Is there anything pizza can't do? [Archive]

Mel

5-09-05, 1:01 PM

Pizza delivery ends prison hostage standoff

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/09/prison.pizza.ap/index.html

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Officials bought 15 pizzas to secure the release of a guard who had been held for 42 hours by inmates at an Australian top-security prison, police said Monday.

Twenty prisoners were involved in the standoff, which began Saturday when inmates occupied part of Risdon Prison on the southern island state of Tasmania, complaining about conditions in the aging institution and taking guard Ken Hannah hostage.

Hannah finally was released late Sunday night after authorities caved in to demands for pizza.

"The final sticking point with the inmates was that they were requiring pizzas to be delivered," senior prisons official Graeme Barber said.

"We had held off in relation to that -- we obviously wanted the release of our staff member," he added. "Our staff member was negotiated out by the delivery of 15 pizzas."

The last prisoner involved in the siege gave himself up Monday. No one was injured.

The siege followed months of violence and unrest at Risdon, which holds one of Australia's most notorious convicts, Martin Bryant, who went on a shooting rampage at Tasmania's Port Arthur historic penal settlement in 1996, killing 35 people.

Canadian26

5-09-05, 1:08 PM

Thats some pretty crazy demand :slant:

Why would they wait so long to deliver pizza...

Mel

5-09-05, 1:15 PM

Why would they wait so long to deliver pizza...
They probably thought the prisoners were bluffing :shrug:

Canadian26

5-09-05, 1:20 PM

They probably thought the prisoners were bluffing :shrug:

Haha, yah I could see that... made me want some pizza for lunch.

Mel

5-09-05, 1:23 PM

I was eating pepperoni pizza for lunch as I read that story. I was marveling about how tasty it was... and then I came across that article - thus the title of this thread. :pimp:

Max Power

5-09-05, 1:23 PM

:laughing:

That's awesome

Madferret

5-09-05, 3:18 PM

Pizza is like sex. Even if it's bad it's still pretty damn good....

:D

a4l

5-09-05, 3:42 PM

Pizza is like sex. Even if it's bad it's still pretty damn good....

:D

Obviously you have never had a really BAD pizza.

Matt Cooke

5-09-05, 3:54 PM

I'm not a big pepperoni pizza person, but Little Caesars' currently carries a BBQ Chicken pizza and I order it AT LEAST once a week. :]

Madferret

5-09-05, 6:01 PM

Obviously you have never had a really BAD pizza.

Sure I have, but it was still somewhat good...

TimmyTabasco

5-09-05, 8:23 PM

Yeah, it cant get me laid :laughing: :laughing: :coffee: :thumb:

a4l

5-09-05, 8:45 PM

:rollover: Sorry when I saw your response I keeled over laughing.

Obviously you aren't using the pizza correctly or it has the wrong toppings. ;)

MadDevil

5-09-05, 8:47 PM

That story sounds like the book I'm reading, where they talk about putting Valium in a pizza to "calm the terrorists down".:laughing:

slapshot™

5-09-05, 10:48 PM

Mmmmmmmmm....prison food....

http://users.tkk.fi/~okorpine/Turkey04/PrisonFood.JPG

KB in Kelowna

5-09-05, 11:21 PM

I would have held out for beer and a sample platter of chicken wings with the pizza.

Canadian26

5-09-05, 11:57 PM

Mmmmmmmmm....prison food....

This is going to sound really sad... but that looks like east indian food.

bluemeanie

5-10-05, 9:10 AM

http://www.scumpa.com/~art/samson/prisoners-11-11-2004-med.jpg
Stupid picture won't stay... here's a weak sub... *Ah hell, it's all ruined now anyway*
http://www.flyballdogs.com/cuttingedge/photos/jail_dogs.jpg

* Are you sure this is going to work, Heinz?

~ Positive Fritz. All we have to do is lure the cat over here... hold him prisoner... and the two leggeds will give us the round food in the box! I saw some other prisoners do it on the news!

