Let’s All Get Real, Shall We?

By CHARLES FERRUZZA

I get so many questions about food and eating out here in the Fat City that we’ve added a new category: Ask Charles Ferruzza. Ask me a question and I’ll do my best to answer it or, if I’m stumped, throw it out to you, our loyal readers. After all, you not only have excellent taste and firm opinions, but you’re scattered all over the place.

Pitch reader Rich wrote us to say that he had recently moved to Olathe from the East Coast and likes the Kansas City metropolitan area — who wouldn’t? — but has not been happy with the pizza, chicken wings and hot dogs he’s finding here. “Where,” he writes, “in this Midwestern city can I find REAL pizza, REAL wings and REAL hot dogs?”

I’m assuming that real, in this particular case, means the thin-crust pizza one can buy and eat on the streets of New York, the spicy chicken wings like those invented by the legendary Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York and those fabulous Sabrett hot dogs.