Many foods have their own dedicated museums — like burnt food and mustard — so why not pizza? That’s what Brian Dwyer, the owner of the world’s largest collection of pizza memorabilia, has wondered for a long time.
Dwyer is so into pizza that he has a tattoo on his back of a drawing of himself holding a slice and saying “Totally Saucesome.” A tall guy with a shock of wavy red hair, Dwyer owns more than 1,000 toys, knickknacks and other pizza-themed items, like a troll doll in an “I Love Pizza” apron, and a human face made of rubber, trapped inside a pepperoni pizza.
To address what he thinks is a public lack of pizza love and to display his eclectic collection, Dwyer plans to open a museum and restaurant in Philadelphia next month called Pizza Brain.
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