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May have something to do with our large numbers of chronic obesity.

Not really something that makes us great, but try this one in some third world country and see how far you get!

Not where I live. And in Eureka, your delivery option is Dominos. Yuck. Now the fact that we have Chinese delivery - that's really worth celebrating! And in SF, I used to have Indian delivered!

Too reliable if our expanding waistlines are any indication. Side note: Funny thing about pizza or any other local delicacie - wherever you go you can always find pizza that is tasty, hot and more than worthy to stuff your face with. And, as wonderful as it is on the east coast - and I KNOW that it is - I would love to see someone with an elitist attitude about that challenge one of the established pizza places in Chicago. That would just be pointless and silly.

I don't know about "reliable," I'm sure every state has unreliable delivery. Let me turn this question around a bit if you don't mind, and please ignore the fact that I'm kinda ripping myself off in that I made a similar remark a while back. I don't know where you, the reader, is from, but I hail from the Northeast where there are lots of Italians. In much of the country, specifically The South and much of the Midwest, and probably the Rocky Mts. states, there aren't a lot of Italians, and if you want the REALLY good pizza, and being of part Italian ancestry and raised on great Italian cooking, (Irish cuisine? I'm more Irish than anything else, but we don't even know what a damn spoon is, get real!) I know this like I know the sky is blue, you almost invariably have to go to the old Italian communities in Philadelphia, NYC, parts of New Jersey, Boston, Chicago, etc. Sorry Indianapolis, Des Moines , Little Rock, Casper, Wyoming- You HAVE to go to the source. You don't go to Iceland for soul food or Uruguay for Chinese, or New Guinea for French cooking do you? With all due respect to Indianapolis, where I'm at now the pizza can be okay, even pretty good, but when it's bad... it often tastes like asbestos mixed with tomato soup, cardboard, and cheez whizz here. While you don't have to be Italian or anything else for that matter, to make a good cultural dish, AS A GENERALIZATION, the quality of Italian food in all 50 states is directly proportional to the amount of Italians living there.

Makes us efficient and food-obsessed but it hardly makes us great.