Welcome to Words With Pizza
A Blog About Pizza and a Few Other Random Things
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Bye Celeste…
It’s a sad time for pizza lovers of a bygone time, and anyone who’s ever stared into their freezer in desperation at a Celeste pizza for one. I have mixed feelings on this one. Was it authentic Italian cuisine like it says on the box? Absolutely not. If it was, Italy has been misleading us…
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Sarpinos Pizza: Gourmet Quality?
The Sarpino’s Pizzeria slogan is “Gourmet Quality, Supreme Convenience”, but does this pizza place live up to it’s name? “I don’t usually like to feature national pizza franchises because the big companies generally have multi-million-dollar advertising budgets to get their names out there. I prefer to shine a spotlight on small, independent businesses that could…
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The Cove: New York-Style Pizza in Platte City, Missouri
Platte City is a small, close-knit community just north of Kansas City. Known for its historic downtown and strong hometown pride, it’s the kind of place where pizza becomes part of the community. Don MacCuish felt Platte City was lacking on pizza choices. He and his family decided to do something about it. The result…
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Yummy Pizza in Sedalia, Missouri
When pizza cravings hit in the heart of Missouri, Volker’s Eatery + Pub in Sedalia is a solid choice. Their handcrafted fire-oven pizzas, friendly atmosphere, and creative menu make it a place that’s easy to recommend. When I’m on the road, I like to find out where the locals like eating. If you’re looking for…
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My New Music Video…
The video for my pizza-inspired country music song, “There’s Still Pizza” is out now on YouTube, but you can also watch it here. If you follow my blog, you of course know me as Marty The Pizza Guy, but many don’t know that I’ve recently released a few songs about PIZZA. The song is about…
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Why Are Pretzels So Expensive?
What is seemingly one of the most inexpensive treats to produce is often one of the most expensive appetizers on a restaurant menu. Pizza will always be near and dear to my heart. However, I am also a lover of pizza’s cousin – pretzels. I’m not talking about the bag of Rold Gold from the…
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World-Class Pizza in Rural Arkansas?
The White River region of north central Arkansas offers world-class trout fishing, but there’s also a little pizzeria called Nima’s that offers world-class pizza. I often scroll through the internet looking for pizza spots I’m not familiar with. Once in a while a place catches my eye that makes me stop to do a double…
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Cupini’s: A Taste of Italy in Kansas City
Meatballs in space, TV shows, nationally ranked pizza, and the Italian president’s personal chef? Yes, you can check all those boxes at this Kansas City Italian restaurant. There is a distinct magic to hidden-gem restaurants that locals eagerly recommend with a smile. Cupini’s captures that feeling completely. Tucked away on the corner of Westport Road…
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Featured Slices: Why Glory Days Pizza is a Kansas Favorite
Home of Kansas’ most awarded pizza, Glory Days Pizza sets the standard for great pizza in the Sunflower State. A claim of being the “Most Awarded Pizza in Kansas” is pretty bold, but Glory Days backs it with decades of winning many local and regional awards, including multiple Best of Topeka honors and the Community’s…
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Beyond Pepperoni: A World of Pizza Toppings
Unique pizza toppings from around the world might make you curious, while others might make your taste buds cringe, but all of them have one thing in common: they’re loved by the locals. For most Americans, ordering a pizza is usually pretty straightforward. We enjoy our classic cheese slices, pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms, and maybe a…
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An Educational Post About Pizza
People think I just randomly babble about pizza, but there is plenty of research based validity with what I say. Rather than just putting out a post, I felt I should include at least a couple of peer reviewed references to support my pizza content. Providing perks such as pizza for employees has emerged as…
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Restaurant Service Fees Exploitation or Creative Marketing?
