he's sleeping with the anchovies
By Todd Stadler · Saturday, March 24, 2001 5:59pm
I was sitting in a Godfather's Pizza joint the other day. (pause) You know, I'll bet there are a lot of good stories that start that way.
Anyhow, Godfather's is a really weird place. How many other American chain restaurants can claim to be named after organized crime? Especially ones that started in Omaha, Nebraska. When I think of the mob, I think of Omaha.
It just struck me as odd that anyone would think it a good idea to associate their pizza with murderers and drug dealers. Does it give it that special "edge"? Lend an air of street cred? Or is it simply an arrangement with the mob, maybe serving as the PR branch of the Genovese crime family?
But then, it's best not to question too deeply here. I may have already said too much.