Dueling Greasypalms: It’s Tony Luke’s For Little Frankie, Rick’s For Bill Green Jr., And Cheesey Bitchfest All Around For Everybody!
We’ve made our opinion on the whole Rick’s Steaks vs. Reading Terminal Market thing known well enough: It’s bullshit. Even if Rick Olivieri really did do something to royally piss off the Terminal brass, everybody knows that the Ghosts of Philly Patronage Past still haunt the place, and that alone makes the whole hullaballoo so unnecessarily so politicized that Olivieri should basically be able to do whatever the fuck he wants, anyway. “To live outside the law, you must honest,” said Bob Dylan once. For comedic effect, enter Councilman Frank DiCicco. De-Cheekz lost his shit today in an open letter to freshman Councilman Bill Green, blasting him for sticking up for Rick’s in a letter to the Daily News, because DiCicco apparently sups at Tony Luke’s and Green went to grade school with Olivieri and somehow this whole thing has gotten turned into a Rick’s vs. Tony Luke’s thing, even though we have it on good authority that Tony Luke’s was promised Rick’s stall before anybody even knew that the Terminal was squeezing out Rick’s. Here is the letter, and the way ‘Cheeks plays it, you would think he’s trying to limit greenhouse gases or fix Darfur or something. If only, my fellow subjects of two-bit Council rule. If only.
HeardInTheHall: When Councilmen Attack
Previously: Phoodie.info: Exclusive Video: Rick Olivieri – He’s Staying! Maybe.
