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PizzaMecca Pizza reviews by Bobby Pickles, Charrman of the PizzaMecca™️ of the Universe—Connecticut! Sometimes NYC and the rest of the Northeast. Florida, too.

Plus, PizzaMecca™️ Clothing "The Promised Brand." 🍕🕋

10/16/2026

Connecticut vs. Florida Pizza Review 🍕✈️ Same Day, Same Recipe | Domenic's and Vinnie’s

Pizza for lunch in Connecticut. Pizza for dinner in sunny South Florida. Same day, same family, two completely different climates—1,300 miles apart.

I reviewed Domenic's and Vinnie's flagship location in Waterbury, where owner Mike baked me a pie with pepperoni cups and their house-made sausage. Then I flew to their Florida satellite location in Royal Palm Beach to evaluate his son Matt’s rendition. I even smuggled leftover contraband slices onto the plane in the name of science—in order to conduct a side-by-side comparison.

Does the water, humidity, or oven change their New Haven a’pizza and tavern-style pie hybrid?

My charred lab techs Marvin and Henry help me eat the evidence, while Ed, my overly opinionated NJ pizza supremacist pal, supplies unsolicited peer review.

📍 Waterbury, CT → Royal Palm Beach, FL 🍕🕋





10/04/2026

Connecticut’s Hottest Wings Weren’t Hot Enough for Me 🌶️🔥

Derby, Connecticut, may be the state’s tiniest city, but Dew Drop Inn —a community anchor—serves the state’s largest assortment of chicken wing flavors.

This place has more than a hundred sauces and dry rubs, including combinations seemingly inspired by deeply traumatic life experiences: Tikka Masala Peanut Butter, Pink Peppercorn Lemon Curd, Parm Butter Bacon Garlic—and plenty more. Esquire even named Dew Drop the best place for wings in Connecticut back in 2021.

But I didn’t come here to work my way through the menu.

I came for Ghostly Habanero—the hottest wings they’ve got.

I’ve finished a half-dozen order of them before, but this time I will be collecting evidence. So I arrived prepared with a gallon of milk, a package of baby wipes, and the willingness to destroy my gastrointestinal future.

Would Connecticut’s hottest wings finally humble me?

Let’s just say the wings are outstanding.

But did their Ghostly Habanero blow me away?

You’ll have to watch.

📍 Dew Drop Inn — Derby, Connecticut
🍕⬛ PizzaMecca™️





09/21/2026

PizzaMaxxing with Roger Stone | Pizza Over Politics 🍕🕋

I traveled 1,300 miles outside the PizzaMecca™️ to Delray Beach, Florida, where Connecticut expat Nick Laudano is slinging New Haven Pizza at Ah-Beetz.

This time, I’m joined by Nutmeg State native Roger Stone for a highly classified pizza operation: determining whether Ah-Beetz Pizza deserves full diplomatic recognition as a bona fide PizzaMecca™️ Embassy.

Roger has spent more than half a century immersed in American politics, but today we’re leaving all of that at the door. No campaigning. No candidates. No partisan punditry. Just Roger Stone, yours truly, and the age-old question that has plagued every civilized society since the dawn of man:

Is this pizza any good?

We’re putting PIZZA OVER POLITICS.

We’re not here to MAGA. We’re here to MANGIA. 🍕🕋





08/25/2026

PORTNOY PIZZA PLAGIARISM

Apparently, I stole the idea of reviewing food on camera from Dave Portnoy.

There’s just one small problem with that theory:

The timeline.

On September 14, 2010, I was standing on the streets of Philadelphia with a cheesesteak in each hand, filming a review of The Original Pat's King of Steaks vs. Geno's Steaks … My verdict? Better cheese at Pat’s. Better bread at Geno’s.

And unlike my memory, the internet keeps receipts.

The original video is still sitting on my YouTube channel — — uploaded September 14, 2010, straight from an Android phone in all its glorious 2010 potato-quality splendor.

That was nearly three years before the first One Bite pizza review in 2013.

Does that mean I invented food reviews? Of course not. People have been criticizing other people’s cooking since somebody burned the first piece of meat over a fire.

But was PizzaMecca born because I saw David Portnoy - El Presidente reviewing pizza and decided to copy him?

Well…

The proof is in the pudding.

And the receipts?

They’re still in the cash register.

🍕🕋





08/23/2026

THE FAT SIGNAL | Fuoco A’Pizza

When the T-shirt inventory at Fuoco Apizza starts running dangerously low, George knows exactly what he has to do.

Light the FAT Signal.

What follows is a perfectly routine custom T-shirt order involving screen printing, coal-fired a’pizza, Roman gods, Wall Street negotiations, heavy metal, acrobatic pizza dough, a portable projector—and a severely underpowered 1979 Ford Pinto known only as the FAT MOBILE.

George needed new merch. FAT ENZO T-SHIRTS answered the call.

From artwork and spot-color separations to pulling ink, curing, folding, boxing and delivery, we follow the Fuoco’s shirts from an idea on a computer screen to finished merchandise ready to wear.

Because at FAT ENZO, the goal isn’t just to print another promotional T-shirt.

