How come the Real Deal doesn't have a Whitey Bulger wrap?
The deli with outlets in West Roxbury and Jamaica Plain has plenty of sandwiches named for Italian and Jewish gangsters, but none for Irish mobsters, whether local or not (gosh, I can't imagine why a sandwich shop in West Roxbury wouldn't want to name wraps after Irish thugs, can you?).
Apparently, one Italian resident of Roslindale takes great offense at having to explain the Tony Soprano and the Lucky Luciano to his grandchildren - but not the Meyer Lansky or the Moe Green - enough to write a letter to the Transcript, which now has a poll up on whether the sandwich names are offensive to Italians (but not Jews, apparently).
My advice to the offended man in Rozzie? Eat local - at the Square Corner Cafe or Romano's.
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I think they did
I think they did have a Whitey wrap, but no one can find it.
Last seen...
...hanging out with an aging piece of cheesecake.
FTW!
RossieGirl shoots and scores!
Life would be so much easier if
Life would be so much easier if we were all offended by the same racial slurs. ... come to think of it, isn't that the definition of politically correct? I hope people realize that naming a sandwich after a person, real of fictional, doesn't change the taste.
Pretty self explanatory...
Irish is to food what martial is to music...
If they named a bunch of sandwiches after Irish mobstahs, they
would drive away customers by storeful.
Redundancy
If you've seen the clientele, it's pretty clear all the sandwiches there are Whitey bulgers.
Nobody likes the taste of a
Nobody likes the taste of a Rat
Don't forget, they've got
Don't forget, they've got the Bumpy Johnson on the menu, too. One of Harlem's most notorious gangsters.