Casa D’Ice Restaurant Opened Up Our Eyes. We Saw The Sign. Also, It Gave Us, Like, Terrible Gas.
11 January 2008, 10:30 AM. By Guanabee Staff
Casa D’Ice restaurant, located in beautiful North Versailles, PA, is, as you could probably garner from its name, one of the finer eating establishments one could hope to visit. Not content to merely serve its patrons the finest Italian Hoagie west of Napoli, Casa D’Ice has achieved a certain amount of notoriety by displaying humorous, thought-provoking messages of hope on its sign.
Oh, and just in case anyone should accuse proprieter and post-modern Chaucerian wordsmith Bill Balsamico of tolerance, he makes it clear that his restaurant’s clever name and infamous signage is 100% reflective of the values we hold dear in the U! S! A! :
For 23 years, I was in the Ice Business and when I sold the business using my legal Italian Heritage, came the name
“Casa D’ Ice” for “House of Ice”. I can not help it that the Spanish use is the same name for house.
So, for those who question my use of “Casa” when I am against illegal aliens, I hope this explains it.
Oh, Bill. You know you can’t spell “spicy meataball” without s-p-i-c.
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I thought Casa d’Ice was ICE’s new campaign.
FTP!
These signs are reflective of the times. I hope this inflammatory rhetoric concerning immigration is the kick in the pants that latinos need in this country to register to vote and be more politically aware and involved. You see the Republicans trashing the Miami Cubans? Want to hypothesize as to why? Cause they vote (i.e. Republican) and vote as a united block! It is unconscionable that some latinos don’t become citizens when they have the recourse to do so.
Though I am somewhat a fiscal and social conservative, I would never vote for the Republicans because of their coded racist rhetoric. FTPs!
Charming. Especially with the bi-lingual tinge he blithely ignores.
@Diego: maybe it’s a migra front.
That is one cold hijo de la guayaba.
I recommend all NYQuinos to go to Comeblowus Circle and flip him off right now. He started it, el muy cabron!
@pocho: my thoughts exactly…what a contradiction.
My instincts tell me Bill has an immigrant cook. Pobrecito forgive him for his ignorance.
Oh, Bill Balsamico, you silly man. If you are a Christian, I hope you will kindly remember that Jesus didn’t speak English either. And if you happen to reach the pearly gates, I hope you see a sign similar to your distasteful rhetoric. But on the bright side, I’m sure Hitler will scoot over to make room for you in his bunker.
casa dice? dice ke? im gonna go up there and eat one of these days and bring my fam
I’m sure he shares the same sentiments when it’s regarding Italians. I’d really like to meet his kitchen staff. I bet there all blonde haired and blue eyed, right??
“THEY’RE”. Sorry for the stupid mistake. My English is not so good.
Yeah the guy at Pat’s steaks in Phila. has a “speak-ida english” or get out attitude.
I say we have a right to say how many people come to this country, I even say you have a right to be an ass as well, but let’s play fair with the sorry suckers that are actually here from somewhere else… Some of them are very busy trying to gang rape Chinese students attending medical school. After all they have nothing to loose: they don’t even work under their own names or have any identification at all, and the rest of them have TB.
Do try and think clearly on this one, even if you are Latino yourself, having more of them just for the sake of cheap labor doesn’t necessarily make your life better, especially if you’re Latino: you are the most likely to have to live with them 20 to a room as your neighbors.
They have Nachos Supreme on the menu, so they can’t hate the border brothers that much.
Geronimo,
I think it’s only Geno’s (sp?) that has that policy.
@ El Chavo
I was just about to point that out! Nachos and Cheese and Nachos Supreme.
However, I hear their ironic tired rhetoric and sides of ignorance and racism are terrific.
I agree with the message….so if you are in California and you dont speak spanish….GET THE FUCK OUT
oh wait it is PA, once home to the mighty Shawnee…whiteys can be such hypocrites…
“legal Italian heritage”??
You have to make sure your heritage is legal now? Damn.
It is Geno’s — sorry Pat, hold the spit on the wit wiz.
“If N Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin wants a chocolate city, then he should ask ask the Nestle Co to rebuild it. Nestle makes the very best chocolate.”
“Dear Mr. President, piss on the camel jockeys. Bring home all the troops. Leave Behind plenty of bombs. They will kill themselves. Thats their way of life.”
“Who owns the oil. Who owns OPEC. Now they run our gas stations. You should be very selective where you purchase your gas.”
Well I guess it feels good that we’re not the only ones.
And if you want. You can wear this stuff proudly on a t-shirt or cap. Give the gift that says hey darkie, as long you assimilate to this culture of drunken revelry and bikers you’re alright with me. The Casa D’Ice way is the American Way.
as narrow minded as it is, and it is nothing else really.
the guy has some serious juevos. he wants to 302 Bush.
“legal Italian heritage?” Ninja please! The term WOP (without papers) wasn’t assigned to Italians for no reason….
He needs to change the name of his restaurant to “House of Ice” or whatever that eye-talian on his sign is supposed to say.
yeah, he steps on some toes, makes some enemies & generally pisses people off but, there’s an underlying message that affects us all in one way or another! on some of them i am totally in agreement. the direction this country is headed is catastrophic! millions losing their homes, jobs, & life savings! there is no oil shortage whatsoever! just raking in billions in profits per month! i wonder how close to bill gates, bush & cheney will be when they leave office! ameican troops coming home, treated worse than the prisoners at gitmo! Iraq insn’t worth 1 american soldiers life, let alone 4000!