* ...why is it that we don't just eat the cat, again?

goaliemom7687

5-10-05, 9:48 AM

I miss New York Pizza.....There is no comparison.....My late husband (he was a chef) always said it was the water...he thought if we paid to have NY water trucked in we could make pizza just like back home....He just might have been right on with that theory.... :D I could so go for a slice of Sicilian from Spumoni Gardens.... :nod:

Mel

5-10-05, 9:57 AM

goaliemom7687

5-10-05, 5:26 PM

Next time I have a slice (probably today) I will do so in your honor :)

You Matt are a true friend!!!!!! Say on the way home could you stop here and have a nice pastry for dessert? Alba's Pastry Shop in Bensonhurst on 18th Avenue and 70th Street. :jacks:

a4l

5-10-05, 5:30 PM

You are making me hungry for NY food. I want a real kosher dill NY style.

goaliemom7687

5-10-05, 5:37 PM

We really have to go to Katz's Deli!!! The pastrami is to die for.... :rollover2

Mel

5-10-05, 7:47 PM

You Matt are a true friend!!!!!! Say on the way home could you stop here and have a nice pastry for dessert? Alba's Pastry Shop in Bensonhurst on 18th Avenue and 70th Street. :jacks:Bensonhurst is a bit out of my way... but I was down in Brooklyn last month for some of the best steak in the world at Peter Luger's (http://store.yahoo.com/peterluger/brooklyn.html) with some family.

:pimp: I love hitting all the old time famous NY steak houses whenever I get a chance. Keane's on the west side, Spark's in midtown... but Luger's is the best. They have an entire wall full of Zagat award plaques. :)

a4l

5-10-05, 9:45 PM

Would you two stop it!!! You are making me hungry! NYC has more amazing eating places than Paris. My favourite place was the Swiss deli (funny name) just around the corner from the Abby Victoria and the Taft. Damn all of them are gone. The English Pub next to the Waverley Theatre is also amazing. I hope it is still there. Most of my favourite places are gone now. Matt is the Purple Onion still around? It was in the Village.

slapshot™

5-10-05, 11:52 PM

Bensonhurst is a bit out of my way... but I was down in Brooklyn last month for some of the best steak in the world at Peter Luger's (http://store.yahoo.com/peterluger/brooklyn.html) with some family.

:pimp: I love hitting all the old time famous NY steak houses whenever I get a chance. Keane's on the west side, Spark's in midtown... but Luger's is the best. They have an entire wall full of Zagat award plaques. :)

The Peter Luger website is an interesting read Matt...but I couldn't find anywhere that said if they served grain-fed beef or not. I would challenge that steakhouse with any of the more prominent ones here in Alberta's capital. Alberta beef is world-renowned for taste, texture, juiciness and tenderness.

Luger's is probably what we're accustomed to here on a regular basis. (we don't let a little BSE bother us! *wink*)

Mel

5-11-05, 9:02 AM

The Peter Luger website is an interesting read Matt...but I couldn't find anywhere that said if they served grain-fed beef or not. I would challenge that steakhouse with any of the more prominent ones here in Alberta's capital. Alberta beef is world-renowned for taste, texture, juiciness and tenderness.

Luger's is probably what we're accustomed to here on a regular basis. (we don't let a little BSE bother us! *wink*)

ehhh, I don't know about grain-fed or what. I do know they personally select their beef and age it on the premises, and have been successful at this for over 100 years.

One thing I do like about NY steak houses is the tradition. It's a certain atmosphere in addition to the great steak.

I am a steak enthusiast, so I would love to try some world-renowned beef from Alberta, if I ever make it up that way. Actually I've always wanted to travel there (in the summer). I've heard it's beautiful country. I'll be sure to find out about the top steak houses before I go :pimp:

I don't recall any purple onion downtown in NY a4l, so I can't help you there.

TimmyTabasco

5-11-05, 10:57 AM

In quebec many put butter on their pizza, especially the crust. At first I was shocked, but then it grew on me. Tasty stuff.. :D

Cheap and nasty Pizza and drunken nights go well together

bluemeanie

5-11-05, 11:03 AM

Cheap and nasty Pizza and drunken nights go well together

Substitute the word 'pizza' for 'girls' and I couldn't agree more. =]

Mel

5-12-05, 9:17 AM

Once again, pizza plays a key role in world affairs. This time in Ottawa...OTTAWA (Reuters) - A pizza shop owner who forced former Canadian immigration minister Judy Sgro to resign by claiming she had offered to help him avoid deportation has admitted he lied and has apologized, Sgro said Tuesday.

Sgro quit her job in January after Harjit Singh filed an affidavit accusing her of offering to help him stay in Canada in return for pizza deliveries and assistance with her election campaign. Singh was deported to India in February.

