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rlooney@csc.com (Richard Looney) writes:

>Maryland pizza is an accurate description of the Ledo's product. Baltimorons
>may disagree, no doubt they've always had access to better stuff in their
>Italian neighborhoods - but Michael R. Leavitt is correct. Ledo's pizza is 
>popular merely because for many years, it was the only pizza available in
>the DC suburbs of Maryland. Many afficianados are too young to remember,
>but pizza was one of middle America's youth/pop culture discoveries of the 
>1960's, and throughout that decade, the only pizza options in this town were 
>Ledo's in Maryland, Mario's in Virginia, and the few authentic Italian 
>restaurants (like AV's on New York Ave) that would serve it. Hence pizza was a 

That's interesting and probably does explain it.  As the first Chicagoan
to denounce Ledo's in this group <g>, I know that we had neighborhood
pizzarias when I was a kid in the 50's that had been there for many many
years.  And with so many, the stuff had to be good.  Oh yeah, free
delivery was a staple even in 1960.  To this day, Domino's and Pizza Hut
don't have the market penetration there that they have in other cities. 

So, I'll pass off my pizza snobishness as culturally ingrained since
childhood and refrain from bashing people who are pizza underprivledged
(from my perspective). 

But the Ledo's in Ellicott City... boy, that's one greasy thing.

John 
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