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Thread: What’s With Lackawanna County’s “Old Forge Style Pizza,” Dave?

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    What’s With Lackawanna County’s “Old Forge Style Pizza,” Dave?

    It’s called “The Pizza Capital Of The World.” The photos in the piece don’t even look that good, so whatzup wid dat?

    ...To feed the influx of Italian immigrants, back in 1926, one woman, Nonni Ghigiarelli started baking a unique form of pizza that is now known as Old Forge style, based on the Lackawanna town she resided in. [near Scranton]

    Like its Sicilian cousins, Old Forge style is baked in trays, and unlike its New York neighbors to the east, the individual servings are called ‘cuts’ instead of ‘slices.’ But Grandma Ghigiarelli is just the beginning of the story. Since her famous beginnings, Old Forge style pizzerias have exploded across the county. Today, there are more than 150 pizzerias in the county alone, and nine within Old Forge itself serving up the famous trays...

    https://www.lacucinaitaliana.com/tre...world-is-where
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    I am of no help my friend---I have never heard of it.
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    Road trip!
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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    Road trip!
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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    If I had a Merc Landyacht, lived a couple hours away and needed to enjoy the economy opening up again, I might consider taking in some touted pizza in my state just for research purposes. Shoot, I take a road trip to Austin up the road often just for Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken in my beat up old ford truck!

    On edit: I lapsed for a minute and realized your wife is having a bad time, so road trips will have to wait for better times, which I trust will come. Look forward to a report then.
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    Yes - Definitely road trip material there.

    Joe's reminder about the health of Dave's wife stings. May better times be ahead.

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    Thank you both my friends

    She is making progress---not as much as she would like but progress for sure. She is due to come home on Thursday, one day after our 53 anniversary.

    We will have to go and check this pizza out.

    As soon as she is stable and feeling secure I have to get back to NYC, shortly it will be 3 months that I have not been in the office. While I can work at home, probably more productively than at the office, I miss the personal interaction. Video conferences are a poor substitute for eye to eye contact. I have two more scheduled tomorrow which will run 4-5 hours!
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    I’m guessing you like it or you wouldn’t be doing it. Watch your 6 in that den of thieves.
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    Happy Anniversary, Dave.
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    Thank Fred
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    Yes, may you have a happy anniversary. And, may your wife's health excel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by UTAH View Post
    Yes, may you have a happy anniversary. And, may your wife's health excel.

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    Thanks guys!
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    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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