If It Weren’t For Mob Contracts, Americans Wouldn’t Eat Pizza
June 28, 2022
Harry “the Hunch”:Who’s the muscle on the Cerrera hit?Vinny:Nobody I know.Harry “the Hunch”:Well, if it weren’t for outside contracts, Americans wouldn’t eat pizza.Vinny:How do you figure?Harry “the Hunch”:Aww, this business is doomed ’cause you kids ain’t got no sense of history! Now Lucky figured the best way to get rid of a business problem was to bring in outside muscle. Make the hit, send ’em home. Works to this day. But Genovese, he opened a pizza parlor in Red Hook. Brought in Sicilian muscle to work it. They’d stay a week, a month; get a go on a hit; and boom. Back to Sicily with an American fortune. Next thing you know, there’s pizza stands from Brooklyn to Baltimore.— “New Blood” – Wiseguy, Season 1 (1987)
