
Earlier this week, I spotted a woman getting out of a car, wearing a familiar Gucci logo emblazoned on her black t-shirt. But after blinking and rubbing my eyes, I realized that the word under the emblem most certainly wasn't "Gucci."
Instead, there in bold, white letters, the word "Gnocchi" was scrawled across the shirt — the same one, I might add, that was once sported by Joe Gorga of "Real Housewives of New Jersey" fame — proud and brazen. As someone who was born and raised in a predominantly Italian-American area, I understood the appeal.