"I now admit I did not have a meeting with Judy Sgro and at no time did she request any campaign assistance from me. Nor did she help me with my immigration problems," Singh wrote in a letter to Sgro which she read out in Parliament.

At the time of her resignation, Sgro was also under investigation by Parliament's ethics commissioner for giving a temporary residency permit to a Romanian stripper who had worked on her election campaign. She also extended the woman's expired work permit.

The commissioner told Sgro this week that she had done nothing wrong but had been put in a conflict of interest by staff who did not give her all the details about the stripper. http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?storyID=2005-05-11T165706Z_01_N1096448_RTRIDST_0_ODD-CANADA-PIZZA-DC.XML

goaliemom7687

5-12-05, 11:38 AM

Not to be a bigot...But what the heck does an East Indian know about good pizza? :laughing: I tell you what...Nothing.... :shrug:

Mel

5-29-05, 10:44 AM

Pizza delivery refusal causes 911 emergency

An 86-year-old North Carolina woman was in jail Thursday.

She is accused of repeatedly badgering 911 operators with complaints about a pizza parlor.

Dorothy Densmore allegedly called 911 more than 20 times in half an hour.

She was upset the pizza place refused to sell her a pie and said they called her an "old coot."

But her repeated demands to arrest the pizza employees ended in her arrest.

When police arrived at Densmore's home, she allegedly attacked an officer.

Densmore is now charged with misusing the 911 system and resisting arrest.

http://www.nbc5.com/news/4537458/detail.html?z=dp&dpswid=2265994&dppid=65193

http://images.ibsys.com/2005/0526/4537598_200X150.jpg

slapshot™

5-29-05, 11:20 AM

If it wasn't for free pizza (and beer) millions of people wouldn't have been able to move from one dwelling to another on the cheap.

http://www.nonags.com/nonags/funimg/moving_day.jpg

TimmyTabasco

5-29-05, 12:26 PM

Not to be a bigot...But what the heck does an East Indian know about good pizza? :laughing: I tell you what...Nothing.... :shrug:

Out here in Vancouver..you will rarely find a pizza joint..NOT run by an east indian :nod: :thumb:

Mel

5-29-05, 2:11 PM

That's it. I am inviting all HS members to New York for a pizza summit. If you've never had good pizza... that's just no way to go through life.

It could quite lighten your views of America

After a few slices... you know the US ain't such a bad place after all.

:laughing:

BTW New York doesn't have the market cornered either. Boston has great pizza. (especially the heavily Italian north end) I used to go their as a kid.

Some say Chicago has the best pizza, but apparently it's a different style - "deep dish" or something like that. I assume it's what we in New York call "Sicilian." I've never tried Chicago pizza so I can't judge.

Anyway you might have superior steak up in Edmonton slappy... but from what I'm hearing, the pizza situation is bleak up your way! :nod:

Lastly, if you get your pizza from a chain or franchise store... that is not real pizza. Goalie mom knows. Pizza Hut, Dominoe's and the like are pure junk.

The one possible exception could be Regina's. The original was in boston's north end and we'd always make special trips over there. It was a real throwback pizzeria to the old days. All the old Italian ladies wore black and white dresses... you could literally watch them dumping gobs of oil onto the pizzas as they prepared them.

They apparently later branched into a chain... so I don't know if they were able to keep their quality up. Somehow I highly doubt it. It's very hard to duplicate a special place like that into a cookie cutter franchise.

J.R.

5-29-05, 2:42 PM

Out here in Vancouver..you will rarely find a pizza joint..NOT run by an east indian :nod: :thumb: And here, most pizza places are ran by Serbians and Yugoslavians. Who knew?

a4l

5-29-05, 3:03 PM

The best Pizza here is Za master. He is from Sicily and his pizzas are filling not like those trendy newfangled skimpy pizza they push these days.

Canadian26

5-29-05, 3:10 PM

Some say Chicago has the best pizza, but apparently it's a different style - "deep dish" or something like that. I assume it's what we in New York call "Sicilian." I've never tried Chicago pizza so I can't judge.

Ive had Chicago pizza, it was actually really good probably the best ive had.

