Comments on: goomba goombah gumba gumbah

By: David Giacalone

David Giacalone — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:56:30 +0000

Thanks for sharing your experience, Dolores, which sounds a lot like my own here in Upstate New York. A few people do probably use “goombah” as an insult, but we need to take the word back and secure its place of honor.

By: Dolores Zacconi

Dolores Zacconi — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:23:06 +0000

As a NY EYE-talian American living in California, I grew up with my dad’s goombahs – relatives and close male friends who would visit, drink wine and play pinochle or canasta. The term was always used with a slap on the back, a warm hand shake and a hug.Didn’t Julius LaRosa sing “Hey, Compare”. We used goombah as a term of friendship, inclusion, and affection. I have a goombah here on the West Coast, my high school friend Paul Salvo. The connection is as strong as blood – this Eye talian business……lucky me. Judge Hoos is not Italian; goombah is not the same as WOP, trust me. It may be used kiddingly, but not to put someone down. My upbringing was different from his – oh yeah.

By: Judge D. Hoos

Judge D. Hoos — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:35:02 +0000

you know, im german, an i have views the same way ppl conduct business, and sitituations, as ppl who uses it to be hateful thats not a good outlook, its wrong, and true friends/blood run along the same time, an thats how its is, it comes from how you were raised, and you are who you are goomba, wop, is hate and disrespect. Judge Hoos

By: Jack Mansell

Jack Mansell — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:52:12 +0000

Thanks for the mention….Gubmahs Italian Beef, Vallejo,CA
http://www.gumbahs.com