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You are here: Home / Politics / Trump Indictments / Cake Watch: Day 1

Cake Watch: Day 1

by WaterGirl|  March 27, 20231:48 pm| 112 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Trump Indictments

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It’s possible that today will be a cake day (aka a day to celebrate an indictment).

All 23 grand jurors appear to be in the courtroom, but I am still not measuring my ingredients just yet.

Still, there’s news.  (I started to the noose by mistake – Freudian slip?)

In New York, only 16 grand jurors are needed to hear evidence and testimony. Today, all 23 appear to be there. https://t.co/8TuBGDkU3u

— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) March 27, 2023

JUST IN: Judge who presided over the Fulton County special purpose grand jury investigating Trump asks the DA to respond to Trump's last-ditch effort to quash the panel's final report. https://t.co/YXtRSjGB3Q pic.twitter.com/FRAtZ9SExA

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 27, 2023

If this image doesn’t give you chills, I don’t know what would.  Footage of the Jan 6 insurrection is playing in the background as Trump appears to stand at attention.  :: shudder ::

This is who Trump always was. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed those of us who warned he was an authoritarian wannabe despot way back in 2015, 2016, and 2017. But my God, it was so obvious. This man should never be in charge of anything, ever again. https://t.co/Z73reHj74g

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) March 26, 2023

What is the thing to the right of the big guy in the photo – it looks like a hangman’s noose to me.  Another reminder of Jan 6?  Surely it’s something else entirely.

Open thread.

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  1. 1.

    Suzanne

    March 27, 2023 at 1:50 pm

    I’m out of popcorn.

    I have gelato, tho.

  2. 2.

    narya

    March 27, 2023 at 1:50 pm

    Can I get you to weigh rather than measure your ingredients? ;-)

  3. 3.

    Baud

    March 27, 2023 at 1:51 pm

    Even if they indict today, I doubt we’ll learn about it unless Trump’s team leaks it.

  4. 4.

    gene108

    March 27, 2023 at 1:53 pm

    Trump’s lost weight. I hope it’s from the stress of all these lawsuits.

  5. 5.

    Another Scott

    March 27, 2023 at 1:55 pm

    The thing by TFG is a bunch of strapped-together speakers hung from a crane. A better picture is here with MTGreen.

    HTH!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  6. 6.

    WaterGirl

    March 27, 2023 at 1:55 pm

    @narya:  I actually do weigh flour, etc.  I save measuring for teaspoons and liquids and such.

  7. 7.

    cain

    March 27, 2023 at 1:56 pm

    @gene108: He’s reduced to drinking ketchup and then throwing up on the walls.

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    March 27, 2023 at 1:56 pm

    @Another Scott: They won’t let me see it because of my ad blocker.  I will take your word for it! :-)

    Though why I deserve the punishment of seeing a picture of Marge, I don’t know!

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    March 27, 2023 at 1:57 pm

    @Baud: Well then how do I know when to bake my cake???

    I kid…  I put the chances of not hearing about it from the former guy at about zero.

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    March 27, 2023 at 1:58 pm

    @gene108: He might be wearing 6-inch heels. :-)

  11. 11.

    Another Scott

    March 27, 2023 at 1:58 pm

    @WaterGirl: If you open it in a Private Browsing (whatever Safari calls it) tab, you should be able to see it.  (It wanted me to subscribe before I used a Private tab.)

    HTH!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  12. 12.

    geg6

    March 27, 2023 at 2:02 pm

    I am not holding my breath. But I will LOL loudly if it happens.

  13. 13.

    JoyceH

    March 27, 2023 at 2:03 pm

    I’ve been on Weight Watchers for a year (46 pounds, go me!), but I’ve said for a long time that when indictments start falling, I’m calling out for pizza. If it’s just the hush money payment, I think that would just be a medium pizza. My hopes are on Willis and Smith – when their indictments start flying, that will call for a large Extravaganzza, with the brownie-cookie thing and maybe a side of wings. Going to just kick back in the recliner, turn on the news and BASK.

  14. 14.

    narya

    March 27, 2023 at 2:05 pm

    @WaterGirl: I weigh liquids as well, and measure things like salt and baking powder, but vanilla and other stuff just gets thrown in the bowl. I approximate a lot . . .

