There aren't just passable pizza options in this city - there are also plenty of terrible ones. Maybe it tastes like cardboard and ketchup (Papa John's at the Verizon Center) or a large sponge smeared in sauce (Jumbo Slice). Maybe it's the only thing in your neighborhood and you still don't go (Al's Gourmet Pizza).

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Or maybe once, while in college (which excuses this a little), you ordered a delivery of a pie from Manny & Olga's, a local chain with one satellite location in Sparks, Nevada (?). When the pie came with a cigarette butt baked into it, you were grossed out and appalled, so you called Manny & Olga's to yell at them. When they offered to send over another pizza, you accepted and ate the replacement. That entire pizza cost you $5.

Based on my personal experience and informal survey of people I know, Manny & Olga's is the clear winner of this non-award for the worst pizza in D.C.

If you've got a pizza opinion of your own, take the Post's pizza survey. 

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