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Halloween night is one of the busiest pizza delivery nights of the year. If you're having people over after trick-or-treating, there's a good chance you'll have a rectangular deep dish delivered to your home.

That style of pizza—with the cheese pushed to the edges, forming a carmelized crust—that's Detroit style pizza. The Michigan invention is now becoming more popular in culinary scenes across the country.

Stateside producer Mike Blank and Michigan Radio digital intern¹ Katie Raymond headed to the original Buddy's Pizza restaurant to find out more about the history of our unique style of bread and cheese heaven. They talked to former busboy, now chief brand officer of Buddy's Pizza, Wes Pikula to get the story of how Detroit style pizza came to be just after World War II.

Pikula said that the original Buddy's Pizza got its start inside a bar owned by August Gus Guerra. Men who fought in World War II came back talking about the kinds of pizza they'd had in Italy. Guerra decided² he would add a Sicilian style pizza to the menu. But there was a problem.

There was nothing that he could find that could bake this pizza, said Pikula.

The area around Buddy's was filled with automotive suppliers, and many of Guerra's customers worked at tool and die shops. They mentioned to him that there was something they used in the shop to collect nuts and bolts or to serve as a drip tray.

Lo and behold³, it was brought into the restaurant. They put some dough⁴ in it and it baked amazingly, Pikula said. I mean, so, it was better than anything else they had tried.

The pans at Buddy's are part of what makes its Detroit style pizza unique, Pikula explained. The other is how they layer their pizza. The restaurant starts with dough, then adds pepperoni, Wisconsin brick cheese, and finally, a skimming of sauce in three stripes across the top.

Pikula says the style that originated at Buddy's went on to be imitated and adapted at many other restaurants in the region.

But to make the true Detroit style, you have to make what's a Buddy's pizza because that's where it started.

1 intern   

v.拘禁，软禁；n.实习生

参考例句：

• I worked as an intern in that firm last summer.去年夏天我在那家商行实习。
• The intern bandaged the cut as the nurse looked on.这位实习生在护士的照看下给病人包扎伤口。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

3 behold   

v.看，注视，看到

参考例句：

• The industry of these little ants is wonderful to behold.这些小蚂蚁辛勤劳动的样子看上去真令人惊叹。
• The sunrise at the seaside was quite a sight to behold.海滨日出真是个奇景。

4 dough   

n.生面团；钱，现款

参考例句：

• She formed the dough into squares.她把生面团捏成四方块。
• The baker is kneading dough.那位面包师在揉面。