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Went to First & Last in Glastonbury last week. I was under the impression the pizza was good. Got a Margherita...it was pretty horrible. SMOTHERED in sauce.
 
Vancat said:
Went to First & Last in Glastonbury last week. I was under the impression the pizza was good. Got a Margherita...it was pretty horrible. SMOTHERED in sauce.
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I had a couple pizzas from there about 6 weeks ago and they weren't very good either. I always liked the pizza at the one in the South End of Hartford. Is the Glastonbury one just not as good?
 
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SubInATub said:
Ate Mystic Pizza this past weekend. Brutal.
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The MP in downtown W MYstic is a fraud capitalizing on name. The REAL MP (movie) was on Water St in Stonington. And, it's not tooooo goood.
 
sledog said:
The MP in downtown W MYstic is a fraud capitalizing on name. The REAL MP (movie) was on Water St in Stonington. And, it's not tooooo goood.
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Well except for the fact that the mystic pizza in mystic was there 15 years before the movie, and the stonington location was a fabricated movie set , not a pizza place, your take would be spot on.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
And then there's this.

No cheese? Rhode Island's 'red strips' are an odd take on pizza
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8893 said:
Don’t get me going on this abomination. Please.
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There are actually not bad if you know what you are getting ahead of time... have had Colvitto’s in Narragansett and it’s not bad w/ coffee in the morning or as an afternoon snack w/ wine/beer salami and provolone after a day @ Scarborough. All depends on the sauce. Bad sauce makes bad pizza regardless of amount of cheese or lack thereof/thickness of crust.
 
huskymedic said:
There are actually not bad if you know what you are getting ahead of time... have had Colvitto’s in Narragansett and it’s not bad w/ coffee in the morning or as an afternoon snack w/ wine/beer after day @ Scarborough.
All depends on the sauce. Bad sauce makes bad pizza regardless of cheese/thickness of crust.
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It became a thing with a good friend of mine who was born and raised in RI: I would do my schtick about how terrible it is and she would insist that it had its place. A few summers ago when we were on vacation in Rhode Island she brought me a box of strips from Colvitto’s as the host present when we had her, her husband and their son over for dinner. It was well worth the laughs, and I had to admit that it was “shockingly decent.” Their son was so amused by my reaction that “shockingly decent” has taken on a life of its own among us.
 
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8893 said:
It became a thing with a good friend of mine who was born and raised in RI: I would do my schtick about how terrible it is and she would insist that it had its place. A few summers ago when we were on vacation in Rhode Island she brought me a box of strips from Colvitto’s as the host present when we had her, her husband and their son over for dinner. It was well worth the laughs, and I had to admit that it was “shockingly decent.” Their son was so amused by my reaction that “shockingly decent” has taken on a life of its own among us.
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Colvitto’s also makes/bakes the best pepper breadsticks I have ever had. Always grab a few bags on the way out to bring home to CT.
 
Do you mean frezzales or biscott? Apologies for the spelling.
 
Thanks. Love friselle with fresh tomato and basil.
I didn't mean biscotti. There is a counterpart to friselle that is also hard and peppery. We pronounced it closer to biscuit than biscotti.
 
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storrsroars said:
Mannagauk - pasta tubes stuffed with ricaut.
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see you got that 1/2 right. You properly replaced the c with the g on manigott........... why wouldnt you follow the same rule on rigott?
 
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also dropping the ending vowels on EVERYTHING is a uniquely Northeastern Italian tic.

Years ago I used to work with a couple old italian women and every other day they would say "gonna go to the casseen tonight, will I see you at the casseeen?

took me like a month to figure out they were talking about foxwoods.
 
huskymedic said:
There are actually not bad if you know what you are getting ahead of time... have had Colvitto’s in Narragansett and it’s not bad w/ coffee in the morning or as an afternoon snack w/ wine/beer salami and provolone after a day @ Scarborough. All depends on the sauce. Bad sauce makes bad pizza regardless of amount of cheese or lack thereof/thickness of crust.
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Pizza and coffee!
 
August_West said:
see you got that 1/2 right. You properly replaced the c with the g on manigott...... why wouldnt you follow the same rule on rigott?
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I learned my bad Italian-American pronunciations from Lithuanians and Slavs in Stamford, not New Haven. We never said "mootz", it was "mahtz". Ricaut was definitely more a oddly shaped "c" than a "g", despite it's similarity with mannagauk (which somehow broke even more rules by ending with a "k" sound.)

Even the curses were gnarled. While "melanzana" became "mulignan" in southern Italian immigrant, my Lithuanian mother - who never cursed in English - would say, "moonyon", "a fanabla" became "bah fanavala" "fongool" became "vongool" and when she was really teed, she'd break out "mahfunkule" instead of "vaffanculo". My godmother was Italian as was one aunt, and they never corrected her.
 
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