I can appreciate some of it as I'm also 100% Italian and spend every Christmas Eve the same way with my whole family (except I don't dare eat the fried smelts with the heads on them or the whole squids that look very slimy ).
dude that perfectly pegged the chick I almost married at my parents house for christmas, 'cept she was a drinker so that gave her a few brownie points Apparently not enough though