the old country

I have an array of friends who learned later in life that their uncles were really their fathers, that Grandma had a whole other family back in the old country.

The players were immigrants or the sons of immigrants, playing a game that was considered a national pastime in the old country but little more than a waste of time in the new one.

It's going to be called Mafia: The Old Country, and while we didn't get a release date or launch window, we've been promised more details in December.

The bulk of Maniscalco’s most recognizable bits revolve around stories about his hairdresser father, Salvo, whose no-nonsense immigrant wisdom is exported from the old country.

The backlash was almost immediate from a subset of the brand’s fans who viewed the move as, at best, incongruous with the old country store experience or, worse in their eyes, a sign Cracker Barrel had gone “woke.”