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Some more salt for the wound: The pizza that President Obama had flown in to the White House was not really St. Louis pizza, as we had thought. Turns out, the geographic origins are much murkier: the owner of Pi, the restaurant that flew out with the pizzas, is Chris Sommers, who's only been in St. Louis for about a year — before that, he was in San Francisco for a decade, where he was such an avid fan of the city's Little Star Pizza that he sent his St. Louis chef to SF to learn how to ape the pie in all respects.

As if to mollify Chicago's offense, the pizzas Sommers served to Obama are named after our own neighborhoods: "The Bucktown" is a thick-crust pizza topped with mozzarella, chicken, artichoke hearts, red bell peppers, green olives, red onions, feta, and tomatoes; "The Lincoln Park" has a thin crust topped with mozzarella, garlic olive oil, zucchini, fresh tomatoes, feta, and basil. But on his menu there are also pies named after Bay Area haunts — the Berkeley, the Western Addition.

This is all too confusing for us, with this city and that city and the other city. Can we just be angry and call it a day? [Between Meals]
[Photo of The Lincoln Park: stlbites/Flickr]