PIzza Crime is Happening

You know, in the old days you could go over to the local pizzeria and think kind thoughts that the pizzeria really is not involved with the italian mafia, and in fact was doing everything it could as family owned business to keep pizza prices affordable for the typical  family pizza consumers.   Of course, I am not talking about
Valentino's Pizza in Lincoln, Nebraska, who probably has the best pizza in the world, but insists upon charging an outrageous $18 for a large pizza.   No, instead I am talking about the local pizzerias in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area who serve slimy thin crust  pizza and bready thick crust pizza for $18.   Even the $11.99 pizzas are a cheat when you must add extra cheese and several toppings at a $1.50 a shot.   You see, it was not that long ago that a large pizza at a pizzeria such a Luigi's in bellevue cost only $5.99, which made the thin slimy and the thick bready crust somewhat more tolerable.   Then, however, the local pizzerias decided to form a Pizza Trade Association in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.   These pizza moguls were so smart that in order to fool the FBI and the Justice Department they send their kids to a Pirates Baseball games, the bleacher seats of course, to set pizza prices for the next year.   So, congratulations Pittsburgh Pizzerias, a job well done.  I don't that that the FBI and Justice Department will ever be smart enough to figure this one out, do you?