Posted on 09/24/2023 1:09:28 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Barstool Sports founder and small business star Dave Portnoy has faced criticism from the Washington Post for his first-of-its-kind "One Bite" pizza festival, but, despite this strategic provocation and severe weather conditions, the celebration was a success.
"It couldn't have gone better. It's our Woodstock moment with the rain. 5,000 people strong. Everyone had a great time. The vibes are actually probably higher because of the controversy surrounding it. So, yeah, it went great," Portnoy said during his Sunday appearance on "Fox & Friends Weekend."
The "One Bite" pizza festival was a celebration planned by Portnoy himself to round up America's greatest pizzerias, at least according to El Presidente's scale.
"It couldn't have gone better. It's our Woodstock moment with the rain. 5,000 people strong. Everyone had a great time. The vibes are actually probably higher because of the controversy surrounding it. So, yeah, it went great," Portnoy said during his Sunday appearance on "Fox & Friends Weekend."
The "One Bite" pizza festival was a celebration planned by Portnoy himself to round up America's greatest pizzerias, at least according to El Presidente's scale.
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The piece, published by Post reporters Tim Carman and Emily Heil Friday, described Portnoy as someone who "has been no stranger to controversy." It mentioned his history of "sexist" and other insensitive comments, as well as allegations of sexual impropriety.
While on the phone with Portnoy, (Emily) Heil admitted to sending "negative" emails to the sponsors of the "One Bite" pizza festival in attempts to get sponsors to "engage," claiming that this is a common "reporting tactic" used by journalists.
"I think the fact that she was a food reporter and not necessarily in this world, she was just caught off guard. And then she did reveal, though, I don't want to say the secret sauce, but the unfortunate truth that they aren't after the truth. They're just trying to create negative headlines and get clicks," Portnoy proclaimed Sunday.
Portnoy also directed shade at food writer J. Kenji López-Alt, who was allegedly "obsessed" with trying to get people not to partake in the festival.
"I was talking to a lot of the pizza places and some of the people, like this guy Kenji López - who is just obsessed with trying to get people not to partake - he was emailing the pizza places literally the night before, getting their private information and shaming them. Being like, 'it's not too late to drop out.' Your like, dead dad would be ashamed of you. It was pretty crazy," he said.
"The thing about the hit piece is, what they try to do, whether it's those or The Washington Post, if you can just get one sponsor to drop, one pizza place to drop, which none of them did … so I owe them a huge thank you. That becomes a story in itself."
In times past the reporter would be punished by his employer for such shady tactics. Not any more.
It’s really funny. He says something along the lines of “You know the rules - one bite” and continues to take bites.
https://www.onebitepizzarankings.com is a list of his rankings.
From what I understand, he revisited Monte’s and revised the score down. He knows his pizza!
I am not much of a fan of Barstool Sports, but this is a class act.
Willie makes great pizza. Aside from that, he’s sort of a miserable prick.
Portnoy got sucked in b/c Willie knew who he was. Also, everyone was assuming the review was going to “change Willie’s life”. I knew that wasn’t happening, never.
He makes the same # of pies he did before Portnoy, and will continue to do so. No more, no less.
Everything is on his terms. Everything.
It is. Looks like who ever did the on site organizing did a great job. I've got experience in that sort of thing and you don't just snap your fingers to get it done.
I've never listen to the guy but give him thumbs up none the less for this.
“Taylor Swift showed up for the game today sitting next to the mother of Travis”
And she acted like a giddy 15 year old cheering on the HS quarterback on Friday night because he said hi to her in the school hallroom the day before. She appears to be very immature for her age. And yes she is working towards being a billionaire. Sad commentary on society that funds her.
Why do people use b/c in an otherwise perfectly wordy comment? Some people don’t use b/c as a substitute for spelling out because. You’re avoiding typing four characters out of a post of like 500 characters. You could simply type out most of the word and autocorrect will fill in the rest. So you really are saving 2 keystrokes. At any rate, I stop reading as soon as I see b/c. Same with w/.
My post was a bit of a play on a 1969 book entitled “Portnoy’s Complaint” by Philip Roth.
This is America. More power to her. If her fans love her, then great!
It would be tough for Travis Kelce to impress her. So it won't last long.
Pizzas were cut into small pieces so pizzafest folks could sample many different pies... One of the news shows had a picture of one - a pizza with slices so small they looked like postage stamps.
Someplace now has a pumpkin spice pizza with sausage, etc
You know, that just might work...
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