I am a bit shocked to see my buddy Pizza Patron in the national news, but it is also a little surreal that the Patron has locations in five states and is the setting for a news story that uses currency exchange and pizza with chorizo (recommended) as a metaphor for the stake of latinos in the U.S. now. I still think of him as a part of early adolescent friday nights in Oak Cliff and Pleasant Grove, so I am glad that the NYT sent a reporter to do some fieldwork at the Ross Avenue location in Dallas, the one next to the Fiesta that was at the center of a story of suspected “bioterrorism” (i.e. actual shit) in the pastry case.
the sad thing is the only real news i get about dallas these days is from the NYT, hard-hitting reporting on racists in Farmers Branch and Pizza Patron.