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I made my first trip to Brooklyn Flea yesterday. I've never had better pizza off a flatbed trailer. Here are some shots:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauliegee/sets/72157617345488360/

Here's a set I made from the Pizza Moto shots:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pauliegee/sets/72157617254410573/

Ciao,

Paulie Gee

@djai I can't tell you about Mr. Garcia as I have never met him, but I have never met a more gracious, stand up guy than Mark Iacono. As far as I'm concerned, he's the prince of the city. Perhaps you pissed him off by calling him Mr. Lucali.

Ciao,

Paulie Gee

@djai695 Mark and his crew at Lucali are always very friendly to me. Try bringing them some homemade Limoncello or Orangecello on occasion.

Ciao,

Paulie Gee

i never did understand who said it would be okay to sell coffee in 12 oz packages. But then I'm still baffled by the hot dog/hot dog bun mismatch.
Seriously, going ballistic over the two "hippies" Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield bothers me a tad. What's your problem with them, that they aren't European? (and yeah, with a fake name?) Yeah, I believe B&J sold to a large corporation and that saddens me, but what does their alleged "hippiedom" have to do with the decision by a competitor to make the "pint' smaller. I think HD is doing something deceptive. There's nothing deceptive in the package ingredients listing. And there's nothing deceptive about Ben and Jerry's being started by two guys named Ben and Jerry.

I like B&J and I like what they do in the community and the world. I like HD because no one makes a dulce de leche like they do but I guess I'm going to have to give that one up, at least til prices stop going crazy. Meanwhile, er, chill?

@ Truff: That exact scene started to play in my head when I was reading the statement from Ben & Jerry's. Wow!

im guessing the liquid sugar is glucose or something similar to improve the mouth feel and prevent crystalisation

Ben and Jerry's is the worst of the worst. A sell-out brand if there ever was one. At one point, they made their ice cream with real milk from Vermont cows the right way. Somewhere along the line, they were bought out by unilever, and now their milk comes from who knows what factory, and their "ice creams" boast ingredient lists packed with stabilizers, thickeners, and texture enhancers, yet they still try and give off that hippy earthy-crunchy vibe in their packaging and marketing. Disgusting.

And remember - a pint is not a pound when it comes to ice cream. There's a thing called "overrun" - essentially it refers to the amount of air that is incorporated into the ice cream in order to give it more volume. Haagen Dazs and Ben and Jerry's both happen to be on the lower end of the spectrum (Haagen Dazs at around 20% overrun, and Ben and Jerry's at 25% overrun - some brands go up to as much as 90%, meaning that in a given volume of ice cream 90% of it is air), but it does mean that pint for pint, you are getting 6.25% more ice cream with the Haagen Dazs than the Ben and Jerry's. And that's not even considering the fact that many of the ingredients in Ben and Jerry's are not what you would consider normal ice cream ingredients, nor the fact that half of their package is taken up with chocolate covered pretzels or stringy dehydrated strawberries.

Look at the label on Haagen Dazs - Cream, Milk, Sugar, Eggs, Vanilla. That's it. You can taste the difference!

The way Ben and Jerry's hides behind the mask of two loveable hippies from Vermont makes me sick to my stomach even more than their carageenan and guar gum-packed ice cream does.

So, I wonder if they will cut the cost of their product since they are shrinking the size...Yea, right. Just another reason for me not to buy HD ice cream.

Agreed with all the previous comments. Until the day that Ben and Jerrys makes a decent strawberry ice cream, its the smaller Haagen Daaz for me. They win with better ingrediants (even if I get 2 oz more with B&J).

Ridiculous, yet somehow not unexpected.

Bought a carton of Tropicana OJ the other day. They used to be 16oz. it was 14oz.

This is not a suprise, just a shame. Companies have been doing it for years. Either the size shrinks or the ingredients suffer. We all understand that people need to make a living and costs are constantly going up. It would be nice to see just once somebody being upfront about it. Maybe a nice ad campaign about how they appreciate peoples product loyalty but w rising costs etc we need to raise prices or cut container size. It could even be left to a public vote. Might win some respect from folks. At least it would be different from yhe norm