JAIL IS GRUEL & UNUSUAL

Wiseguy freed to eat

An accused wiseguy known as “Porky,” who got tossed in jail when he chose to leave the ankle monitor and take the cannoli, says the food in the clink is killing him — and a judge agreed Monday.

Reputed Bonanno crime-family captain John “Porky” Zancocchio (inset) will soon be released on bail thanks to an argument so saucy even Junior Soprano would blush — that the dishes served at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center are ruining his already poor health, so he needs to be free to eat a better diet.

“It’s very hard in there, your honor,” he told Manhattan federal judge Alvin Hellerstein.

“The diet. . .” he added before trailing off as if he couldn’t stomach the thought.

Zancocchio’s lawyer, John Meringolo, said the reputed consigliere, who recently had his bail revoked when he was caught sneaking out of house arrest to go to restaurants, should be let back out until his February trial due to the food’s effect on him.

He allegedly suffers from a host of problems, including “chronic diabetes,” thyroid issues and blood behind his eye, that require decent food.

The 60-year-old alleged bookmaker and loan shark — who gained infamy as Pete Rose’s bookie — was busted in January in a roundup that netted nine other accused mobsters.

He had been on home confinement for just a month when he was granted permission to attend the Staten Island wake and burial of his aunt. But instead of going home after the wake, he was caught hanging around the bar at Bella Mama Rose, a restaurant “that he owns along with Frank Camuso, a captain in the Gambino organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra,” prosecutors said.

The next day, after his aunt’s burial, Zancocchio went to the Staten Island eatery Denino and then “stopped inside a bakery to greet people,” the feds said. When the feds found out, he was tossed back in jail.

Zancocchio is expected to be rereleased Tuesday, after he is outfitted with a GPS-tracking device.

His daughter, Michelle Wright, blasted the feds outside the courthouse for locking her dad up because of his foodie detours.

“That’s just tradition,” she said of his going to restaurants after funerals. “Then they followed us like we’re terrorists.”