    I assume there will be frosting as well?? (My friend thinks that cake without frosting is a travesty; I’ve taken to making the frosting first, so I don’t have to wash the bowl of the mixer.) My latest frosting adventure was orange (rind and juice) to go with a gingerbread cake that also had dried apricots; I ate ALL of it (he doesn’t like gingerbread).

  15. 15.

    Mike E

    March 27, 2023 at 2:06 pm

    The hanging apparatus in the photo is a speaker/amplifier rig so the crowd can hear Emperor Palpateenyhands’ complaints

    ETA Scott got there first, apologies… our symphony hall has the same sound rig

  16. 16.

    Elizabelle

    March 27, 2023 at 2:06 pm

    @gene108:   I noticed that too.

    @ WaterGirl:  I think we are going to see some major development this week.  And with or without it — cake

    We can start a habit of cake and steps.

  17. 17.

    trollhattan

    March 27, 2023 at 2:11 pm

    PA speaker array, for better yelling into the Texas wind.

    God, he looks like shit in that pic. I mean, more so than I’m accustomed to. Yee-haw.

  18. 18.

    JoyceH

    March 27, 2023 at 2:14 pm

    @trollhattan: ​
     

    The photo also illustrates how small the crowd actually was.

  19. 19.

    Geminid

    March 27, 2023 at 2:16 pm

    I thought that was a banner hanging from the crane behind Trump. At least seemed like one when I first saw it.

  20. 20.

    cain

    March 27, 2023 at 2:17 pm

    @JoyceH: Don’t do it! Make your own – way more healthier than Pizza Hut! Super easy and yummy to make too!

  21. 21.

    cain

    March 27, 2023 at 2:18 pm

    Of course, they had to have at least a pic of what black guy – I think I saw a few – but not a lot. Saw some Hispanics as well.

  22. 22.

    Jeffro

    March 27, 2023 at 2:18 pm

    What is all this ‘cake’ nonsense?  Don’t y’all have bottles of bubbly on hand for Indictment Day?

    Requires no baking, only takes 10 seconds (tops) to open and pour!

  23. 23.

    karen marie

    March 27, 2023 at 2:19 pm

    I have a recipe for a blueberry almond cake I will write up and post to my blog and link to. It’s so good!

  24. 24.

    karen marie

    March 27, 2023 at 2:20 pm

    @Elizabelle: I’m down for a weekly cake thread.

    So many recipes, so little time.

  25. 25.

    Suzanne

    March 27, 2023 at 2:21 pm

    @Jeffro: I do have champagne.

    One bottle is a cheapie, but it’s named “Saint-Hilarie”, and it felt apropos.

  26. 26.

    JoyceH

    March 27, 2023 at 2:22 pm

    Open thread digression – did you folks see that there’s been another school shooting? Nashville grade school, six dead, and plot twist – the shooter is a woman.

  27. 27.

    karen marie

    March 27, 2023 at 2:24 pm

    @narya: I recently discovered ermine or boiled milk frosting. It’s better than American buttercream.

  28. 28.

    Gravenstone

    March 27, 2023 at 2:30 pm

    @karen marie: I originally read that as “ermine in boiled milk” and I had sooo many questions.

  29. 29.

    Jeffro

    March 27, 2023 at 2:34 pm

    @JoyceH: Yes.  Apparently “putting God back in schools” isn’t going to solve our gun problem, eh GOP?

    (it’s a Christian private school)

  30. 30.

    HumboldtBlue

    March 27, 2023 at 2:35 pm

    Another #schoolshooting, this time at Covenant School, a private Christian school in Green Hills near Nashville, Tennessee. Why do Republicans want to protect people with AR-15s but not our children? Enough of Republican thoughts and prayers.

    BREAKING: Alleged gunman in Nashville school shooting was female who entered through a side entrance of the school, armed with at least “two assault-type rifles and a handgun,” officials say. “We are efforting now to identify her.”

  31. 31.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    March 27, 2023 at 2:39 pm

    Since this is an open thread and pizza has been mentioned, I just read an article in Esquire about how Chicago “tavern style” pizza is about to take off. I had, until I read the article, no idea what this tavern style pizza was but it sounds A LOT like St. Louis style pizza. Thin, cracker like crust, round pie cut into square pieces. I’m not from St. Louis, or Chicago, so I have no idea which city originated this style of pizza. I will note that in researching Detroit style about a decade ago (when planning a trip to Detroit and trying to decide where to get it) I did come across mention of St. Louis style pizza. I have never had St. Louis style pizza but it was mentioned and described in a few articles about regional pizza variants.  I never came a cross a single mention of Chicago tavern style . IF Chicago is trying to lay claim to a style of pizza born in St. Louis I feel the record should be corrected before the “windy city” brags itself into taking undue credit.