We make shirts people actually want to wear.

👕 NEED CUSTOM MERCH?
Screen Printing • Embroidery • Custom Apparel • Graphic Design
FAT ENZO T-SHIRTS
FATENZO.com
We can print anything but money.

🍕 NEED THE A’PIZZA?
Visit Fuoco’s A’Pizza in Cheshire, Connecticut for coal-fired a’pizza from George and the crew—and check out the freshly replenished Fuoco’s merch while you’re there.

📽️ NEED TO LIGHT THE FAT SIGNAL?
Take the big screen anywhere with Infinity Projectors and join the Mobile Projection Revolution.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087622441018&mibextid=wwXIfr

InfinityProjectors.com

Three businesses. One merch emergency.

Fuoco’s A’Pizza × FAT ENZO T-SHIRTS × Infinity Projectors

Pizza. Printing. Projection.

And if the FAT MOBILE breaks down on the way home…

Well, hopefully the projector can signal a cab.

07/18/2026

🥪 Geoff's Superlative Sandwiches | The Most OUTSTANDING Sandwich Shop in America’s Smallest Big City! (REEL)

The menu is the most unnecessarily extensive. The monikers are the most whimsical. And according to my angriest friend, Paddy—a former Geoff’s employee—the stories are even more legendary than the grinders.

I arrived fully intending to order a vegetarian sandwich, but Paddy nearly had an aneurysm at the mere suggestion. Despite being a bleeding-heart liberal from one of the country’s most progressive cities, he harbors a visceral hatred of vegetarian sandwiches. Instead, the guy behind the counter—armed with absolutely no knowledge of my personal tastes—recommended the Jorge Elorza, and I decided to trust the process.

As it turns out, the sandwich almost became secondary. Once I smathered it with Geoff’s legendary Dragon’s Breath hot sauce, every bite exploded with one of the finest hot sauces I’ve ever tasted. It completely transformed the Jorge Elorza. In fact, it’s so good that I’m convinced it could make just about any sandwich at Geoff’s OUTSTANDING according to my professional PizzaMecca rating system.

📍 Geoff’s Superlative Sandwiches – Providence, Rhode Island

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07/18/2026

🥪 Geoff's Superlative Sandwiches | The Most OUTSTANDING Sandwich Shop in America’s Smallest Big City! (Full Review)

The menu is the most unnecessarily extensive. The monikers are the most whimsical. And according to my angriest friend, Paddy—a former Geoff’s employee—the stories are even more legendary than the grinders.

I arrived fully intending to order a vegetarian sandwich, but Paddy nearly had an aneurysm at the mere suggestion. Despite being a bleeding-heart liberal from one of the country’s most progressive cities, he harbors a visceral hatred of vegetarian sandwiches. Instead, the guy behind the counter—armed with absolutely no knowledge of my personal tastes—recommended the Jorge Elorza, and I decided to trust the process.

As it turns out, the sandwich almost became secondary. Once I smathered it with Geoff’s legendary Dragon’s Breath hot sauce, every bite exploded with one of the finest hot sauces I’ve ever tasted. It completely transformed the Jorge Elorza. In fact, it’s so good that I’m convinced it could make just about any sandwich at Geoff’s OUTSTANDING according to my professional PizzaMecca rating system.

📍 Geoff’s Superlative Sandwiches – Providence, Rhode Island

🍕🕋





07/12/2026

🇨🇺 The Least Kosher Foodstuff in Miami? | Croquetas at La Carreta

Forget everything you think you know about Cuban food.

In this episode, I visit Miami’s legendary La Carreta on Bird Road to try one of the city’s most iconic snacks: the Cuban croqueta. Along the way, my friend Enriki Tarō introduces me to the culture of la ventanita—the walk-up window where locals gather throughout the day for Cuban hors d’oeuvres, cafecito, and conversation.

Is the croqueta a uniquely Cuban creation, or just another chapter in mankind’s endless obsession with wrapping meat in dough?

📍 La Carreta – Bird Road, Miami, Florida

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07/11/2026

🍊 Florida’s First Orange Pizza? | The Man Who Invented “Florida-Style Pizza” 🍕

An 18-hour pilgrimage from the PizzaMecca™️ of southern Connecticut brought me to sunny South Florida to visit Francis Cecere of Bucks Coal Fired Pizza.

Months before David Portnoy - El Presidente awarded Bucks an 8.10 on One Bite, Francis and South Florida iguana trapper Ryan Izquierdo made national headlines by creating the first-ever iguana pizza during an historic Florida cold snap. The story spread like wildfire, even earning a mention on The Joe Rogan Experience. Francis also coined the term “Florida-style pizza.”

This time, we had an even crazier mission: bringing my cousin Michael’s idea to life by topping a pizza with Florida’s most iconic fruit—oranges.

Did we create the next great Florida-style pizza… or should this idea have stayed in the grove?

🍊🍕🕋





07/10/2026

I drove 18 hours outside the PizzaMecca™️🍕🕋 from southern CT to Sunny South Florida to experience real bonafide “Florida-style Pizza.”

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