I had my first piece of pizza 50 years ago on the streets of New York. I think I was on the West Side, like 7th or 8th Avenue and up in the '80s.
Since that time lots of pizza has passed my lips. Frozen, at a restaurant, picked up, slices from street vendors. I've even tried to make pizza (with virtually no success).
The one thing I don't do anymore is order pizza to be delivered.
I get pizza to go and places like Zaffiro's, Mama Mia's and The Calderone Club, which always deliver top-flight stuff for me to take home. For parties you can pick up a couple or a couple dozen.
But delivery? I can't remember the last time I ever got a delivered pizza that passed muster.
Cold, soggy ... I can't begin to count the things that go wrong with delivered pizzas. And I can't understand it. I mean we've gone to the moon. We have cars that don't use gas. Technology is moving faster than the speed of light.
How come we can't develop something that makes delivered pizza edible?
Until someone can give me the name of some place that delivers a pizza that tastes just like one I get in a restaurant, I don't need any pizza delivery numbers on Yelp or Foursquare or whatever.
With a history in Milwaukee stretching back decades, Dave tries to bring a unique perspective to his writing, whether it's sports, politics, theater or any other issue.
He's seen Milwaukee grow, suffer pangs of growth, strive for success and has been involved in many efforts to both shape and re-shape the city. He's a happy man, now that he's quit playing golf, and enjoys music, his children and grandchildren and the myriad of sports in this state. He loves great food and hates bullies and people who think they are smarter than everyone else.
This whole Internet thing continues to baffle him, but he's willing to play the game as long as OnMilwaukee.com keeps lending him a helping hand. He is constantly amazed that just a few dedicated people can provide so much news and information to a hungry public.
Despite some opinions to the contrary, Dave likes most stuff. But he is a skeptic who constantly wonders about the world around him. So many questions, so few answers.
