Re: Ratner's...great onion rolls but...

[Marvin <physchem...>]

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From: "Trudi Goodman" <goobietheg (at) hotmail(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: Ratner's...great onion rolls but...


>
>    Gentleman:
>    re: Ratner's...which by the way I remember as having the best onion
rolls
> and the rudest waiters in the world...I refer you to that great partly
> Jewish actor Simone Signoret: " Nostalgia isn't what it used to be."
>    'Nuff said.
>     As for people who want to romanticize scum like Lansky and
> Siegel...well...there is nothing romantic about the victims of Murder
> Incorporated, period.
>    Jewish presence in Organized Crime in this country is a long-standing,
> but a lousy thing.  Hell...I know first hand. Part of my family was
involved
> with the guys who carry the violin cases without the violins inside...all
> the way back to Legs Diamond...another Jew OY!
>    Hey if it was good enough for Boston University, Brandeis and Israel to
> refuse Lansky's money...it's good enough for me to refuse to go into
> Ratner's until they get their "stuff" together. There must be some other
> Jews who went into that place that they can name a room after.  Dontcha
> think?
>        Trudi the G

A noble sentiment, but if they depended on occasional; dropins like us, they
would be out of business.  They are appealing to a different clientele, who
think the name is cute.

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