Poll: What's the Best Bite of the Slice?

[Photograph: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt]

What do you consider to be the best bite out of a slice? Is it the first one; hot and fresh but with the threat of tomato and cheese lava mouth-sear? Or maybe one of the middle bites when all the elements have cooled enough for all the flavors to be best appreciated and you can revel in more to come? Or do you save the best for last?

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