Getting ready for Sunday's game? Got the big screen TV and your favorite pizza place on speed dial? When the big game ends, we may have a champion but the debate over who's really the best never ends.
That's true for pizza, too. But Patch's Pizza Playoffs aims to find The Most Loved Pizza in the Southland.
Folks in Oak Lawn and Evergreen Park know what they like.
"Definitely Rosangela's. My family won't eat from anywhere else!" — Tom McNamara
"Palermo's. Can't beat their sauce." — Sandy Bose
"Phil's! Saying otherwise is blasphemous!" — Ed Tierney
"Grassano's is already the best in the Midwest. Actually I think it's the best in the world." — Linda Stearns
Today's ballot includes local pizzas — no regional or national chains. Voting is open from Feb. 2 to Feb. 5.
The place to garner the most votes in this round advances to the championship round and faces winners from throughout South Suburban Patchland.
They always give you tons of ingredients and crust is perfect.
Now...as for Durbin's...they have a terrible pizza, they have had a terrible pizza for over twenty years. They skimp on ingredients, it is all sauce and crust, it takes forever to get an order out...they have the beer garden, they sponsor softball...so they engender loyalty from a bunch of drunk 20-30 year olds...trust me, I grew up with them, and I NEVER understood it until my one friend explained the 'appeal', as it were. I have been stuck eating there a thousand times and I don't know if my food was ever above mediocre. I would MUCH rather have Pizza Hut or Little Caeser's than Durbin's. Also, which location in Oak Lawn is being used for Durbin's? Because if you are using Burbank, there are better places to get pizza in Burbank, including two basically across the street form Grassano's on 87th. Lastly, remember before it was Grassano's, it was Tafdes (or Taftes) Pizza? Now THAT pizza might have been worse than Durbin's...
then sprinkled with some gnats and fleas, some centipedes and slimy slugs, and other creepy, crawly bugs. I want to add some fingernails and oyster ooze and crunchy snails and chicken bones and spoiled meat and smelly socks from dirty feet. I want it topped with lots of mold and gooey boogers (not too old), a lot of snot, a little spit, and guts with grimy, grainy grit. I want the most disgusting crust with spider webs and day-old dust and dirt and mud and blood and gore delivered to my sister’s door.