HTS vs. DTT

If someone tells you their meal "hit the spot" is that the same as them saying it "did the trick"?

I'd prefer Slicetruck hits the spot (at least). We're not here to just do the trick.

Such a Sadness

Merry Christmas and you're welcome!

As a Christmas present to Los Angeles, we're opening a takeout and delivery place in West L.A. sometime between Feb 1 and March 1 2012.

Next we're going to produce a buddy cop movie starring Michael Buble and Tim Tebow.



Have a holly jolly Christmas
It's the best time of the year
Well I don't know if there'll be snow
But have a cup of cheer

Have a holly jolly Christmas
And when you walk down the street
Say hello to friends you know
And everyone you meet

Ho ho the mistletoe
Hung where you can see
Somebody waits for you
Kiss her once for me

Have a holly jolly Christmas
And in case you didn't hear
Oh bygolly have a holly jolly Christmas
This year

Have a holly jolly Christmas
And when you walk down the street
Say hello to friends you know
And everyone you meet

Have a holly jolly Christmas
And in case you didn't hear
Oh bygolly have a holly jolly Christmas
This year

If you don't know me, you don't know that I tivo the Letterman program and never watch them and it takes up all my space on the recorder. But I caught up on a bunch of them and was watching Eddie Murphy on it and I think he needs to start playing a rich guy in movies from now on. Like rich and comfortable in them not rich and cool. Not like Boomerang. Like the way Adam Sandler is always a rich guy in his movies. Like a rich guy with a family. Maybe a movie called "The McDowell's" where he plays the dad. A prequel of sorts to Coming to America. I think this would do well. I could write this quickly and well'ly. I'd just need to know it would be made.

They played party all the time when he walked out and I can't get the song out of my mind now for some reason so I pulled it up and the video is just completely unbelievable.

Testing some new secret flour

Did you know that wheat has been genetically modified and altered over the last 60 years so much that everyone thinks they have celiacs disease.? Well some people do but not everyone who thinks they do. They're sensitive to gluten but really its that human's have been altering the genetics of much of the food faster than our systems are evolving. Anyway this has all been a hint to our future secret plans.

Ryan Secrets

Difara Pizza

I went to New York a few weeks ago (more like several weeks ago, october some time.) and finally ate some Difara pizza. I stopped in once when I lived in New York but after waiting 3 hours I had to leave and get something to eat.

The place is kind of a big deal if you've never heard about it. In my mind its the most famous pizza place in the world. Its possible I'm suffering from Stockholm syndrome after waiting the 3 hours the one day. I'm not really in the mood to tell you all about it but if you click the link it will take you to a search result for it, watch some videos, read the yelps and stuff and you'll see what I'm talking about. Do you always sort Yelps from worst to best to read them? That's what I like to do.

Anyway, wanted to share some pictures. Also my review is that Difara makes really good pizza. I had a cheese slice, a square slice and ordered a sausage, pepper and onion pie to go. I imagine it to be a throwback of sorts when pizza in Brooklyn was truly special. I don't know when this was as I'm not from that time but considering everyone puts Brooklyn or New York in the name of their pizza place, there must have been a time when a higher percentage of pizza by the slice pizza places in New York were actually worth ordering a whole pizza from. I'd like to travel in time and take a Brooklyn pizza tour in 1957 to know what that's all about. Problem is if you ask someone that was around then they probably don't know how to respond to your email cause they weren't taught email in school and I don't read cursive. Another problem is that if I could go back in time a pizza tour would be way down on my list of things to do (would I only be allowed to go back in time? or could I actually time travel? the to do list changes depending on which it is). If you pull a list of the top 20 rated pizza places in the five boroughs I'd bet you can order a slice from less than 25% of them.

