Top 25 Pizzerias Based on Bulletin Board Shout-Outs

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...

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7 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, March 25, 2010 at 5:07 PM
Tagged: best-of lists, Fark, Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama Visits Grimaldi's, Prefers NYC Pizza to Chicago?

[Photograph: Adam Kuban] First Lady Michelle Obama visited Grimaldi's in Brooklyn yesterday with her two daughters. The New York Times's City Room blog quotes their server, Ralph Harajda, as saying, "They loved everything," he "I think they said it was better than Chicago pizza." Of course, the Chicago Tribune had to confirm this, and there they quote Harajda as clarifying his statement: "No, what she said was, 'It's the best pizza, and I'm from Chicago.' She liked the pizza very, very much. They were pleased." Of course, it's been reported here on Slice that the Obamas' favorite pizza can...

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2 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, March 25, 2010 at 2:30 PM
Tagged: Grimaldi's, Michelle Obama

No More CPK for Michelle Obama

"Mrs. Obama, a creature of the South Side and of habit, has spent nearly every Saturday for the past 10 years with the same two friends and their collective brood of children, lately at a local California Pizza Kitchen where the group hashes over their weeks together. Now all of that must change." [New York Times]...

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2 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, November 7, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Tagged: California Pizza Kitchen, Michelle Obama, New York Times, politics