Our View: Gumby’s Pizza should pull it together so Pokey Stix may remain the traditional N.C. State delivery item of choice

Pokey Stix.

We’ve all had ’em at some point or another.

Warm and gooey, they get delivered right outside your dorm room with the dipping sauce of your choice, be it ranch or marinara.

At about $3 a person, an entire suite could order 2 massive sizes and gorge themselves for days.

But if Gumby’s doesn’t pull it together, this greasy feast may not be something incoming freshman will get to experience.

According to the inspector who gave Gumby’s its latest sanitation grade of 70.5, a lot of cleaning and repair is required to keep the restaurant from losing it’s license.

That would mean no more late night cravings satisfied by Gumby’s delivery people, no more bonding over pizza during all-night study and studio sessions, no more stop-overs during Hillsborough Hike.

And Gumby’s, guys, come on. We’ve all seen your building, and yes, it could use some repair. But according to the inspector’s report, only 5.5 of the 29.5 total points lost can be attributed to the buildings condition.

The rest of those points were just carelessness. So let’s clean it up.

Have sanitizing solution at the ready.

Cover your garlic sauce.

Throw away your cups.

Clean out your containers.

And not just when the inspector is on his way, but every day you are open for operation.

Because as your nearest, dearest customers, we do expect a certain level of cleanliness. Just because we’re students doesn’t mean sanitation doesn’t matter.

But your steady flow of business during the past few weeks should prove that we are ready to stick by you, regardless.

Now make it worth our while.

Do your job and keep the place clean, both now and when you move into your new building come winter.

The grease itself is enough to battle with — students don’t need food-related illnesses to accompany that.

And we want your doors to stay open, so our bellies can stay full of Pokey Stix.

So clean up your act, and your establishment, because it would be a shame for incoming students to miss out on all that is Pokey.

And because if you don’t deliver those great, greasy treats to the students of N.C. State — in a sanitary manner — who will?