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Reply #25 - Apr 10th, 2009 at 12:44pm
 
An important consideration of pizza quality for me is the next-day cold-pizza eatability.  A problem I have with Imo's, the St Louis chain with a shop in my town, is that the next day their pizza is basically a dried out cheese-cracker.  

Imo's is a decent snack food.  Buy a few boxes, then set them with the chips and dip at your party.  

Imagine my pizza-loving shock when I moved here and was introduced to 'St Louis-style' pizza.  A major 'wtf is this?' moment.

True fact... when my mom makes the 13-hour drive from the town I grew up in, I make her bring me about $100 worth of 'Mister Pizza', the pizza I grew up on.

'Mister Pizza' has been in Shamokin PA since the 1960's.
It is one room with a counter.  No chairs.  No drinks (I think you can now get a six pack of soda to go).  
You order the pizza by the 'cuts'... a roughly 5x5inch square.
You simply say '10 cuts' or such.  You do not get to pick what kind of pizza you want... they only have one kind.  Each slice has one pepperoni in the corner.  
They hand you a box and you leave.  There is no place to eat in the building.  
The only thing that changes in the place is the price chart... they update it with new prices every year or two.  It simply lists the prices for 1/2/3/4/.../99/100 cuts of pizza.
It still tastes the same as when I was 4 years old, and will taste the same after I am taking a dirt nap.  

Dammit.  Now I am horny for pizza.  
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Re: Obamas fly in chef 860 miles... just to make pizza
Reply #26 - Apr 10th, 2009 at 12:54pm
 
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It is one room with a counter.  No chairs.  No drinks (I think you can now get a six pack of soda to go).  
You order the pizza by the 'cuts'... a roughly 5x5inch square.
You simply say '10 cuts' or such.  You do not get to pick what kind of pizza you want... they only have one kind.  Each slice has one pepperoni in the corner.  
They hand you a box and you leave.  There is no place to eat in the building.  
The only thing that changes in the place is the price chart... they update it with new prices every year or two.  It simply lists the prices for 1/2/3/4/.../99/100 cuts of pizza.
It still tastes the same as when I was 4 years old, and will taste the same after I am taking a dirt nap.  

That reminds me of a place on Long Island......  Sign me up!


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Dammit.  Now I am horny for pizza.

You do not walk that path alone. I'm pricing flights to Islip now....  Grin
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Reply #27 - Apr 10th, 2009 at 12:55pm
 
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Dammit.  Now I am horny for pizza.

You can thank your president for that. Wink
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Reply #28 - Apr 10th, 2009 at 1:13pm
 
And here I am eating cold leftover fried chicken.

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Reply #29 - Apr 10th, 2009 at 1:16pm
 
Redd wrote on Apr 10th, 2009 at 1:13pm:
And here I am eating cold leftover fried chicken.

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Hey, chin up - cold leftover fried chicken can be better than pizza. At least I think so.
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Reply #30 - Apr 10th, 2009 at 1:22pm
 
Agreed Brew....

I prefer fried chicken cold...but after this tread I'm craving a thin hand tossed crust pizza loaded with italian sausage, muchrooms green and black olives and cheese so thick and gooey you need a scissors to cut it.
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Reply #31 - Apr 10th, 2009 at 1:32pm
 
I am so not a pizza lover at the best of times to be honest - and after the last time I had pizza in Syracuse.. well lets just say when Paul, Brid and I went there in December I had a salad..
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Reply #32 - Apr 10th, 2009 at 1:53pm
 
Lobster wrote on Apr 10th, 2009 at 12:44pm:
Now I am horny for pizza.  


And you people think that I have kinky and unusual sexual desires ?? ?? ??
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Reply #33 - Apr 10th, 2009 at 2:37pm
 
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Paul98 wrote on Apr 10th, 2009 at 11:58am:
Agreed!  The Mid West can keep their deep pan pizza, The left coast can keep their bean sprout and toffu pizza; I'll keep the NY pizza!   Wink

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You mean that greasy crap you fed me that made me sick for a week?!!! UGH!!


Pearls before swine.  No one fed you anything, you ate of your own volition!

