Worst pizza I've ever had was from a shop just off the Metro at the foot of Montmartre in Paris. Just a normal pizza, no weird toppings. I managed two bites (I was very hungry or bite two would not have been attempted).

Second worst was when I first had Imo's without knowing what provel was. I think I got through almost half a slice on that one. You must have to grow up eating it to find it edible.

The next few rankings after that, moving up the list, would be very cheap frozen pizzas. Like, the dollar or two a pie (on sale) kind.

The best pizza I've ever found was inside the Manhattan terminal of the Staten Island Ferry. This was over 50 years ago so who knows now. Growing up in the mid 50s and early 60s pizza was 15 cents a slice and a coke to go with it was a dime so my Mom would give my sister and I a quarter each and we would walk down the block to the local pizza parlor for a Saturday lunch treat. Large soft pretzels were a nickel each or 6 for a quarter from push cart vendors. It was a good time to grow up.

> but the worst was undoubtedly a ghastly slice of horror that I purchased at the big conference centre in Atlanta

Well duh. It's conference center food. Might as well complain how the worst hamburger you had was at a McDonalds in Portland.

"It's conference center food."

Believe me - I was allowing for that!