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PIZZA

Daniel Salmieri

Secret Pizza Party! (or How to Write the Best Kids' Book)

Secret #1: Get your narrator in cahoots with the reader.

Mangesh Hattikudur

YouTube / Keith Richardson

Want Pizza...from Your Toaster?

This 1999 commercial takes pizza too far.

Chris Higgins

istock

Who Invented Deep Dish Pizza?

"It's an enigma, wrapped in a pie crust. Every day, it feels a little more lost to history," -Jeff Ruby, co-author of Everybody Loves Pizza.

Rebecca OConnell



Hipstercrite

6 Obscure Facts About the Noid

#1: The Noid led to a hostage situation.

Chris Higgins


iStock, Chloe Effron

Papa John's, Pizza Hut, and the Great Pizza Feud of 1997

How an argument over dough wound up in the Supreme Court.

Jake Rossen


6 Forgotten Pizzas from Instant Pizza's Golden Age

Remember when the best flavored Pop Tart was sausage pizza flavor?

Kara Kovalchik


Pizza Hut

Pizza for Reading: Pizza Hut's Book It!

If kids wanted a free pizza from Pizza Hut, all they had to do was start reading as part of the Book It! program.

Chris Higgins
McPizza took the fast food world by storm.

The Short, Strange Life of McDonald's Pizza

In the 1980s, McDonald’s was as dominant as any fast food chain could hope to be. Possibly the world’s most-recognized brand, McDonald's was double the size of its closest competitor, owning nearly 40% of the $48 billion burger market.

Jake Rossen

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