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Hello cruel and
unusual world! This is Avril (low-low bass, synth, keys textures, visuals,
vocals) of Dead Register. Thanks for having me on your pizza themed blog.
1. Pizza is the
world's most perfect food. This is not up for debate. Please define pizza as
based on your geographical location.
I’ll start this out on
a positive note. Pizza is defined by my kitchen these days. I make a mean
non-traditional pie with spelt flour crust, crushed tomatoes and herb sauce,
topped off with Spotted Trotter Mexican Chorizo, fresh cremini mushrooms, fresh
mozz, extra sharp aged white cheddar, finished with fine slivers of marinated
onions and red peppers.
If I’m feeling feisty, I’ll do up a breakfast pizza
with pesto, soft scrambled eggs, and piles of cheddar. Maybe toss in chunks of
bacon or smoked salmon.
As far as the rest of
my geographical locale is concerned… eek. I love the hell out of food, and the
lack of amazing pizza here in Atlanta proper makes me sad.
There are merely
slices I’d grade as failing, passable, solid, and pretty alright at best. Some
of my fave independent spots been priced out by the influx of developers,
hand-in-hand with the flood of condo/yuppie culture.
I’m sick to death of the
overpriced, subpar, wannabe-authentic establishments that have run amok in this
city. Where’s my greasy NY slice that’s hot and ready for my hungry paws at 3am
(or anytime of day for that matter)? Nowhere. That’s where.
2. It's going to get
controversial now. Pineapple on Pizza. Why or why not?
Raw and unripe is the
only way I’ll eat pineapple. Or soaked in rum, if it is ripe. The smell of
cooked pineapple literally makes me nauseous.
I immediately get that nasty
pre-puke bile taste in my mouth and start spitting like an angry snake. Yuck.
Shivers. I have a headache just thinking about it. Thanks for making me think
about it.
3. For literally
years, my family didn't order pizza from the take out places. We made Chef
Boyardee boxed pizzas. After that, we only ordered St. Louis Style from Imo's.
But finally in the LATE EIGHTIES, I had Domino's Pizza. Tell me your tale.
BOOK IT! I got ALL the
free Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas I could get my grubby lil’ kid hands on. I
was a bookworm so I ate a lot of personal pans.
But I can’t tell this
childhood tale without mentioning school cafeteria pizza. One Pizza Day, this
kid stuck his nasty finger in my last bite of pizza and said “are your gonna
eat that?” – WTF, right? I marched my ass up to my first grade teacher and I
told on him. Yeah, take that, kid.
4. St. Louis Style
Pizza is the perfect pizza, especially if you enjoy bragging about how much
pizza you can eat, but when I'm out in other parts of the country, I seek out
Chicago Style Pizza. What do you look for?
The back of Micucci’s
Grocery Store has the pizza that I look for in Portland, Maine. It’s magical,
and I lust for it. These gems are fired up in deep sheet pans and cut into
slabs of luscious merriment. The sauce is perfectly simple.
The cheese is
perfectly simple. The crust is where it’s at: thick, airy, fluffy, with just
enough chew. It’s like focaccia made sweet love with a puffy cumulus cloud over
a field of tomatoes next to a dairy farm, and they both came at the same time
into a hot sexy oven.
All members of Dead Register (Chvasta/ + Randy) agree that
this might be the best slice, like, anywhere.
5. Pepperoni, started
giving me heartburn. So I switched to green peppers or onions. What's your go
to topping?
It largely depends on
the venue and my mood. Sometimes I want meat, other times veggies, or just
plain ol’ cheese. If there are artichoke hearts available, I’ll probably bite.
If it’s a chain, I’ll avoid their canned mushrooms since I prefer not to eat
wet band-aids.
6. What do you look
for in pairing beer with your pie?
Pies pair best with
pale ales. They have just enough bite to complement the yeast in the crust, are
are not too under- or overwhelming in flavor in conjunction with most slices.
Geary’s Pale Ale and Summer Ale are the perfect buddies to Micucci’s pizza. Since
you asked.
Thanks for taking the
time to listen to me chat about pizza, now go watch our newest music video for
“Ender” that I made. Chop chop (slice slice):
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