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suhlut -> RE: The CM Pizza Discussion (8/6/2009 6:33:02 AM)
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As a youngster.. we used to have a pizza restaurant here that had a display type window area, in which 3 foot high (or so) lil animated chefs were on display. Each would have its own lil "job"
One would roll forward and back..forward and back, in a never ending cycle of "rolling a dough disk"
Another would rock back and forth at the hip area, holding a giant ladle, to make it look like it was spreading sauce.
i remember them having a total of about 5 or 6 of these animated dolls in their windows. i loved to stand outside the building with my lil brother and watch all of them making pizza, and we half believed that the lil chef dolls were actually what made our pizzas, once the parents were able to drag us away from the display, to go in and make an order.
Sadly, somewhere in my teen years, the restaurant building was hit, window display on, by a drunk driver, which managed to smash and destroy all of my beloved lil chefs... with the exception of ONE..
It also must have been hit, because it has never been plugged back in, and so the animation no longer works.
The restaurant did what they could to repair the smashed area of the restaurant, but must have decided to no longer feature a big display window area, and instead bricked all of that area in.
But they still have the one remaining lil chef on display, inside the restaurant. A sad lil reminder to my heart, whenever i go in. i have pointed him out, and explained what he used to "do" to my own lil ones, but none of them seem to believe me..and think i am silly to once have believed that it, and its missing companions, once made the pizzas of my childhood.
The one doll that remains is one i hardly took notice of as a child, but i suppose it was prob the best one to survive the accident, it features are; a lil chef, arm held up, holding a cooked pizza "fresh from the oven", sliced and ready to eat. It used to move at the waist, making the pizza swing back and forth, to resemble a waiter.
As a child, going into this restaurant, where lil dolls cooked my pizza, i of course thought the pizza was especially delicious, and i was a child of habit, i'd watch my parents enjoy a glass of wine with their pizza, and in my own imagination, grape soda was about as close to wine as i might get, to having a similar flavor..so.. grape soda was always my drink of choice.
To this date, the pizza is still exactly the same, and still the BEST pizza offered in the area, regardless of the fact that the lil dolls no longer bake it for me.
Strangely enough, though, i cant take a bite of that pizza, without also having the memory of grape soda, fill my taste buds.
It does taste devine, with a nice glass of red wine, so i can understand now, why my parents ordered a glass any time we went there.
The restaurant doesnt deliver, and even though they DO offer it as a take out item, much, in my opinion is "lost" once it hits the cardboard box, and the only RIGHT way to eat it, is inside, at a table.
It isn't very affordable, and so, going there remains a rare treat. And i like it that way.
Aside from that, the second best pizza in this area belongs to a family. Two brothers, with their family recipe. Each opened their own restaurant, and used their own last name, as the name of the restaurants. Most people believed that it didn't matter WHICH location that you bought it... that you were getting the same "pizza"..same flavors.. and that was true.
Sadly, the brothers got into a legal dispute, over their own last name, and which should have the right to use it as a name for the restaurant. One won, One lost, and was forced to change the name of the establishment. Regardless to the family silliness over a NAME, people STILL know, that no matter where you order it, you are still going to get the same "pizza recipe"
Funnily enough, i am one who tends to think though, that the "loser" restaurant's pizza does taste, for some reason.. a tad bit better.
Neither of those places delivers either, but are very affordable, and thus are the usual choice, for when we decide to enjoy pizza.
i also cook a kick ass pie of my own at home. i can buy raw italian bread dough, and i use that, as my base crust. ANYTHING added on top of italian bread only makes it taste all the more delicious... lol. With exception... of anchovies. YUCK.
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