THE RESULTS BY ROGER BURLINGAME AND JENNIFER HEMME WELL, THE BEACON'S SEARCH FOB THE BEST PIZZA IN TOWN WAS A 810 SUCCESS. SEVEN MEM BERS OF THE BEACON STAFF SAMPLED PIZZA FROM SIX PIZZA PLACES THAT ALL DELIVER TO CAMPUS: PIZZA NUT, PAPA JOHN'S, LITTLE CAESAR'S, BRUNO'S LUCCNETTI'S, AND BARBATOS WHILE IT WAS A CLOSE RACE FOR FIRST, BETWEEN PIZZA NUT AND PAPA JOHN'S, THE DECIDING FACTOR FOR PIZZA NUT WAS ITS SAUCE. ALMOST EVERY ONE AGREED THAT PIZZA NUTS SAUCE WAS THE BEST. TASTERS WERE EACH GIVEN A PLATE WITH A SLICE (CHEESE OR PEPPERONI, DEPENDING ON PREFERENCE) FROM EACH PIZZA PLACE. SLICES WERE MARKED WITH COLORED TOOTHPICKS, SO TASTERS COULD NOT TELL THE SOURCE OF EACH SLICE. PIZZAS WERE RATED ON A SCALE OF ONE TO TEN. THE PIZZAS WERE GRADED ON THREE MA JOR QUALITIES: CRUST, SAUCE, AND CHEESE. WHEN JUDGING PIZZA, EV ERYONE HAS TO KEEP THIS IN MIND: PIZZA IS LIKE SEX. WHEN IT'S GOOD IT'S GREA T, AND WHEN ITS BAD ITS STILL KIND OF GOOD. THE WINNER OF THE COMPETI TION, PIZZA HUT ; HAD A TOTAL OF 145 POINTS. PAPA JOHN'S CAME IN SECOND WITH 135 POINTS LITTLE CAESAR'S WAS THIRD WITH 131 POINTS BRUNO'S CAME IN FOURTH WITH A TOTAL OF 93 POINTS LUCCHETTI'S, USUALLY A FAVORITE WITH THE £ff! DAILY TIMES NEWS STAFF IN THEIR PIZZA TASTING COMPETITION , CAME IN FIFTH WITH 89 POINTS BARBA TO'S WAS THE SIXTH AND LAST PLACE PIZZA AND HAD A TOTAL SCORE OF 64 POINTS WHY DID BARBA TO'S, A VERY POPULAR ER/E PIZ ZERIA, SCORE SO LOW WITH OUR BLIND TASTE TESTERS? DEANNA SYMOSRI, COMM 04, SAID THAT Beacon staff writers at the pizza taste test contest Finding the Best Pizza in Erie k\r _ m < s , F 6 th 4 % X IT WAS "GREASY AND HAG A SAG TASTE/' NICOLE MCGEE, AGV 02, SAIG THAT IT WAS "WA Y TOO GRY. " GANIEUE MARSHALL, POLSC 06, SAIG THAT IT "WAS THE WORST BECAUSE ALL OF THE INGREGIENTS WERE HORRIBLE. THE TASTE OF IT WAS DISGUST ING TO MY TASTE BUDS." MIKE COURSEY, POLSC 08, MADE A VERY VIVID COMMENT, SAYING THAT IT WAS "WORSE THAN FROZEN PIZZA THAT SAT IN YOUR FREEZER SINCE 1969." PIZZA HUT, THE WINNER, WAS NOT COMMENTED ONASOFTENASBARBATO'S, ALTHOUGH IT SCORED 2 nd Better Ingredients Better Pizza. sth5 th Bruno’s THE HIGHEST OVERALL MICHAEL COURSEY 11, A YOUNG PARTICIPANT, SAID THAT THE PIZZA HUT SAMPLE WAS THE BEST BECA USE OF "THE SA UCE.JT WAS DELICIOUS/' 3 9 v xP •2? & & & 4th SO, IF YOU WANT THE BEST, ORDER PIZZA HUT ORPAPA JOHN'S. IF YOU REALLY DON'T CARE, THEN BY ALL MEANS ORDER BRUNO'S BECAUSE IT'S THE CHEAPEST. WHA TEVER YOU DO, KEEP EA TING PIZZA. BY DOING SO, YOU GET ALL FOUR FOOD GROUPS AND YOU CAN EAT IT FOR BREAKFAST, LUNCH, OR DIN NER. Staff writer Mike Coursey ponders who has the best pizza in Erie BRUNO S RESULTS MAY BE WE MOST SURPRIS ING TO BEHRENDSTUDENTS. IT SCORED A MEDIO CRE, BUT NOT A COMPLETELY EMBARRASS ING, FOURTH IN THE TASTE TESTS RANK ING. IT EVEN HAD SOME POSITIVE COM MENTS WRITTEN ON THE SURVEY SHEETS SOME OF THEM WERE THAT THE BRUNOS SAMPLE HAD A “GENEROUS AMOUNT OF CHEESE " AND "INGREDI ENTSDAVE YOUNG, COMM 02, AGREED WITH THE OPINION OF MANY BEHREND STUDENTS, HOWEVER, BY SAYING THAT THE SAMPLE "TASTED HORRIBLE AND WAS SOGGY." AS FAR AS PRICES GO, YOU'LL BE HAPPY TO KNOW THAT OUR VERY OWN BRUNO'S, WHICH PLACED FOURTH, WAS THE CHEAPEST BY FAR. ON ANOTHER CURIOUS NOTE, LUCCHETTI'S WAS THE MOST EXPENSIVE PIZZA. THE SMALL-SIZED PIZZA COST SIOAO, AND CON VERSELY, CAME IN FIFTH PLACE. MANY OF THE TASTERS COMMENTED THAT THE SAUCE WAS UNIQUE SOME LIKED IT. OTHERS FOUND IT STRANGELY SWEET AND UNPLEASANT, WHICH WAS THE REA )N WHY IT RANKED SO LOW.
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