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Spotted: Goat Eating Pizza In Midtown Restaurant
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Jen Carlson
Published Mar 8, 2012
Modified Mar 8, 2012
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Published Mar 8, 2012
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So a guy, a girl, and a goat walk into a Midtown pizza joint and order some slices... and proceed to eat those slices at a table... with the goat, and no one seems to care? This photo shows barely a reaction from other diners at La Famiglia, and it just ends up in the wasteland of Twitter with a quick note: "saw a goat eating pizza at La Famiglia on 50th & B'way."
Is this not the same city that just celebrated a squirrel eating a slice of pizza in a tree? C'mon New York, this is a goat, sitting down at a table (with someone who looks a lot like Bethenny Frankel), inside of an establishment that just last year Sarah Palin and Donald Trump had lunch at. Let's give this goat the attention it deserves. And also maybe alert the Department of Health.
We called La Famiglia this morning, and the man who answered was genuinely shocked to hear there was a goat in the restaurant last night—"A goat? In this restaurant? Eating pizza? No!" [via Buzzfeed]
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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