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Originally Posted by fotze
What type of pizza? The greek style with the yellowish cheese on top of the toppings? Thin Crust? GReasy style? I am a southy too. Only time I am there is meeting troutman at his office.
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Greasy for sure!
Really though there are 3 distinct things:
Subs
Pizza by the slice at lunch
Pizza
(Salads too on the menu but who the hell orders those when the other 3 are so damn good? Maybe they have 4 fantastic things?)
The Pizza is thick and greasy, Ingelwood Pizza is somewhat similar if you have been there?
The Pizza by the slice is thinner but still greasy, and for the price is killer IMO - although that may be all the memories that come back and not the food? lol
And then the Subs, that is where it really is at. Pizza definitely feels a bit unhealthy where-as a whole wheat 8 inch (<best part, bigger than 6inch smaller than 12inch) sub feels remotely healthy day after day, although who can say no to the special sauce? For the price there is no where that comes close. I used to always get the Turkey but the Pizza (with pinnapple) and Donair have been on my rotation lately as 15 years of Turkey can get to be a bit much (although not really, i could still eat a Tops-Turkey sub every day).
I never realized that you had 'only' been open for 15 years?! I must have been going there almost since you opened (1994?)!
Oh, and people should know that while we all call it "Tops" the sign says "Varsity Pizza". And they are closed Sunday (which i still forget 3 or 4 times a year) and go on a summer vacation each year!
And the charm is not (just) in the food, it is in Maria and Jim remembering your order for 15 straight years or playing pac-man in the lobby, or seeing old school friends there because we all go there still, or fighting for a parking spot in the tiny lot, or trying to time it perfectly as to not hit the school-kid rush while also knowing you used to be one of those kids, or sitting and reading the entire Herald cover to cover and then simply HAVING to order a slice of pizza because the sub and chocolate milk were just not enough... haha
Claeren.