Keep yp the good work, hasent been one yet I havent agreed with, if you cant speak english git the fuck back to where you come from and why in the hell cant they press one to speak their crap, close imigreation altogeather will be fine with me
I like how you guys assume he has mexicans working for him. There are very few mexicans in Pittsburgh. everyone is mostly white or black with some asians sprinkled in because of all the hospitals. I have lived here all my life and about 99% of all roofers, landscapers and general laborers are WHITE. liberalism is a mental disorder
From Canada I agree with him, to some degree. First, if you don’t agree with the county’s way of life, be it English speaking or Religion, you should have picked a country more suited to your way of life. Or go back to the one you chose to leave don’t expect us to change.
But…I do believe with out a doubt that there are great people who improve our countries when they bring with them a honest hard working values…
I love it! I agree whole-heartedly with every sign i’ve read. I wish I had one!
Awesome! I completely agree with pretty much all of these. If you don’t have the respect to enter this country legally, why the hell should you be given any respect from this country?
Unfortunately, we as a nation are too “liberal” and too “politically correct” to stand up to this crap at this point in time. This will change soon enough. It absolutely has to if we are to survive as a nation. There is nothing wrong with immigration, done properly and legally. Times change and our policies on immigration (obviously) must change as well. That’s just life.
If you’re not going follow our rules, then you sure as hell don’t have any valid reason to complain when the rest of us (law abiding citizens) get pissed off about your lack of respect. Go ahead - keep breaking our rules - but don’t be offended when I bitch about it. Follow the rules or STFU! You can only have it both ways for so long. This too shall pass…
My wife is from Eastern Europe. We have been working on her citizenship for over two years (you know….going the ‘legal route”). She has learned to speak English in just two years (her children learned English in her native country). She thinks the government should deport the people on the corners begging for “free handout”, and can’t understand how or why they haven’t taken advantage of the AMERICAN DREAM (you kinda gotta agree with that logic!). Legal immigrants are great for American when they assimilate, and hell, almost all of them end up successful taxpaying-voting Americans. It’s the illegals that drive you crazy!
The fricking Democrats keep telling us how bad we have it here in the US (it’s all the fault of Bush and the Evil Republicans!)…tell me….where are the lines of people waiting to leave the US??? You my friends who think we have t so bad here, need to get the cob out of your butt and travel to see how people in other countires live (including all those beloved socialistic countries in Europe…fun to visit but, taxed to death!) This is the greatest nation on earth and if you don’t believe that, send me an e-mail about any place you think is better and I’ll by you a one-way ticket with the stipulation that you cannot return.
These are the BEST! I only wish the people in our city had the balls to do such a thing!
Shame on liberals! They can all go play in traffic for all I care!
Try the 5 at rush hour!
Though I do not agree with everything you say, I give you a lot of kudos to say what you feel. I absolutely agree with the ‘giving away America’ and english as this is an english speaking country and when anyone comes here they should learn the language, speak the language out of their home or leave. We should NOT have to press anything for english !!!!! My family is Italian and I never hear press anything for Italian, Polish, German, French or others. Why are they catering to spanish????? I would like to rip the foreign flags off cars when I see them. You love the benefits of America, you live here and breathe the air, SHOW RESPECT.
I hope you continue your crusade, maybe one day someone in congress who isn’t padding their pockets, will see your signs and MAKE CHANGES HERE IN THE GRAND OLD USA !!!!
When did the U.S. go from a democracy to a socialist country?
“we cannot hope to be that shining simian on a hill without the ongoing grace of god and the guidance of his word…voting for a man who sides against that word voting for a man who twists that word to his own ends voting for a man who sees himself as a messianic figure in his own right is not only dangerous it means standing in opposition to the work of god on earth as expressed by his son Jesus Christ. Let there be no more deceit the case against Barack Obama is clear.”
“When men become more dependent upon state than god the state becomes god.”
“Religious freedom can only flourish if there is economic freedom, Economic freedom can only flourish if there is political freedom……Our founders knew this and they knew unalienable rights can come from god not government they enshrined our rights in the declaration of independence”
Keep them coming, I do not hate anybody, and everybody has their own right to believe what they want. You can thank a vet for that. And our fore-fathers who came to America to make their way, by working hard and learning the ways of our free country We are a hard working family who have medical insurance, but have to pay what is not covered. I am a born citizen, and there is no free ride for me,and I am not asking for that.. So ,even in these hard times when normal citizens are tightening up their belts ,quit putting your hand out and go home and get a job
I’m a Veteran and here’s hoping the people that he’s talking about and the politicians that are letting it happen read these and think.
Illegals (from any country) that are here just for the money to send back to their own country and don’t love our country SHOULD go back to the shitholes they came from.
It is a slap in the face to every “LEGAL” immigrant that had to take classes to learn our language, laws, and adopted our customs because this country was SO MUCH BETTER.
Go to Mexico and see what they give YOU!
The clap and maybe a jail sntence…
EVERYONE needs to read what Heather Ramirz has stated and realize that this is what this is all about. If you are not a citizen of the U.S. then YOU are a guest……..act accordingly and respect the values, language, etc. of the country you visit. You have NO RIGHT to complain until you learn the language and become a PROUD U.S. citizen. Keep the signs coming !!!