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Transplanted Mississippian Looks Homeward for Pizza; Ringling Bros. Has a Pie Truck

• A hungry Stoughton man who now lives in Mississippi — where he claims the pizza is “horrible” — traveled 1,400 miles to purchase 150 pies from Town Spa, his preferred hometown pizzeria. Who needs delivery? [AP/Herald]

• Now here’s some corporate mobile dining we can get behind: the Ringling Bros. Pie Car food truck, a spinoff of its circus train’s dining room. [NRN]

• Important news flash: While “The Situation” likes his Italian-American grub, Snooki loves Italian food straight from the source. [China Daily]

• A new preservative called bisin could keep vegetables fresh without refrigeration and allow milk and sausage to keep for three years on the shelf. Whoa. [Telegraph U.K.]

• Islamic Jihadists with ties to Al Qaeda are blocking food aid to some 3 million starving Somalians. [USAT]

• Fat Duck chef Heston Blumenthal has left his wife of twenty years for the “saucy” American food writer Suzanne Pirret. Scandal. [Telegraph UK]

Transplanted Mississippian Looks Homeward for Pizza; Ringling Bros. Has a Pie