Capicola to Italians, capocollo to Americans, capicolla to Canadians, "gabagoul" to Tony Soprano... whatever you call it, capicola is made from the neck of the pig, prized for it's perfect ratio of 30% fat to 70% lean, making the meat moist and tender.
Formally known as capicola, gabagool is by no means the most trendy or popular of the Italian cold cuts, but it is, just on the mouth, the most fun to say.
sopranos but just gabagool (extended cold cut edition)
What is the nickname for Gabagool?
According to Joe Stracci, part-time salami slinger at Marbled Meat Shop in Cold Spring, gabagool is another name for capicola, an Italian cured meat that combines the Italian words for head (capo) and neck (collo).
It's actually a goofy English-orthography rendition of stu cazz, which means "this dick" (implicitly "my dick") in many regional languages from southern Italy (often accompanied by a very explicit hand weaving towards the crotch).
Marone! This is another exclamation that you will hear frequently in The Sopranos and in context, it means "damn it!" Just as with the above examples of slang from the show, this too is actually a corrupted version of a standard Italian word.
Is there a difference between capicola and Gabagool?
Linguists and historians believe that the pronunciation of capicola as "gabagool" came from Italian dialects morphing and evolving as they were passed from generation to generation of immigrants in America. No matter how it sounds, gabagool and capicola are the same thing—and delicious no matter now you say it.
For example capicola is known as gabagool to many Italian-Americans because they held onto their families native dialects. Capi-cola sounds like gabagool because the c turns into a g and instead of ca-pi it is ga-ba.
When discussing mob activities, Tony Soprano would often enjoy a “gabagool,” aka capicola, and peppers sandwich at Satriale's. There were Sunday dinners with a full-course spread and then there was Artie Buco's restaurant.
With the arrival of Southern Italian immigrants in America, this appellation used among Southern Italian males, cumpà, became the Anglicized "goombah" or "gumba" to American ears.
But after this early violence, the episode turns hilarious, showering us with puns, ridiculous characters, wry cuts, a funny-cuz-it's-dull anecdote about John Gotti, bad music, bad musicians, and finally rounds things off with a practical joke on next-door neighbor Cusamano (whose nickname—Cooz—takes a vulgar ...
Capicola to Italians, capocollo to Americans, capicolla to Canadians, "gabagoul" to Tony Soprano... whatever you call it, capicola is made from the neck of the pig, prized for it's perfect ratio of 30% fat to 70% lean, making the meat moist and tender.
We don't just see Tony overeating in the show so that he has something to do in the scene; it's strategically woven throughout the show to demonstrate his constant need for satisfaction. He can't find it emotionally, so he gorges on food to find some joy in his torturous life.
The yacht, now called "Never Enough," appeared in at least two episodes of the show under its previous name, "The Stugots, "an Italian-American slang term referencing male genitals.
Tony Soprano owned two boats throughout the series — “The Stugots” and “The Stugots II” — which were portrayed by three different models. "Stugots" refers to an Italian slang word for male genitalia.
Comare (typically pronounced "goomar") is a term for a made man's mistress. Throughout the series, members of various organized Italian-American crime families are shown to keep a comare.
Title reference. The episode's title is a play on Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart." Moozadell is rough Italian-American slang for mozzarella cheese (from the Southern pronunciation muzzarell') but can also be used as a derogatory name for an Italian man, according to Michael Imperioli.
