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A few weeks ago, we told you about the new Neapolitan Express pizza truck. It was touted NYC’s first “green” truck, but that’s not entirely true.

Nevertheless, they use compressed natural gas, which emits nearly 75% less carbon emissions than gas and diesel food trucks. That’s a wonderful thing.

But we’re here to talk about what really matters – the pizza!

During our NYSF First Look, we tried the Margherita Pizza and a Cioccolato Pizza for dessert. The pizzas (or is it pizzae?) were both very good.

Next on our list was the Bufala, made with buffalo mozzarella, which costs $9. Let’s get cooking!

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Over the past 2 weeks, Neapolitan Express has gotten a lot of press.  The mainstream media were all over them for a couple of days, after their big press conference with Mayor Bloomberg, T. Boone Pickens and the truck’s owner, Max Crespo. Those are some heavy hitters.

With Neapolitan Express being a food truck, of course we wrote about them too.

What everyone was writing about, and rightly so, was how Neapolitan Express runs on compressed natural gas, emitting nearly 75% less carbon emissions than trucks that run on gas and diesel.

Yesterday the truck finally hit the street around lunchtime, and we had a chance to try their food. Not only did we have a margherita pizza, but we also got a cioccolato pizza for dessert.

If you’re gonna go, go big!

We also got a very nice surprise after ordering, which you’ll have to read through to the end to find out.

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UPDATE 2/23/13 – Thanks to Steve Bango for sending us their twitter account, @neaexpress. That enabled us to find their website here, their facebook here, and their menu here.

We know Mayor Bloomberg was a big supporter of food trucks bringing relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy.

Now the Mayor is throwing his support behind Neapolitan Express, a pizza truck that produces almost 75% less greenhouse gas emissions than those that run on gas and diesel.

From the front, it kind of looks like a hotel shuttle van, but we expect the food will be much better.

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After reading about the freebies being given away for Italian Week, we thought a few zeppoles might be in our future. Valducci’s was giving them away with the purchase of a slice to celebrate Italian Week.

They also had a second promotion going on for Italian Week to buy any slice, and get a regular slice for free. This caused a little confusion with our order.

We haven’t tried Valducci’s pizza oreganata yet, so we ordered a slice for $4. Unbeknownst to us, the woman also tossed in a free regular slice for us. She didn’t seem to know about the zeppole tweet we saw that morning, and said we would have to pay for the zeppoles.

When we said we wanted the free zeppoles instead of the free slice, the owner Mike, came over and told her to give me the zeppoles too.

Not positive, but we think Mike might have remembered us from when the truck first opened back in May 2011. That day he told us all about Valducci’s history, both on Staten Island and by Wall St. We try to stay anonymous, but it’s not always possible.

We’re not Italian, but any true New Yorker knows about zeppoles, and we weren’t about to let these babies get away.

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At this point, Eddie’s Pizza Truck has been on the NYC streets for a while…but not nearly as long as their restaurant on Long Island, which has been around since the 1930′s!

Eddie’s has expanded on their initial pizza menu with some nice sandwiches and Italian sliders, but they didn’t have any sandwiches the day we went. Must have been a snafu with the rolls.

Lately we’ve been trying out some vegetarian options for lunch, and the White Arugula Pie for $10 seemed like a good veggie choice for lunch. There’s also a Veggie Delight Pie, but we’ve always had a soft spot for white pizza.

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