As you mid-valley readers likely know, the Democrat-Herald is situated among some fantastic food emporiums, particularly if you eat like a 17-year-old as I do.
There’s Hasty Freez right across Lyon Street, and the Stop-N-Go Market (outstanding chicken strips, burritos and other items of greasy goodness) right across Ellsworth.
A few blocks west is Pizza King (I’ve been on a calzone kick as of late, and theirs is very solid), and between Pizza King and the paper is the subject of today’s post: Ciddici’s Pizza.
“Hey Chief,” I said to news editor Kim Jackson on Thursday night. “Do you want to split a large from Ciddici’s?”
“No, I have food being delivered,” he said.
“How big is a small compared to the individual?” I asked.
“I don’t know,” he said. “A small might be 10 inches, and individual is like this,” he said, holding his hands about 6 inches apart.
“Ask them,” he added.
So I did, when I called to place my order. I was told a small was in fact 10 inches, and an individual was actually 8.
This is important news to know, because a small is around $10 and an individual around $5, meaning it’s a way better deal to get two individuals instead of one small.
Pretty hungry, I ordered two individuals, one with Canadian bacon and tomatoes, the other with pepperoni and pineapples, although I didn’t realize till getting back to the office that they had forgotten the tomatoes. Oh well.
And not that we didn’t trust the guy on the phone at Ciddici’s, but when I got back to the newsroom, Kim pulled out a pica pole (ancient newspaper ruler) and we measured:
And now, your daily bonus feature:
Catch of the Day, No. 8. This is a late 1950s Spalding first baseman's mitt, a Trapper model. Trapper was a term used by many brands, including Rawlings, Wilson and Denkert. Never really figured out how so many different companies could call their gloves by the same model name, though all had this style of webbing, more or less.
