Please don't call them Italian. I bet they are not even Italian citizen and have been living their whole life in the US.
I can't really understand why you call yourself a great and big nation when everytime you write about someone you specify which nationality one's grandgrandfather was.

It was the same if they were any other American family living in FL and moving to North Dakota.

As an Italian born, raised and living in Italy I am very disappointed by that remark. You really believe all the Italians spend their time like in the Sopranos? Do you really think that after three of four generations grown up in the USA they are like the real Italians?

If you call them Italians what am I? An ape?

This is the first time Neatorama disappoints me.
Bad bad bad.

I can't believe you falled for the line "Prosit" is a Swedish word!

It is a latin word used when toasting.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_(honor)

We use them in Italy, too. apparently for the same reason the other people wrote but I have strong doubts they work.

Lion does not sleep at night: they hunt!

count me on!