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A local grandson has been distraught to learn that the blue tub in his nonna’s freezer is actually just rock-frozen tomato sauce, not the neapolitan ice cream he was expecting.
After being given free licence on his maternal grandmother’s fridge, the 7-year-old went straight to the freezer to sauce for frozen treats that nonna sometimes buys after seeing ads on the television.
“Oh there’s ice cream in here” shouts Richard, a prominent junior soccer player at South Betoota Primary.
What happened next broke the third-generation Italian-Australian boy’s heart.
“Oh man! I had the milo out and everything. This is disgusting”
Nonna responds by saying her grandson does not need ice cream, but urged him to pass her that container as she was going to heat it up anyway.
“You look hungry? You hungry!?” she says.
The practice of freezing tomato sauce is a common practice in post-war migrant communities, as the nation’s nonnas are known as prolific over-cookers, who assume each one of their grandchildren will consume three servings at each meal.
Last year, it was revealed that the nation’s nonnas don’t give a fuck if you ate earlier, after a 30-something man was forced to eat another dinner at 10:30 pm after visiting his grandparents in North-NSW.
