Who's hungry?

We had a big laugh in Italian class today. Usually, everyday we learn some type of new vocabulary. Today, we went over vocab for different types of food. Like, Onions = Cipelle, Apples = Mele, Carne = Meat, Sandwhich = Sangwich etc. etc... We learned how to say breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Then, my teacher says, "We also have the snakes." Everyone in class was saying, "What?" She's like, "You know, the kids from home from school and they eat the little snakes (with a dead serious face)." We were wondering what the hell she was talking about. We still aren't sure how everything works in Italy, but usually when kids come home from school in America they eat Oreo's or something.

Finally, she realized what she was saying...Obviously, she meant to say "snacks" not "snakes," but she messed up her English pronunctiation. Everyone was laughing so hard. And even after we corrected her, she kept calling them snakes for the remainder of class. It was stupid, but little things like this help us get through four days in a row of 2 hour periods of Italian class.