  32. 32.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 27, 2023 at 2:42 pm

    @JoyceH: Equal opportunity is good.

  33. 33.

    scav

    March 27, 2023 at 2:43 pm

    @Suzanne: Ha HA! A Blanquette de Limoux or cousin!  Our favorite as well, plus a grand town to visit.  Any place that keeps Mardi Gras going for a month or more has solid qualities.

  34. 34.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 27, 2023 at 2:44 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: “Efforting”?? “Efforting”!?! Dear Lord. You made that up, didn’t you?

  35. 35.

    stacib

    March 27, 2023 at 2:44 pm

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?:  I’ve never heard “tavern style”, but Italian Fiesta has been serving their pizza cut in squares since forever (their website says 1940s). My family has been ordering it since the 60s, and it’s always been square.

  36. 36.

    Betty Cracker

    March 27, 2023 at 2:45 pm

    Netanyahu addressed Israelis today and backed off on holding the “judicial reform” vote. Via CNN:

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is “aware of the tensions” and is “listening to the people.”

    Referring to the refusal of some Israel Defense Forces reservists to train in protest at the government plans to overhaul the judiciary, Netanyahu said:

    “The state of Israel cannot continue with people who refuse to serve in the army. Refusing, it’s the end of our country.”

    “Out of the responsibility to the nation, I decided to delay … the vote, in order to give time for discussion,” he added.

    With apologies to rats, he sounds like a cornered rat.

  37. 37.

    WaterGirl

    March 27, 2023 at 2:46 pm

    @Another Scott: Nope, same thing. That’s okay, don’t worry about it.

  38. 38.

    WaterGirl

    March 27, 2023 at 2:48 pm

    @narya: I am not a frosting girl.  Unless it’s whipped cream frosting, or ganache, or the amazing Betty Crocker chocolate frosting an old workmate used to make, I like my cake naked.

  39. 39.

    HumboldtBlue

    March 27, 2023 at 2:48 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    I almost didn’t post it because of that quote.

    @Betty Cracker:

    Israelis took the streets in massive protests.

  40. 40.

    WaterGirl

    March 27, 2023 at 2:49 pm

    @karen marie: ooh, blueberries!  yum.

  41. 41.

    StringOnAStick

    March 27, 2023 at 2:49 pm

    @Betty Cracker: “Delay” the vote? Yeah Bibi, that will make it all better.  I hope the public does not back down.

  42. 42.

    WaterGirl

    March 27, 2023 at 2:50 pm

    @karen marie: Anything is better than american buttercream frosting!  :-)

  43. 43.

    MisterForkbeard

    March 27, 2023 at 2:51 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Not even saying “I won’t do it”, just “I’ll wait to do it.”

    What an awful dude.

  44. 44.

    Old School

    March 27, 2023 at 2:52 pm

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?:

    IF Chicago is trying to lay claim to a style of pizza born in St. Louis I feel the record should be corrected before the “windy city” brags itself into taking undue credit.

    ..

    Where Was Tavern Pizza Invented?

    Even though the deep pan pizza is synonymous with Chicago, the tavern style pizza was actually the first style of pizza to come out of the city.

    As we’ve mentioned above, tavern style pizza became a popular invention after the prohibition era, and once people had noticed that pizza was a popular dish in New York.

    Tavern style pizza originated in several pizzerias throughout Chicago, so it’s hard to pinpoint where exactly it originated.

    However, it definitely originated in the city of Chicago, and was often given out to patrons on napkins to try and encourage them to stay and drink more beer in the bar.

  45. 45.

    WaterGirl

    March 27, 2023 at 2:52 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: You beat me to it.  I was still too stunned by “effecting” to type anything.

  46. 46.

    geg6

    March 27, 2023 at 2:52 pm

    @stacib:

    Ohio Valley style pizza is always square:

    https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/pittsburghs-unique-pizza-styles-and-where-you-can-get-them/

    If you read the article, Police Station Pizza is my go-to place.

