Marks Brothers Pizza

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I suppose I should not review a new Columbus Pizza place for several reasons. The first is I'm not a card carrying food critic, however I do eat an inordinate amount of Pizza. The other reason is that they have only been open for two days so . . . . . . I should cut them some slack.

BUT - if anybody asks here is the good and bad.

Marks Brothers Pizza occupies the same place as the Pizza Shak (yes I spelled that correctly) live. I loved Pizza Shak (in a manly way)

The staff is friendly and smiley. One of things that stood out when looking at the menu was four sizes of pizza 7", 12", 14" and 16". The other BIG thing was the price for the base cheese pizza, $3.50, $7.00, $9.00, $11.00 Pretty freaking inexpensive. Additional ingredients were $0.50, $1, $1.25 and $1.50 each. I always have sticker shock when I order a normal size pizza and get an $18 bill. Not here.

So how did it taste?

We ordered a Thin Crust 12" pepperoni, mushroom (fresh), and onion. The crust has to be one of the best thin crust's I've ever had. I compared it to Papa Murphys crust for crispness. They must use a little garlic in the doe and it is WONDERFUL! Well done and a Grade "A" on crust.

However . . . . . . here is where things COULD be fixed up a little. The sauce was either lacking a little flavor/spiciness or not enough of it is put on. It was just lacking a little something when it came to the pizza sauce. Pepperoni was OK, nothing outstanding, lots of good mushys and I prefer the onions to be chopped instead of sliced. You can save money slicing but I'd like more onions. When somebody orders onions it's not for the looks!

Both DJ and I commented that the entire pizza tasted "Fresh". Can't describe it better then that. Fresh! i's a good thing.

So it sounds like I'm complaining a little but bang for buck Marks Brothers Pizza is a pretty darn good deal. They also have soups, Gyros, a few sandwiches and appetizers.

They get Grinders Seal of Approval.

920-623-9710

Mention you read it here on the blog and get a vague stare in return but do it anyway (I get nothing - just spreading the word).
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Speaking of vague stares and the blog. I never know how to introduce myself. I'm always amazed when some stranger says "YOU"r the guy that writes that blog? I read it every day". So I feel sort of cocky and then next time I need to introduce myself I say "I write the Public Enemies Blog" and the other person looks at me like . . . "so la de freaking daa! you write a blog, big whoop, you must be proud!"

And I go back into my little introvert shell and back away feeling foolish
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WINTER, SHE BE APPROACHING

Everyone is worried about the approaching season. Even with record breaking high temps the next 2 or 3 days - it ain't gonna last. So I have been doing some investigating in the upcoming season and found some interesting things you will be able to take to the bank.

Here is what I found.

The woman at the Walgreen's checkout says it will be another harsh winter.

Wooly bear caterpillars have a wide orange center stripe this year meaning a mild winter.

The National Weather Service says mild (based mainly on trends of recent winters - they said the same last year and were dead wrong).

Olde Farmers Almanac says cold and snowy. (I actually kept track of the OFA for two years and they were pretty bad - I've also kept track of the 10 day forecasts from the USA Today and they were pretty darn good).

ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation) neutral usually means 50-50 or even cold but global warming trend might override that and lean toward mild.

Fat squirrels (the animal, not the beer) mean cold and snowy (I think it only means that walnuts and acorn crops were good this year!).

Wasp nests low to the ground means not much snow accumulation (but they built low to the ground last year and there was lots of snow - I've never considered wasp that smart as I have out thunk them at times).

Ice free arctic means much more latent heat released when ice does form in winter and more moisture release before it forms, creating a snowier northwest flow (rather than a dry northwest flow). More snowcover means colder.

Thus, many of the scientific and not so scientific winter predicting methods are conflicting. This is resolved by my coin flip (heads mild, tails cold) which came up tails so I will go with best two out of three and get back to you when I see the results I'm predicting.
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I walked past the Madison polling place this morning at 7:30 and there was a line that ran out the door of the building. Probably 200ish people waiting to vote. We voted last week and I went straight "We the People Party". Odd how there were not many "We the People Party" running for Congress.

OK OK - I didn't do that - I did not even know there WAS a We the People Party.

My mom received six McCain phone calls Sunday. I think she is getting a little sick of all this. We have no land line so we're not on that list. Only the mail where last week we received 10 anti Obama and 5 pro Obama fliers but not one pro McCain.

The good thing is that they are keeping the U.S. mail in business. I'm think there will be a lot of dead air on TV after Tuesday.

If you did not see Saturday Night Live and the Keith Olbermann skit you MUST watch this. Ben Affleck is awesome and has the guy down perfectly? One of the funniest SNL's we have seen for a long time.
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Mill Rates - once again mill rate was in the paper. If you own a $150,000 house you will pay about $80 less taxes this year.

The Columbia County Economic Development Corporation are looking for nominations for Business of the Year awards. Last year American Packaging (what do they do anyway ????) won another winner from last year was that award winning rock band The Todd Frey Group.

What?? OH - sorry I was thinking of the Alan Parson Project! The Todd Frey Colonial Carriage Works. And . . sorry dude - can't win it two years in a row, stand down and relax for a year. Stupid rules.

AND - something I never did when I was in school was get an award. Melina Droessler, Cassandra Hoch and Sarah Kikkert received AP awards in Columbus. They were in the top 18% of fourteen million (14,000,000 or the equivalent of 35,000 Columbus's)that took the test.

And last - keep buying those postcards from Walgreens - 100 in four days left the building.

BTW - Why was Sharrow Drugs ignored on that Columbus program the other week - they wanted to be on the show but were told . . . NO!! not wanted. Seems to me
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With that said. I must out out some end month processing fires.

Rod the blog guy