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Pleading For Wood-Fired Pizza in C-U

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While I know that some would argue with me to the ends of the earth about this, there is simply nothing very good about the pizza in this town.

Take Jupiter's pizza for example. I think it used to be better. If my memories of being young and half drunk from dollar pint night at The Highdive thanks to a friend or two serve me well — I believe that I ate and enjoyed that pizza on a number of occasions. Then, something changed. It might have been their recipe. It might have been the fact that I saw the cracker-like crust in a big stack in a cardboard box. It might have been the fact that I stopped being able to hear My Bloody Valentine on their jukebox after Lyle and Michelle high-tailed it to NYC. Whatever it was, it just wasn't very good anymore.

Truth be told, there isn't any really great thin-crust pizza in Champaign-Urbana.

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