Out here in Vancouver..you will rarely find a pizza joint..NOT run by an east indian

Not so much here, but the best pizza places in Edmonton (IMO) are run by brown ppl.

a4l

5-29-05, 4:18 PM

Most of ours are run by Portugese or Greeks. Are there any Italians left?

Canadian26

5-29-05, 4:53 PM

Most of ours are run by Portugese or Greeks. Are there any Italians left?

If its any consolation, Greace is kinda close to Italy.

grim

5-30-05, 11:20 AM

I mostly try to stay away from pizza these days ... but Ottawa has many excellent pizza places... like Bella Vista would be a good start. I've been around North America a lot and Ottawa pizza is right up there. I used to live in the southern US and pizza there did not even look like pizza to me. To each their own.

Mel

5-30-05, 11:32 AM

I used to live in the southern US and pizza there did not even look like pizza to me.
Me too, they wouldn't know pizza if they tripped over one :laughing:

Pizza hut is your best bet south of the mason dixon line... at least from what I remember.

butterfly_style

5-31-05, 9:01 AM

Mel

5-31-05, 1:21 PM

Don't be out of the loop any more!

Stay on top of the pizza world by subscribing to Pizza Today Magazine (http://www.pizzatoday.com/) ! :pimp:

TimmyTabasco

5-31-05, 1:47 PM

You'd be surprised..but the Quebecois can make decent pizza

I remember a friend of mine, ordered he and I a "spagetti" pizza. yes indeed..basically spaghetti on the pizza..meatballs and all

Pretty tasty if you ask me..actually..different would be the word

They also put butter on the pizza, and crust..and it tastes divine

The Newfies also prepare a good pizza..ah..who am I kidding..it tastes like ass :laughing:

goaliemom7687

5-31-05, 5:23 PM

So Timmy you have the inside track on what ass tastes like and you think it tastses like bad pizza....Okay.... :laughing:

grim

5-31-05, 6:19 PM

So Timmy you have the inside track on what ass tastes like and you think it tastses like bad pizza....Okay.... :laughing:

Timmy and I have both been on a strange government sponsored youth program called Katimavik. The "hippie" food which we were forced - under threat of there being absolutely nothing else to eat - to make from scratch with ingredients with strange names like .... flour.... did often taste something like animal excrement. The actual intention of the Katimavik program is/was to put groups of unpaid young males and females together in an isolated "homey" environment to smoke dope, drink excessively and have unprotected sex like rabbits for weeks on end in three different unsuspecting communities in Canada. In my "group" there were 70% females and 30% males - with only 20% of the males actually being heterosexual. You do the math. These savage conditions last for nine months, at which point a state of "graduation" is achieved. Oh yeah.

~Go Home Now!!
#Huh?
~Nine months is over. Go Home!!
#How?

http://www.newswire.ca/images/rtphotos/1102253891.jpg

Madferret

5-31-05, 6:59 PM

Grim knows. Colonades, Mama Mia, Bella Vista as the good Grim mentioned, Ottawa's pizza scene is a slice...

:thumb:

Rusty

5-31-05, 7:26 PM

In Italy you can get an awesome pizza!

leaferfan87

5-31-05, 11:24 PM

a4l

6-01-05, 7:19 AM

One place I hate is this place called Milano's in Gananoque. I just can't stand their pizza anymore. Places I like include Boston Pizza and sometimes Pizza Pizza.

I had a good pizza in Ottawa once. I think it was from Centre Pizza, but I may have the name wrong.

I have to agree with Milano's being awful. http://img115.exs.cx/img115/1346/m3zskull.gif

If you really want a trippy pizza you have to go to the south of France. In Marsailles pizza is more like a tomato tart with a mixture of seafood and other strange items.

goaliemom7687

6-01-05, 10:32 AM

My husband God rest his soul made the best pizza he also wins best calzone....Anthony's on East Evans in Denver runs a close second. The best over all Sicilian pie would be Spumoni Gardens on 86th street under the el in my hometown of Brooklyn........I'm starving!! Matt..Margerine man er...bagpipe man get me fixed!!!!! :cry:

Madferret

6-01-05, 6:25 PM

Thanks to this particular thread I gotta pie from Colonnades on the way to go with my Tuborgs...

:o

a4l

6-01-05, 6:28 PM

Ok I have had enough and have made my own pizza. I worked in a pizzeria when I was in college and always have frozen dough in the freezer.

grim

6-01-05, 6:41 PM

Thanks to this particular thread I gotta pie from Colonnades on the way to go with my Tuborgs...

