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Just off JFK St. is Pinocchio's, affectionately dubbed. Noch's by its patrons. The verb form is to noch--usage: It was Chinese deli night at the dining hall so around midnight I went noching (rhymes with toking). Noch's features a variety of subs and pasta in addition to pizza, but the real attraction is the square-cut, thick-doughed Sicilian-style slices. According to Manager Adam DiCenso, Sicilian slices of pepperoni have been the most popular item for years, but the newer tomato basil topping (my personal choice) is also doing well. Plain pizza is $1.50, Sicilian...
...around. Though other pizza shops are not open until the early morning, there are other places to look for quality pizza. Sincerely, Manager, Bertucci's Harvard Square." In my opinion, Bertucci's lacks the minimum amount of greasiness to be considered in the same category with Tommy's and Pinocchio's. But count your blessings that you are not a part of this debate...
...spend their disposable income," he tells me. But he's always found that the best way to do that is to concentrate on "what goes on inside these four walls." He acknowledges, almost whispering, that "People tell me, 'they do Sicilian at, at, what's-it-called, at Pinocchio's, you should do Sicilian too.' But I'd rather worry about what happens in here...
Still, when I consult my journalistic instincts I detect something vaguely irking about their peaceful coexistence--or maybe I'm just hungry--so I set out for Pinocchio's, ready to start a controversy. Soon I'm in the restaurant's cozy confines, and when I ask if any of the owners are around, Rico Dicensio, one of the pizza men I recognize from my many late-night visits, steps out from behind the counter to introduce himself. We get to talking and it comes out that the soft-spoken Dicensio was born in Italy and immigrated to America...
...Bledsoe, Jay Leno and Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans have all been in to Noke's at some point. When Bledsoe stopped by, "a lot of the customers were dumbfounded," he says with modesty in his voice, "they just couldn't believe he'd come in here, to Pinocchio...