I think I have found my favourite Scalfani moment. It’s 1:10 into his Christmas Lasagna video (
here). He tries to humbleflex his Italian-American heritage by *accidentally* saying “mutzarell” instead of pronouncing mozzarella like a real human, and apologises for it with a super shit-eating look on his face like he’s just accidentally whipped out his giant sophisticated multicultural tuxedo cock and accidentally revealed that his great grandmother once stood under the same cloud as an Italian immigrant in 1903.
He also says that his grandmother pronounced ricotta as a weird guttural bark like something out of HP Lovecraft: “R’igADD” or something like that. I have no idea why Italian Americans do not know how to pronounce Italian words. Ironic anyway, in that this is exactly how Jack will talk all the time in a couple of years.