cheap and had the big silver coffee machine that made frothy coffee so hot it would burn the roof of your mouth away. Asteys in town was the same.

Incredible how so many came from a very small village. We had a bracchi in Margam owned by the Tambini family. I remember place decked out in bunting and flags in 1982 when Italy won the world cup. The cafe is still there, owned by the same family. Somebody told me that the owner's son is a regular at the CCS.
17-07-23, 16:18
Taunton Blue Genie

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Originally Posted by bobh

I like pasta and pizza.

Did you know that many names of pasta can be translated thus:

Linguine: little tongues
Fettuccini: little ribbons
Spaghetti: little strings
Vermicelli: little worms
Farfalline: little butterflies
Penne: pens/feathers (as in quills)
Strozzapretti: priest chokers
Tortelli: little pies

Ciao.
17-07-23, 16:39
The Bloop

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Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

Did you know that many names of pasta can be translated thus:

Linguine: little tongues
Fettuccini: little ribbons
Spaghetti: little strings
Vermicelli: little worms
Farfalline: little butterflies
Penne: pens/feathers (as in quills)
Strozzapretti: priest chokers
Tortelli: little pies

Ciao.

Did you know that the volume of a pizza with radius=z and height =a is pizza

Cheers butt.

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