Re: GENO'S SAYS: SPEAK ENGLISH


grtflmark wrote:
Imagine that!.......... I'm going to have to patronize the place, now!


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GENO'S SAYS: SPEAK ENGLISH
By Michelle Malkin · May 31, 2006 12:01 AM

If you know Philadelphia, you know Geno's. Best cheesesteaks in the
world. Reader Willie S. sends word via the Philly Inquirer that Joey
Vento, the grandson of Italian-born immigrants who owns Geno's, is
taking a stand for assimilation and against illegal immigration. The
Inquirer does its best to knock down Vento, but his blunt Philly style
overrides the paper's wishy-washy open-borders slant:

How do you say cheesesteak with in Spanish?
Joseph Vento, the owner of Geno's Steaks, doesn't know. And he doesn't
care.

Just read the laminated signs, festooned with American eagles, at his
South Philadelphia cheesesteak emporium: This is America. When
Ordering, Speak English.

Vento's political statement - from a man whose Italian-born
grandparents spoke only broken English - captures the anger and
discontent felt by many Americans about illegal immigrants...

...The Ventos rarely left their South Philadelphia neighborhood. Now,
in a way, the neighborhood has left the couple's descendants. Geno's
sits at Ninth and Passyunk, the hub of Little Italy turned home to
thousands of Mexicans.

Some try to order a cheesesteak. And it bugs Vento if they can't ask
for American cheese, provolone or the classic - Cheez Whiz - without
pointing.

"If you can't tell me what you want, I can't serve you," he said. "It's
up to you. If you can't read, if you can't say the word cheese, how can
I communicate with you - and why should I have to bend?

"I got a business to run."

Vento, who lives in Shamong, put up the signs when the immigration
debate seized national headlines six months ago.

With Geno's Steaks tattooed on his arm, Vento is used to publicizing
things, especially what's on his mind. Speak English signs also poster
his Hummer. He has driven through South Philadelphia blaring through
the SUV's P.A. system denunciations of neighborhood business owners who
hire illegal immigrants.

"I say what everybody's thinking but is afraid to say," Vento said.

Oh, man, I have half a mind to drive up for a "cheesesteak with" at
Geno's right now.

Mmmmm.

***

Flashback...John Kerry demonstrates how not to eat a cheesesteak:

If Sen. John F. Kerry's presidential aspirations melt like a dollop of
Cheez Whiz in the sun, the trouble may well be traced to an incident in
South Philadelphia on Monday.
There, the Massachusetts Democrat went to Pat's Steaks and ordered a
cheesesteak -- with Swiss cheese. If that weren't bad enough, the
candidate asked photographers not to take his picture while he ate the
sandwich; shutters clicked anyway, and Kerry was caught nibbling
daintily at his sandwich -- another serious faux pas.

"It will doom his candidacy in Philadelphia," predicted Craig LaBan,
food critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, which broke the Sandwich
Scandal. After all, Philly cheesesteaks come with Cheez Whiz, or
occasionally American or provolone. But Swiss cheese? "In Philadelphia,
that's an alternative lifestyle," LaBan explained.


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Geno sounds like a real ***.

Kevin

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