Starting next week, Ronnie, Pauly D and the rest of the cast will work as apprentice pizzaioli at the locally popular O' Vesuvio Pizzeria in the heart of Florence's historic city center. 

Just across the famous Ponte Vecchio bridge from O'Vesuvio, Munaciello Pizzeria has placed a bright green sign in their window that says, "Tamarri Americans? 'Jersey Shore' ... no thank you. Only real Italian pizza," Tamarri is Italian slang that can be roughly translated as yokel or uncultured idiot. 

I personally wonder if JWOW, who is Irish, but presumably claims Italian/Guido Connection because St Patrick was Roman, will disdain being trained as a  pizzaioli , as she did selling T shirts, because it was so far beneath her exalted chosen career as a BARTENDER? 

The cast of the "Jersey Shore" has been in Florence for less than a week and they've already started a cross-town pizza war. 

Starting next week, Ronnie, Pauly D and the rest of the cast will work as apprentice pizzaioli at the locally popular O' Vesuvio Pizzeria in the heart of Florence's historic city center. 

While the crew kneads dough, makes tomato sauce and, in all likelihood, draws large crowds to the pizza shop, a rival pizzeria is shunning the guidos and guidettes. 

Just across the famous Ponte Vecchio bridge from O'Vesuvio, Munaciello Pizzeria has placed a bright green sign in their window that says, "Tamarri  Americans? 'Jersey Shore' . . . no thank you. Only real Italian pizza," according to various Italian newspapers. Tamarri  is Italian slang that can be roughly translated as yokel or uncultured idiot. 

The pizza fight is the latest example of the mixed reactions Florentines have had to the "Jersey" crew's arrival in Italy earlier this week. 

On the one hand,Snooki and Co. have been followed by throngs of adoring fans as they buy bright pink "Italia" sweatshirts, model the jersey of the local soccer team and work out at the gym. 

But, on the other hand, there are traditionalists led by Florence's mayor, Matteo Renzi, who are repulsed by the barbaric Italian-Americans. 

After imposing party-pooping rules on the filming of the show, Mayor Renzi joked earlier this week during an appearance on the "Today" show that, "Maybe the arts could save The Situation and the other stars." ....

[RAA retort: Obviously the Mayor was kidding. It would be like walking Kindergarten kids through Harvard, and expecting them to hsve gained some culture from the experience!!!! ]

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