Knight Rider said (6)

In Mancinnini’s case I recall it was always food metaphors mixed in with sports. – Life is an egg and spoon race with the glue tacked to the spoon. - A boxer taking a dive, an owner kidnapping his own horse. – A man selling bat meat hamburgers and French fries without the mayo.

I believe it must have been in his make-up, his twin inheritance as an Italian American.