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Taste in pizza varies as widely as taste in music. I won't judge you if you like his pie. After all, Cariocas (people who live in Rio De Janeiro) put ketchup on theirs. And Brazilians, generally speaking, are really proud of their pizza. Even while violating it like that. That being said, you also don't need to offer me a slice. I'll pass, thank you. Racism puts me off my feed.

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To truly be a General Sherman, it would have to run straight alcohol.

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I like the colonel's chicken too. I will bake a chicken as my grandma taught me, but the only thing they ever fried was shrimp. I have never fried chicken. Bye the way -- It was grandma's apple pie, as taught to me by Grandma -- tender short flaky crust, lots of butter, sugar, and cinnamon -- that so beguiled the Colonel when he ate my pie. He died not too long afterward. I like to think he died while reliving the ecstasy of grandma's apple pie.

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That's the one. Well researched !

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In part. He is also using the "yes, I talk and act like a racist, but that doesn't mean I'm a racist" tactic.

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I don't either, I suspect some of my father's stories were....stories. He was in his early '90's when he told us that, so who knows. I do know that I like KFC, once in a while. It makes better fried chicken than I do. I always have batter issues.

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Who would ever have thought it would be easier to recruit athletes at Ole Miss than at Louisville? Weep no more for mah pizza...

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How can you even call that pizza?

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There's a couple of really nice Ghost Pepper sauces, just a drop or two is all you'd need..

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In NYC the equivalent of Southern trailer trash emanates from two boroughs - Staten Island (they went for Trump) and Queens back in the day, but not so much today. In the Queens of his youth, Trump is like the spawn of Honey Boo Boo's great grandmother and her brother.

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Where I grew up downstate, there was no truly bad Pizza, but there were real degrees of good. First had Sicilian in the mid-60's, before that it was always thin crust NY style. Went to college in Boston and was punished with Greek owned pizzerias. They cooked in a pan with oil and sliced cheese. It was like Chicago style but bad. Until I found the North End Back Bay was a pizza desert.

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James Byrd Jr., twenty years ago in Texas.

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they should totally get Roseanne Barr to be their spokes idiot now

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Well, I live in east central IL, and I can tell you that there are several towns around here that had the rep of being "sundown towns," where black people were heartily encouraged to be out of town by sundown. And in the '20s the Urbana KKK owned and operated its own movie theater downtown. Celebrated University of Illinois running back J.C. Caroline thrilled crowds on game days in the 1950s, but, as black students were banned from sleeping on campus, had to board with a black family off campus. On the other hand, no truck dragging here.

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i make better pies in my own kitchen than the crap schnatter peddles.

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Ranch is the devil.

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