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Satriale's Pork Store


Satriale's Pork Store is a fictional establishment on the HBO series The Sopranos. During the 1970s, the pork store was taken over by Johnny Soprano, a capo in the DiMeo crime family, when Francis Satriale failed to make payments on a gambling debt. Since then, it has become a regular hangout for current members of the DiMeo crime family.

Satriale's Pork Store is a meat market in Kearny, New Jersey. The interior walls of the storeroom where Emil "E-Mail" Kolar is murdered by Christopher Moltisanti has black and white framed photographs of classic actors and entertainers, like Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson and Dean Martin hanging on the walls. These actors were also known to portray anti-hero mob characters, and in some cases associated with real mobsters during their careers.

Although a mob-owned establishment, Satriale's runs a legitimate business selling a variety of meats, pork and sausage, along with deli-style sandwiches. There is a careless driver known as Carmine who speeds his Chevrolet Camaro up and down the street in front of the market to the disdain of Tony and the others, eventually being involved in a small fender bender outside the front of the store that Silvio Dante and Furio Giunta deals with in the episode "House Arrest". FBI Agent Dwight Harris who investigates Tony Soprano and the members of his family throughout the show loves their veal Parmesan sandwiches. The store also has a coffee bar which sells pastries and espresso as seen in several episodes. In the large storefront windows hang cured hams and trussed pig carcasses, coils of pink-and-beige sausages, including a denuded chicken with its beak still in place. It is also prominently featured in the video game The Sopranos: Road to Respect. Anthony Infante, John Sacrimoni's brother-in-law refers to Satriale's as a "chickery," or a "poultry hatchery" when talking to imprisoned John in code, despite it not actually raising and hatching its own poultry.


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