The Shakespeare's Cheese bLog

New Disease discovered at Shakespeare's Pizza

You have heard of Ring Worm and Ring Rot.  Well here at Shakespeare's Pizza a five year old kid, named Kiddo Littlemouth, was playing with his dough ball when he looked up and discovered an employee with an scary red ring around her face.  When asked what was wrong with her face she sadly looked at him and told him "its the onions kid, just the onions." 

What causes an onion to act as a tear-gas bomb? Well let me give you the details.  "There are juices and chemicals inside the onion's tissues; when your knife breaks the onion's cells a certain compound becomes airborne as a fine mist. This compound is called propanethial-S-oxide, which is a type of sulfoxide. When the misty droplets encounter a wet surface (your eyes or nose membranes) it dissolves into a form of sulfuric acid, which is understandably irritating to your sensitive organs."

Now that you have had the scientific explanation of crying over onions here at Shakespeare's Pizza we find using goggles the most effective method of containing those tears.  Rachael (pic) demonstrates the fine use of this wonderful gadget.  So next time you come to Shakespeare's Pizza look for the "Ring Face" and don't be scared.

   

Ring Face at it's worst.

For more information: The Secret to Cutting Onions without Crying

Happy 35th Anniversary Shakespeare's Pizza

New Short Sleeved and Long Sleeved Tees NOW available.

       Have a great year!!

Carhartt and Pizza

When it's just plain all the way no kiddin' cold out, and you still need to pour concrete. feed the pigs, change yer earl, burn chainsaw pre-mix, or otherwise engage in true John Wayne manliness, you can do like all the other bubbas, or you can do it in style, with the official Embroidered Shakespeare's Pizza Carhartt Duck Bib Overalls.  No foolin', this is one that we're pretty dang sure no other restaurant is going to have. Limited supply.

Way to Go Mizzou! Fans of all ages.

What an exciting weekend game.  Mizzou rocks!  Email this morning brought a blog of a little one watching the game in Oxford, United Kingdom.  Too cute not to post.  Thanks Chris!

Happy Halloween 2007

 

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Beware of the Grizzly Green Peppers.  Last seen chasing employees at Shakespeare's Pizza West.  They now are guarding the candy dish. Only the truly brave will get their Sweettarts tonight.  There can be only one master of the Grissley Green Peppers.  They fight amongst themselves, locked in a never ending power stuggle for King Grizzly Green Pepper (except for Mo, he's the LFG(P) ((Little Friendly Green Pepper....bffs with the BFG himself))).( Picture of Mo at the left- created by Rachael)

Normally Green Peppers stay dormant and are quite delicious(and nutritious) when added as a pizza topping, but just try sticking one of the guys in the oven and you will not come out alive. Revenge will be sought, and had. At the stroke of 11 pm doors will be locked on Halloween night, and the battle will be decided once and for all. Place bets prior to the locking of the drawbridge (10pm) or rise to the challenge yourself but be brave and bring weapons.    Story to be continued.............

            

     Have a Happy Safe Halloween!!!!!!!!!!

Name Your Own Pizza Contest: Honorable Mention

So, we started this contest with our newsletter subscribers and ran it for a few weeks to get our first winner before putting it on the homepage of the site this morning.

Over 60 people sent it nominations to have a Shakespeare's Pizza named after them (or their dog or their no-good ex-husband).

We chose the first winner (we'll be adding a new winner once a month or thereabouts).

This one didn't win.  The crew would riot if it did.  But it was too good not to share.

Anecdotal evidence suggests Bill's a teacher in Columbia, but the kids in question are his own and pictured here.

Bill's got a cool blog, too.  You should check it out when you have a minute or six.

Name of pizza: The Happy Kids (a.k.a. The Take This Job and Shove It)

Name: Bill Morgan

The Pizza:  Regular White Crust.  Cheese Only.

Special Instructions:
1. Begin by making a pizza that starts as think on one side, morphs into regular by the middle, and finishes as thin on the far side. 2. Rotate the pizza 1/3rd. 3. Spread sauce so that it starts as extra sauce, changes to regular sauce in the middle, and ends up as light sauce. 4. Rotate the pizza 1/3rd. 5. Sprinkle cheese so that it originates as extra cheese, develops into regular cheese in the middle, and culminates in light cheese. 6. Cut into 20+ kid-sized slices. (Actual necessary number of slices needs to be determined by a cook who is also majoring in math.)

Why is it worthy of your name?
This pizza has two great benefits: 1. You will have achieved every possible kid-friendly combination. Got a kid who wants thick crust, light sauce, and extra cheese? It's there. One's whining for thin crust, extra sauce, and light cheese. It's there. The beefy kid wants extra everything--crust, sauce, and cheese. It's there. This leads to benefit #2: 2. Every kid is happy. (Or, in case they still aren't happy, you've eliminated all possible causes and can now justify telling them, "Stop complaining!")

You can name a pizza after your kids, too, if you want, and possibly win fame and fortune.

Birthday Magic

Satisfaction comes in packages too!  Look what Google Alerts brought us the other day. 

     Happy Birthday to Grace!!!!!!!!!!  Look at August 8, 2007

One of my many talents is packaging the mail orders.  August 3rd was a hot day, and the closest packing material was out of sight, but next to my rolling chair was a box of skirts, a product we took off the shelf, tried to clearance, but still no one would buy.  In went a couple of skirts to protect the $5.00 glass .  Thank you Grace for the laugh and the pictures.  Happy Birthday!

Bean Counter in the Back Room

New Email Newsletter Today

Hiya.  Welcome to this new blog thing.  We hear salve'll cure it in no time.

If you don't already subscribe to our free email newsletter, you might kinda sorta want to do that.

It drops today (Wednesday, July 25 - around 1:30), but when you sign up you'll automatically get the most recent.

We put deals and secrets and stuff in there you won't find anywhere else, like this issue:

• A new secret password to save $8 off two large pizzas.
• Info on how to get a Shakespeare's Pizza named after you a week before we tell everybody else.
• Other various and sundry items of note.

It's free.  It's quick.  It's part of your complete breakfast.

I'm only a test.

Hi.  I'm a test of the new and most hopefully fabulous Shakespeare's Pizza blog.

I'm am only test.  Now - here's a picture of something.