Carmine –

Carmine was born in Rome and his lived here for all of his days. For a better part of those days, he has worked in the butcher shop Orelli, thirty five years to be exact. He is the big boss, as was his fathers and his father’s fathers since 1860. The specialty of this particular butcher shop is a special type of lamb called abbacchio. Being the boss of a butcher shop, he didn’t have much time to explain that the line of work. He liked American students, but not us so much. He seemed to think we were being rude by taking his time by interviewing him.

New words learned during the interview:

Titolare – boss

Maceleria – butcher

Abacchio – lamb

Mario –

Mario was born in Umbria near Perugia. He has lived in Rome for thirty seven years, and for thirty five of those years he has worked at the butcher shop called Rucceri in the Campo di Fiori. In addition to being a butcher shop, they also sell wine, liquor and other assorted items. The specialty of this shop is Estere which is a type of ham. A really good type of sandwich, as explained by Mario, is putting prosciutto and salumi together. Other good meats they serve are tachino and mortadella. The conversation changed to the topic of soccer. We found out he is a Milan fan, and us being AS Roma fans were not very pleased. We laughed a great deal about the recent game where Rome beat Milan 3 to 1. He laughingly said that Rome would have lost if Ronaldo were playing. When we asked about Ronaldo, he said he is fat and lazy but a good player.

Salsiccia – sausage

Mortadella – what we know as baloney

Tacchino - turkey