Goodfellas
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:07:12
Now take me to jail.
:07:18
In prison, dinner was always a big thing.
:07:21
We had a pasta course,
then we had a meat or a fish.

:07:24
Paulie did the prep work.
He was doing a year for contempt...

:07:27
...and had a wonderful system for garlic.
:07:30
He used a razor and sliced it so thin...
:07:33
...it would liquefy in the pan
with a little oil.

:07:36
It was a very good system.
:07:38
Vinnie was in charge of the tomato sauce.
:07:41
Get that smell?
:07:43
Three kinds of meat in the meatballs:
veal, beef, and pork.

:07:47
You got to have pork.
:07:49
That's the flavor.
:07:51
I felt he used too many onions,
but it was still a very good sauce.

:07:55
Don't put too many onions in the sauce.
:07:57
I didn't put too much onions in, Paul.
:08:00
-There are only three small onions.
-Three onions? How many tomatoes?

:08:04
-Two big cans.
-You don't need three onions.

:08:07
Johnny Dio did the meat.
:08:09
We had no broiler,
so he did everything in pans.

:08:12
It smelled up the joint and
the hacks used to die...

:08:15
...but he cooked a great steak.
:08:17
-How do you like yours?
-Medium rare.

:08:21
Medium rare. An aristocrat.
:08:23
When you think of prison
you get pictures in your mind...

:08:27
...of all those old movies with rows
and rows of guys behind bars.

:08:30
It wasn't like that for wiseguys.
:08:33
It wasn't bad, but I missed Jimmy,
who was doing his time in Atlanta.

:08:36
Give me two steaks.
:08:40
Everyone else in the joint was doing
real time, all together, living like pigs.

:08:45
But we lived alone. We owned the joint.
:08:48
We batted them sons of bitches.
You couldn't recognize them.

:08:51
They deserved it.
:08:52
Even the hacks we couldn't bribe
wouldn't rat on the guys we did.

:08:56
People used to be able
to leave their doors open.

:08:59
Sorry it took so long.
That skinny guard's a pain in the ass.


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