I struggled with this damn thing for weeks trying to figure out what she was saying. "Plate of veal" was as close as I could come. I was only about 12. Then several weeks later, I was singing it at the top of my lungs in the shower and my older sister overheard me. Being an Italian family we always had veal, and she had a plate of raw veal for me when I got out of the shower. She said, "This is a plate of veal. Love is a battlefield!"
