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Little Cookie Monster
"What place sells pizza at 8am?" my friend David asked when we got home from our 3rd shift jobs.
"No place around here," I said, "we'll probably have to go to the east side of the city."
"I found a place, INFERNO PIZZA but it's an hour away." said David as he looked at his phone.
"Let's get going then." I said.

The drive through the capital city at 8am was not the greatest decision I made as we faced morning rush hour on our quest for fresh pizza.

"What type of pizza place opens this early?" David asked.
"A pizza place that caters to the whims of students who go to the nations largest University," I said as we pulled into a packed parking lot.

The restaurant had the aesthetic of an auto mechanic shop and was full of trendy, hung over college students who were blearily watching pizzas bake in a brick oven. The restaurant was set up more akin to a Subway restaurant than a traditional pizza place. David and I stood beneath an "order here" sign as we specified what toppings we'd like.
A disc of pizza dough made its way down an assembly line as a row of workers added sauce, cheese and toppings before finally scooping up the pizza onto a pizza peel and placing it in the...