Editor’s note: This is an updated version of a story that originally ran in 2021.

New Jersey is unequivocally the pizza capital of America.

We are surrounded by the greasy goodness; more than 2,000 pizzerias endure within our borders and new shops open constantly. Shake a tree, a pepperoni pie might fall out.

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