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Once again regretting I haven't found a slices place as good as that great shop in Collegetown and then remembering the secret...

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Once again regretting I haven’t found a slices place as good as that great shop in Collegetown and then remembering the secret sauce of their business was slavery

i’m sorry what now?

Right on the main corner of Collegetown in Ithaca, would have like 30 kinds of pizza slices available, cheeseburger and BBQ chicken slices like a full meal, owner was an effusive post-Ottoman immigrant who greeted everyone as “my friend!” and offered any slice for $1.50 near closing. Came out after I graduated he had brought two guys over from the old country, took their visas, and had them in the basement making pies for $5/day.

How did it come out? Did it make the news? Did the people escape?

Like a year or two after I graduated the people still there were like “check THIS out” and linked me to news stories