Gainesville is kinda far from Athens Pizza (Athens Pizza is down in Atlanta basically - North Decatur/Emory University area, the NE edge of Atlanta.), dunno if you wanna make that trip. Then again... I'm basically in Gainesville, and sometimes I go that far for their pizza... it's that good.
Outside of the place.
Family owned place. Asiemoula Papadopoulos and her son Sandy Papadopoulos who took over after his father John Papadopoulos passed in 2002. Asie passed away a few years before covid. Strange going in there now and not seeing her. My family's eaten there since my grandpa got us hooked back in the 80's (he was living in nearby Avondale Estates). That lady was almost never NOT at the restaurant. Papadopoulos. Yes I copied and pasted that every time, because Greek last names are impossible to spell.
Not sure if they still do it on Thursday nights, but this is the lamb shank (pic must be from some catered thing). Served on orzo rice with roasted potato pieces. I usually get a Greek salad with it too. I ain't one to give a crap about salads, but... they got good salads. Even the salads are craveable stuff. Apparently they're now selling their own salad dressing too. Gonna have to swing by there before Christmas and buy a few bottles.
Some pizza porn...
This is the Santorini Special pizza. Feta cheese, sundried tomatoes, spinach, fresh garlic, artichoke hearts and Kalamata black olives. Looks sort of "vegan", but not really (due to the cheese I suppose). Not my favorite thing, cuz I usually like some kind of meat on my pizza, but still very good.
This is the Mediterranean. Extra cheese, feta cheese, big delicious chunks of gyro meat, big sliced tomatoes and Kalamata black olives. SLAP YO MOMMA good. All the pizza crust/dough is CRAZY good. Deep dish edges, kinda chewy and fluffy, I think they put a little bit of honey in the dough to make it sweeter.
Probably my favorite pizza, the Athens Special. Feta cheese, ground beef, sausage, pepperoni, onions, mushrooms and green bell peppers. The sausage is shaved in little falling apart pieces. The one pictured... not entirely typical. They kinda overdid it with the peppers on that one, but not by much. They ain't conservative with onions and peppers and meats, they load it up.
The All Meat pizza. Salami, sausage, pepperoni, ham, ground beef and Canadian bacon. There might be a little feta on there too under all the delicious dead animals. So good.
I have ate at the one in Statesboro, GA a couple of times, it was pretty good. I give it a 8 out of 10.
Had my ma staying with me this week. We've been running all over the place since this weekend trying to get Christmas shopping done. We went down to the one in Snellville where we used to live. Had leftovers from a large, so I ate that again for dinner last night. The indigestion almost killed me to death, but it was worth it.
If you're ever up towards Atlanta and want the best greek pizza on the planet, check out the Athens Pizza, 1341 Clairmont Rd., Decatur. A lot of places all over the state call themselves "Athens Pizza"... this is the REAL one. Voted best pizza in Atlanta probably 40 years straight. Perhaps Felini's Pizza over in Little 5 Points has won a few times too, they're pretty good, but they're more Italian.
Thurs night special used to be the lamb shank. They would only do it that one night a week because it's too much trouble to cook piece of lamb that size that they likely won't use up. I don't see it listed on the online menu. But that's another thing they got that is OUT OF THIS FUCKING WORLD. Hopefully they didn't stop making it.
1966 fastback Dodge Charger 383ci v8. Also came in a 426ci hemi v8, but less than 500 were built that year with the 426. As for the pink paint... I don't think that was factory standard. Likely a custom order, as I have never in my life seen another pink one. And being that it possibly could've been a factory custom paint job for Hugh Hefner, I suppose that would make it even more rare and special. I wonder if someone still owns it and kept the paint. We'll likely never know.
I live near the Year One muscle car parts factory. They do several car shows every year, and I end up going to at least one every year. My bro used to work restoring old cars and motorcycles, and when he was alive I used to go to the car shows a lot more. Not often that you see one of the earlier 1st generation fastback Chargers, everyone tends to like the 2nd and 3rd generation Chargers more.
The model is Allison Parks, 1966 Playboy Playmate of the Year.
Ain't that some bullshit though? Back in the 60's, regular new stock-from-the-factory cars were something you'd have a gorgeous classy Playmate modelling on. Can you imagine trying to have some classy girly model on one of the flimsy plastic douche-mobiles these companies are puking out now? Marilyn Monroe... on a fuckin' Kia!?!
Car companies don't give a shit about style anymore. Is it a sign of a society in decline? I think it is.
This made me think of Biden's press secretary every time she speaks at a press conference.
Someone should tell that black Shirley Temple to tone it down with the silver eyelid paint. If you're gonna be looking down and reading word for word from your little fucking binder for every pre-arranged question, then for gods sake stop drawing attention to it with your eye paint. Or at least have someone paint some fucking eyeballs on her eyelids to try to fool someone.
And tell me this bullshit ain't intentional... how come when I google images of Karine Jean Pierre, NOT ONE of them shows her looking down and reading from the Great White Binder. Snapping a picture of her looking up at the camera is harder than murdering a busload of babies with a butter knife.
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