and mario puzo was beautiful he just ate everything. there was nothing to take home because puzo would vacuum clean. that was it. and one night this is a story that joe told about mario because he found out. mario was busy writing upstairs and at midnight every night he would come downstairs. he was living in bay shore, long island. and he would make a dagwood sandwich. there was a comic strip called "blondie" and her husband, dagwood. >> blondie and dagwood, yeah. >> and the cliche many years ago, he would make a sandwich with like three or four pieces of sbred all kinds of bologna, cheese, ham, turkey, whatever. you know, a big sandwich. mario actually did that. he actually made that with mortadella, with olives. i mean, he explained the sandwich one night and i was just so amazed and proud of him. you know, that he could make that and eat it. so he would make the sandwich and he would put it on a tray and take it up to the attic where he was writing and he would eat around midnight. one night he comes down, makes the incredible sandwi