:o

I used to live downtown. Lots of delicious Colonnade pizzas. :]

http://www.colonnadepizza.com/images/cptop1.jpg
http://www.colonnadepizza.com/images/za2.jpg

Mel

6-01-05, 6:42 PM

Ok I have had enough and have made my own pizza. I worked in a pizzeria when I was in college and always have frozen dough in the freezer.
Do you bake it on a stone in your oven?... or do you use a baking pan like some kind of wannabe?

:laughing:

TimmyTabasco

6-01-05, 6:55 PM

Timmy and I have both been on a strange government sponsored youth program called Katimavik. The "hippie" food which we were forced - under threat of there being absolutely nothing else to eat - to make from scratch with ingredients with strange names like .... flour.... did often taste something like animal excrement. The actual intention of the Katimavik program is/was to put groups of unpaid young males and females together in an isolated "homey" environment to smoke dope, drink excessively and have unprotected sex like rabbits for weeks on end in three different unsuspecting communities in Canada. In my "group" there were 70% females and 30% males - with only 20% of the males actually being heterosexual. You do the math. These savage conditions last for nine months, at which point a state of "graduation" is achieved. Oh yeah.

~Go Home Now!!
#Huh?
~Nine months is over. Go Home!!
#How?

http://www.newswire.ca/images/rtphotos/1102253891.jpg

:laughing: Our group was pretty well behaved, atleast in the sexual department :thumb:

However, other groups along the way..were the total opposite 8)

a4l

6-01-05, 7:03 PM

Do you bake it on a stone in your oven?... or do you use a baking pan like some kind of wannabe?

:laughing:

I BBQ them in the summer.

leaferfan87

6-02-05, 12:02 PM

a4l do you like Wooden Heads Pizza?

a4l

6-02-05, 3:57 PM

a4l do you like Wooden Heads Pizza?

Some of their pizzas are to die for. :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

goaliemom7687

6-02-05, 5:13 PM

I remember a little bar on 3rd avenue and Ovington in Brooklyn in Bayridge....Homemade crust as thin as a cracker...Their specialty was spicy sausage and mushroom.....It was a taste of heaven....It is probably gone now..... :cry: I really need to go home for a visit...I am totally out of the proverbial loop..... :curse:

Mel

6-06-05, 12:24 PM

Pizza more valuable than money

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- A pizza delivery man was shot Friday night. The robber got away with his pizza order and sped away in a vehicle.

The 30-year old delivery man told police that he was taking the pizza to the Londontowne Apartments off of Lane Ave. when he was approached by two men. He stated that one of them had a rifle and the other a chrome pistol.

The men shot the victim and stole the pizzas, but they did not take his cash. The victim was able to get into his car and drive back to the Pizza Hut after the incident. He was then taken to Shands Jacksonville.

Police have not released a description of the shooters.

If anyone has information on this incident please call First Coast Crimestoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS. You can remain anonymous and could recieve a cash reward.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=38411

bluemeanie

6-06-05, 12:47 PM

In other news... Authorities are looking into an incident that took place at a children?s sleepover party in the Londontowne apartments where it appears that a pizza which was delivered to the residence of the sleepover turned out to have 6 pounds of cocaine in the box instead of pizza. Approximately half of the narcotics where consumed by the children, and although they ?seemed rather agitated at first?, Det. Frank Smith said that ?the children would be fine?. ?After we rounded the last of them up from a downtown after hours club we contacted parents to come and pick their children up. We?re looking into the possibility of a connection to a near-by pizza robbery.?

grim

6-06-05, 1:04 PM

Mel

6-09-05, 2:01 PM

Gunshot wound cannot stop pizza man!

Pizza reaches destination safely despite failed robbery attempt.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

TAMPA, Fla. -- A robbery attempt by a masked man and a gunshot wound to the leg didn't stop a Tampa pizza deliveryman from making his rounds Saturday night.

Hungry Howie's Pizza deliveryman Thomas Stefanelli, 37, arrived at a house that he realized was vacant. A masked gunman approached him and demanded money, police said. Stefanelli said he fought with the man, and two shots were fired. One hit Stefanelli, but he did not immediately notice.

The shooter fled with a second man.

