You've made a huge mess. It's usually associated with putting freshly bought eggs at the bottom of the grocery bag. They break, and the damage is done; we won't be eating tonight...
Made even more delicious by the fact that you can easily eat them hands-free. These exquisite morsels of veal, sage, and raw ham, browned in butter, literally leap into your mouth once they're on your plate, a characteristic associated with that healthy laziness we Romans inherited from the ancient "otium" (idleness) of the imperial era...
It's "pinzimonio," as we call it in Rome. Fresh raw vegetables (carrots, celery, fennel) and a well-seasoned oil with salt and pepper, simple and delicious!
You take one of the vegetables, dip it in the oil, and munch on it loudly...
