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1. Michael Smith on October 22nd, 2010 at 9:16 am

   Traditional thin crust from Chicago Fire.

   Or, thanks to Andrew, cheap cheese pizza (costco) with hot sauce (Cholula).

2. Michael Smith on October 22nd, 2010 at 9:18 am

   Also, thanks to the cold call in the middle of dinner the other night, I will not be purchasing pizza from Round Table anytime soon. I rarely ever did in the first place, but really, a pizza sales call?

3. Deron Bauman on October 22nd, 2010 at 9:23 am

   canadian bacon, jalapeno, thin crust.

4. Abra on October 22nd, 2010 at 9:33 am

   Pepperoni and Pineapple. Heavy on the pineapple. Buttermilk ranch on the side.

5. Cindy Scroggins on October 22nd, 2010 at 9:33 am

   Margherita–thin crust, good sauce, fresh mozzarella, fresh basil

   I also love any cheese pizza dipped in salsa or marinara. Even better with some pickled jalapenos.

6. Rick Neece on October 22nd, 2010 at 9:38 am

   Papa Murphy’s (take and bake) 1/2 chicken artichoke, 1/2 meat lovers (it’s so bad but so good.

7. Rick Neece on October 22nd, 2010 at 9:39 am

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8. Daryl Scroggins on October 22nd, 2010 at 10:15 am

   nice catch, Rick

9. Daryl Scroggins on October 22nd, 2010 at 10:17 am

   burnt cheese

10. Luke Neff on October 22nd, 2010 at 12:09 pm

    In Salida, Colorado there’s a little place called Amicas that does wood-fired pizza and has their own little microbrewery in back. Their “Vesuvio” pizza (artichoke and red pepper and mushroom and spicy oil and …?) is great.

11. Andrew Simone on October 22nd, 2010 at 12:36 pm

    Chicken and Bacon with hot sauce.

12. Joel Bernstein on October 22nd, 2010 at 1:02 pm

    Absolutely nothing beats a *good* Chicago style deep dish

13. Carole Corlew on October 22nd, 2010 at 10:12 pm

    I don’t really care for pizza. It’s messy. It tempts people to ridiculous combinations, like goat cheese and pineapple (I was with someone who ordered that once). It fosters culinary laziness. “What do you want to eat tonight? I don’t know, let’s just order pizza.” When no one really wants pizza at all, they just don’t want to think about or do anything about dinner.

    I do live with two pizza fanatics, however. They argue about it extensively, crust, topping, what have you.

14. Derek White on October 23rd, 2010 at 9:36 am

    I must admit for many years i loved jalapeno & pineapple pizza at Z’s in Tucson. In Brooklyn, I’d say Gramaldi’s. In Rome, Il Forno in Campo d’Fiori.

    Deron, you’d appreciate this. I just touched the tent that Reinhold Messner used to climb all 14 8000 meter peaks…

15. Deron Bauman on October 23rd, 2010 at 9:55 am

    dang.

16. Carole Corlew on October 23rd, 2010 at 10:19 am

    I am all about dining freedom of choice, Derek. But when my friend asked what I liked on pizza and I said you choose, she ordered goat cheese and pineapple on the entire thing when I was away from the table. She was being “cute,” encouraged by the server. She didn’t even like it. Pizza just invites that.

    My husband’s friend and wife served some pizzas they had just made from scratch at their big Iowa farmhouse a few years ago. Goat cheese and shrimp, leeks, this and that. We had our children there (our boy and their girl) and the host, a musician and lifelong comedian in his own mind, put on Prokofiev, the Romeo and Juliet suite, as the toddlers sparred over toys, spoons, swings, everything they encountered.

    I really loved the pizza that day.

17. Cindy Scroggins on October 23rd, 2010 at 10:36 am

    Note to self: if Carole says you choose, don’t.

18. amanda mae on October 23rd, 2010 at 12:25 pm

    In Russia, pizza chooses you.

19. Carole Corlew on October 23rd, 2010 at 1:42 pm

    We paid a king’s ransom for that uneaten pizza.

20. Sheila Ryan on October 23rd, 2010 at 1:59 pm

    Uneaten pizza may result in a $50 fine.

21. Carole Corlew on October 23rd, 2010 at 2:05 pm

    And the person who orders it, pays it.

22. Sheila Ryan on October 23rd, 2010 at 2:12 pm

    You bet. The thing about pizza is that, well, you said it already, Carole. In its Americanized incarnation, anyway, it breeds both laziness and cuteness.

    (That much said, the pizza at the Chicago place whose name I forget — my old neighborhood place there at Wrightwood and Wayne Avenues . . . now that is good. Thin, delicious, and fairly subtle — for pizza. But their salad concoctions are even better. Conical mounds of dark greens and interesting vegetables and just-right dressing.)

23. Andrew Simone on October 23rd, 2010 at 4:25 pm

    Were it not for pizza, I’d probably starve to death.

24. Carole Corlew on October 23rd, 2010 at 4:42 pm

    Shelia, I know I’ve said this but one of my favorite Italian restaurants is Coco Pazza on Hubbard. I love that place.

25. Sheila Ryan on October 23rd, 2010 at 4:51 pm

    Andrew, son. You need to change your evil ways.

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