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MercurysBall2 ago

Family and friends use the back door at Arcaro & Genell - https://www.psdispatch.com/news/local-news-1/61818/family-and-friends-use-the-back-door-at-arcaro-genell

OLD FORGE — Arcaro & Genell owner Angelo Genell has a special name for the back door of his restaurant.

“We don’t consider that the kitchen door; we consider that the family and friends door,” he said. “Family and friends, they walk through the kitchen to come to the restaurant. Some restaurants put tables in the kitchen as a novelty, but people just come in there automatically.”

That list of family and friends started in 1962 when Angelo’s parents Angelo and Marie Genell went into business with Marie’s brothers, Frank and Anthony Arcaro. They purchased Laurenzi’s Restaurant at 443 S. Main St., lent their surnames in alphabetical order and started a tradition that continues with Angelo and his brother, Mark.

Angelo, 58, said 2018 marks 40 years working at the restaurant in an official capacity. He doesn’t count the years he wasn’t paid.

“We lived upstairs, so we were always downstairs helping our family,” Angelo said. “The next thing you know, 40 years have gone by.”

During that time, he and Mark learned the family recipes they keep alive today, including their pizza’s cheese blend, which Mark calls “top secret.”

Angelo said their pizza’s popularity can be attributed to a number of things — its rectangular shape, its balance between heavy and light, its aforementioned cheese blend — but the most alluring aspect has nothing to do with the pie.

“Basically, I think it’s that you’re eating it in Old Forge,” Angelo said. “It’s a destination spot.” For Tunkhannock resident Kathy Williams, an Old Forge tray runs “nose and nose” with New York pizza — and she has the experience to weigh in on the matter. “I’m originally from New Jersey and I never tasted pizza like this. I love it,” Williams said.

Old Forge is where Arcaro & Genell plans to stay, too. Instead of opening more locations, Angelo and Mark have opted to expand the existing building, with a restaurant remodel and the addition of a takeaway counter, both completed within the last five years. Mark said the takeaway counter has been a success with customers able to grab everything from desserts and gift baskets to pre-cooked pizza.

Along with its Italian dining experience, Arcaro & Genell also keeps another Italian tradition alive: bocce. The outdoor game, which originated in Ancient Rome, traveled with Italian immigrants to their new homes. Today, Angelo said it’s become a popular pastime at the restaurant.

“We’re involved with the bocce leagues with the Sons of Italy in Old Forge, and it’s starting to be a place where a lot of people can have fundraisers and raise money in a fun way,” Angelo said. Angelo said he doesn’t think of hosting bocce leagues and

perpetuating his family recipes as consciously keeping tradition alive. He said it’s something he and Mark do automatically. “It’s just part of your makeup. You can’t make that happen, you know what I mean,” Angelo said. “It’s just the way we were brought up.”

There’s a list of kitchen-door-using family and friends who’d probably argue they were raised properly.

Psalm67 ago

Is Bocce anything like Ping Pong? Hmm.

kestrel9 ago

So? Just because Trump stopped there while campaigning? So look into every place that uses the Goldbelly delivery service.

Re bocce - The History of the Italian game of bocce leads to Stoke Mandeville and Jimmy Savile

Now they're on your radar because they play in bocce leagues? You've lost perspective in your Trump hatred imho.

MercurysBall2 ago

And btw, it was the title of the article that drew my attention. Go read it again. And you do know that is Mafia country, right?

MercurysBall2 ago

I don't hate Trump. I look for connections between places, people and things. That is all. Get a grip.

kestrel9 ago

If you don't hate Trump (and that doesn't mean you have to support him obviously) then I'm sorry, I was mistaken. I was under the impression that you felt the same about him as @think-

MercurysBall2 ago

I'm on the fence about him. Like everyone here I was overjoyed when he won in 2016. Sometimes I think he's really working to expose the bastards and sometimes I despair at the people who work within his administration. I understand that bringing down a cabal does not happen overnight but I think it's important to adopt critical thinking. I am critical of him sometimes and when I find articles on him that are factual and don't necessarily paint him in a positive light I pay attention to those too. I believe that it is really up to us, the people, to haul the politicians up by their bootstraps and not to give someone a free pass because of political ideology. For me, the fact that he came in almost as an independent candidate and not as a traditional Republican is a positive. In this post, the way we went into that pizza place I see more as an indication that he has heard about it and was making that public. I don't know if he was endorsing it. Somehow I get the impression he was shining light there. I don't know his reasons but I pay attention to current events. We're on the same team.

