Snowy Night and a new pizza joint

Papa Passero’s Pizzeria, Westmont, Medium

We were invited by Cathy’s good friend, Jill, her daughter Julie and Julie’s friend Katie for pizza.

Papa Passero’s is a great place to bring to bring your family, as it has something for everyone. For the men; beer, pizza and a lot of sports on TV to watch. For the women; beer, pizza and a lot of sports on TV to keep their men. For the kids; a playroom filled with video games. My fondest memories of Papa Passero’s is bring my kids there, handling them each $10 and not seeing them for the next two hours. Except, every 5 minutes hearing someone say, “Can you hold this”, I still find those little bouncing balls.

If Katie’s mom is reading this, a suggestion, buy your daughter a huge bag of Flintstone hard candy next Christmas and you will not see her for days. Katie, you are the best!!

On every pizza box, Papa Passero’s is proud to let you know that they have been in business since 1977. No need to take your shoes off, (for counting purposes), that is 32 years in the same location. Well, it’s sad to realize that 32 years ago I was only a sophomore in high school, yes, high school. So 32 years ago I was being
rejected by girls (not women, girls), as they all wanted “older” men, juniors, and being picked on by soccer players. For you
youngsters, in 1977 soccer players were not as athletic or tough as they are today. On the toughness scale, soccer players were only
one notch above the guys in drama club.

Of course, we had started with onion rings and a pitcher of Blue Moon beer. Note to self, future blogs, onions rings and beer. The onion rings were very good, thin and crispy. As I have said many times, put beer in front of me, no matter what kind, I will drink it. And I did. It is a good change of pace, just that very manly to have beer with an orange in it in front of me. Maybe it shows my sensitive side, yup, that my story and I am sticking to it.

Now to the reason we are here, the pizza. We had a sausage and mushroom pizza with a medium crust. Our server said the medium crust was about 1 centimeter in thickness, well as the thin crust was half a centimeter. I guess they last measure their crust 32 years ago when the metric system meant something. Let’s review the pizza as it was constructed, from the bottom up. First, the crust which I thought was very good, 1 centimeter in thickness, well cooked, with a little blackness on the bottom. Next is the sauce which I thought was the best part of the pizza. It was not too sweet or too overpowering, to quote goldilocks, “it was just right”. Perhaps the best sauce I have had so far. If I would stop now it would make my top 5 pizza, but that would not fair to you. I will group the rest of the pizza, (sausage, mushroom and cheese) together as none of them stood out on its own. The sausage and cheese were good but nothing special. And the mushrooms were unnoticeable and did not add much flavor.

Overall, a nice place, good onion rings, beer, sports and a good but average pizza.
2 pizza cutters.