  47. 47.

    WaterGirl

    March 27, 2023 at 2:53 pm

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: I love “skinny” pizza and it should absolutely be cut into little squares or rectangles.

  48. 48.

    JoyceH

    March 27, 2023 at 2:54 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Equal opportunity is good.

    I can’t help but wonder if a few mass shootings featuring women and minority shooters might loosen the absolutism on passing gun control measures. It’s a historic fact that California governor Reagan signed onto gun control after the Black Panthers started parading around with firearms.

  49. 49.

    geg6

    March 27, 2023 at 2:54 pm

    @WaterGirl: ​
     
    I don’t like cake or frosting (though I will make an exception for a raspberry almond torte made by a local bakery and plain old gingerbread). But pie…yum, especially fruit pies.

  50. 50.

    Mustang Bobby

    March 27, 2023 at 2:54 pm

    The historic parallel to that image would be if Goebbels ran footage of Kristalnacht on a big screen at a Nuremberg rally.

  51. 51.

    WaterGirl

    March 27, 2023 at 2:56 pm

    @Betty Cracker:  I don’t trust him.  Weasel words like “delay” or “halt until after the holiday” sounds NOTHING like – okay you win, this is a bad idea, I’m gonna let this go.

    Bibi is going to be like the dean of the vet school when I worked there.  Faculty got to vote on everything.  But if you voted down something he wanted, it came up for a vote again and again and again until he fucking got his way.

    Bibi is not going to give this up.

  52. 52.

    Gravenstone

    March 27, 2023 at 2:57 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: “We are efforting now attempting to identify her.”

    When did we break English so thoroughly?

  53. 53.

    WaterGirl

    March 27, 2023 at 2:58 pm

    @Mustang Bobby:  Totally agree with you.

    Trump is dangerous.

  54. 54.

    Delk

    March 27, 2023 at 2:58 pm

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: 60 year old native Chicagoan and have been eating square cut (with free RC) all my life.

  55. 55.

    JoyceH

    March 27, 2023 at 2:59 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Bibi is not going to give this up.

    I was just gobsmacked when he came back to power. I thought he was finally finished.

  56. 56.

    The Moar You Know

    March 27, 2023 at 3:02 pm

    I can’t help but wonder if a few mass shootings featuring women and minority shooters might loosen the absolutism on passing gun control measures.

    @JoyceH: not a chance.  We’ve had both.

    As a not-as-rare-as-made-out-to-be gun-owning liberal, I’d been living off my stash of target ammo for years.  Probably been a decade since I went in a gun store.  So I went this weekend.

    Shit has changed, and those folks have gotten way more extreme than they used to be.  It’s the first time I have ever consciously thought “you really need to watch your mouth in here” and that is a new and very unwelcome dimension to the experience

    Product selection’s changed as well.  Used to be pistols, hunting rifles, shotguns and maybe a couple of AR type guns.  Now it’s pistols and AR battle rifles wall to wall.  And this, mind you, is in California.

  57. 57.

    WaterGirl

    March 27, 2023 at 3:03 pm

    If anyone wants to see what Jack Smith looks like without the beard, that’s him in the fly-out on the side. (the flout on the previous post)

  58. 58.

    WaterGirl

    March 27, 2023 at 3:04 pm

    @Delk: Yeah, they were serving skinny pizzas, square (or rectangle) cut in bars in the chicago area when I was in high school.

  59. 59.

    Betty Cracker

    March 27, 2023 at 3:04 pm

    Weird detail from the Nashville school shooting: in the briefing from the official who used “efforting,” he said the shooter “appeared to be a teen,” but Rolling Stone says she’s been identified (name not yet released) and is 28 years old.

  60. 60.

    prostratedragon

    March 27, 2023 at 3:07 pm

    Never heard “tavern style,” but sounds like the first pizza I ever had, in Chicago, back in the baby Delk era. Little place called Enrico’s.

  61. 61.

    The Moar You Know

    March 27, 2023 at 3:10 pm

    eird detail from the Nashville school shooting: in the briefing from the official who used “efforting,” he said the shooter “appeared to be a teen,” but Rolling Stone says she’s been identified (name not yet released) and is 28 years old.

    @Betty Cracker: pardon the unpleasantness, but when someone shoots themselves in the head it makes it pretty difficult to tell how old that person is.

