Freaky Friday

While sitting in class on Friday morning, within the space of a bizarre 30 minutes, a portion of Oregon State's campus was evacuated due to a gas leak and we had a freakishly brief snow storm. Seriously, we had about five minutes of snow and then it vanished as though my classmates and I had suffered a quick mutual hallucination. Neither one was reason enough for us to leave class, but it's an interesting class, so nobody really seemed to mind.

I also had the opportunity to sample the new pizza place on Monroe, the aptly-named Slices. They promised New York pizza... how could I not go? I'll have to say, it's close. Closer than Cirello's, to be sure, but Cirello's still wins in the taste department overall.

The pizza is thin enough, can be properly folded like a NY slice, and almost tastes right. I think we've narrowed it down to the sauce. The sauce needs a little more... something. And there's not enough of it. Parts of the pizza had virtually no sauce between the cheese and bread. But these were the ready-made slices, so we may order a full pie and ask for a smidge extra sauce.

The strangest pizza on display was a baked potato pizza, which featured actual wedges of potato and bacon. It may sound a bit weird, but for a long time, Round Table pizza had little pizzas made in baked potato shells that were quite tasty. (Pizzatatoes? Something like that.) If you want pizza by the slice, this is the place to go. FAR better than American Dream Pizza.