I was driving up for the weekend and as I was crossing the border from New York to Connecticut in slow moving traffic last Friday I noticed a new sign.
I think it’s a legitimate claim but there will be lots of disagreements.
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Will this be a reference to the much publicised pizza place(s) in New Haven?
We visited the city in 2018 and went to find the place that was always mentioned on the internet as doing the best ever pizza - a clam one. The queue for a table was horrendous and we thought “Nah, we’ll go to the second best place instead”. Only that was its day for closing. So, we never got to try New Haven pizza.
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I guess CT needs to be famous for something?
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Assuming this is self-proclaimed.
Ahh, wait - it started with Barstool Sports’ Dave Portnoy. 
And then their Congresswoman declared it. Ummm, yeah. OK.
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I read this a few weeks ago…there’s a whole slew of such signs in CT and a bit of a brewhaha regarding them:
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They also claim “Basketball Capital of the World”, Submarine Capital of the World" and, last but certainly not least, “Foodie Capital of New England.”
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Yeah. Funny when people give even a second thought to such proclamations.
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Thanks for this amusing spectacle. They can have the submarines. The rest is hilarious.
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It’s Mysitc-al.
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That’s too bad, there are about ten places worth trying.
Governor Ned Lamont is from my hometown on Long Island, NEW YORK, and should know better about pizza.
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Well it does have the constitution. It’s on the license plates. The constitution state. Not a small thing.
The pizza is good. Fresh shucked clam pie at Zuppardi’s may be the best pizza in the world. At least I think so.
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Zuppardi’s is my favorite place there. Sausage pie. Pie with fresh garlic and mootz. Mmmm. Apizza.
I think the only appropriate sign would be “New Haven, the pizza capital of CT”. Just because there are a few, (handful?) exceptional pizza places in the entire state, doesnt make you the pizza capital. There are plenty of cities like Portland OR that have great pizza, but nothing comes close to the depth and competition of NYC. The pizza scene here right now is insane. No matter where I am in NYC, I’m less than 10 minutes away from great pizza.
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Is there some sort of trend in naming US cities “pizza capitals”?
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Yes, it’s called clickbait.
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Sometimes, ESPECIALLY on Yahoo, it’s “stealth marketing”.
