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Thin crust and crispy. Where did you go?

That’s what I’d like to know. For a long time, Don’s Pizza was the ad-hoc, de-facto standard in local pizzas.

If you were a student returning home for the holidays or an out-of-towner who had previously experienced the crispy deliciousness, you immediately dialed up Don’s on your first night back in town. It was the benchmark pizzas aspired to be.

Sadly, that era died a long time ago.

It seems that some years back with the appearance of fluffy crust Papa Johns and major turnovers in personnel, Don’s has forgot how to make that patented crisp, thin crust pizza.

I learned some time back that you have to ask for “Extra Crispy” if you want it to be close to the original Don’s masterpiece but even then it still hit or miss depending on how experienced the oven chef might be.

The closet thing to an original Don’s Pizza is Ron’s Pizza in Miamisburg. Odd that all it took was a change in the first letter of the name to open up a whole new world of pizza loving. Ron’s has been around for just as long but they know what it takes to produce Extra Crispy. If they only delivered this far outside the ‘Burg.

After several disappointments in 2008, I’ve said to myself that this was the last pizza I ordered from the Pizza Palace. Yet another Don’s craving would lead to frustration when I’d bite down into that doughy, limp crust.

2009 started out the same way. But I’ve decided that I’m not. My resolution this year is to abandon those establishments that spurn customer requests. Repeated opportunities to retain my business have gone unanswered for far too long.

I hate not spending my money locally. After all, a vibrant business community makes for a vibrant community. But if after repeatedly asking, you can’t get what you want locally, then it’s apparent you have to look elsewhere.

Laff’s found that out last May.

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