I can't stop ordering a certain kind of pizza or sitting in one of my chairs or doing a thousand other mundane things because they evoke visions of a special version of happiness, visions of a life past or a life that could have been.
And it reflects the spread of a certain kind of haute pizza culture across the country.
When an actor eats a pizza in a certain scene of a movie, for example, an overlay pizza ad could be displayed.
We've claimed that we have a right to the name, that we pioneered a certain quality and varieties of pizza that are associated with the name Ray. "But today, I wouldn't mind if some other Ray wanted to claim those guys on Third Avenue.
We've had one person saying that he had been ordered [to deliver] four pizzas for a certain care unit of the hospital and that he had not been paid for them, and that a fifth pizza had been ordered and he did not want to deliver it until the payment of the fourth was made". We've had a few humourist phone calls, some with threats - but these are very minor.
Sometime in the last week of January, the television trucks roll up to Ward Melville High School, the phones begin ringing and a certain pushy teacher starts passing out pizza to her high-achieving students, who gladly take it as payback for months of nagging.
If it were The Famous Mario's, you would have to ask 'Which Mario?'" Also in 1973, a certain Joe Barri bought the Ray's Pizza on 76th Street and Third Avenue, (later, he would change it to Ray Barri's) this was decent pizza too, but Di Rienzo's was amazing.
They essentially award one free trip for a certain number of trips flown, much like a pizza parlor giving away a free pizza after a dozen purchases.
Lesson learned this week: Don't sit near a restaurant's wood-burning pizza oven if you are a woman of a certain age unless you have frostbite.
"Domino's pizza boxes can go in the recycling," the middle child points out with a certain hopeful tone.
