There are few things that have the ability to pit cities against each other more than sports and food, but such regionalism doesn’t seem to bother fans of Jeff Smokevitch’s Detroit-style pizza in Telluride, Colorado.

“Everyone was against it. They said, ‘don’t call it Detroit-style.’ They said it would have bad connotations,” said Smokevitch, a Birmingham native and former Seaholm High School graduate. “I didn’t listen to them. I put it on the menu, and it was a huge hit.” Read the article here!