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I actually can’t remember a time that pizza has been this good. I mean, bad pizza is very rare in the first place – I can only think of one time when I’ve had bad pizza, and that was a £1 cardboard-based pizza from the corner shop with a ‘cheese flavoured topping’ (err no, I’m not quite sure what I was thinking either…). Generally, all pizza is good pizza. But this. This spicy butternut squash pizza with crispy kale. This was something else.
I’m going to go ahead and say it was possibly the best pizza ever.
It’s tricky to determine what makes this pizza so amazing – a few simple toppings just come together in perfect harmony (I think I feel a poem coming on).
This spicy, crispy, cheesy pizza is topped with:
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