Connecticut put ‘The Pizza State’ on license plates. This country is broken.

Our obnoxious neighbors to the Northeast have committed yet another act of aggression in the great pizza war.

Connecticut — the state that has spent more time talking about how great their pizza is than actually making great pizza — boasted yet another bold claim this week. They unveiled vanity license plates that proclaim CT to be “The Pizza State.”

Colin Caplan, a New Haven pizza historian, pizza guru and person who clearly has never been to New Jersey, worked with Connecticut’s Department of Motor Vehicles to make the license plates. Yep, even Connecticut’s DMV is worse than ours, and I didn’t think that was possible.

The news comes after Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) took to the floor of the House of Representatives last year and declared New Haven the “pizza capital of the United States."

Politicians lie all the time, so this didn’t surprise me. But putting such blind falsehoods on a license plate makes me want to throw up — just like Connecticut pizza. Kidding! Or am I?

On one hand, the new license plates are for a good cause. Along with the blasphemous phrase and a slice triangular slice of pizza (which, for the record, is not even how Connecticut cuts is overrated pizza) the license plate also says “supporting Connecticut Foodshare.” The organization is a food bank that recently lost $1 million in federal funding.

I’m all for supporting a food bank. And frankly, New Jersey should’ve thought of this first, it would’ve been a huge hit. Maybe that’s why I’m so salty — not unlike the “Italian bomb” pizza at Modern Apizza.

As someone who has completed multiple pizza crawls through New Haven (Connecticut’s pizza capital and no one else’s) I can confirm that their precious “apizza” is pretty good. Some of it is great, even! Sally’s Apizza is my favorite of the bunch, and worth the stop.

But none of the pizza is good enough to justify a trip up to Connecticut. Trust me, I found out the hard way. Is it fair to call a state that has one great pizza town, and one great pizza style “the pizza state?” No chance.

New Jersey is the pizza state, and we don’t need to put it on a license plate or the Congressional Record to know it.

Star Tavern and Kinchley’s paper-thin bar pies are better. Papa’s and De Lorenzo’s tomato pies are better. Razza and Bivio’s Neapolitan pizzas are better. Brooklyn Square may sound like a New York pizzeria, but it’s in Jersey, and it’s better than Connecticut. Pizza Town USA is in New Jersey, not Connecticut, and for good reason.

I’ve heard of people lying about their height on their driver’s license. But lying on your license plate should be a federal crime. If nothing else, it’s a crime against the pizza gods.