Pizza on "pi" day...
Mar. 14th, 2017 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI am not a great big fan of thinking of March 14—commonly expressed as 3/14—as "pi" day (where "pi" is the Greek letter π, which is conventionally used to express the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, which turns out to be an irrational number equal to 3.14159...). However, a new local eatery called Blaze Pizza advertised their pies on sale to day for $3.14 (which is a pretty steep discount from $7.65, which is what they charge for a multi-topping pizza).
The place has a pretty simple business model—"fast fire'd custom-built artisanal pizzas." There is one standard size of pizza, although there is some variety in the kind of dough that can be used for the pie (gluten-free, for example, is available, but it costs extra). There are four basic classes of pie—a basic pie with no toppings, a single-topping pie, a multi-topping pie, and about 8 varieties of pies with names like "Meat Eater's" and "Veg Out," having a predefined composition.
Once a pie has been put together, it's put into a stove, where it spends three minutes becoming pizza, whereupon it's taken out, cut up, and handed to the customer. It is the only pie I've had in years that has come close to giving me "pizza mouth" (by which I mean to say "pizza that come close to being served piping hot," as nobody in their right mind wants to end up with a blister on the roof of their mouth, which results after having bitten into a too-hot slice of pizza goodness).
I had intended for Galina and me to split one pizza. As it turned out, we each ordered one and did a workmanlike job of polishing them off.
Cheers...
The place has a pretty simple business model—"fast fire'd custom-built artisanal pizzas." There is one standard size of pizza, although there is some variety in the kind of dough that can be used for the pie (gluten-free, for example, is available, but it costs extra). There are four basic classes of pie—a basic pie with no toppings, a single-topping pie, a multi-topping pie, and about 8 varieties of pies with names like "Meat Eater's" and "Veg Out," having a predefined composition.
Once a pie has been put together, it's put into a stove, where it spends three minutes becoming pizza, whereupon it's taken out, cut up, and handed to the customer. It is the only pie I've had in years that has come close to giving me "pizza mouth" (by which I mean to say "pizza that come close to being served piping hot," as nobody in their right mind wants to end up with a blister on the roof of their mouth, which results after having bitten into a too-hot slice of pizza goodness).
I had intended for Galina and me to split one pizza. As it turned out, we each ordered one and did a workmanlike job of polishing them off.
Cheers...
