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You are getting younger by the post! School lunch pizza...hmm... I know it tasted like they made the crust with Bisquick back in my day... !   You still are a picky eater... no egg whites or zucchini for you!

I saw a video of a guy from Rome who was visiting some friends in America. They went out to Pizza Hut. The Italian guy was not pleased.

My finickyness, or rather high standards, when it comes to food was a major part of my first marriage ending in divorce.

When it comes to pizza, let me take you for a walk down Olive Street. Those Rome fella's would be crying for more, fresh white clam, or a fresh summer tomato, no cheese pie!

If you define high standards as a limited food palette, I'd divorce you too. Wait, it would never get that far.

I told my "shepherd's pie" dating story already, once before— your time being here.

I guess this explains the difference.

• The main drivers of differences in foodservice cost varied by location. Wage and benefit rates were the largest contributors in ve locations. SFA characteristics—particularly the total number of reimbursable meals served, this study’s measure of meal value, and the presence of a la carte foods—were the most important factors behind cost differences in ve locations. In the remaining 11 locations, per meal cost variation was largely due to differences in total food expenditure per meal, which include differences in food item prices and food items served.

• Per meal costs dropped when the number of meals served rose and when the SFA served more lower-value meals. Per meal costs rose when the SFA served more higher-value meals and had more than 10 cents per meal in a la carte food sales.

  This study examines the extent to which location influences school foodservice costs per meal. 

http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/127642/err117.pdf

My ex-wife surprised me with dinner one night. It was mac and cheese from a box and soup from a can. I asked, "you don't expect me to eat that?"

I wouldn't expect any Italian to come away with a positive opinion of pizza in the US. It just isn't as good.

My mom made me fried bologna sandwhiches every now and again, when I was a kid. I didn't know they were an insult when I went to make them one day and asked my DH, (the second one), if he wanted one. Damn near got violent with his objection. Weird how those who eat mac N cheese in a box everyday because they isn't anything else, get offended when those who eat them occasionally, just really like them.

You are so wrong about ALL, USA pizza. I feel sorry for you that you haven't had any of the excellent variety. Really. CT pizza is such high standard. I actually have never eaten any pizza from a chain, like Pizza Hut or Pizza Uno, or whatever. We simply just have too many excellent pizza places. And if it isn't a good pie, the establishment doesn 't last long.

I made a post long time ago about pizza pie in CT , the variety— the wonderfulness of it all. Thin crust, mostly....LOL... search for it!

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/CT-Has-5-of-Americas-101-Best-Pizzas-228755131.html
 

Noitsyou, you should have Fire and Stone artisan pizza that is organic and hand made.  OMG to die for.  And yes, Italians love their pizza when they come to the Gulf Coast.  Standing room out the door when tourist season hits.

I regularly eat Pepe's pizza and as good as it is it is not as good as what I had in Italy.

No wonder, you picked the wrong pie!

“Anybody that has ever traveled between Boston and New York and hasn’t stopped there has missed — I was going to say, ‘is an idiot’ — but has been deprived,” said Tim Zagat, who helped found the Zagat restaurant guidebook company and who, as a Yale graduate, has some firsthand experience. Sally’s and Pepe’s, he said, “have been leaders since before most of the rest of the country knew what pizza was.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/15/nyregion/uncertain-future-for-pizzeria-that-gave-new-haven-a-special-flavor.html?_r=0

Totally a Sally's fan, right here. But the recent death a few years back of Flo, the iconic business is marketed for sale, and makes it a questionable fate for pizza fans! 

Not sure how it all ends.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/05/new-haven-pizza-may-be-the-best-in-america.html

At my family's pizzeria we had pizza makers who worked everywhere on Wooster St. The pizza still wasn't as good as Italy.