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Meet Our New TikTok Dining Correspondent

January 8, 2024 By Lisa Grigsby

Ben Smith has  spent most of life in the north Dayton area (Troy). He owns a small business and travels to car dealerships around a 16 county territory. He’s been doing this for 7 years and has always been drawn to the “honey holes” restaurants. So for his lunch he’ll stop and check them out these eateries. His father is a HUGE yelper with over a million views and 1000 reviews. He decided to piggy back off what he does is to do videos, so I started using tik tok.”

He calls his tik tok videos “straight bussin” which he says comes from my teenage children. They, and all the gen z kids, have new slang words that I’ve picked up and started using to make them cringe. (Bussin’ means really good, great)

We asked him about his favorite foods and he says, “I LOVE Clam chowder, Rueben’s, and Indian food. I‘ll try anything and I firmly believe that if it’s edible and prepared right, anything can be delicious!”

We asked him if he had to pick his final meal and here’s what he shared:

pepercorn crusted sea bass (Salar)
Pimento bacon biscuit (Salt Block Company)
Stewed tomatoes (Pine Club)
2 slices of artichoke Oakey Dokey pizza w/ extra cashew ricotta (Wheat Penny)
English tea cake for desert (Cold Water Cafe)

So now we’ve decided to share his video’s on local restaurants. Since he’s from Troy, it seems only right that we share this one on the eve of the opening of the 4th Old Scratch Pizza, which has remodeled the old fire house into a great eatery.

@straightbussinfood

Old Scratch Pizza, Troy Ohio #food #review #foodie #eats #dayton #delicious #pizza #woodfiredpizza #woodfire #bestfood #unique #bussin #taste #dinner #lunch #eat #local #smallbusiness

♬ Ride the Lightning (717 Tapes) – Warren Zeiders


Old Scratch Pizza

19 E Race Street
Troy, OH 45373

937-552-7283

Monday : Closed
‍Tuesday – Thursday : 11am – 9pm
‍Friday – Saturday : 11am – 10pm
‍Sunday : 11am – 9pm

 

Filed Under: Dayton Dining, The Featured Articles Tagged With: Ben Smith, Old Scratch Pizza, straight bussin, tik tok

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