by Melody Hearndon

Created on: April 30, 2009   Last Updated: February 11, 2010

Pizza will always be the ultimate meal for college students as long as Pizza is available. All one needs to do is look at how readily accessible it is to continue with its popularity.

Night after night, it's easy to picture our college students, cramming into the many dorm rooms, where books are opened, and pens or pencils are at hand, and somewhere there is a pizza that's arrived hot and ready only to be savored and devoured as though it's a right of passage.

This article is written to shed light on the many reasons why college students all across America have any number of pizza parlors on speed dial that can be accessed on a dime.

Delivery

How much more convenient can a meal be, then when it's delivered right to the door? All one has to do is pick up a phone, order your preference of tasteful delights, and in a matter of minutes it's delivered to your very hands.

Affordability

Pizza is still considered the poor mans meal. The reason being is that college kids very seldom, if ever have funds to meet their own personal need items, let alone being able to buy dinners, yet pizza remains a staple because it's cheap and quick.

Socialization

When cramming for exams and writing that thesis that you've stressed and stayed awake all night worrying about, nothing beats a gathering of friends that will lend to your sense of stability and camaraderie as the all night study session with pizza as the one component that will bring everything together.

Satisfying

In addition to the above mentioned reasons as to why pizza is so important to college students, let's not forget how satisfying to the pallet and stomach it can be. Unlike any other food, pizza is very filling. It can be the comfort food of colleges today like that of mom's old-fashioned macaroni and cheese.

Choices

Pizza is the one food item that can be special ordered. It comes in so many varieties that one has to really think of what one wants placed on ones pizza. You can get it vegetarian; you can have it thin crust or deep dish. You can order it full of an assorted variety of meats as well as meatless. You can have the traditional sauce or even white sauce. There's the pizza topped with chicken and bacon. The choices are almost endless.

Left over Pizza

Eating left over pizza is very common among college students. How many times did you awake the next morning, and before you scrambled to arrive fashionably late to that very class that prompted this overnight ritual, did you manage to grab that last piece of pizza that was stuck to the box?

The secret to enjoying left over pizza is to store it properly the night before so that it doesn't adhere to the delivery box. With properties much like that of spaghetti, after it's been in the refrigerator over night, it just tastes better the next day.

In conclusion, pizza is to the college student like a duck is to water. They have an intricate relationship that will sustain them through the all night sessions they will inevitably subject themselves too, and at least we know that they are getting nourishment from our friendly pizza parlors all over this nation, and as parents we are safe in the knowledge they appreciate a home cooked meal when they walk through our doors.

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