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Glass Nickel Pizza BY KYLE JACOBSON
“I would never win an award for not loving pizza.” - Dwayne Johnson “Those pizzas I ate were for medicinal purposes.” - Amy Neftzger “Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!” - Jerri Blank (Strangers with Candy) Is there such a thing as a day that isn’t made better with pizza? Even if you get hit by a pizza delivery truck, the first thing that crosses your mind is, “Hey, maybe I’ll get free pizza.” We can all agree that life’s too short to eat bad pizza, but I’ll eat bad pizza to hold myself over until good pizza arrives. With so many great pizzerias in Madison, it’s not always easy to choose where you’ll get your next pizza from, though I’ll bet Glass Nickel Pizza makes a lot of locals’ shortlists. The high level of community support for Glass Nickel feeds into the pizzeria’s founding philosophy: the 4 Cs—
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