Luca Brasi sleeps with the anchovies/Reuters

Maybe I’m still spacey from my 4-day hunger strike to get Paris released from the clink (damn right it worked), but just wondering out loud here – why are some of the biggest pizza chains in the country associated with heavy-handed, dictatorial types? Think about it: Round Table (King Arthur), Godfather’s Pizza, Little Caesars.

One little and formerly unimportant pie shack off the Belleville Turnpike in Jersey isn’t named for a vicious overlord — it has just played alongside one on TV. We speak of course of Pizzaland and Tony Soprano.

The pride of North Arlington has been around for decades, but not until it cameoed in the opening credits of The Sopranos back in ’99 did you or I care (it appears at the 1 minute, 17 second mark each episode, but nowhere else). Now, Pizzaland’s a made man. Paul Pawlowicz brags to the AP that his place regularly ships shrink-wrapped, dry-iced pies out of state, from Florida to California.

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