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Wild child actress inspires "Loaded" pizza
BY EVAN _WILLIAMS ewilliams@florida-weekly.com

PHOTO EVAN WILLIAMS Ann Snyder, left, and Ibolya Molnar, with the Lindsay Lohan Pizza

Lindsay Lohan is a young, talented actress, who became famous at too young an age, and reportedly has a penchant for what some would call "good times"; but, Lindsay Lohan is also a pizza - meaty, spicy, and "friggin' loaded," as a sign advertising the pie claims. It's sold at Metro Pizza, located inside the Citgo gas station on Metro Parkway, just North of Daniels Parkway.

The gas station attendant, who asked to remain anonymous, said she had tried Lindsay Lohan, the pizza, but prefers not to comment on Lindsay Lohan, the person, adding that she really doesn't know anything about her.

"I just like the pizza," she said.

The Lindsay Lohan is quite loaded, in fact, with buffalo chicken, green peppers, sausage, spinach, ham, black olives, bacon, mushrooms, pepperoni, and mozzarella cheese. As one might expect, it is completely sauced and baked until nice and crispy.

Slices of the Lohan pizza, which may be complemented by a 16 oz. can of Budweiser, were served last Thursday during a moderately busy lunch hour. People came to gas up and stave off the munchies: a gang of construction workers too dirty to recognize any ethnicity, a gaggle of youth wearing baseball hats, a couple of guys who put up aluminum siding, a man in cookwear (chef jacket, striped baggy pants and clogs).

PHOTO EVAN WILLIAMS A sign advertising the pizza on Metro Parkway

"Everything but the kitchen sink," one sun-tanned man commented appreciatively, eyeing the Lohan where it lay under the glass display case, with other competing pies: classics like the cheese, the pepperoni, the tomato and spinach.

Metro Pizza owner Ibolya Molnar (tough looking, brightly fashionable, long eye-lashed, Hungarian, nice accent), friend Ann Snyder, and one Florida Weekly correspondent, sat down at one of the gas station's three formica-topped booths to enjoy slices of the Lohan, last Friday.

"We try to make the product fit the name," Molnar said. "So, when you think of Lindsay Lohan, you think of…"

"Loaded," we all said, together.

Snyder, who said she helped Molnar come up with the Lindsay Lohan, said the pizza was for "the fellas."

"I'm talking about working men, guys who do labor," she explained. "I call 'em the fellas because I work in the field. That's why my own appearance is a little grungy and sweaty - because I don't work at a desk."

Molnar has owned Metro Pizza since 2004. Besides homemade pies, Metro Pizza also serves chicken, ribs, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, cheese sticks, egg rolls, and calzones.

"People should stop by and check us out," Molnar said.

Just a few doors down from the Citgo and Metro Pizza, at Flooring America, salesperson and design consultant Steve Cinkus, said he was hungry and might have to go get a slice of Molnar's pizza for lunch.

"They make really good stuff," he said. "You'd never guess that out of a gas station, you'd get some of the best pizza in Lee County...

"It could use a little more sauce though."

Still, some remain unconvinced, and unsure that a pizza inspired by Lohan, the person, could ever be a good idea.

"I wouldn't try the Lindsay Lohan," Harold Balink, chef and owner of Harolds on Bay and H2, said. "The hype the celebrities get in the media makes me physically ill, and the pizza probably would too."

At Fitness on the Move Lifestyle Center, also located on Metro, directly across the street from Metro Pizza, a young lady at the front desk, also asked to remain anonymous, said the Lohan pizza sounded unappealing.

"Just being named The Lindsay Lohan, I probably wouldn't try it," she said.