  62. 62.

    Josie

    March 27, 2023 at 3:12 pm

    @WaterGirl: ​
     Last week I helped my granddaughters (8 and 5) make a white cake from a mix. It was topped with a lemon glaze, and the girls decided to decorate the glaze with strawberries and blueberries. So much better than a frosting could ever be.

  63. 63.

    thruppence

    March 27, 2023 at 3:13 pm

    @Betty Cracker: “appeared to be a teen” by Hollywood standards where actors in their thirties play teens all the time

    ETA re: The Moar You Know – oh. eww.

  64. 64.

    Quinerly

    March 27, 2023 at 3:21 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    They have followed up how small she was. Slight statue.

  65. 65.

    smith

    March 27, 2023 at 3:27 pm

    @Delk: Cracker crust, square cut pizza with free RC has been served in my neighborhood for at least 35 years.

  66. 66.

    Quinerly

    March 27, 2023 at 3:30 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    I am just getting around to reading his Wiki page. Do not like the 2017 pic of him with the article. Prefer him with his beard.

    His wife is a documentary film maker known known for Becoming, the award-winning 2020 documentary of  Michelle Obama.

  67. 67.

    Quinerly

    March 27, 2023 at 3:35 pm

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?:

    I lived in St.Louis from 1982 to 2022. Cracker thin crust, square pizza with provel cheese is St. Louis pizza. I was appalled when I first had it there at age 21. Grew to love it. Actually, I think the provel cheese is what makes it true St. Louis Pizza. Imo’s is the place that started it, I think. At least it’s the local chain now that delivers it.

    *I just checked. St. Louis Style Pizza has its own Wiki page!

  68. 68.

    redoubtagain

    March 27, 2023 at 3:35 pm

    @prostratedragon: ​
      Tavern cut is also what I grew up with in South Shore (Reggio’s, with the butter crust)

  69. 69.

    raven

    March 27, 2023 at 3:37 pm

    @thruppence: Except that is not the case.

  70. 70.

    S Cerevisiae

    March 27, 2023 at 3:49 pm

    Sammy’s, a family owned northern Minnesota chain, has been cutting pizza in squares since the 50’s. Thin crispy crust, homemade secret pizza sauce, great Italian sausage, I think it’s the best pizza in the state and I would put their sauce up with anyone’s. My go-to is the Crew Special.

  71. 71.

    Old School

    March 27, 2023 at 3:58 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    If anyone wants to see what Jack Smith looks like without the beard, that’s him in the fly-out on the side.

    Took me a while, but I found it.  It’s in the fly-out to move to this page.  You can’t see it when you are here.

  72. 72.

    Renie

    March 27, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    My husband recalls square pizza showing up in Brooklyn around the early 1970’s late 1960’s.

  73. 73.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    March 27, 2023 at 4:05 pm

    I’m not aware of anyone doing that type of pizza at the moment here in DC but whenever a food trend takes off anywhere someplace here adopts it, so I’m sure it’ll get here eventually. We have several good Neapolitan places scattered about but the one that seems to produce the most original version of pizza not seen elsewhere is an Italian deli in the Cleveland Park neighborhood called Vace.

    It’s thinner crust – kind of like Neapolitan or NY style in thickness but the crust, while it has some chew, has much more crunch than NY or Neapolitan. The crust also has a pleasant yeasty tang that I haven’t found in any other style. I wouldn’t call it DC style as most of DC probably isn’t even familiar with the place and it’s the only place that does this pizza (though they are popular enough that there’s two of them – one in the suburb of Bethesda and the one in Cleveland Park). If I ever get wind that they’re closing up shop I’ll have to get that dough recipe from them.

    I’m a big fan if you can’t tell. It’s strictly carryout, but there’s a pool haul up the street (Atomic Billiards) that allows customers to carry in food so you can pick up your pie at Vace and then walk it up there and have a couple beers, and play some pool if you like. I suck at pool so I usually just sit at the bar and eat.

  74. 74.

    UncleEbeneezer

    March 27, 2023 at 4:10 pm

    Careful, there might be a Pecker in your cake, lol:

    “The Times is reporting that it IS David Pecker that appeared today.”

  75. 75.

    NotMax

    March 27, 2023 at 4:11 pm

    @Gin & Tonic

    Textbook example of bluebonics.

  76. 76.

