Thursday, March 25, 2010
Suck on it Chicago
What do you get when Michelle Obama, her mother, the kids and some friends have pizza for lunch on a trip to NYC? Simply the answer to a question that has baffled Chicago pizza eaters for years.
h/t to Fark
Michelle Obama took her mother, daughters, and three of their friends to acclaimed Brooklyn pizzeria Grimaldi's yesterday, and what started out as a casual lunch is now reigniting longstanding tensions between two bitterly warring factions: the Chicago-style pizza crowd vs. NYC.New Yorkers always knew they had the best pie, that stuff in Chi-Town is a cake.
The Grimaldi's waiter who served the family, Rafal Harajda, told City Room that after they finished their meal of four pies—a plain, a pepperoni, a sausage and one with mushrooms, peppers and onions—the First Lady of the United States of America declared, "It was better than Chicago pizza." Which must cut like a pizza slicer for Chicago, seeing as Obama is from their hometown. Harajda later clarified the First Lady's statement, but did not contradict it.
When asked by the Chicago Tribune about his quote to City Room, Harajda clarified: "No, what she said was, 'It's the best pizza, and I'm from Chicago.'"
h/t to Fark
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