Originally published at: New pillow for middle-aged Italian men who just moved out of their parent's house | Boing Boing
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… I am so confused 
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Kind of funnier if you don’t put the punchline in the headline.
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We took a budget vacation on Italy’s classic Amalfi coast a couple of decades ago and were told that Italian men remained with parents because of high rents otherwise. So, they’re only cheap fellows.
My over-thirty nephew still lives at home with his folks, who put up with his gaming mania and smelly iguanas. He works stocking vegetables at a local market so his claim of poverty makes sense. Sad.
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Italian courts periodically made international media over the years with a series of rulings ordering parents to provide not just lodging but also financial support to grown children (always sons in the stories I read) even when said sons were well into their 30s and beyond.
Though apparently their Supreme Court recently reversed that policy.
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The sketch is about Italian American men.
I’ll never get used to the American habit of saying “I am x nationality” when they mean “I am x American by descent”.
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Yeah, but the headline isn’t.
(As I’ve noted previously, who reads beyond the headlines?) 
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That doesn’t explain South Philly.
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To the extent that it’s a valid cultural stereotype I believe its origins come from the Mother Country, as it were.
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How’s the pillow going to smell like cookery and make apnea machine noises? Does it come with a nice nest in the pergola for when you have guests?
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