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Daniel Day-Lewis in Nine isn't the only mangia-cake flinging around a "spicy meatball" accent on the big screen these days.
Edmonton Sun 2010
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Daniel Day-Lewis in Nine isn't the only mangia-cake flinging around a "spicy meatball" accent on the big screen these days.
Toronto Sun 2010
alexz commented on the word mangia-cake
" The Italian-Canadian word mangia-cake means to eat cake, but it is also a derogatory term used by some Canadians of Italian descent to refer to a non-Italian."
2015 article https://www.kelownanow.com/news/news/Lifestyle/15/06/25/Twerk_Meh_and_Inukshuk_Some_of_the_New_Words_Added_to_Oxford_Dictionary/
'“Italo-Canadians to this day refer to some English Canadians as ‘mangia-cakes,’ cake-eaters, to imply the limits of their diets compared to that of the Mediterranean countries.”'
2015 Montreal Gazette article
http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/watchwords-english-is-creeping-into-the-italian-language
November 4, 2016