Dan's In Memoriam
Cool Hand Luke has done it again. The sauce, the peanut butter cups, the Newman O’s, the Fig Newmans. I admit to going through some Paul Newman mourning when he died about three years ago by purchasing many of the “Pa” and “Nell” Newman varieties (but at that time, no pie) for an entire week. By the way, how does Joanne Woodward become “Nell”? I digress…
The cover art around Paul Newman’s head has an interesting graphic of either a) a mozzarella ball; b) a silicone implant; c) a chunk of chalk. You might dismiss my observation as simply blog filler, but if it is indeed a mozzarella ball, then it’s the only duplicated pizza topping on the cover art, with a bowl of shredded cheese and also the ball. There are two tomatoes, but in the same form, and two sprigs of basil, also in the same form. Quite frankly, this wasn’t a four-cheese Newman’s Own pizza, which Josh and I will review at a later time. If it was, then I could understand the duplicate cheese toppings.
As far as the pie itself goes, let’s start with the sausages. Real, flavorful sausages that looked like ripped shards of meat, as sausages on a pie are intended to look. Real fire-roasted peppers. Real nitrate-free (soaked in celery juice concentrate) pepperonis. Onions, even! A “crust we can trust”. It’s minimally-processed and contains no artificial ingredients. Also, this pizza contains not a trace of soy, so hooray to eat any processed item without soy! This pizza has gotten my highest ranking out of any of this pizzas we’ve tasted thus far and is my fall-back pizza should I want to gag on any of the others and need some good eatin’. (read: Tombstone, Tony’s, etc) (9 out of 10 pizzas)
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