Sunday, October 11, 2009

The fate of bad pizza

I was driving around town yesterday, and found myself driving north on Division, something to be avoided if you want to get where you're going in a timely fasion, when I saw a sign up ahead for Eatza Pizza. It's a chain (apparently nationwide, scarily) that has Spokane written all over it... an inexpensive, all-you-can-eat pizza buffet. I tried it once myself, at a location out in the Valley... once. Suffice it to say that, in my humble opinion, it was the worst pizza I have ever had the opportunity to eat, bland and bready... heck, the cheapest supermarket freezer pizzas are a step up.

I knew the Valley location had closed some time back, so I was curious as to how this site was holding up... and, since traffic was stop-and-go, I chanced a glance, figuring I'd see an empty storefront or maybe a few cars in the parking lot. What I saw was a lot scraped clean, down to the dirt, with the signpost still in place at the street. I'm sure it was just done for tax purposes by the property owners... but I can't help but imagine the owners deciding that the site was irrevocably tainted by the bad pizza, razing the structure and parking lot to the ground, and leaving the sign behind as a warning to other restaurateurs of the fate awaiting bad food.

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