kestrel9 ago

Thanks for clarifying your position and I agree that critical thinking is always important. Regarding the pizza place, Trump's comments seemed pretty straight forward to me, it was a stop intended to take a political opportunity to make a point about Joe Biden as a candidate than it was to have some obscure message about Goldbelly, Prince Harry and Megan Markle. If there is a hidden meaning I would look first at the Biden corruption, Ukraine, China etc. (Edit: although I just found this about Jill Biden and Prince Harry go figure lol "Prince Harry at the 2014 Invictus Games...‒ everywhere Prince Harry went...he had this blonde woman on his arm ‒ the Vice President’s wife!" )

From reading the QRV post and yours, I did not get the impression that there is a case to be made against the pizza place in of itself, and to do so based on Trump's campaign stop there seems unfair to their business which appears thus far to be a legit family business. That was in part, the basis of my complaint tbh.

We're on the same team.

Yes we are :) and I very much appreciate your hard work as a PG researcher.

MercurysBall2 ago

Yeah, I agree it was more about Biden. That's why I included his name in the title. I don't think Trump was tracking the place back to Whinge and Cringe but the pizza places in that area have mafia connections and that's an interesting link.

I just googled Biden and mafia - this is the first thing that came up: 1972 United States Senate election in Delaware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_United_States_Senate_election_in_Delaware

The United States Senate election in Delaware, 1972 was held November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican United States Senator J. Caleb Boggs ran for a third term in the United States Senate. Boggs faced off against Joe Biden, a New Castle County Councilman. Though Senator Boggs was expected to easily win a third term over the then-unknown Biden, it ended up being the closest Senate election in 1972, and Biden narrowly beat out Boggs by a little over three thousand votes, winning what would be his first of seven terms.

In 2004, admitted mafia hitman and former Teamsters Local 326 President Frank Sheeran alleged in his memoir that in the week prior to Election Day an unidentified representative of the Biden campaign (described as the campaign's legal counsel) approached him about preventing the distribution of the Wilmington News Journal because Sen. Boggs was running an advertisement unflattering to Biden. In exchange for undisclosed considerations and because Sheeran felt "Biden was better for labor anyway," the Teamsters Union allegedly organized a strike preventing the newspapers from being delivered and sabotaged a shipment of newspaper printing materials and preventing the Wilmington News Journal from being distributed in the week prior to Election day. Sheeran's accusation is unclear as to whether Biden himself was aware of the plot, but after the election Sheeran said he "could always reach out to [Biden] and he would listen."

Meghan Markle is clearly a plant of the DS and the royal family.. you know the rest..

Your Jill Biden and Harry link:

Last week, the Duke of Sussex appeared to make a nod to the Democratic presidential nominee in a video for the Global Summit of Travalyst

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a28896115/prince-harry-travalyst-explained/ partners Booking.com, SkyScanner, CTrip, TripAdvisor, and Visa.

Jeffrey Epstein was involved with booking.com https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3140338

Mr Biden, his wife Jill and former President Barack Obama have all been to the Invictus Games,

Invictus Games has its roots in Dr Guttmann's Stoke Mandeville Disability Games and IWAS

It's all DS. Remember Biden, Water Island, close to Lolita Island.

kestrel9 ago

I added to my comment, check it out if you didn't catch it, regarding Dominic Reid

It's all DS. Remember Biden, Water Island, close to Lolita Island.

^^yes! thanks for reminder

2017 Invictus Games was the backdrop for Markle/Harry. https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/a33488286/prince-harry-meghan-markle-engaged-2017-invictus-games/

and who can forget Giustra/Prince Harry/Markle in Canada https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10724306/prince-harry-meghan-markle-canadian-tycoon-frank-giustra-mansion/