The Omnivorous Fish

I know this seems completely uninteresting, but I learned a new Sicilian word today, and it’s a good one: saìmi. It means lard, which in Italian is strutto, or sugna.

Most of the Italian I’ve spoken over the years has been with Sicilian people, and sometimes we’ve spoken Sicilian, and sometimes Italian with a lot of Sicilian vocabulary, idioms and accent. I never had the occasion, however, to say lard, but now I can.