I’m also watching the show over again. It’s sad in hindsight watching James G’s health decline each season. I can’t believe how much he huffed & puffed. He was fairly thin for the first season. He was in a film way back with Geena Davis & I was shocked at how thin he was. What an incredible actor he was 🙁

@Beck47 said:

Especially with the capacollo or capicola sandwiches he always ate. Talk about a fatty deli meat. Always bugged me when they called it "gabagool" for some odd reason. Sort of o/t but my favorite meal is linguine with clams. The fact that Tony didn't get much exercise probably did not help.

They use altered pronounciations on a lot of Italian words. Some of it is probably Neapolitan dialect and some of it is maybe a diaspora thing. Like vaffanculo is "vaffangool", manicotta "manigot", braciole "brazhol", sto cazzo "stugots".