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Wayne Folta (folta@cs.umd.edu) wrote:
: A pizza that is similar to Ledo's, though less greasy and more flakey, is
: Pizza Oven. There's one in the East Pines shopping center, just off
: of the BW Parkway, near New Carrollton. (Is that Riverdale Road?)

: It is also square, with flakey crust and a somewhat sweet sauce. I just
: love it, though it may well have been the first pizza I ever tasted. It
: might have been the first solid food I ever tasted, for that matter.

: I usually get just extra cheese, though I also like their shredded mushrooms
: (as opposed to most pizza's rubbery, sillohuette-sliced mushrooms).

: I have referred to Pizza Oven and Ledo's as Prince Georges Pizza for years.
: It would be interesting to trace the introduction of pizza to D.C., to see if
: there really is a common thread to the two.
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: Wayne Folta          (folta@cs.umd.edu)

When I moved from NY to Silver Spring, MD in the late 50s the first
pizza I encountered was from Pizza Oven, which used to have stores all
over the area. (There was even one in Howard County). I remember the
pizza dough was rolled through a machine, and the small ones were
round, big rectangles, with the piece cut in squares instead of
wedges. Sort of looked down on it for a while. Several years later I
discovered where to get NY style thin crust, but thats another story.
Most of the Pizza Ovens seem to be gone. There is still one I know
about in downtown Rockville. 

There is also a bar in Four Corners (Colesville Rd and University
Blvd) that has a variation on this type of pizza.

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