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The Sporkful

This Man Can Identify Pizza From Its Grease Stain

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

Arts

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

By day, Scott Wiener leads pizza tours around New York City. By night, he shares his Brooklyn apartment with his world record-holding pizza box collection. Since going all in on pizza, he’s visited tomato farms in California and buffalo farms in Italy, and even planned entire vacations around visits to pizza box factories.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're going to do a place called Fiori's, which is similar to Ruby Rosa.

0:08.9

It's actually based on the owner of Ruby Rosa's father's pizzeria.

0:14.2

This place is going to be really...

0:15.2

Early on in the documentary about Scott Reiner, he's leading one of his pizza tours in New

0:19.5

York.

0:20.5

He's walking down the street with a group that are on the way to the next pizzeria, and

0:23.6

suddenly Scott stops dead in his traps.

0:26.3

Alright guys, guys come here, check this out.

0:30.1

He gathers the group around a paper plate on the ground.

0:32.5

It's filthy.

0:33.5

Looks like it's been stepped on 100 times.

0:35.4

To most people, it's garbage.

0:37.7

But to Scott, it's a precious pizza artifact.

0:41.2

So this has bad pizza on it, you can tell by the two grease puddles.

0:45.0

These grease puddles end in straight lines that when seen together, make out the shape

0:49.3

of a triangle.

0:50.3

It's like a chalk outline where a slice used to be.

0:53.8

So the slice was laying right there, and I would say that was probably from not from

0:58.2

Artichoke, which is up the block.

0:59.8

Artichoke has a much bigger grease footprint, but it's probably from this place called

1:03.0

Dollar Slice $2 beer.

1:05.6

And why does he know so much about pizza?

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