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August 27, 2014 4:54 pm at 4:54 pm #613534thehachamMember
Anyone know why so many pizza shops are called Jerusalem or J2. What does pizza have to do with jerusalem- isnt it Italian ??
August 27, 2014 6:33 pm at 6:33 pm #1030292ED IT ORParticipantNah the italians pinched the idea during the french revelution.
August 27, 2014 8:22 pm at 8:22 pm #1030293popa_bar_abbaParticipantThe first kosher pizza shop in the world opened in Jerusalem in 1847, opened by the grandson of a talmid of the gra, named Moshe Kucheloffen. They made Venetian style pizza.
August 27, 2014 8:47 pm at 8:47 pm #1030294awaitingdawnParticipantWell, maybe as a subtle mussar lesson, “im eshkocaich Yerushalayim…” not to forget Jerusalem even during our gastrodelights!
August 27, 2014 8:59 pm at 8:59 pm #1030295☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantDon’t believe popa’s naarishkeit. The real reason is because a real pizza pie (not that square nonsense) resembles a shtreimel.
August 27, 2014 9:23 pm at 9:23 pm #1030296Shopping613 🌠ParticipantYa, but where does the 12 come in???
August 27, 2014 10:09 pm at 10:09 pm #1030297popa_bar_abbaParticipantI happen to recall a certain nonsensical pizza shop in midtown that only has square pizza. It is pretty good.
August 28, 2014 12:02 am at 12:02 am #1030298writersoulParticipantPBA: That was the weirdest pizza I have ever eaten. Quite good, but incredibly cheesy and very expensive. My family wasn’t entirely sure what to make of it.
August 28, 2014 12:26 am at 12:26 am #1030299☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantPBA, was it expensive for you?
August 28, 2014 12:35 am at 12:35 am #1030300popa_bar_abbaParticipantIt was free!
August 28, 2014 1:04 am at 1:04 am #1030301☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantYou must have had one of those buy 10 get 1 free cards.
August 28, 2014 2:35 am at 2:35 am #1030302shlomo547MemberPizza become popular in the states after the soldiers came back from Italy
August 28, 2014 1:11 pm at 1:11 pm #1030303squeakParticipantPopa clearly made up his answer, but he is close. The first pizza pie was made in America back in 1692 in Salem Village, Mass. by a group of teenage girls. The townspeople (correctly) assumed that such an amazing culinary invention was ung-dly and could have only come from the devil and consequently these girls, imbued with the knowledge of the devil, must be witches. They were put on trial and sentenced, though some did escape and went on to create a new village in New England to freely practice their creative witchcraft called Salem’s Lot. (Side note here- as many people know, the very next foodthing they tried to invent turned out to not be a foodthing at all but instead caused the people who were there to test it to never be able to eat food again. They developed a taste for circulatory fluid instead.)
After pizza was declared to be devilish, no g-d fearing christian would stand for it and only the Jews continued to make it in secret (These Jews later became known as Marinaros, named after the sauce they used between the dough and the topping. Some of them moved to Spain after that to open pizza shops there). When the Founding Fathers learned that Jews were still making this food in their basements, they immediately added a footnote to the Constitution requiring all pizza made by Jews to be labeled “Salem’s Pizza”, so that g-d fearing christians would know it was devilish and not try it (Salem was a word everyone recognized, pizza was a more obscure word). The Jews added back the prefix to the name Salem (Jerusalem) to help boost sales. This was ruled by an appelate court to be legally sound (even back then the Jews were ripping through the Constitution). Hence, every Jewish pizza shop is named Jerusalem Pizza (or ‘2’ since that is also legal). Even the ones that are not named so on their business cards still must have the words Jerusalem Pizza printed on the counter or behind it. Next time you are in a pizza shop look for it.
The law was removed from the Constitution in 1954 out of embarrassment (they no longer believed in witches, the devil, or in G-d). But it can still be seen in the original copy, which they keep moving around the country so that you can never see it. “Oh, did you come here to see the Constitution? It just was removed from this museum an hour ago. Its going to be in transit for the next nine months while Congress takes summer vacation and then it will be viewable in Area 51 for one week. Yes, you do need military clearance to get in, but you don’t need military clearance to view the document, no. Why don’t you try Boston? Yes its a boat, but most people don’t know the difference. Thank you for visiting, hahaha.”)
Source: US Library of Congress 82-4529-56701b
August 28, 2014 1:20 pm at 1:20 pm #1030304☕ DaasYochid ☕Participantlol
August 28, 2014 2:16 pm at 2:16 pm #1030305SayIDidIt™ParticipantSome people here have a very active imagination! Very funny squeak!
August 28, 2014 2:40 pm at 2:40 pm #1030306popa_bar_abbaParticipantI knew all that, but it is not my minhag to reveal such sodos.
August 28, 2014 7:59 pm at 7:59 pm #1030307👑RebYidd23ParticipantThey are named so because their owners named them so. That is all.
August 28, 2014 8:32 pm at 8:32 pm #1030308squeakParticipantAt least I appreciated it. Audience of 1.
August 29, 2014 3:31 am at 3:31 am #1030309oyyoyyoyParticipantyou wud think they wud at least have rotev pizza.
also i thinks its hysterical that popa suddenly wakes up by the pizza discussion.
August 29, 2014 5:01 am at 5:01 am #1030310DikDukDuckParticipantAs long as it’s not Petie’s Peanut Butter Pizza….
August 31, 2014 9:23 pm at 9:23 pm #1030311oomisParticipantIs it not because the pizza shop owners are Israeli? Maybe they opened their first pizza place in Yerushalayim, and hence called their USA shop, Jerusalem 2.
May 5, 2017 12:54 pm at 12:54 pm #1270374☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantWhat’s the name of that pizza shop on Madison and 55th?
May 5, 2017 1:13 pm at 1:13 pm #1270385YW Moderator-42ModeratorThe one that lost its hechsher a few months ago?
May 5, 2017 1:16 pm at 1:16 pm #1270386☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantNo, the other one.
May 7, 2017 12:42 am at 12:42 am #1270577LightbriteParticipantHas anyone ever eaten pizza with a spoon?
May 7, 2017 8:35 pm at 8:35 pm #1271322tobsParticipantnope just with a fork and knife
May 7, 2017 8:37 pm at 8:37 pm #1271324MenoParticipantI once saw a guy eating pizza with chop sticks
May 7, 2017 10:30 pm at 10:30 pm #1271393LightbriteParticipantWow!!! That’s a Kodak moment 🙂
—btw, did Polaroid have moments? What was Polaroid’s slogan?
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