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NOSTALGIC VANCOUVER Not everyone likes Greek food. One time I took Joe Segal, Max Fugman, Maury Wosk and our wives for dinner at Yanni’s restaurant on Robson. The special was roast lamb. Maury didn’t want the lamb because he read somewhere how lambs were killed. We had a couple of glasses of wine. The waiters started dancing and Max started throwing plates. “What are you doing Max?” they all asked. Then everyone started throwing plates.
Another time I went to Yanni’s restaurant with Syd Belzberg, Max and Mr. Freeman of Freeman’s Shoes and our wives. When we were all seated at our table, this guy comes towards me and points the end of his umbrella in my face. “Are you a Jew?” he says. “No, I drink a screwdriver, vodka and orange.” He must have thought that I was crazier than him. “That guy is nuts,” Max says to me. He did the same thing to another guy at our table. I called a waiter in Greek and told him to get rid of the guy. He was escorted out the door and wound up in the middle of the street. -excerpt from My Greek Barber’s Diary