Dub dot dash

There need to be more songs about pizza.
Here's why. Checked out Sal's Pizza this evening (see previous post), had the pepperoni. It's so, so good! And they do these things called Garlic Knots ($1 each, $2 for 3), little balls of doughy goodness coated in garlic, so yummy.

Got chatting with the guys running it. I mentioned the whole NY water quality thing, and turns out that if you check those global tables on water quality, NY and AKL are in the same position, pretty much right near the top - our water compares favourably.




One of the guys took 6 litres of AK water and flour to NY to Sal's original pizzeria in Queens NY, to test the Kiwi ingredients and see if they'd stack up. He said he was amazed he got the Kiwi ingredients thru US customs - I'm kinda surprised they pulled that one off. Anyways, they spent a week at Sal's Pizza in Queens making pizzas with the Kiwi ingredients and no-one could tell the difference. Ciaran said it really is an urban legend about the NY water quality - it comes down to the quality of your ingredients overall. Tho he did say it might be a bit harder to pull off say in somewhere like Shanghai (with their water).



Oh, they have their own delivery vehicle - a segway. And there's not very many songs about pizza. Might have to write one. And eat more of Sal's awesome pizza.
ADDED: Sal's Pizza, 4a Commerce St. Auckland City, phone 09 379 7257. Open Mon-Sun, Midday until late

Correction: Nick at Sal's Pizza "when I took up the water, we used all NYC ingredients, except for the NZL water, with the exact same results- and this is what we use here in Auckland for the same NYC taste."