Sliwa slams San Gennaro meatball ‘snub’

Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa showed up in Little Italy to judge the Feast of San Gennaro’s meatball-eating contest on Sunday — only to be told he was “too political” to appear on stage, he claimed in a Facebook Live video.

Livestreaming from the festival’s fifth-annual meatball challenge, Sliwa claimed he was “banned” and speculated that Mayor de Blasio or the Gambino crime family were behind a decision not to let him participate.

“I was invited as a guest judge,” the Guardian Angels founder said, smirking. “Then I was told, ‘Hey, not for nothing, Sliwa, it’s just too political. Other politicians had to be up here on the stage for you to be on the stage.’

“Was this comrade Bill de Blasio — the part-time mayor, the dope from Park Slope, the wannabe Italian, the fugazi Italian — who hates Italians? . . . That’s one choice,” he asked.

“Was it the members of the Gambino crime family?” Sliwa added after referring to a 1992 attempted mob hit in which he was shot multiple times.

“Or was it so nefarious that it was the Deep State, when it comes to eating contests, that have denied me competitive eating championships in the past because of my background, my religion, my ideology?”

Sliwa ticked off a list of eating contests he competed in, including the 1996 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, a matzoh-ball contest at the now-closed Ben’s Deli in Queens, and a “sour garlic pickle” contest he said he had won four years in a row.

A woman who answered a phone at the number listed for meatball-eating contestants said she was unaware of any incident with Sliwa.

Sliwa showed The Post a screenshot of an e-mail from Victor Colicchio inviting Sliwa “to host, attend or eat as many meatballs as he wants lol.”

Colicchio did not respond to a request for comment.