Anyone drop the vowel at the end of some Italian foods?

[Thus Spoke Mainer]

Mozzarell, Manicott, Locatell, Rocott, Rigaton, Antipast (are just a few). I've heard this is a NY/North Jersey thing but spread when The Sopranos popularized these expressions.

 

[RickinDayton]

Mozzarell, Manicott, Locatell, Rocott, Rigaton, Antipast (are just a few). I've heard this is a NY/North Jersey thing but spread when The Sopranos popularized these expressions.

Occasionally from my Italian relatives & friends in the Philly area. I don't drop the vowel.

 

[91Joe95]

Mozzarell, Manicott, Locatell, Rocott, Rigaton, Antipast (are just a few). I've heard this is a NY/North Jersey thing but spread when The Sopranos popularized these expressions.

No.

 

[Psubiomed]

Mozzarell, Manicott, Locatell, Rocott, Rigaton, Antipast (are just a few). I've heard this is a NY/North Jersey thing but spread when The Sopranos popularized these expressions.

Joe Paterno always added an r on the end.

 

[SheldonJoe2215]

Drop a vowel?? I think I've heard more people add a 'zzz' sound to the end.

Mozzarellaz, Rigatoneez...

 

[LMTLION]

Joe Paterno always added an r on the end.

Older generation NYC/NJ Italians added r’s to some words and removed vowels from some of the foods indicated by the OP.

 

[JoeLion]

I strongly dislike it….dropping the last vowel.

 

[Chickenman Testa]

One of the funniest Sopranos is when they head over to Naples and find out they aren’t Italian. Italian ethnic background - sure; Italian - no

Paulie was so happy to get back to North Jersey after suffering insult upon insult from the natives

 

[LionFan87b]

I don't mind when people drop the vowel, since they don't know better or that's just their dialect. But I have to laugh when I say it in proper Italian and they correct me!