The Top Five pizzas in Kansas City

Yeah, this sounds pretty outrageous, doesn’t it? The ideal candidate

to make this judgment is the man or woman in Kansas City who

has eaten at least one slice of every single specialty pizza prepared

and sold in the city. That would not, mercifully, be me — though I’ve

eaten a hell of a lot of Kansas City pizza over the past 25 years.

That number would include a popular pizza variation that I had successfully avoided for decades: one topped with pineapple and Canadian bacon. The very idea of it was repugnant to me, since it had absolutely no connection to the Neapolitan roots of this dish. Pineapple? Ham? A few weeks ago, I was tricked into tasting a piece of Canadian ham-and-pineapple pie. Not bad, but I’d never have it again — or add it to a list of favorite pies.