OK. This is crazy. Over on Fark, there's a thread going about Michelle Obama's visit to Grimaldi's in Brooklyn (as egadman tipped me off to). Anyway, a lot of it is pretty ugly, with lots of dumb-ass political stuff going on. But ... as I was wading through it, I found this crazy comment. It seems that Fark user "Certainly You Jest" has a strange hobby indeed*:

Because I'm such a pizza geek, I go through threads like this and record shout-outs from posters about their favorite pie shops.

After numerous pizza threads here and elsewhere, the top-25 vote-getters on my spreadsheet are as follows:

Frank Pepe's New Haven CT 93
Sally's Apizza New Haven CT 60
Lou Malnati's Pizza Chicago IL 42
Giordano's Chicago IL 42
Gino's East Chicago IL 42
Pizzeria Uno Chain USA 40
Modern Apizza New Haven CT 34
Pizzeria Bianco Phoenix AZ 31
John's Pizzeria Manhattan NY 24
Grimaldi's Brooklyn NY 23
Lombardi's Pizzeria NY 21
DeLorenzo's Tomato Pies Trenton NJ 20
Pizzeria Regina Boston MA 19
Mellow Mushroom Chain USA 19
Aurelio's Chicago IL 14
Di Fara Pizzeria NY 13
Pizzeria Due Chicago IL 13
PizzaPapalis Chain MI 12
Mack and Manco Pizza NJ 12
Vincent's Pizza Park Pittsburgh 11
Zachary's Oakland CA 11
Famous Ray's NY 11
Home Run Inn Chicago IL 10
Monical's Chain IL, IN, WI 9

I wonder what Jared Lander could do with these numbers.

* But I guess that's like the pot calling the kettle charred.