News and notes from around the interweb:
- Get $100 for referring customers to GoPuff, who also get $100 plus all the free GoPuff credits for Chase cardmembers.
- The best pizza in New York, from eight years of study
Starting in 2014, I logged every slice of pizza I ate in New York City on the Instagram account NYC Slice. The results shown below are collected from 464 slices. Over an eight-year period the average price of a plain slice increased from $2.52 to $3.00. This calculation excludes dollar slices.
The most expensive was a $6.53 pepperoni slice at Artichoke Basille’s Pizza’s Times Square location, and it was fine. I did not rate the slices to avoid controversy and bribes. The biggest thing I have noticed is the decline in the amount of sauce put on slices. I’m sure this is a cost-saving measure, but the overall quality of your average slice in the city has definitely suffered. However, in no particular order, these are some of the better slices in the city.
- Russian flight makes emergency landing when rear door opens during flight (HT: Paul H)
- British Airways appears to finally be planning to start updating seats in its Boeing 787s to offer suites in business class.
- Life is different in other places. The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife sought to crowdsource species sightings with an online form. Someone reported a cougar. And in the description.. your mom. (HT: @crucker)
Whoever filled out a cougar sighting report and wrote "your mother" under the description drop your @ we just want to talk
— Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (@OKWildlifeDept) January 9, 2023
- Family flaunts toddler in first class
- Guest Flips Out And Drives Car Into Hotel Lobby
@ Gary — The slices aren’t ranked, so how can you use the word “Best”?
@Gene – mass noun
The best pizza in NYC is undoubtedly Sbarro. I remember some hot shot executive declaring this on TV years ago.
That pizza link is troublesome and I’d recommend people avoid clicking on it.
Rays
@ rich — What exactly does that mean?
@ Gary — If rich’s “troublesome” means virus, keystroke logger, etc, it should be taken down and ideally, details of what is wrong with said link shoud be provided.
I don’t know if it is a bad web page or not for sure but it triggered Firefox to crash twice (immediately after I clicked on it).
I did a scan from a 3rd party source and it revealed some issues although it wouldn’t surprise me if many web sites have issues. Issues ranged from high severity to low but multiples of each.
This is the first time I’ve had a link actually crash my browser (Firefox on Apple/Ventura).
There doesn’t appear to be anything wrong with that website that I can find? @rich want to be more specific about high severity issues you are finding in a scan?
@ rich — I havent used FireFox for a long time, but it aways crashed when I used it years ago. Just sayin…
Singas Famous Pizza in Jackson Heights.
You are welcome.
The fact that Trump Pizza with Trump Pepperoni at the Trump Cafe in Trump Tower is not on the list invalidates the entire article.
(And, Lombardi’s for sentimental reasons.)
The best pizza in NYC can be found in any number of Astoria pizza parlors between Ditmars and 36 Avenue.
No pizza places from Little Italy in The Bronx, Arthur Ave? Full Moon Pizzeria is my favorite.
fly to ORD & go to Malnati’s
Re: Russian plane: how does a plane door open in flight? I thought once the cabin is pressurized the doors can’t open because the door has to be pulled in before it can swing out.