There are many unending debates in NYC: Giants/Jets, Yankees/Mets, Liberal/Very Liberal. Those pale in comparison to our culinary debates over the the city’s unofficial food – the pizza slice.
While NY pizza is far better than any other, within the city there are dozens of varieties, crust thicknesses, flavors, etc. HEven the names are diverse – there are at least 12 “Original Ray’s” pizzas.
One blogger has sought to settle this fight by eating at every pizzeria in NYC and writing about them all. He is comparing only plain slices, so the analysis will focus on core slice integrity, and not topping flavor. Given the turnover of pizza shops, this could be a downright Sisyphean task..but a fun one nonetheless.
I was inspired to post about this because we have an annual family outing to John’s Pizzeria, on Bleecker Street. As I wrote about once before, every year my mom and aunt do the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. We always end the walk celebration with a visit to John’s where the pizza is amazing and they don’t do slices.
Our waiter put one wrong topping on my pie and ended up giving me an entire new one for free. I have now had eight slices in less than 24 hours so I am currently focused on both pizza and survival. Anyway, I wish Colin of Slice Harvester the best of luck on his quest and hope I can aspire to such a thing one day.
