The University News

Issue date: 11/17/03 Section: Culture

Media Credit: Tiffany Matson JOE´S PIZZA BUY THE SLICE, located at 4058 Pennsylvania behind Kelly´s Pub, serves up greasily-good pizza and has various dollar offers throughout the week.

A couple of semesters ago I was enrolled in a class in Westport. Every Tuesday and Thursday I attended the venerable "Silver Screen and the American Dream" cluster course in the vaunted Tivoli Theatre in Manor Square. Besides getting to watch movies for class credit, the coolest thing about that course was the obscene ease with which one could have lunch for a bargain-basement price, which I did every single class day.

The class would let out and it was literally steps to the nearly-adjacent Joe's Pizza Buy the Slice (4058 Pennsylvania, 816-931-2777), where I would munch on cheap, greasily-good slices of pizza for only a dollar. Now this is the deal to end all deals for those poor 'n' hungry in the audience. You need a dollar, exactly one dollar. $1, that's it! If I remember correctly, the meat lover and combination slices were a quarter or so more, but the sausage, cheese and pepperoni slices are a single buck, easily making this the best deal for any broke-ass college student.

Now this doesn't happen every day, although Joe's offers great specials for every weekday lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The dollar slices are only offered on the aforementioned Tuesday/Thursday pairing, but they also have dollar hot dogs on Mondays, which are pretty darn good if you ask me. Wednesdays and Fridays you get a free medium drink with the purchase of a sandwich - Meatball Sandwich for hump days and Italian Steak Sandwich for Fridays.

I also enjoy Joe's salads. Both the large and small offerings come with your choice of dressing and ample amounts of mixed greens and tomatoes; they even throw in some cold pepperoni and sliced ham and mozzarella cheese. And of course the meatball sandwich deserves to be credited here. Although I have never found the toasted bread to not rip the flesh off the roof of my mouth, the meatballs always satisfy.

Another bonus is the revamped soda fountain that now contains Diet Dr. Pepper (DDP). And there are two entrances. One can gain ground to Joe's proper by entering the Penn Ave. door to the storefront or via Kelly's Pub on the corner of Penn and Westport Rd. This is my preferred gateway because then, if you so desire and are the legitimate age, you can imbibe an adult beverage while eating your pizza and watch a sporting event on one of the large televisions in the bar.

Of course, the adult beverages run your cost up a bit, but with dollar slices of pie, you could, and usually do, a lot worse on the monetary value end.

mmckeown@unews.com

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