Vile Mystical Pizza (was Re: VLVL 4: War, politics and love)

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Dec 29 11:29:28 CST 2003


> But that  would make for a greasy pizza ...

Um, is this the guy that lives in an FQ? 

In Brooklyn, where Pizza was invented, they fold the slice (BTW, pie are
round here and slices triangular in shape)  and the grease slides to the
crease and down your wrist. You can tell a Brooklyn kid by the mixed
greases and Italian Ice dyes on his wrist.  In the Bronx,  we're a
little more sophisticated than that. We fold the pizza slice and the
grease slides to the crease but we don't let the oil get on our wrist,
we suck it up at the crust end. The action looks funny when a Brazilian
does it cause it's the same gesture they make when they say their
hungry. And there is something about the way a Brazilian says, I'm 
hungry that's unforgettable.  It's like the way girls bite a hole in the
bottom of a Carvell ice-cream cone and suck. In Queens they use so much
olive oil, bein that the Greeks and the Italians own all the Pizza
joints, that it's not uncommon to see a kid from Queens dripping from
both elbows. Mexicans make all the Pizza in NYC and Chinese own and
operate all the Mexican fast food joints.  In Manhattan anything goes.
And most everything has. Little Italy is so tiny now that it should be
called used to be Little Italy. My favorite Pizza parlor, just over the
Third Avenue Bridge, puts pineapples and pig on the slices and they call
it Hawaiian even though a lot of Brazilians put coconut and pumpkin
(sweet potato) on it and call it Bon yeda. A bon yeda is a bath tub.
It's also what they call a station wagon or any big "boat" like car down
in Brazil.



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