Pizza contest nears finish line

Friday, December 16, 2011

Uh oh, there are only seven voting days left in the Bedford Journal’s Who Has Bedford’s Best Pizza? contest and if you haven’t sent in your ballot, well, either you don’t eat pizza or you’re just having a hard time making up your mind between the four contenders we listed in last week’s Journal.

Well, that’s understandable because there are many varieties of pizza and many opinions about it, the first of which often involves the sauce: Hey, where’s the oregano? That is often the first question expatriate New Yorkers ask when sampling a New Hampshire pizza.

But the sad fact is, there are actually people who don’t like oregano to which the expatriate New Yorker would say, of course, “Phaghh!” or its south-of-14th-Street equivalent.

Someone else might question the seeming absence of garlic. There is something that people who grew up in Italian neighborhoods know about garlic that not everyone in New Hampshire knows: If you can’t really really taste it to the point where your breath is likely to be a tad strong, then there isn’t enough. Garlic is nature’s way of saying, “Wow! We gotta have some more of this!”

Of course, none of this matters a tad, especially to you, because when it comes to this pizza contest, the only opinion that counts is yours. And you must speak. And you can speak by voting. The ballot’s a simple one: Four nominees, four boxes, you get to check one, although we suppose that if you believe two places are tied, you could check two.

What we’d like to know, though, is why you have chosen one over the other. This has nothing to do with the contest, rather it is just our curiosity, and if you’d care to tell us, shoot us an e-mail: cabnews@cabinet.com.

We hope the words “garlic” and “oregano” appear in your responses.