I watch a lot of Chopped on Food Network, and if I had a dollar for every chef who works at a “Farm to Table” restaurant I would be able to afford to eat daily at one of these places.

Nope, it was Casey’s. Although it’s possible they special ordered it?

That’s why I’m only engaging in written correspondence.

Mom would often send me to the neighbors to borrow a cup of Sodium Benzoate. 

This is correct. The McRib was a revelation to me as a kid. I had one a couple years ago for the first time in decades, and it was a big let down. And for the love of god, do not try to eat one of these things while driving. 

They also helped put Obama in office, so suck it. 

He should have said the best chain pizza. I grew up in Iowa, have lived all over the country. Iowa, like most everywhere else, has excellent local pizzerias in any town of more than 20,000 people. 

I’ve never had it with gravy (I detest gravy), but I agree that breakfast pizza is delicious. It almost tastes too good. Suspiciously good. 

Maybe it used to? I grew up in Iowa, and remember staying at a friend’s house and they ordered cheeseburger pizza. It had both pickles and mustard in it, and was one of the most disgusting slices of pizza I’d ever had. 

It’s terrible out here, please stay far away. 

Native Iowan here, we don’t take it personally.

I am from the Midwest and served in the military, and the most provincial people I came into contact with were mostly from New York. talk about folks who have never been more than 10 miles from where they grew up.

Nobody cares about your awesome local pizzeria, like your fantasy football team. Literally every town in America over 30,000 people has at least one good local pizza joint. It ain’t rocket science. This is about chain pizza, if you deign to lower yourself to it. 

Cappy’s Pizza in Cedar Rapids, it’s the real deal. 

That is absolutely false. I’ve lived in Iowa, and in states all over the country. There’s great pizza in Iowa, it’s just that Casey’s makes above average pizza that is available all the time. 

Native Iowan, it is graded on a curve, but still pretty damn good. I’m sure it can’t compare with your favorite local pizza joint. Hell, it can’t compare with mine either. But for something you can get immediately, and in almost any town in Iowa (or the Midwest) at nearly any time of day, it really hits the spot.

I grew up in Iowa, and was so disappointed with convenience stores when I moved out of state. It felt like stepping back in time to the 70's, when you had some gas pumps and a stand of candy in a small store with filthy bathrooms. Midwestern convenience stores more often than not are big, clean, and have awesome (if…

Lol. They wrote an obvious click bait headline about a person who died and they didn’t care that it was misleading, and you are going after the people who called them out for it.

Yeah, and I’m guessing the way the headline reads was 100% intentional. 

My wife and I went to see Castaway back in the day, there was an old couple sitting behind us. You would have thought the wife was blind, because her husband felt the need to comment about EVERY SINGLE THING that happened in the movie.