Pizza

Ahhh. So.


Mame - a poster's idea of the best pizza in Rome -
"Mike and I set out to find the best pizza in Rome. In our short stay, we think we found it! The pizza is square and cut in whatever amount you want. You pay by the weight. They had the most wonderful traditional and original combinations! We were in heaven."

I was once the head bartender in a place that had a pizza shop upstairs. Sor whores would come in to order a pie (and diet pop . . . ) and they would ask how many pieces in a 12" pie . . .

So did that place smell good? We had a pizza place two doors from our gallery. Not particularly good pizza, even if it was round, and no obvious whores in attendance in daylight hours.

Sor whores is Greek Speak for sorority girls. No . . . the place stank to high heaven. I'd come in in the morning, and use about two gallons of bleach cleaning all the tables, the bar, mopping the floor. The combination of the pizze joint upstairs and the beer spilled the night before would turn your stomach. The owner overheard me talking to somebody once, and i said "Yeah, i come in an hour early to air the place out and clean, 'cause it stinks." He runs up--"Hey, man, my place don't stink!" "It don't stink, Willy, because i come in every morning an hour early to air it out and clean it up--you never show up before noon."

Never heard that (never knew many sorority girls..)

I've a poor sense of smell - can't smell beer, but do smell pizza sometimes.

When somebody spills a pitcher of beer on an old wooden floor, i guaran-damn-tee ya you'll be able to smell it 12 hours later . . .

I used to frequent an old pizza joint in Somerville.
(Called "La Hacienda" -- go figure.)
They had wooden floors but put down a layer of sawdust.
Soaked up the brew spillage.

Back in the old neighboorhood, square pizza was "sidgy (Sicilian) pizza".

mmmm, sicilian pizza -

the sfinciuni thread - http://able2know.org/topic/111460-1

I was told by an old-timer that they used to put sawdust on the floors, but code enforcement came along one day and told them no dice. So the owner limped along getting cited on every inspection for the state of the floor and the tables until i pointed out to him that we'd get a better class of customer if the place didn't actually stink every morning. Then i hired women as bartenders; women don't like to work in a place that stinks.

Growing up in Manchester (CT) we only had square pizza. Vic's (Still there on Middle Turnpike) makes nice cheesy, crusty, meaty pizzas.

I didn't see a round pizza until I went to Boston to watch a hockey game and we went out after to eat. That pizza was considerably thinner, but I like the shaker of garlic salt available on the table.

Joe(pass the red pepper)Nation

I probably tried my first pizza around 1961, egads, at Piece O'Pizza, or some name like that. In retrospect, it wasn't bad though I'd probably turn up my nose now - I had no frame of reference. Tasted good to me. Plus, they served salad. That was my first acquaintance with salad. I liked it. I was about twenty.

You first tried salad and pizza at twenty? Yikes!

I've made up for lost time since then..

ATTAGIRL!!!

I was only slightly younger the first time i ate salad--and i was not impressed. We grew and canned our own vegetables, and ate very well. But salad was no part of it. Prior to going to university, salad to me was what happened when you dressed up tuna and hard-boiled eggs.

a pizza box is for carrying a pizza a hatbox is for protecting a hat and so if you had a square box (and not a square hat) you'd have to fill in the space between the corners of the box and the hat.
Having said that the boxes hats come to the store in are box shaped (cuboid)

I've seen a square frizbee and a triangular one, and one that was like a three pronged boomerang (it wasn't a boomerang because it didn't come back when it was thrown).

good point otherwise