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The "grease" is butter fat from deliciously large quantities of melted whole milk mozzarella. Annoying to some but I li-li-liked it.
I like that the crust is puffy rather than heavy/bread-y.
I meant to add that Freshman and Sophomore year I frequented Gumby's. They were pretty lax on their carding requirements and we played pool there with a pitcher or two pretty frequently until the place was shut down and/or I discovered No Where Bar. I had a friend that really took that whole coupon on the box thing to the extreme... he would regularly jump into the dumpster in the parking lot and raid it for boxes and snag the trashed coupons. The experience seemed to have been impactful and he ended up deciding he was going to build a better pizza box and came up with a few different prototypes. Nothing took off, but his innovative bent served him well and he did end up making a bunch of money post graduation in the stock market.
My favorite thing about Gumby's was the pepperoni rolls. My favorite local place (Vito's) doesnt have them on the menu (not a thing up here), but they make them for me special request. Any time I call and order them, they know who I am and they cheer something in Italian with excitement when I arrive to pick them up. Their pizza is good, but that is why its my favorite place :)
Don’t worry our family is keeping them in business!
This thread makes me think about Athens restaurants we frequented when I was in school in the early 80’s... Chow Goldstein’s — Jewish Deli and Chinese food — together! 🤣 We loved that place. Cheap food and large portions. Perfect for college men! 😎
Edit: I can’t recall the name… there was a place with a train engine logo near the freshman dorms… $1 beer pitchers… bad food. And, of course, Papa Joe’s… old location, next to the coin laundry…
When I was there in the late ‘70’s:
Papa Joe’s….peanut shells all over the floor!
Shrimp Boat… best fried chicken around!
Fifth Quarter out on Broad … great hangout after the game … could often see your favorite football star!
Poss’ Barbecue… great deck on the roof for hanging out and right across from the freshman dorms!
O’Malley’s.. decks over-looking the river… by far my favorite!
There was a place on Alps which served pitchers of Sangria… but can’t remember the name
Schlotzsky’s got its start then … we thought we were in heaven… best sandwiches around!
And Krystal’s … for those late nights!
Mostly gone but well-remembered!
O’Malley’s ‘Drink N Drown’ night… (Wednesdays? 🤔)… best place to cruise for girls! 😉
Thursday nights was beer and those peanuts in the shell at Papa Joe’s (after Chapter meetings… yes, I was a frat boy).
Friday nights… The Mad Hatter Ballroom had a great little house band called… REM (!!!) $5 cover… and ‘slam dancing’… !!!
What was the bar/restaurant on Baxter…? two stories tall… Papa Joe’s moved there after it closed down… Harry’s maybe?
The sangria place was still doing its thing when I got there… don’t recall the name…
A buddy of mine worked at Rocky's in the mid-80's. They had good pizza.
Great times for sure! Love the memories at O’Malley’s ……don’t remember the restaurant to which you are referring, but I am glad that it’s not just me remembering the pitchers of Sangria!
There was also a pretty cool little piano bar near the Sangria place whose name also escapes me…..but it was a rather calmer, nicer place to go …. about when Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” came out which made it fun!
Got to wonder how a place like O'Malley's, in a great college town like Athens would ever go out of business 😕.
Destin Mellow Mushroom closed. Sad.
We use to go to Mellow in Suwanee. Very good pizza and I loved their Spinach Salad w/candied walnuts. Much better than what I'm use to in Georgia with chain Pizza joints like Pizza Hut, Marcos, and Pappa John's. Probably need to drive over to Athens or down to Atlanta to find good Pizza.
Being from Chicago, they have some great Pizza joints both thin and thick crust. And while I didn't grow up with thick crust, Gino's East in Chicago on East Superior was awesome. At least it was back in the 80's.
Old style Pizza joint with ovens in the basement and wooden tables in the restaurant. Peoples names carved into the tables.
Growing up I thought pizza was chef boyer d in a box, didn't have real pizza until in my 20 s.
I was a poor boy on scholly in the mid 70's. There was a place called Alice's Crazy Corner Restaurant (a table and chairs were attached to the ceiling) for a meat and 3, and a kind of boarding house cafeteria with the same that had good cornbread, whose name I don't recall. I was much slimmer then, too. I don't even recall eating pizza that wasn't delivered during my time in Athens. I did eat at a Mellow Mushroom in Greenville, SC a time or two.