How a Single Piece of Pepperoni Got Me Thinking Really, Really Hard
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Obsessive flights of fancy can be triggered by the most unlikely things — including, as it turns out, a pizza at Nancy’s Townehouse, an old-school Italian restaurant that my friend Adriene and I visited on Saturday. Nancy’s, which has been operating since 1943 in Rahway, New Jersey, specializes in thin-crust pizza, so we ordered a pepperoni pie (which was very good). When the pizza arrived, I immediately noticed that it had one particularly intriguing detail. Can you spot it in the photo shown above?
The thing that caught my attention was the slice of pepperoni that’s situated almost at the exact center of the pie. Because of its location, it got sliced into six different pieces, each one located at the tip of a different pizza slice. If only it had been truly dead-center, it could have been cut into eight pieces, just like the pizza itself, something like this:
