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First of all, you'd have to duplicate Dër Ratskeller Pizza Shoppe's crust and sauce (can't help you).

Of course, this is a repeat question. The "Rat" is probably what I lived on for close to 3 years, but when I had a chance to make a small pizza for my own lunch, I would usually choose

• Canadian Bacon
  
• Mushrooms
  
• Fresh tomatoes
  
• smoked oysters
  
• Portuguese linguiça

Heavenly combination, that.

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As a child, I had several favorites that I would play with my cousins.

Monopoly
Careers
Sorry
Teeko
Tactics II
Stratego
Stocks and Bonds
Blue Chip (Can't find a picture of this - it was an intriguing game with three sliding bars representing market sectors)
Go to the Head of the Class
Chutes and Ladders

Later, the family added Life and Risk, and a few others came and went over time. I have some of the originals, and have gathered others from thrift stores over time, preferring the original versions rather than the re-worked modern boards.

Monopoly with my cousins was cutthroat, and we played big and hard. We would combine sets, increase the money supply, and used the Stock Exchange add-on which increased the potential for amassing wealth exponentially. Games would last for days.

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Casu marzu. God bless the Sardinians for their rock-solid balls, but this is one local treat I will pass on. Forever.

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Unquestionably. The lie is found in the intent to deceive. How it is accomplished is irrelevant.

The Large Print Giveth!

The small print taketh away.

Such is the nature of almost all advertising, all sales pitches, all contracts, all insurance policies... I could go on. You get the idea.

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Colin Powell. The man has already demonstrated that he has too much integrity to run.

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Miracle on 34th Street, being a native New Yorker...

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There have been some phenomenal ones over the years. Lion King and Beauty & The Beast are both superb in story and execution. I have to go back to basics for my very favorite, though - Pinocchio wins hands down. Not so much for the story, which was Disnified almost beyond recognition from Collodi's original tale - but for the technical excellence, the beauty of the artwork, and the music. I could watch that show for hours on end and marvel at something different each time,

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With your favorite pizza dough, roll out a crust the way a samurai sword is made: fold over and re-roll several times. Trim off the edges under a large plate and prick well to prevent bubbling in the oven. Paint the crust (yes, use a brush) with your favorite thick pizza sauce, clear out to the edge. Add a mixture of 70% crumbled mozzarella and 30% crumbled cheddar cheeses, leaving about 3/4" of the edge uncovered.

Cover the pizza with Hormel dry Italian salami, edges touching. Cover the edges with Hormel pepperoni so that no cheese is visible. Mix ground beef with burgundy wine, onions, salt & pepper, and dot the pizza with chunks of meat. Mix ground sausage with sauterne wine and caraway seeds and distribute liberally among the beef chunks.

Add abundant halved black olives, all facing cut-side down. Add many mushrooms. If desired, add freshly-diced green pepper and onions.

Bake in an oven as hot as you can make it, directly on a pre-heated pizza stone. 800 degrees is optimal, if you have a pizza oven. :P

Without their proprietary sauce recipe, this as close as you can come to the legendary "Ratskeller Special," signature pizza of the now-vanished "dër Ratskeller Pizza Shoppe".

One large Rat, please!

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My public entries are just that - public. Some entries are marked "friends only", and others are "eyes only." The system works well for me.

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Arr, matey! It be the day I be waitin' fer all year. Shiver me timbers 'n scupper me bilge, 'tis almost as fun as me favorite holiday, Hallowe'en. Arr! (Notice me use of the antiquated apostrophe there, mateys, 'tis the only way to be spellin' it correctly. A pirate may be lower'n bilge-water on the social scale, but we don't need to be ignorant, arr!)

So heave to, ye barnacle-crusted land-lubbers and hoist the skull and crossbones - it be Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Arr!

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Th' efficiency expert concluded his lecture wit' a note 'o caution: "ye do not want to give a go' these techniques at home!" "Why not?" asked a scurvy dog from th' audience. "After years 'o not payin' attention, I suddenly noticed me captin's routine at breakfast," th' expert explained. "She made lots 'o trips to th' refrigerator, stove, table, 'n cabinets, often carryin' just a sin'le item at a the hour. 'Hon,' I suggested, 'Why don't ye give a go' carryin' several thin's at once? It'd be much more efficient.'" "Well, did ye suggestions save much the hour?" th' attendeed asked. th' expert replied, "Actually, yarr. It used to take her 20 minutes to get breakfast ready. Now I do it in seven."