"If there's one thing that keeps me going, it's the feeling that I'm not doing enough, accomplishing enough," he said over lunch at a pizza restaurant in Huntington Station, where he used to deliver pies a few years ago when money was tight.

Pizza places basked in a landslide day delivering pies.

They guessed they could win over couch potatoes by stocking supermarkets with frozen pizzas and by delivering hot pies to the doorstep.

Presented as archetypal of the revolution is the presence of various workers, including a mazamorreros delivering pies among the people in the plaza on May 25.

Miles away in Kew Gardens, the pizza shops that once delivered pies galore to pilots and flight attendants are taking hardly any calls from apartments - known as "crash pads" - that were once crammed with airline employees.

Marie baked and sold pies to augment the family's income, with Don delivering pies to customers on his bicycle.

But they were also treated to a litany of difficulties about doing business here, from deliberate attempts by the Japanese Government to impede American banks to the cultural challenges faced by Domino's Pizza in delivering pies in a nation where streets are not named.

And to make matters worse, the traffic police are so vigilant that the middle-aged men have given up their car and have begun delivering pies by pedal.

Mustered out in 1944, he joined his parents in Florida, where he assisted his father, Salvatore, in the family's restaurant business and delivered pies for a cousin's bakery.

She had to go, to deliver pies, to pay off painters, to check on announcements, to contract for chickens, to make more pies.