Tag: pizza blog
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Pizza: An Indicator of War?
Once again, pizza proves it has amazing abilities beyond what we see (and taste)! The threat of global conflict may be hiding in plain sight – right between garlic knots and an extra-large meat lovers pizza. That’s right, the internet’s buzzing again about something known as the Pentagon Pizza Index, a semi-satirical, yet oddly accurate,…
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Pizza Travels – The Other Manhattan (Kansas)
Everyone knows about the Manhattan in New York City, but did you know there is also a Manhattan in Kansas? There may be two Manhattans out there, but they are very different. One is known as being the pizza capital of the world, the other is home to Kansas State University. So similar, yet so…
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Pizza Travels: Omaha, Nebraska
When I travel, I often ask hotel staff where the best pizza in town is. If someone first names off Domino’s or Pizza Hut as a top choice, I know I’m in for a horrible stay. In contrast, if someone names a local family run place, it sparks my curiosity. When the recommendation is followed…
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How Pizza Saved a Nation
Pizza does so much more than satisfy hunger. It brings people together. In the not so distant past, in a small, vibrant nation we’ll call Pizzoria, a tremendous crisis had gripped the country. Political division and economic downturn had driven its citizens to the brink of despair. Discontent simmered on every street corner, and the…
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Pizza: The Last Affordable Food
With the cost of living going crazy since 2020, far too many things in our world have dramatically increased in price. Despite the rising costs of everything involved with making a pizza, the cost of a picking up pie from a pizzeria has not really risen much compared to other foods over the years. Why…
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The Real Reason Aliens Visit Earth: Pizza
If your planet isn’t in the pizza delivery zone, what would you do??? The real reason aliens visit Earth is because they are picking up pizza carryout orders. In 2001, astronauts on the International Space Station who were orbiting Earth had a craving for pizza. Pizza Hut became the first restaurant to deliver pizza into…
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Featured Slices: Gas Station Pizza…
When you’re on the road and don’t have time to sit down in a nice restaurant for some pizza, a gas station just may be what you’re looking for… Pizza from a gas station? This statement may be a bit odd to a true pizza connoisseur, and maybe even a little concerning, but when done…
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Featured Slices: Pizza Rock in Las Vegas, Nevada
This edition of Pizza Travels takes us to the desert… In April of 2023, I found myself in the adult playground of the world, Las Vegas, Nevada. I’ve been to Vegas many times before, but rather than just wandering aimlessly looking for food or just happening upon places like I typically have in the past,…
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Featured Slices: Woody’s – Joplin, Missouri
My better half was yearning for a piece of old Americana, so we took a little road trip to the old Route 66 in Joplin, Missouri. There is not much left of the old Route 66, but there are still a few fun reminders remaining of what the popular road probably once was. Set within…
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Don’t Invite Pizza Eating Rats Into Your House
When a pizza restaurant has a rat as a mascot, you should probably be concerned. When they want to send the rat to your house with a pizza, you should probably be more concerned. The national franchise featuring the rat is Chuck E. Cheese, a place popular with little kids who have not yet developed…
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A Sad Holiday Pizza Story
What would you put up with to get a free pizza? I had a coupon for a national pizza chain that I don’t usually eat at. I generally avoid the national chains because the pizza is not that good, but the coupon I had was for a free pizza. While the pizza may not be…