Chicago deep dish diss?
Posted: Friday, April 10, 2009 1:30 PM by Mark Murray
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Barack Obama
From NBC's Danielle Weisberg
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Atlantic, President Obama was supposed to fly in a pizza chef to prepare lunch for his guests at the White House today. An ode to the trademark deep-dish pizza of his hometown Chicago?
Not quite.
The chef being flown in is Ryan Mangialardo, partner in St. Louis's Pi restaurant. Obama declared Mangialardo's pizza “the best pizza I’ve ever eaten” on the campaign trail last October.
While the president has displayed his Chicago loyalty -- proudly sporting his White Sox baseball hat, rooting for Da Bears, cheering for the Bulls -- some in the Windy City might be surprised about his pizza preference.