We’ve reached an absurd point in commerce where business owners want all the rewards of entrepreneurship, but expect customers to directly manage their accounts payable simply to maximize profit. Is it exploitation? Or is it creative marketing? The FIFA World Cup chose my hometown (Kansas City) to host some of the biggest games on the…
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Pizza Trends Have Officially Gone Too Far
Once upon a time in history, someone looked at dough, cheese, and tomato sauce and said, “Hear me out…” It was simple concept, but it worked, and, it changed many lives forever, including mine. I love pizza. It’s one of humanity’s greatest achievements. It’s right up there with indoor plumbing, air conditioning, and duct tape.…
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Pizza Crimes Everyone Can Relate To
Pizza is supposed to bring people together. Yet every day, someone, somewhere, becomes the victim of a pizza crime so outrageous it makes those around question humanity. 10. Showing Up After the Pizza Order is Paid These people are never around when it’s time to order and pay, but they somehow appear just when the…
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Welcome to Costco. Good Luck.
Costco Is Basically an Escape Room That Ends With Pizza At this point, Costco isn’t really a store. It’s a full-contact endurance event where the reward at the end is a super size pizza slice for $1.99. You walk in needing toilet paper and somehow leave two hours later with a few random samples, a…
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Will Pizza Delivery Take Flight with Drones?
Pizza could soon be logging more frequent flier miles than humans if drone delivery becomes a thing. It might seem crazy, but aerial pizza delivery could happen sooner than later. Pizza delivery is starting to look less like a part-time job and more like a sci-fi movie. Major pizza chains are now testing drone deliveries,…
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Is New York Pizza About to Change Forever?
New York style pizza slices could be in for a pretty big change. A proposed ban on potassium bromate – a flour additive that’s been linked to cancer concerns — is forcing pizza shops across New York to rethink how they make their dough. For generations, many pizzerias have used potassium bromate flour because it…
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Sasquatch…Believe!
My latest song is inspired by our favorite forest dwelling cryptid – The Squatch came out of hiding to help me with a video for my latest song, “Sasquatch”. I hope you’ll check it out… If you like it, I would greatly appreciate it if you left a like or a comment on the video…
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Tribute to Chuck Norris
The unthinkable happened – Chuck Norris died. I’m not saying this is a sign of the apocalypse, but if the sun begins to flicker or if I see the four horsemen riding down my street, I wouldn’t be surprised… This feels like a plot twist in life we weren’t ready for. It’s like the wi-fi…
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Connecticut – The Pizza Capital of America?
How one small state ignited a big argument about pizza supremacy True pizza lovers get VERY defensive about what pizza style is best, and regionally it gets even more heated. New York swears it owns the slice game. Chicago comes in loud with deep dish. Detroit and St. Louis lovers put up a claim also,…
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Pizza Hut Just Upped Their Game!
The pizza chain did something that is sure to make some people happy… When I was a kid in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Pizza Hut was THE place to go. Having my birthday party there was a always something I looked forward to. Getting a delicious pan pizza delivered to the table in…
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Iguanas as a Pizza Topping?
Here’s another fun national news story from the great state of Florida: Bucks Coal Fired Pizza in North Palm Beach, Florida, has decided to stop offering its viral iguana pizza topping that gained attention earlier this year. The restaurant went viral during Florida’s record-breaking cold snap in February, when iguanas were dropping from trees due…
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Featured Slices: Villa Castrioti – Nashville, TN
Nashville may be famous as Music City, but its pizza scene deserves just as much attention. Villa Castrioti brings authentic Italian pizza to downtown Nashville with classic recipes, fresh ingredients, and slices worth seeking out. I visited Nashville for a few days, unsure of what I would find in their world of pizza, but I…
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Kansas City Style Pizza – Yes, It’s a Thing
Everyone knows New York and Chicago pizza, but Kansas City has quietly created a regional style of its own. This Midwest city pizza deserves a place in every conversation about America’s best regional pizzas. Kansas City is best known for jazz, barbecue, fountains, and as late, the Chiefs and Taylor Swift. But unknown to many…
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This Week in Pizza History
Early January has always been a really good time for pizza—whether people realized it or not. Once the holidays are over, life goes back to normal. Work starts up again, schedules fill up, and it’s cold enough that nobody feels like going out. Historically, this is when pizza shines. It’s hot, filling, easy to share,…
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Welcome 2026!
Wishing you all the very best for 2026!
