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If you look at the posts from "two pizzas," the overwhelming majority of them are bashing Chicago style pizza. He clearly brings value to the community. :)

I'll admit that I clicked on the tag "truth hammer" hoping to see other examples of Adam meting out justice, and was sad to find that this is the only one.

@ pizcajj: I went to UPN on Saturday night for dinner, I paid $21 for a small pizza, and I did not feel cheated or ripped off in the least. I look at it like this. If I go to a casual chain restaurant, I pay that much by the time I'm done and I didn't get the quality of food I got at UPN. It was simply amazing food.

I can get perfectly good pizza delivered to my home where I live in New Jersey for around $12 for a large pie, from several different places. They don't follow Anthony Mangieri's strict adherence to old Italian recipes, but they are good in the great-pizzeria-up-the-street way that those who grew up in the NY-NJ area are used to.

I guess what I'm saying is that there is a place in the world of pizza for "gourmet" pizza as well as great slice joints. Just keep an open mind.

I actually assumed that by "no salad" they meant "without lettuce and tomato"... but I'm not really up on my Aussie slang.

That hurt my brain.

Looks like I'm a little late to the dance, but I had to weigh in here. Star Tavern is... all right. The flavor is very good, and the atmosphere is awesome in that small-town-dive sort of way, but it's just too damn greasy; the cheese-to-crust ratio is way off. I enjoyed it, my girlfriend (who is more sensitive to grease than me) did not; but like it or not, it's definitely not the best in the area. It's just okay.

Not too big on White Manna, to be honest. I have the same problem there as I do at White Castle; I like to feel the texture of meat when I bite into a burger. :)

Diners Drive-ins and Dives is a great show, though; I love the shows like that and Feasting on Asphalt that focus on local family-owned places as opposed to the the bigger restaurants. Also, Guy Fieri is a great addition to the Food Network; the network really lucked out that the audience voted for him over that Reggie guy.

"And, the writers may have rightly sensed that nobody would believe that, say, Domino's or the Hut had better pizza than a local establishment. It's been my observation that no matter how bad a local place is, it's almost always better than a chain."

Actually, where I went to college in Towson, MD, the local places were on the whole far worse than the chains. I ordered from Papa John's and Pizza Hut far more often than from any local place.

Hope this isn't considered off-topic, but I braved the infamous Shake Shack line on Saturday. It was long, but it moved quickly enough and it was a nice day (albeit slightly cold) to sit around outside. And I was definitely impressed with the burger (a double shack burger) and fries. The burger had a nice salty crunch you don't find everywhere.