A question I've been meaning to ask for more than 20 years.<br><br>Has anyone else noticed that the price of a pizza slice in New York tracks the price of a single subway fare? This has been so ever since I came to New York in the early 1980s. Sometimes the subway fare goes up first and sometimes the Pizza Slice (neapolitan, single slice, without extra-topping) goes up first. But it is consistent. When I first came to NYC subways cost 50 cents and so did a single slice of pizza. Then subways went up to 75 cents. Pizza slices hovered there for a bit but soon went up to a dollar. Only later did subway fares follow.
<br><br>I could talk about the economics of pizza some more, since my grandfather owned a pizza place and an Italian restaurant and my memories of such things goes back a long time. But this specific phenomena rather amuses me.
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