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Good Bye 2025
In what seems like the blink of an eye, another year is gone. We’ve survived yet another trip around the sun. While it’s still 365 days, the rotation seems to spin faster and faster every year. My resolution this year was not to make any resolutions, and I held to that. You can’t fail if…
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A Slice of Christmas Magic (With Extra Cheese)
Every Christmas has its miracle stories. Like the ones where nobody brings up politics during the family gathering. Or, the one where the house doesn’t catch fire because of how you wired the lights like in the movie Christmas Vacation. And then there’s the one about how pizza can show up right when needed most.…
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Holiday Shopping: Tis the Season For Chaos
Behold: the holidays, when ordinary humans become unhinged treasure hunters of truly mediocre items. Every December, humanity collectively forgets that the items we are wrestling strangers for—fuzzy socks, boxed chocolates, personal hygiene box sets, and oddly scented candles, are typically available every single day of the year. Suddenly, a mug that says “Warm Wishes” becomes…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Wishing you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving filled with pizza, or whatever non-pizza meal you’re eating. Remember – We should be thankful every day of the year for the blessings we have!
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The Probably True Story of Thanksgiving
Despite other stories you may have heard about the origins of Thanksgiving, I think this may be what actually happened. The Pilgrims had a plan. A simple one, really: sail straight, land somewhere promising, start a new life. Unfortunately, “sail straight” turned out to be a lot harder than anyone expected, especially when half the…
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Some Funny Memes…
I often feel old, but when I see memes like these I definitely feel like a dinosaur! Unfortunately, these references about Generation X are quite true. This image truly reflects the comment, “If You Know, You Know.” The rules were simple. Destroy the other players. Especially the ones that wore glasses or had something weird…
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The $820,000,000 Pizza Order (Yes, Really)
Think you’ve overspent on takeout before? Try dropping 10,000 Bitcoin on two Papa John’s pizzas. Sounds insane now, but back in 2010, that really happened. The year was 2010. Bitcoin was basically digital monopoly money that only nerdy cryptography forums cared about. Enter Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer who decided he was hungry and ready to…
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Happy Halloween!
Remember the old song lyrics, “Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat? I don’t think the song was referring to a mini size Snickers bar. Imagine a world where Trick-or-Treaters ring a doorbell on Halloween. When the door opens, the resident is standing in the doorway with a tray of…
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A Monkey, A Horse, and Pineapple Pizza
What the monkey considers business, the horse considers play… If there’s one topic that divides humanity more than politics or whether to fold your slice or eat with a fork, it’s pineapple on pizza. To some people, pizza is sacred — a serious, sauce-and-cheese-only ritual based on tried and true tradition that must be protected…
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October is National Pizza Month
What will you do to celebrate this most delicious holiday of the year? Pizza is obviously the most important of all foods, and it definitely does not require a month to remind us to eat it, but the fact that there is a month honoring this great staple of happiness is worthy of thinking about.…
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New Music You Need To Hear
If you enjoy electronic dance music (EDM), or even if you don’t, you need to listen to my latest album… Ghosts is a 12 song release for those who crave classic trance music. Each track immerses the listener in a world of pure audio euphoria. The title track, Ghosts, is perfect for your Halloween playlist,…
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Pizza Travels: Bentonville Arkansas
I don’t usually write about chain pizza restaurants, but Johnny Brusco’s is worthy of a mention! Down south in the hills of Northeast Arkansas you’ll find the fun little city of Bentonville. Known as the mountain bike capital of the world, the city boasts 140 miles of trails for riders of all skill levels. If…
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Halloween: How Soon Is Too Soon?
It’s not uncommon for Christmas lights to be up in November, but when is it okay to put up the Halloween decorations? In my neighborhood, we had people starting to put up Halloween decorations in the last week of August. I’m not talking about a pumpkin or a scarecrow. I’m referring to full on inflatables,…
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Interstellar Contact, Coming Soon!
An unknown object is rapidly approaching Earth with an expected arrival sometime around November, 2025. Could this be the first extraterrestrial contact? First of all, I don’t believe this is the “first” contact, if it actually happens. Aliens were here before, and probably are here now. If something wants to visit us from somewhere else,…
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