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Article: Pizza
- Article from:
- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 9, 1987
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PERHAPS YOU THINK that pizzas don't need a great deal of
regulation. Perhaps you think that what they generally need is more
pepperoni. But the situation, viewed from the proper perspective, is
a great deal more complicated than that. It has turned into the kind
of illuminating little vignette that tells you a lot about life in
Washington, at a certain level.
Political issues often get more bitter and obsessive as they get
smaller and more trivial. That is true of the frozen meat pizza
case. This micro-grievance seems to have become something of a
fixation to the dairymen.
When a pizza is labeled a cheese pizza, the government says that
it must contain real cheese. But when it is labeled ...