Catalinajack - okay, Sally's or Pepe's?
There's nothing like a Pepe's white clam pie, but that's not the point. I've been to Pepe's a handful of times, but almost any CT pizzeria is better than anything anywhere else. Reminds me of a pizza place in FL I went to. Their version of a sausage pizza, was a pizza topped with brown-n-serve breakfast sausage!
When I was a little kid we were a diehard Sally's family -- we'd never set foot in Pepe's for any reason. However, although Sally's is still the best pizza in the known universe, we finally got tired of the silly waiting in line for hours and irregular days open. We're 50/50 Pepe's/Sally's now, depending on the lines out the doors on Wooster Street. My mother told stories about how rich people would fly to CT from all over the country just for the pizza on Wooster Street. Never thought I would be one of those "rich" people myself. Come on boys, pack an overnight bag, we're having pizza this weekend. Plain mooz, or even just sauce, otherwise naked, and orange soda or white birch beer, Foxon Park. Yeah yeah, white clam, I know, but not in our family.
No need to stand in line on Wooster St for a Pepe's pizza any more. Pepe's now has locations in Manchester, West Hartford, Fairfield, Danbury, Mohegan Sun, and Waterbury in CT. In Massachusetts they have shops in Chestnut Hill, Burlington, and Watertown. Plus, there's Warwick, RI and Yonkers.
Every one has coal-fired ovens made to the exact dimensions of the original location on Wooster St. Even the cast iron doors to the coal oven are exact duplicates. They are cast from molds made from the originals. I go to the West Hartford shop every time I visit Connecticut, about eight times a year. Some trips result in two visits.
Is Sally's better? It's all opinion. What I do know is that there is no match anywhere for Pepe's, Sally's, or Modern Apizza. All three are superior to anything, anywhere. But, there are other shops around that are also better just not as well known. Zuppardi's Apizza in West Haven, Ernie's in New Haven, Berkshire Cafe in Torrington. Connecticut is pizza paradise.
Those who work are in the minority? I guess it depends on how one defines minority. The unemployment rate is what, 6%, 7%, 8%. That's a minority? Full employment is generally considered to exist when the rate gets down to 4 or 5%. ...
Since the thread is discussing lot of topics i thought i would mention i had another guy quit yesterday. His reason was making more on unemployment and subsidies with a little under the table side work. At least he was honest but our available labor force is almost non-exsistant right now.