Wow. All within one day……
First I’m picking up pizza at this place in Van Nuys, CA. I look up at the menu in the place, and realize they don’t offer baked ziti. I ask the employee there, “Do you guys make baked ziti?” He looks at me as if I’m speaking a different language. “What’s baked ziti?” he asks.
I guess that’s what you get when you have a MexicanArmenianPolishGermanRussian or any other non-Italian L.A. people making Italian food.
When I brought the pizza back to work, shortly thereafter I boasted, “Man, I could really eat another pie.”
That is when I was told how uncommon it is for pizza to referred to as a “pie,” or a “pizza pie.”
I try not to be one of these snobbish NY’ers when it comes to eating food in L.A., but I swear sometimes I feel like this town exists on another planet.
Tags: Armenian, baked ziti, German, Italian food, LA, Mexican, pie, pizza, pizza pie, Polish, Russian, Van Nuys
