Austinites ate a lot of pizza during the pandemic, but few started their own fake pizzeria. Jeff Klein, of the band My Jerusalem, offered free doughy vaccination doses to eligible pals (“Friend Group 1A and Friend Group 1B”), served in hilariously designed boxes featuring a spiky coronavirus blob with pepperonis on it and several amusing slogans, including “Cheesus Crust! Pizza by a Jew?” The unpublicized, un-capitalistic, extensive home-cooking effort demonstrated admirable follow-through on a joke, but also brought much “kneaded” levity and a seriously delicious distraction to maddening times.