I enjoy a Neapolitan style pizza but they are all pretty much the same to me, either they're good or bad. I actually find it more difficult to find, and get more enjoyment out of, a standard pizza that's made well with high quality ingredients (standard pizza: I'm not sure how to explain, a normal pizza you'd have delivered or take out and would share with a few people. you shouldn't do this with a neapolitan). I'd say a pizza cooked on a conveyor oven would never qualify as made well and could safely assume if a place is enjoying the convenience and speed of a conveyor over they've also decided to enjoy the convenience and speed and inexpensiveness of pre-made sauce and probably enjoy the inexpensiveness of a lower grade cheese. {These are my stereotypes of pizza places with a conveyor oven. the stereotypes I create are usually true and they exist for a reason (that's why they're stereotypes. Stereotyping can be harmful and dangerous but I'm very careful when I do it. Generally I only follow stereotypes that have been around for at least 10 years. Generally if a stereotype can last 10 years it must be true. Stereotypically that's what I find. However stereotypes are just that, stereotypes. Can stereotypes be cliches? After conducting some research in my head for 3 seconds it appears that most stereotypes are also cliches.}. Conveyor ovens can't sear the bottom of a pizza, they would be good to reheat a properly made pizza I'd guess.

I'm not even sure what I'm writing about, I'm just saying I like this place Difara. I really just planned to post some pictures here they are.

my difara pizza

same pizza

the same pizza again

same pizza, sausage peppers onions

side view

bottom of difara pizza. its burnt and good. people would lose their mind if we did this to a pizza and gave it to them in LA. Many people lose their mind in ny about this too. I like a little char to a pizza though. I will admit that he might take this burning business a bit too far.

me in difara. I'm dave, chris is my brother. he's generally the one on the truck. I have an old phone  with an old camera and used if for this picture. I'd like to come back with Chris and get an official picture with Dom. That's Dom making my pizza. He's the reason this place is so famous. Sarge is in my backpack. I took the N train but it was running express and I had to switch to the Q. I just got a new phone. Samsung infuse? Quite a large piece of equipment to carry around I might exchange it before 30 days. It has a nice camera.

This is a pizza from Phil's pizza in new york on Varick. It has a real old fashioned look on the inside and it appeared Phil made the pizza. Basic ny pizza. Not too great but better than you totally common slice place in manhattan but about the same at the same time. allow myself to introduce myself.

Sarge in New York on a different day. I believe he may be an Affenpinscher.  He enjoyed the difara pizza. He's a good boy.

Santa Monica Pennsylvania ave.

Finally renewed our Santa Monica permit and will be back on Pennsylvania ave. today and will try and make it there once a week from now on.

Stop by sometime. And remember if you're having a party email us and we'll cater the party with pizza.

Why do Dallas and Detroit always play on Thanksgiving?

I think we should all know the answer to this and be able to explain this to others. I've pulled this directly from Wikipedia.

The Detroit Lions have hosted a game every Thanksgiving Day since 1934 (with the exception of 1939–1944 due to the "Franksgiving" confusion and World War II), and they have been nationally televised since 1962. In 1966, the NFL introduced an annual game hosted by the Dallas Cowboys, which has been played every year except in 1975 and 1977 when the St. Louis Cardinals hosted a match instead. However, St. Louis football fans, used to the traditional "Turkey Day Game" between Kirkwood High School and Webster Groves High School as the only local match on Thanksgiving, did not respond well to an NFL fixture on the same day, and thus Dallas resumed hosting the game in 1978.
When the AFL began holding annual Thanksgiving Day games, the league chose a different model, circulating the game among several cities. During the 1967–69 seasons, two Thanksgiving AFL games were televised each year.
After the 1970 merger, the NFL decided to keep only the traditional Detroit and Dallas games. Due to the broadcast contracts in place since 1970, three NFC teams play on Thanksgiving, as opposed to only one AFC outfit. During even years, the Lions play their Thanksgiving game against an AFC team, and thus are televised by the network holding the AFC package (NBC and later CBS); the Cowboys host an NFC team and are shown by the network with the NFC package (CBS and later Fox). During odd years, Dallas hosts an AFC team and Detroit plays an NFC opponent (usually another NFC North team, and often the Green Bay Packers, who draw high TV ratings). Every decade or so, this even-odd rotation is reversed, Detroit hosting an NFC team in even years and an AFC team in odd years, Dallas hosting an AFC team in even years and an NFC team in odd years.
When the league created its new TV package for the NFL Network in 2006, a third Thanksgiving game was added, a prime time game hosted by one of the remaining 30 NFL teams each year. While the first game featured two AFC teams, conference affiliation has varied since.