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Re: Obamas fly in chef 860 miles... just to make pizza
Reply #34 - Apr 10th, 2009 at 3:24pm
 
ClusterChuck wrote on Apr 10th, 2009 at 1:53pm:
Lobster wrote on Apr 10th, 2009 at 12:44pm:
Now I am horny for pizza.  


And you people think that I have kinky and unusual sexual desires ?? ?? ??
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Reply #35 - Apr 10th, 2009 at 3:54pm
 
Pizza is over rated - fish and chips with lashings of salt and viniger wins hands down every time. Grin
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Reply #36 - Apr 10th, 2009 at 4:29pm
 
mummymac wrote on Apr 10th, 2009 at 3:54pm:
Pizza is over rated - fish and chips with lashings of salt and viniger wins hands down every time. Grin

Go ahead and ask Donny Osmond what he would prefer.... Grin
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Reply #37 - Apr 10th, 2009 at 5:04pm
 
Dang it.  Now I want a shrimp pizza. Sad
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Reply #38 - Apr 10th, 2009 at 5:10pm
 
Personally i find pizza a bit like cheese on toast and i'm pretty good at that so do you reckon if someone put a word in for me he'd fly me out there too,
Not bothered if its first class or in the hold.
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Reply #39 - Apr 10th, 2009 at 5:20pm
 
Man all this talk of pizza. I just had a crummy chicken sandwich in Charlotte airport.... and THEN I saw CA Pizza Kitchen. DAMN.
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Reply #40 - Apr 10th, 2009 at 5:48pm
 
St.Louis Pizza? didn't RFT have a long-winded article about it being the worst?  Seriously, there are some good pies there - I favor Joanie's.

Beerfest in Milwaukee?  I'd love to see the big guy show up and put a few down.  Maybe we can get him into lederhosen, too.

But really, this ought to be a huge story for the Chicago Tribune.
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Reply #41 - Apr 12th, 2009 at 6:53pm
 
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And Lobster, what I was trying to imply above is that it seems as though the President is kind of dissing his homies by "sending out" for pizza to St. Louis.


Actually, I think you were just implying something neative about the president, Bill.  Probably like how he was wasting tax payer money or any other right-wing smear ploy like that. But then the second post defused the situation by reporting the whole truth that the chef flew out on his own accord and on his own dime, so you rolled with it. Just like Repulican pushed ethonol down Wisconsin gas tanks.

Was interesting to see the politically negative intended conversation turn to something more "palatable" though. Thank goodness.
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Reply #42 - Apr 12th, 2009 at 10:21pm
 
    Whats the big deal with the president getting his pizza from somewhere other than Chicago? He's not from Chicago. He practiced law there as an adult, and represented Chicago in the Senate for 163 days. But he was raised and educated elseware. Give the guy a break.

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Reply #43 - Apr 14th, 2009 at 2:29pm
 
Hmmm missed this yummy thread..
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I am so not a pizza lover at the best of times to be honest - and after the last time I had pizza in Syracuse.. well lets just say when Paul, Brid and I went there in December I had a salad..


Doggone it Helen.. shoulda treated you to some pizza in Brooklyn, or near my house.  No offense, but I would venture a guess that the NYC pizza is different from Syracuse pizza.   Smiley

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I am so not a pizza lover at the best of times to be honest - and after the last time I had pizza in Syracuse.. well lets just say when Paul, Brid and I went there in December I had a salad..


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Reply #45 - Apr 16th, 2009 at 9:16am
 
This thread is SO TOTALLY UNFAIR! In Guernsey, there is NO pizza place. Not one. Not even a greasy Pizza Hut or Dominos to get my fill. Just supermarket frozen specials, which isn't the same.

And what do I want now? Hot, fresh pizza. Hawaiian with extra mozzarella. Or in fact any kind of pizza. Just one I don't have to cook myself.

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Reply #46 - Apr 16th, 2009 at 10:05am
 
Em wrote on Apr 16th, 2009 at 9:16am:
This thread is SO TOTALLY UNFAIR! In Guernsey, there is NO pizza place. Not one. Not even a greasy Pizza Hut or Dominos to get my fill.


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