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How Deep Is Your Love ... for Pizza? Enough to cram two slices into your face at once? [From the website myatari.]
I was goofin' around on the Web yesterday and found this image of Tony Manero (John Travolta) from Saturday Night Fever eating pizza. Employing a novel approach to downing two slices at once, Mr. Manero has folded the pieces around each other. Filmed in Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst, Saturday Night Fever's main character would have grown up around plenty of good pizza. Unfortunately, there are only a handful of worthwhile pizzerias still operating in those neighborhoods. L&B Spumoni Gardens (Bensonhurst) and Lento's (Bay Ridge) come to mind.
Update: Tony Manero double-folded his slices at Lenny's.
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4 Comments:
Best blog post title. Ever.
I'm gonna have to try a well folded double-decker next time I'm getting a few slices in the LES at 2am.
Slice Coolfer Glenn at 4:17PM on 06/09/04
This is a very late reply to Coolfer's comment, but I just tried Manero's trick. It is NOT an advisable way to eat pizza. Throws off the balance of crust/sauce/cheese. It's something you should do once in your life—and then run away from it.
Adam Kuban at 3:15AM on 12/16/05
I tried a whole pie at Lenny's and was not impressed. It is mediocre Brooklyn, which is the highest standard for pizza in the world.
I think they fall short of the standard. I would rather have my favorite neighborhood pizza than go to Bensonhurst and eat at Lenny's.
It tasted kind of stale and the crust had to be chewed too much. Chewing gum is cheaper than pizza. The taste was also mediocre Brooklyn.
peppertree5706 at 11:45AM on 11/23/07
Lenny's has never really been more than a mediocre pie, but the joint is typical of an old school Brooklyn pizzeria that anyone who grew up here would remember fondly. The days when there was literally a pizzeria, bakery and deli/bagel shop on every (and I mean every) block.
I worked for a while at a sporting goods store a few blocks from Lenny's and couldn't resist buying two stacked slices and strutting to work in my
sharp shoes one morning.
Lenny's is about a little lost piece of time that existed under the 86th street El in Bensonhurst in the 70's. Good and bad, there were characters you won't forget.
If you make the trip, look for the framed posters of a young Travolta and Stallone both wearing fur coats. Priceless.
DIMATAL at 12:13AM on 03/04/08