Transcript (en)

In prison, dinner was always a big thing. We had a pasta course and then we had a meat or fish. Paulie did the prep work. He was doing a year for contempt and he had this wonderful system for doing the garlic. He used a razor and he used to slice it so thin that it used to liquefy in the pan with just a little oil. It's a very good system. Vinnie He was in charge of the tomato sauce. Ah, I got the smell. The three kinds of meat in the meat bowl. What did you put in there? Veal, beef, and pork. Ah, good, but you gotta have the pork. Oh, that's the flavor. I felt he used too many onions, but it was still a very good sauce. Vinnie, don't put too many onions in the sauce. I didn't put too much onions in there. Oh? Three small onions, that's all I did. Three onions? How many cans of tomatoes did you put in there? I put two cans, two big cans. you don't need to Johnny deal did the meat we didn't have a broiler so Johnny did everything in pans I used to smell up the joint something awful and the hacks used to die but he still cooked a great steak you know when you think of prison you get pictures in your mind of all those old movies with rows and rows of guys behind bars But it wasn like that for wise guys It really wasn't that bad, except that I missed Jimmy. He was doing his time in Atlanta. Give me two steaks right here and there, all right? Sure enough, she goes in a... I mean, everybody else in the joint was doing real time, all mixed together, living like pigs. But we lived alone. I mean, we owned the joint. It's all part of them two son of a bitches. You couldn't recognize him. Good. They deserved it. Even the hacks we couldn't bribe would never rattle the guys that we did. The neighborhood had respect. People loved one another. You left your doors open. Sorry it took so long. The skinny guard's gonna be a real thing in the ass. We're gonna have to do something about that, Ben. I took care of him. All right, what'd you bring? All right, uh, some bread. All right. Vinny, I got your peppers and onions. Salami, prosciutto, a lot of cheese. Come on, come on. What else? Scotch. Nice. some red wine. Okay. Now we can eat. I got some white, too. Give me the white, too. Beautiful. Okay, boys, let's eat. Come on. It's ready, Vinnie. I'm gonna have to eat some more bread. Tomorrow we eat sandwiches. You gotta go on a diet, Vinnie. I don't want to do it, kid. Believe me. Johnny? You ready?