'Produce Pete’ Napolitano, the rare celebrity #grocer, who spent past 30 years as #NYC's #WNBC 4's resident prodder and poker of countless apples, tomatoes, eggplants, cantaloupes and zucchinis — has died at age 80.
‘Produce Pete’ Napolitano, a Fruit and Vegetable Celebrity, Dies at 80For more than 30 years, he drew fans for dispensing weekly produce punditry on a New York television station, building on a sales career that began when he was 5.