This week ...

THING: Louie G's Pizzeria "Little Italy" Pizza Challenge

STATS: 28-inch pizza, three topping minimum. Starts at $39.95. You eat it - you win

CREATOR: Louie G.

CHALLENGE ATTEMPTS: 170

CHALLENGE COMPLETIONS: A big fat ZERO

TIME LIMIT: One hour

MOST COMMON EXPRESSION UPON FIRST SIGHT: Oh, shit!

MAXIMUM AMMOUNT OF CHALLENGE TEAM MEMBERS: Two

PRIZES: T-Shirt, possible cash money, name on the wall, memorial plaque, free pizza, bragging rights, four raw eggs and a used toothbrush found in Louie G's medicine cabinet.

AMOUNT OF TRUTH IN THE ABOVE STATEMENT: Not sure.

If you're one of the many tens of people who follow me on Twitter you may have read of my recent bongo obsession. Questions have arisen, such as: Are there such things as bongo lessons? Is it possible to play bongos incorrectly? Most importantly, when will the people at Nintendo or Xbox come out with a Bongo Hero video game?

Steph DeRosa obsessions are fun, and one of them is pizza dough. Aside from all of the wonderful sexual innuendos that arise when discussing raw dough, the evolution that transforms a mound of mushy flour into a delicious pizza pie is wondrous to me. It also doesn't hurt the obsession-meter when I watch men of Italian descent toss dough high up in the air.

Louie G has staked his claim in the handmade pizza pie world by honoring his own old-school family dough recipe, and providing only the freshest ingredients in fun combinations on over 14 different specialty pizzas at his Fife location. Don't let Louie G's weekday six-dollar pizza and salad bar buffet fool you: Every pizza is hand-tossed and baked in a New York brick oven. I love this place. The fact that this joint is independently and locally owned doesn't hurt, either.

What will soon (if not already) become a Steph DeRosa obsession is Louie G's "Little Italy" pizza challenge. No, I'm not going to attempt it, but I'd love to see someone else succeed. 

Hear my cry when I say, please, for the love of all things gluttonous, let me watch you and a friend try to down Louie G's 28-inch Little Italy pizza in under an hour! 

I'll hold your hair if you puke, I promise. I'll buy you an ice cream cone afterwards. I'll do (almost) anything if you just let me overeat vicariously through you. C'mon, do it!

[Louie G's Pizzeria, 5219 Pacific Hwy E., Fife, 253.926.9700]