[Southsider2k12]

City's own J&J Pizza Shack's Kitchen Sink Pizza was featured as the nations #1 untamed eating challenge on CNBC today.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/45415654?slide=6

The J&J’s Kitchen Sink Challenge

Restaurant: J&J’s Pizza Shack
Location: Northern Indiana (five locations)

In what is perhaps the oldest undefeated eating challenge in the country, the Kitchen Sink challenge at J&J’s Pizza Shack in Indiana has confounded eaters for 27 years. The pizza is the brainchild of John Bogdan, the now-retired founder of J&J’s, who created the 16-inch round deep-dish XL pizza. It includes sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms, green peppers, onions, green olives, black olives, ham, Canadian bacon, bacon bits, and mozzarella cheese and weighs about 6 pounds. The entire thing must be completed within one hour to win the challenge.

Kim S., the manager at the Lake Station restaurant, says the Kitchen Sink is an extremely popular dish for J&J’s, because most orders are for groups and corporate events. In fact, The Kitchen Sink is the restaurant’s best-selling specialty pizza.

The pizza, which is intended to feed four to six people, has an estimated two to three challengers per year, and at least 100 people have attempted the challenge in the history of J&J’s. Surprisingly, the closest anyone has come in recent history to finishing the pizza was a 12-year-old girl, who ate 16 of the 20 pieces before she had to give in.

“When someone does try, the wait staff is all curious, because we really want to see someone do it,” says Kim. And, what does someone win if they do finish off the pie? They don’t have to pay the bill — the $27.55 pizza is free.

[taxthedeer]

I was driving home north on Ohio St. tonight and see that J&J's Pizza Shack has opened a location in a former tattoo parlor building near Four Stop Bar which is good news for me because that is only six blocks south of my house.

I wonder if J&J's are going to open up the Ohio St. location and close the Michigan Boulevard location (the former M&M Restaurant) or havethe two location in Michigan City?

They got really good pizza.

[taxthedeer]

I guess the sign outside the J&J's Pizza Shack banner outside the building on Ohio St. is just an advertisement for the Michigan Boulevard location. I was about to stop in there and get something to eat but when I looked in the window there was some guy standing there giving someone a haircut. The building is on the market though through Hinchman Real Estate.

I was kind of surprised that advertising a pizza place is not against city ordinance.