I guess it still doesn't exactly explain why they chose these teams but just give you a little history.

I guess its just tradition. Here's a little more why from detroitlions.com.

In 1934, the first year the Detroit Lions franchise called the Motor City home, owner G.A. Richards had a dilemma. His new franchise was well accepted and started off to a 10-0 record. Yet, an average of only 12,000 fans were coming to games at the University of Detroit Stadium. He looked at the tradition of many Midwest high schools and colleges who played on Thanksgiving Day including Detroit's Eastern High School, who normally played a team from Chicago. So the precedent was already set, and he planned to take it to another level.

Richards, who also owned radio station WJR, had a rivalry brewing as well. If the Lions could defeat the Chicago Bears, a championship could be in the works. The Detroit News agreed and ran a full page photo layout of the Lions and Bears featuring the stars Bronco Nagurski and Lion Roy "Father" Lumpkin. Richards saw anticipation building for the game so he and good friend Deke Aylesworth, president of the National Broadcasting Company, agreed to carry the game on Thanksgiving Day to over 91 radio stations including WJR.

Happy Thanksgiving from Slicetruck, you have out blessing to take one day off of eating pizza.

We Are the Champions of The World

 

How many awards did you win today?

This was going on over at the LA Pizza Festival

Slictruck is now wearing the belt.

Fresh out of the Oven

 

I'm going to make it my business to start taking more pictures of our pizza right out of the oven.

Since you're reading, you should consider booking the truck for an event. email about it info@slicetruck.com

Joe's is a good slice here and nyc

The $600 pizza looked pretty good to me.

Cheese Pie

 

If you're looking to have a pizza party catered we can bring the pizza obviously, we can also make individual salads, zeppoles (italian donuts) and or ice cream sandwiched. email info@slicetruck.com if you'd be interested in something like this. You'll need at least 50 people for it to make sense financially, unless you're a millionaire, then you can order the truck for yourself.

Proofing dough on top of the oven

 

a rare inside look into pizza making on a truck.

Nowhere Else

Would prefer it if you decided to buy pizza from nowhere else than slicetruck., or food for that matter.

Also, just did the research, its nowhere NOT no where. However, no one is NOT noone.

Email info@slicetruck.com if you want to have a party catered.

And for good measure, since I was in the Weezer section of youtube.



and as I continued to surf the internet here you go, from yahoo answers:

It's Stevens Point Beer that awakens those ancient feelings. It's the second type of alcohol referred to in the song:

"Somebody’s Heine is crowding my icebox.
Somebody’s cold one is giving me chills..."

(This is short for Heineken Beer)

Pizza in the park

 

Thought this was a plesant picture. These people really lucked out with the pizza truck being right there.

Cheese Pizza. Plain Pizza

 

In New York they refer to cheese pizza as plain. I never really could get fully behind that.

Greasy Pizza?

If you ever get a pizza from us and you think its greasy, its nice to know that what you are calling grease is extra virgin olive oil. Or its pepperoni, or maybe sausage. But those are the only reasons. Its not grease out of a deep fryer or anything like that. That's what I think of if someone says greasy.

High Res

I think this is a good example of what its like to hold a slice of the grandma from SliceTruck. If you haven't already, you should try it.

This photo was taken by  Marilyn Chiu from The Nomlog. Click the photo if you want it bigger.

Peel Stone

"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."

Can't tie the quote and the picture together, just saw this quote in an email today and wanted to share while at the same time wanting to share this picture that Sophia Lee took while on our slicetruck. Check out Sophia's site: Burp and Slurp. Don't open it up if you're at work. That's a joke its a perfectly fine site to visit anytime anywhere.

Just figured out how to tie it up. If you don't think SliceTruck is the best pizza you ever had then you're like still water with lizards growing in it cause you're not changing right.

Can I show you a Picture?

 

This is a nice picture. Would you agree?

Carrie Okie

 

when people ask why I have piano keys tattood on my arm I wish I could direct them to 3:11 of this video... and say, that's effing why.

 CarrieOkie13 1 month ago 7