Kate & Al’s Pizza is better known to most as Columbus Pizza, a delicacy of epic pizza proportions born in the dirty farmers market off of Rt. 206 in Columbus, NJ. (Already a fan? Join your tribe on Facebook.) Though Kate & Al’s runs a storefront inside the market, to truly experience Columbus Pizza, shoppers brave the elements to eat from the re-jiggered pizza van outside, where rectangle pans of the stuff sit under heat lamps until all bought up, which usually happens in a blink. Columbus Pizza is contested by outsiders as a taste only a local could love, like its liquid cousin Takaboost. People have decried its consistency, claiming it tastes like a combination of ketchup and Kraft parm in a can. But let it be known: This sloppy, gooey slice is the best pizza you will ever burn the roof of your mouth on.

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