Pizza Putdown

How quickly people forget where they came from. President Obama likes to brag about how they do things in Chicago, but apparently his favorite pizza comes from ... St. Louis. Say it ain't so, Barack!

The president has tapped a chi-chi St. Louis eatery called Pi (get it?) to cater a White House dinner tonight for 140 people (Recession? What recession?) instead of a pizza purveyor from Chicago, which is world famous for its deep-dish pies.

This is the biggest coup for St. Louis since the hated Cardinals swept the Cubs.

"They were very excited," said Pi assistant manager Lindsey Tornetto, who gloated that Obama requested Pi's pizza after remembering it from a St. Louis campaign stop in October. "No hard feelings," Tornetto said. "I guess he likes the cornmeal [crust]."

Chicagoans, who take their pizza seriously, are trying to put a brave face on it.

Marc Malnati, owner of 30 Lou Malnati's Pizzerias across the Chicago area, said he'd never heard of Pi and had to assume Obama's choice came from lack of experience.

"I like his economic policy—I think he's going to get us out of trouble. I like his foreign policy—he's making friends around the world. His pizza policy is going to have to change," Malnati said.

I have more bad news for Malnati. He's not going to like the president's economic policy when he gets his tax bill.