    Miss Bee

    March 27, 2023 at 4:14 pm

    @Quinerly: Efforting to sculpt a slight statue?

  77. 77.

    Cameron

    March 27, 2023 at 4:21 pm

    You can all have your pizza and cake and what not.  I got them pudding cups lined up, three fingers spread just so, and I’m ready to rock.

  78. 78.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    March 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm

    @Quinerly: Yes it sounds like Chicago is the origin of tavern style and St. Louis style uses a different kind of cheese. It also sounds like the crust may be somewhat different from Chicago tavern style in that it doesn’t contain any yeast whereas it looks like Chicago tavern style does use a yeasted crust, maybe?

    I barely knew what Detroit style was despite growing up in Michigan (Grand Rapids so other side of the State) until researching it for that trip, but that has really taken off. We have multiple places that do nothing but Detroit style here in the DC area now, whereas a decade ago NOBODY here even knew it existed.

     

    @geg6: Interesting. I haven’t been to Pittsburg proper since the 1970s when I was a wee lad, but if I ever get back I’ll try one of those places.

  79. 79.

    Suzanne

    March 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm

    @Cameron: That sounds kinky.

  80. 80.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 27, 2023 at 4:25 pm

    @S Cerevisiae:

    Sammy’s, a family owned northern Minnesota chain, has been cutting pizza in squares since the 50’s

    and their arms are really tired.

  81. 81.

    Cameron

    March 27, 2023 at 4:31 pm

    @Gravenstone: True.  George Bush would have put it much more elegantly: “We are effortamalizeraling to identify this person.”

  82. 82.

    stacib

    March 27, 2023 at 4:32 pm

    @redoubtagain: WHAT???  South Shore and you chose Reggio’s over Italian Fiesta.  Off to the fainting couch for me.  :-)

  83. 83.

    NotMax

    March 27, 2023 at 4:34 pm

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    Styles of U.S. pizza.

  84. 84.

    WaterGirl

    March 27, 2023 at 4:37 pm

    @Josie: I’m hungry and now I want that cake

    and pizza!

  85. 85.

    WaterGirl

    March 27, 2023 at 4:38 pm

    @Quinerly: Yes 10x better with the beard.

    Yeah, Rs tried to make hay with that about the Michelle documentary.

  86. 86.

    WaterGirl

    March 27, 2023 at 4:40 pm

    @Old School: Right.  I didn’t mean to goof you up.  I updated my comment to be more clear.

  87. 87.

    Death Panel Truck

    March 27, 2023 at 4:49 pm

    @cain: Around our house, “healthier pizza” is an oxymoron.

    Pizza isn’t supposed to be healthy (unless you like pizza with chicken, spinach and artichokes on paper-thin crust.) That’s why we only have it on special occasions.

  88. 88.

    NotMax

    March 27, 2023 at 4:59 pm

    @Death Panel Truck

    Neighborhood hole-in-the-wall joint when was residing for a time in Queens offered among their choices of toppings thin, breaded and fried strips of eggplant. Super yummy. My go-to from there was a clam, mushroom and eggplant pie.

  89. 89.

    karen marie

    March 27, 2023 at 5:06 pm

    @WaterGirl: I don’t know but that devil’s food cake with American buttercream the second day, when the buttercream’s got a slight crust, isn’t among life’s greatest pleasures.

  90. 90.

    StringOnAStick

    March 27, 2023 at 5:06 pm

    @The Moar You Know: That’s disturbing but also I guess not a huge surprise since their bumper stickers have gotten so angry, hostile and obscene in that time too.  Show me what a great evangelical you are by how many “fuck (fill in the liberal here)” stickers are on your jacked up. pickup truck

  91. 91.

    UncleEbeneezer

    March 27, 2023 at 5:15 pm

    @NotMax: Interesting.  This is the first time I have ever seen “Greek” as an official style of pizza.  Where I grew up in MA, this was the dominant style of pizza we had, locally.  Most of our Houses of Pizza were Greek owned.

  92. 92.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    March 27, 2023 at 5:20 pm

    I thought a cake watch was what happens when I go out in short shorts.

  93. 93.

    NotMax

    March 27, 2023 at 5:29 pm

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    Many years ago I coined the term beachcake to refer to either gender’s wearing of skimpy swimwear.
    :)

  94. 94.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    March 27, 2023 at 5:46 pm

    @NotMax: Good practices,  both coining terms and wearing skimpy underwear.

