Visual Description: “In our Italian restaurant.”
PNYPI = NIPPY, TNOEK = TOKEN, SALYGS = GLASSY, CAPEAL = PALACE — Giving us: NPTNASYPAE
Clue/Question: When the restaurant charged one cent for its noodle dish, customers enjoyed the – – –
Answer: “PENNY“ PASTA
(“A bottle of white, a bottle of red. Perhaps a bottle of rosé instead.” This cannot possibly be a stinky pun, unless you’re one of those freaks who has a problem with garlic . . . the fruit of the gods! The only thing semi-stinky about this Jumble is in the clue/question. Noodle dish??? Ugh! I guess there’s really no other way to describe pasta, unless you go with a very specific pasta. And, that would probably just confuse the issue.
All of today’s clue words are the comfort food of clue words. I don’t think anyone struggled too much in solving them. However, all of the jumbles did come up as new. The answer letter layout was a tasty jumble. There was nothing obvious about it. I think it was a combination of “noodle dish” in the clue/question, and the quotation marks in the answer slots that made solving it a pizza cake!
Cute Italian restaurant cartoon. I really liked the checkered table cloth, and the glasses of *Dego red*. Ay, oh! Don’t worry folks, my name ends in a vowel, so my paisans made me an honorary Italian! So, fuhgeddaboudit! Maybe they’re drinking Corvo. That’s a nice modestly priced Italian wine. I was trying to find Robert Iler’s famous line from “The Sopranos”, when Grandma Livia suffers a stroke. It was something along the lines of *Now, who’s going to make the ffff-ing macaronis?* The kid was all heart! Be well and do good, friends.) — YUR
PS. Happy Vernal Equinox! — YUR
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Hey Unclerave,
I visited Mama Leone’s in NYC over 60 years ago! I remember my mother wrapping a big piece of leftover cheese in a napkin and putting it in her purse “for later”…she had to throw out the purse!!
Ian
That’s hilarious, Ian! I actually went there once in 1980, or maybe it was ’81. It was a big tourist trap, but it was an experience. Lots of better – and cheaper – places to get good Italian food in NYC. Little Italy, and on Arthur Avenue, in the Bronx. Take care. — YUR
I was a little amused by “noodle dish,” too, UR. I might have considered “macaroni dish.” At any rate, a super-easy Jumble!
Are you originally an East Coaster, roy? — YUR
No, UR, not from the east coast. The discussion made me slightly hungry for spaghetti. If I ever make it to NY and Mama Leone’s, I’ll know not to pilfer the cheese!
@unc “Lots of better – and cheaper – places to get good Italian food in NYC. Little Italy, and on Arthur Avenue, in the Bronx.”
Ah yes… it’s perfect for us… small family place… everybody minds his business… good food.
Have they got an old-fashioned toilet? You know… the box and the chain thing?
I wouldn’t be surprised if you could still find a place with one of those, David! It has definitely been a while that I’ve seen one of those. — YUR 🙂
😉 Sorry I was too subtle. I was setting you up, Unc, for a comeback like “Badabing, you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy league suit.”… a memory refresher for my earlier post about a restaurant you might have in mind:
There IS a pun, though – Penny Pasta, Penne Pasta.
Sorry, “Sonny”! I guess I should left the gun and taken the cannoli! LOL! — YUR
Oh, we got it, Mark. Great homophone, eh?! — YUR