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Crazy Bread and Circus: Little Caesars For The People
Little Caesars just keeps on keeping on, putting up low cost pizza at high volumes and letting the world think what it may.
I have stood and observed the birth of greatness. The Italian maestro, lovingly creating the latest of thousands pizzas that came before and the dozens more he has yet to do before the day finishes. He measures nothing, all done by feel, and sight, and generations of tradition funneled through his person and into his hands. The dough is made to be perfect, all the individual ingredients sourced directly from local providers. All that greatness, tradition, and pride manifesting itself in the finished product, a pizza so perfect, so divine, that no language could do justice to the lovingly made, painstakingly crafted, perfect bite of pizza. Some folks search their whole foodie lives for such a moment. Writers write books and stories about it. Songs have been sung, and movies made, and quests begun for the experience of a perfect bite of pizza.
But when it’s 6:48pm on a Tuesday, you are broke, and the kids won’t shut up, you are going to Little Caesars for a $5 Hot-N-Ready and will sing a song of thanks for it both ways.
If availability and consistency are the base alloys of greatness, then Little…