  95. 95.

    WaterGirl

    March 27, 2023 at 5:48 pm

    @karen marie: We’re on the left, big tent and all that.  :-)

  96. 96.

    karen marie

    March 27, 2023 at 5:54 pm

    @karen marie: I’ve got the cake up!

    Blueberry-Almond Cake – it’s the best!

  97. 97.

    KenK

    March 27, 2023 at 5:57 pm

    @Jeffro: perp walk, cake walk… whatever ;)

  98. 98.

    NotMax

    March 27, 2023 at 6:02 pm

    @KenK

    Cannot forget Lambeth. Hoy!
    :)

  99. 99.

    Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony

    March 27, 2023 at 6:04 pm

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?:

    It’s St. Louis style and Chicago is being annoying, as usual.

  100. 100.

    Quinerly

    March 27, 2023 at 6:08 pm

    @Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony:

    I thought the Wiki page was cool. It’s all about the cheese, more oregano in sauce, and no yeast in the crust. It’s just not “the square beyond compare.”😉

  101. 101.

    jimmiraybob

    March 27, 2023 at 6:29 pm

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: ​
     

    “I just read an article in Esquire about how Chicago “tavern style” pizza is about to take off. I had, until I read the article, no idea what this tavern style pizza was but it sounds A LOT like St. Louis style pizza.”

    When he was on the campaign trail Obama had a pizza from our St. Louis π (Pi) Pizzaria and raved about it. I believe that he even had some delivered to the WH. I think Chicago was somewhat taken aback by their native son going rogue. I applaud their attempt to compete. Go Cubbies!

  102. 102.

    Dr. Jakyll and Miss Deride

    March 27, 2023 at 6:37 pm

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: The thin-sliced style cut in squares was never called “tavern style” when I was growing up in the Chicago area, but that’s the authentic Chicago pizza.  The deep-dish stuff was invented in a downtown-adjacent restaurant catering to tourists.

  103. 103.

    What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?

    March 27, 2023 at 6:56 pm

    @jimmiraybob: They have a π pizza here in DC, because Obama.

  104. 104.

    Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony

    March 27, 2023 at 7:02 pm

    @Quinerly: 😁

    @jimmiraybob: Pi Pizzaria may be a St. Louis restaurant, but it doesn’t sell St. Louis style pizza. In fact, some of its offerings include deep dish, which is considered Chicago style.

  105. 105.

    The Lodger

    March 27, 2023 at 7:05 pm

    @UncleEbeneezer: Better than having one in a bakery box in your lap.

  106. 106.

    Quinerly

    March 27, 2023 at 7:15 pm

    @Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony:

    I never cared for Pi Pizza when I was in St. Louis. Tried it because Obama loved it. I guess the CWE location. Certainly not like St Louis Style Pizza. My first of that was at the now long shuttered, funky Rossino’s on Sarah. Loved that place.

  107. 107.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    March 27, 2023 at 7:25 pm

     “We are efforting now to identify her.”

    Efforting?!? It’s another terrible tragedy, and this is trivial, but really, spokesperson?

  108. 108.

    NotMax

    March 27, 2023 at 7:37 pm

    @Dr. Jakyll and Miss Deride

    Green Mill? Used to occasionally chow down at their sister place (maybe still there?) in the Twin Cities.

  109. 109.

    What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?

    March 27, 2023 at 10:08 pm

    @jimmiraybob: They have a π pizza here in DC, because Obama.

     

    @UncleEbeneezer: Greek pizza is a thing in parts of Michigan.

  110. 110.

    Weekend Editor

    March 27, 2023 at 10:31 pm

    @Baud: There’s a Twitter account called @indictmentsonly which promises not to tweet until the day of an indictment.

    So that’s one way to know.

  111. 111.

    Kosh III

    March 28, 2023 at 10:38 am

    When we moved to San Diego in 83 there was a small chain of places called Square Pan Pizza.  Thick crust and cut into squares.  Now out of business.

  112. 112.

    WaterGirl

    March 30, 2023 at 9:17 am

    @Weekend Editor: Yeah, but the person who runs that account, Allison Gill, is no longer part of the government, so unless Trump talks or someone else leaks, she won’t know about an indictment, so it won’t be posted to that twitter feed.

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