Pizza will always be Italy’s claim to fame but damn America is going to do everything it can to break that. Pizza consistently ranks as the most popular food in America in polls and it seems like every state wants a piece of the pie both figuratively and literally.
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Discussions about pizza in America tend to focus solely on the rivalry between New York’s thin crust and Chicago’s deep dish but this is a woefully limited viewpoint. True pizza connoisseurs know that there is a difference between New York and Brooklyn pizza and that Chicago tavern pizza is probably more popular in the city than deep dish. Plus the rest of the country has plenty of great pizza to offer and while certain styles like Detroit pizza and New Haven pizza are growing in popularity Colorado is quietly pumping out a style of pizza that few outsiders have ever encountered.
Colorado-style pizza is also known as “mountain pie” because it’s made with a thick braided crust whose pointed shape is reminiscent of the Rocky Mountains. In another twist the crust is made with whole wheat flour and sweetened with honey instead of sugar. It’s actually meant to be eaten as a dessert at the end of your meal and is always served with extra honey for dipping. Mountain pie is certainly an original take on pizza and while it claims to be Colorado-style it’s really unique to a single restaurant chain.
Colorado-style pizza should really be called Beau Jo's-style pizza since that's the only place that makes it. The pizza chain has seven locations in the state of Colorado. On the company's website they give a fanciful history of the mountain pie claiming that it was invented by a French fur trapper named Pete ZaPigh (pronounced "pizza pie") who came to Colorado in search of woolly mammoths. He eventually gave up that pursuit and decided to become a prospector disappearing into an abandoned mine for two years. When he finally surfaced it's said that he brought with him the first mountain pie. Then in a horrific twist he was trampled to death by a mammoth but not before carving his mountain pie recipe into the shell of a turtle named Beau Jo.
