This info has been out there since late last month, but it's yet another reason why Mitt Romney may not have carried Iowa in the Republican caucus last night. The man must have alienated the pizza partisans in the Hawkeye State:
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I've been workin' in the coal mine, digging up some more coal-oven pizzerias to bring you. Although New York City and New Haven, Connecticut, are two of the most famous coal-oven towns, did you know there are coal joints in Florida; Philly; Chicago; Des Moines, Iowa; Dallas; and Scottsdale, Arizona? They're all on the Slice National Coal-Oven Pizza Map.
Posted by Adam Kuban, June 14, 2006 at 1:34 AM
In a strange turn of events, a Des Moines, Iowa, radio personality reportedly has invented no-dough pizzas, an idea spawned from a lawn-mowing accident.
The Des Moines Register said WHO's Van Harden came up with the idea of making his pizza crusts from a cheese base after losing his desire for bread.
Mmm, cheese. You could conceivably make it a trifecta if you used a cheese-based sauce. Way to go, Van!
Lawn-mowing accident leads to new pizza [UPI]
Van invents a 100% cheese crust pizza [VanHarden.com]
Posted by seltzerboy, October 30, 2003 at 12:13 AM
Today's Boston Globe is examining the lesser-known qualities of contenders for the Democratic nomination for president next year:
"Like the candidate, Gephardt's campaign lacks bells and whistles. There is none of the innovation or razzle-dazzle of Dean's campaign. That's unless you count The Great Gephardt Iowa Pie Challenge link on his campaign website. There, visitors are invited to 'tell Dick where you think he should go for his next slice?of pie.' "
The subject earns snickers from journalists, but the locals, like a standing-room-only crowd at Mabe's Pizza in Decorah, smile when Gephardt, who has been known to make three pie stops a day in Iowa, describes the strawberry-rhubarb slice he just consumed at the Family Table Restaurant in town."
I'm not sure who would run the country worse: an oil cartel or a fan of strawberry-rhubarb pizza. Feh!
