"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
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Egg cream afficianados often vehemently criticize poor immitations.

Well, as to that, yes, I suppose that when all three of them get
together it can be quite the rousing experience!

Pizza, too, is a subject of much discourse. Outside of NYC, I'm
routinely disappointed in both-- the prior by its complete abscense
(alas, they're difficult to find now, even in Brooklyn), and the
latter
by its quality.

The "best" pizza is indeed a hotly contested issue......one that I
have some opinions on myself. However, pizza differs from chili in
that people who insist there is only one authentic pizza recipe
probably number in the hundreds or thousands as opposed to the
millions of authorities spawned by a loosely related and enormous body
of recipes that go by a name which suggests nothing more than that
they share a particular ingredient.....an ingredient, by the way, that
is missing from many of those recipes.

Wolfgang