steaks in italy

A few years back on Vet­er­ans Day I’d men­tioned my dad and his, um, at­tempt to sink a Nazi sub­ma­rine with a potato. 

This time, we’re in Italy. 

It’s WWII and his Mer­chant Ma­rine ship was in port, a typ­i­cal car­go unload/load sit­u­a­tion. And since it’s Italy, might as well find some­place to eat —

Even­tu­al­ly he found a small restau­rant that was open, with a re­al­ly wel­com­ing own­er who was serv­ing the ab­solute best steak he ever had. 

Cooked just right, per­fect­ly sea­soned, di­vine­ly ten­der, melt in mouth delicacy. 

Squisi­to!

And since they were in port for a bunch of days, he end­ed up eat­ing there every night. 

And he rec­om­mend­ed it to the rest of the crew, who would leave ship and give this guy the most busi­ness he had seen in a long time. 

The own­er talked about his time grow­ing up in Italy, his fam­i­ly, wine was shared and a great time was had by all.

Fi­nal­ly, they were ready to ship out and my dad felt bad about tak­ing away all the cus­tomers. So he dropped in for one more steak and even­tu­al­ly broke it to the own­er that all his cli­en­ti will be head­ing out in the morning.

But the cheer­ful own­er was cool about the whole thing. Thanked my dad for his pa­tron­age. And said, “Oh that’s okay. We were run­ning out of cats.”
 
 

Dad grabbed him by the col­lar and said, “You do NOT tell any­one else on my ship about this!”

 

—steve mehal­lo

“We even had to go to the next town to get some, we ran out of OUR cats on Tuesday …”

Wat kind of sto­ries does a vet­er­an in YOUR life have?

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM! Foto swiped from.

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