Stefanelli finally noticed his wound, but his cell phone wasn't working. So he drove to his next delivery address, dropped off the pie and called his boss to ask him to call the police. Stefanelli went on to make three more deliveries before being treated at a hospital.

"It bled a little bit, not much," he said.

Police have identified several suspects.

http://www.freep.com/news/nw/pizza9e_20050609.htm

bluemeanie

6-09-05, 3:05 PM

News flash....4 pepperoni pizza's spotted flying over Brighton Utah on Wednesday evening caused mass panic in streets.... more to come....

Mel

6-21-05, 1:47 PM

Pizza money instrumental in fight against Bin Laden

Feds: East Bay Pizza Owner Funded Mercenary

Mission To Kill Osama Bin Laden

June 19 (ABC7) ? The owner of an East Bay pizza parlor is accused of funding a mission to kill Osama Bin Laden.

Federal agents say Noor Alcozy ran a money transfer service out of Liberty Pizza in Hayward, illegally sending one million dollars out of the country.

Agents say some of that money reached an American mercenary now jailed in Afghanistan.

But Alcozy claims the money was used for humanitarian purposes.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/061905_nw_bountyhunter.html

grim

6-21-05, 3:30 PM

I BBQ them in the summer.

Huh? "Why would you do that?...why would you do that...why would you do that? That's incredibly rude. Do you like thinking less of people, is that it?...it's incredibly rude."

Ooops sorry wrong thread. :]

bluemeanie

6-22-05, 4:13 PM

The great Za works in mysterious ways... you can run but you can't hide.

Pizza Shop Robber Left Job Application

LAS VEGAS -- A man accused of holding up a pizza parlor left behind a job application with his real name and address, authorities said.

"I would chalk it up to either inexperience or plain stupidity," Clark County prosecutor Frank Coumou told the Las Vegas Review-Journal for a Wednesday report.

Alejandro Martinez, 23, of Las Vegas, was being held Wednesday at the Clark County jail pending a Monday appearance in Clark County District Court. He faces felony burglary and robbery with a weapon charges in the May 25 heist.

Authorities said Martinez ordered a pizza and started filling out the application before displaying a gun and demanding money. The clerk handed over $200.

Outside, a witness wrote down the license plate number of a getaway car, leading police to Martinez' home.

Martinez' lawyer, Deputy Public Defender James Ruggeroli, said authorities have the wrong man.

skidmark

6-22-05, 5:04 PM

The great Za works in mysterious ways... you can run but you can't hide.
... but did he get the job or not? Maybe delivery man? He's got his own car which is a plus.

butterfly_style

6-23-05, 7:26 AM

... but did he get the job or not? Maybe delivery man? He's got his own car which is a plus.
And a gun . . .so you know he can take care of himself.
Just don't ask him to make change . . .Mr. Martinez doesn't seem like the brightest bulb.

bluemeanie

7-15-05, 9:31 AM

Apparently being around Pizza all day can make you a little crusty... and a little cheesy too.

Pizzeria owner jailed

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - A Danish pizzeria owner went to jail Tuesday for refusing to serve French and German tourists in protesting their countries' opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

A Danish court found Aage Bjerre guilty of discrimination and sentenced him to pay a 5,000-kroner fine, about $900 US. Bjerre refused to pay, and will now serve an eight-day sentence at a minimum security prison.

"I'm doing it to show my sympathy with the United States. It shows how seriously I mean it," he told The Associated Press by telephone.

"But one should also remember that eight days is a small price to pay when American soldiers go to Iraq and risk their limbs and lives," he said.

In February 2003, before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Bjerre posted two signs barring Germans and French from his pizzeria on Denmark's western island of Fanoe. The signs showed human figures in the colours of countries flags, with a line drawn through them indicating "no admittance."

The boycott drew criticism in this Scandinavian country, where the government supported the war while its citizens were split.

The 46-year-old received hundreds of fan letters from the United States, but had to sell the pizzeria after repeated vandalism and a large drop in sales.

"I can't afford to buy a new pizzeria after all the money I lost on the whole thing, and other pizzerias are wary of hiring me because they know I'm sticking to my principles and still won't serve German and French tourists," he said.

He is bringing a photograph of U.S. President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush, as well as an American flag, to decorate the walls of his prison cell.

"I think that will brighten up the room," he said.