Pepe's and Sally's Blossom Blog Smackdown! The Question is...Who's #1?

Wooster Street Wows World with Mouth Watering Apizza!

Sally's Tomato Pie (top) & Pepe's Clam Pie (bottom)

Where else but here, on the 
Wooster Square Blossom Blog 
are you going to get great photos, 
flowers and foodie fun?

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Photoblogumentary.

is your source for everything

Wooster Square, New Haven and beyond!

Having moved the Headquarters to Wooster Street almost a year ago, we have a unique perspective on 
New Haven's quirky classic cuisine question. 

What's better? Pepe's or Sally's?

Many would argue Bar or Modern should be thrown

into the calculation. But they can't. 

This is Wooster Street Pizza. So yes, Abate's could be

included, we get take out from there often.

Abate's Cheryl Special: Pepperoni & garlic well done

But that's not the question folks. 

In New Haven, Pepe's or Sally's is akin to:

Red Sox or Yankees?

Mustard or Catsup?

Republican or Democrat? 

East Coast or West Coast?
(ask your kids...Rap music)

The mere question can start a frenzied flurry of flying furious fisticuffs folks!

And we New Havener's
know how to pick a fight, and win.

Ah, but not here in our fair Square. We are a kinder

and gentler peaceful picky pizza people. 

Like the Hamburger and New Haven's
claim to having invented it
at Louis Lunch.

Click here for food history at Louis Lunch!

Two generally valid other possible 
Cities held claims also
to having invented the hamburger.

They're stories are compelling. 

But New Haven kicks burger butt baby and
Louis Lunch in New Haven is credited
with the Invention of America's own favorite food,
and you can read about it in the Library of Congress.

Then comes Pizza. Or I should say
Apizza (pronounced, Ah-beets),
New Haven's own.

Pepe's Pepperoni and mootz

New Haven Style Apizza was born on Wooster Street
with Pepe's opening in 1925. They still use
the same coal fired oven.


Perfect Pies People!


President Clinton is a Pepe's Person


Reaganomics at Work!


I spoke to Bill outside Pepe's last month
in a Blossom Blog Exclusive.

When asked THE QUESTION?
Fuugetaboutit.
Pepe's!



And, Sally's, were relatives that worked at 
Pepe's and wanted to strike off on their own.

With a coal fired oven.


Sal in Photo on wall


Sally's Sausage and Pepperoni


Yum!

All information at the Blossom Mainframe has been tabulated. Using Yale's super computer,
the Wooster Square Blossom Blog
has the answer to that question!

Pepe's vs Sally's
Tale of the Tape

Ranked nationally, Pepe's was picked #1 by the Daily Meal,

and by their readers. Sally's came in at #6. 

click here for America's favorite 35 Pizza Pies People!

New Haven had 3 in the top 10,

including Modern Apizza moving to #4. 

But to answer the question, we painstakingly ate over and over at Pepe's and Sally's to help people understand, who have eaten at one or the other, or neither (GASP!).
And many pounds later...

The verdict is in. Like they say, when in Rome, do as 

the Romans do. And when in New Haven,

do what Wooster Squarians do.

At Sally's, no question you get their Tomato Pie, but it is

said that Frank Sinatra liked Sally's clam pie.

Sally's tomato pie has just sauce, grated parm and garlic

(optional).

Your first bite of Sally's will never be your last.

It tastes like nothing you have ever had.

So simple and elegant.

At Pepe's no question that you get their Clam pie,

that is the #1 pie in America.

Why? It's not like anything you have ever tasted.

Don't like Clam? Pepe's has a Margarita pie
and other specialty pies.


All the Data has been analyzed, and eaten.

Sally's has the #1 Tomato Pie in America



Pepe's has the #1 clam pie in America!



They are unlike any pizza you have ever had.
You have to try both and pick a side!

But here at Blossom Blog International Headquarters,
located on Wooster Street in World Famous,
Historic Wooster Square says...

Pepe's + Sally's = #1 Pizza 
in USA
Hands down!

St. Andrew's Society
is having it's Italian Fest
on Chapel Street in
Wooster Square!

Sausage and peppers oh my!
Click here for hours, entertainment and fun!

See You Round the Square!

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Annual Square Sense for Seniors Setting Sails for New Seas!

School Ends, Students Flee!

Ah, Senior year. What a glorious celebration of the

success and acheivements not yet accomplished.

Well that and you did graduate.

Why celebrate?

Because for Graduating Seniors, it is the 

promise of a new day, a new start.

A New Beginning.

Be it going to college, off to the job market, or

moving on to further studies, it is all

very new, different and exciting.

We should all graduate every 4 years.

Celebrate, live, love, laugh.

The Future is bright!

Here in World Famous, Historic Wooster Square 

we celebrate graduating Seniors by sending

the Blossom Blog Mainframe in search

of some serious sakura square sense.

Speaking of Celebrating, Wooster Square, New Haven and Connecticut were heavily represented in the

 Daily Meal's 35 Best Pizza's in America, as judged
by the people, for the people.

And it's all about the Benjamins

Right here on Wooster Street, where New Haven Style Apizza was invented, we have #1 and #6.

Pepe's and Sally's respectively.

#4 Went to Modern, just steps from our 

Sweet Sakura Square of Humble Perfection.

And coming in at #3 in Stamford, CT
Colony Pizza!

In fact, Connecticut has 5 of the top 10.
And if you throw in Tarry Lodge, which is
in Port Chester, NY, we have 6 because
Mario Bartoli opened another Tarry Lodge
right here in Apizza City, New Haven #nhv

And, in you can't make this stuff up department, only 6 states had all 35. New York and Connecticut with a bulk of 

them. 

Ohio had one...in wait for it... Wooster!

Wooster Ohio.

And yes, the town is named for the same General

from our revolutionary war.

Like Wooster Square and Wooster Street.

Home of New Haven Style Apizza

and International Headquarters of the

Wooster Square Blossom Blog, the
world's first photoblogumentary.

Other Connecticut Pizza places in the top 35
include#20 Mulberry Street Manchester, #22 Bar Bru Room New Haven, #26 Zuppardi's West Haven and rounding out 
Connecticut's Pizza Domination is #27,
Roseland, Derby.

Click here to read Arthur Bovino's analysis of the pizza world and where to eat all 35 of the best Pizzas in America!

Before we get the results from the 
Blossom mainframe, check out
some of the fauna and some 
photos from CT River Quest's
Selden Island Cruise
(Birds)

Serene green and clean

Never seen this climber

City Sights

Last Blossom?

Sweet flower suckers

Some cherries, some produce a small
fruit like this.

Teensy treats

America's Best Apizza Aptly Applies

Last of the last

Roses grow well in Wooster Square

Fence Foto Fun

Summer strikes again!

Oh and the Birds on the Connecticut River!

Barn Swallow

Osprey

Great Blue Heron and wild
yellow irises.

Off to get a pizza!

Great egret with
mountain laurel, The state Flower.

Annual Advice For Seniors from
The Wooster Square Blossom Blog!

In honor of a great American, they 
all come from Mohammed Ali,
who recently passed away.

3. The Man who has no imagination 
has no wings.
2. He who is not Courageous enough to take 
risks will accomplish nothing in life.
1. SERVICE to others is the RENT you 
pay for your room here on earth.

Congratulations Grads!

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Stay tuned for an important
announcement.

Which is best?

Pepe's or Sally's?

The answer to that, and every
other question you've ever had,
Coming up in the next post!

See You Round the Square!

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