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God @#$%! the Pizza Man
April 27, 2012
Tony Clifton

Stuff pizza in bag like this

Yeah, I've been away for a while - okay, almost a decade - but some things don't change.

And one of those things is wondering what the @#$% is up with pizza joints that they can't sell you a slice without burning it, cutting a small slice, or worse. Worse, like jamming it in a bag like it was your 15th betting shirt from the same damn team.

There isn't a rower (in America at least) who has not survived or recovered from a hard practice thanks to a slice of pizza, so there isn't a rower in America who has almost lost it on a pizza dude.

First they slice up a pie into eight completely unequal sections, so one customer gets a massive slice, and another about a half-slice. If you just finished 3x3 miles, with your blood sugar completely bottomed out, getting the small slice could almost send you over the counter after the pizza guy.

Anyway, you say "not too hot," so the dude throws it in the oven to warm up and disappears into the back of the shop. By the time he gets back, the sauce is boiling and sizzling under the cheese, and the crust looks and feels like slate.

Throughout, customers are looking at each like "what the ... is going on here" - even when it comes time to pay, you gotta beg for the guy's attention. And if you are getting stuff to go, well, good luck.

But the thing is, pizza dudes don't give a rat's. And you are going to need another slice at some point, so you're gonna go back. It's like a pusher/addict relationship; Lou Reed is gonna write a damn song about it. Or you can change the lyrics yourself - god damn the pizza man.

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tiffer1984
01/14/2013  12:08:03 PM
Microwaving, not "microving"


tiffer1984
01/14/2013  12:04:35 PM
In the first sentence, you say "I've been away for awhile", then you say "almost a decade, but some things don't change". When you're away from rowing for a long time, everything changes, and it's not just the way pizza is served, although I have sympathies -- try ordering from "Dominos Pizza", it's open late, and they'll bring it straight to your door too hot, stick it in the fridge, wait about two or three minutes , take it out, it'll be ready. if you put it in your refrigerator, then fall asleep, or just forget where you put it, you can always put the pie, on a baking pan, or cookie sheet, and warm it up on the oven. I suggest heating it at an internal temp. of about 400 degrees for about 8 or nine minutes. Microving is good , oven heated pizzas are better --- remember that's what makes a pizza a pizza, the fact that it's baked in an oven.



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