Poppie is an immigrant from Tuscany. When he was ten years old, his pregnant mother was kidnapped by communists in the middle of the night and placed in a slave labor camp where she worked for twelve years. She lost the baby while in the camp, leading to Poppie's strong anti-abortion opinions. When she got out of the camp was on a boat to America, she died from eating some bad fish. After coming to America himself, Poppie opened up a restaurant called “Poppie's” and had a daughter named Audrey who worked as a hostess at his restaurant.
Jerry dated Audrey in The Pie and was confused when she refused to have a piece of his pie. He went to Poppie's with Audrey, but refused to eat the pizza Poppie made personally because Jerry noticed that Poppie didn't wash his hands in the bathroom. Poppie's restaurant was temporarily shut down by the health department because of several complaints (Poppie's a little sloppy). Poppie managed to reopen the restaurant and was called one of the cleanest kitchens in the city in New York Magazine.
Jerry still didn't want to eat Poppie's food in The Couch and purposely starts a fight between Elaine and Poppie about the issue of abortion. Poppie had to go to the hospital after the fight he had with Elaine because it upset his gastro-intestinal disorder. Kramer later visited Poppie in the hospital where he told them how Elaine and Jerry felt bad about what happened and got him a gift basket. Poppie opens the gift basket and quotes «What's this? A bottle of wine and a five-alarm chili? They're trying to kill Poppie?!». Declaring it a sick joke, Poppie states that Jerry and Elaine owe him for the ducks that were obtained from Newfoundland. After getting out of the hospital, Poppie dropped by Jerry's apartment to pick up money from the unpaid check. It was then that he sat down and unknowingly urinated on Jerry's sofa.
* Murder She Wrote
* Can't Hardly Wait
