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Strike For The South
11-19-2008, 19:27
Who has the better pizza?

New York
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Chicago
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I contend that deep dish is not even real pizza. More like A pasta dish minus the pasta. New York style is where its at, thin and greasy mmmmmmmmmmm. I'll eat both out of my sheer belief in equliaty but if I had my choice it'd be New York :yum:
Yoyoma1910
11-19-2008, 19:50
:smash:


I object!


New York style is an overrated snack food. It might as well be a tray full of crackers covered in similar toppings, and then served as hors d'oeuvres! Oh... how dainty:no:. For shame!
Lemur
11-19-2008, 20:01
I find it hard to believe that this is even a question. If you need to eat some parchment paper covered with grease, by all means, go to NYC. But if you want pizza, kiddies, it's all about Chicago.
GeneralHankerchief
11-19-2008, 20:06
Can't answer. I've had New York pizza in New York, but never Chicago pizza in Chicago. Until I experience both delicacies on their home turf, it wouldn't be fair to judge.
Lemur
11-19-2008, 20:18
I lived for 9 years in New York and ten in Chicago. Trust me, the pizza in Chicago is outstanding. Just thinking about a Carmen's stuffed spinach makes my salivary glands spurt like faucets.

Actually, the food situation is just much better in Chicago than it is in NYC. Take your pick — Mexican food, Vietnamese food, Ethiopian food, Thai food, steakhouses, sushi; I don't care which category you choose. Odds are very good you will find a better restaurant that offers the food at half the price in Chicago as opposed to the Big Apple.

Take Thai food — there's this little hole in the wall place on the North Side of Chicago, called Siam Noodle and Rice (http://siamnoodleandrice.com/siam1.html), and it's just outstanding. I have dreams about their nam tok. And it's cheap, cheap, cheap. That nam tok, which would command between twelve and thirty bucks at a proper NYC restaurant? $6.50. In 2008 dollars.

I spent nine years trying to find a Thai restaurant that was anywhere near as good in NYC, and I never found it.

The limp, greasy "pizza" is the least of NYC's culinary shortcomings.
Yoyoma1910
11-19-2008, 20:34
Personally, my favorite style of pizza is Sicilian, though I also enjoy a nice Chicago.


If I want a thin pizza, I'll take a St. Louis style over a New York any day. Although, It's more a snack food than a meal.
Thermal
11-19-2008, 20:36
how can anyone gah pizza? i like chicago :) though deep pan - stuffed crust in england is a winner :2thumbsup:
LittleGrizzly
11-19-2008, 20:48
I have had new york and chicago pizza's... style that is, the pizza's were made in uk, chigaco wins.... i do like a nice thin pizza sometimes though...
Hooahguy
11-19-2008, 21:14
NY... definitly.....
but im partial. i was born there.
Yoyoma1910
11-19-2008, 21:17
i do like a nice thin pizza sometimes though...


St: Louis style pizza:

http://stlouispizzaandcustard.com/images/pizza.jpg


Super crispy crust and Provel cheese.
AlexanderSextus
11-19-2008, 23:40
you people just don't understand. I'm sure Hooah will agree with me on this one. The greasiness of the NYC style pizza is a GOOD thing. it makes it just that much more delicious.

Honestly, I thing New Jersey pizza is the best. Yes, it's almost exactly the same as NY pizza but we made the sauce better and we made the crust crispier too.
Hooahguy
11-20-2008, 00:21
you people just don't understand. I'm sure Hooah will agree with me on this one. The greasiness of the NYC style pizza is a GOOD thing. it makes it just that much more delicious.

Honestly, I thing New Jersey pizza is the best. Yes, it's almost exactly the same as NY pizza but we made the sauce better and we made the crust crispier too.
yeah, AS is on the ball on this one. the greasiness is good..... for clogging arteries..... :rolleyes:
but ya, NJ comes close second to NY pizza.
Strike For The South
11-20-2008, 00:27
yeah, AS is on the ball on this one. the greasiness is good..... for clogging arteries..... :rolleyes:.

Good sir. I take offense. If you are going to be on this Earth you need to live! Why do all of y'all abstain from vices?
Martok
11-20-2008, 00:38
Chicago-style, baby!

Not to diss the Big Apple, but I like my pizza with substance. :yes:
seireikhaan
11-20-2008, 01:01
Chicago all the way. I'm disappointed in you, Strike. How you of all people could prefer that flimsy, sissy, greasy piece of cardboard to the robust manliness that is Chicago style pizza is beyond me.
Strike For The South
11-20-2008, 01:03
Chicago all the way. I'm disappointed in you, Strike. How you of all people could prefer that flimsy, sissy, greasy piece of cardboard to the robust manliness that is Chicago style pizza is beyond me.

I want Pizza not some mess of tomato sauce and sausage. How are you supposed to eat that whilst drinking a case of beer! Can't be done say I!
Reverend Joe
11-20-2008, 02:33
I contend that deep dish is not even real pizza. More like A pasta dish minus the pasta.

See, that's the problem with New York pizza: it's just snack food. Chicago pizza is a dish.
Hooahguy
11-20-2008, 02:40
so i think the consensus is that NY pizza is for snacks and fun, while chicago is for the sit-down meals and such.
Yoyoma1910
11-20-2008, 04:01
so i think the consensus is that NY pizza is for snacks and fun, while chicago is for the sit-down meals and such.

That sounds about right.
Evil_Maniac From Mars
11-20-2008, 04:02
I want Pizza not some mess of tomato sauce and sausage. How are you supposed to eat that whilst drinking a case of beer! Can't be done say I!

The uncivilized world* calls it a fork. ~;)

*Those not from Texas.
Yoyoma1910
11-20-2008, 04:04
I want Pizza not some mess of tomato sauce and sausage. How are you supposed to eat that whilst drinking a case of beer! Can't be done say I!

Instructions for a 12 pack:

7 while baking
2 while eating
3 while digesting
Husar
11-20-2008, 15:34
That thing from Chicago looks like a cake, the NYC thing looks very similar to what I get at an Italian restaurant here.
Sigurd
11-20-2008, 16:20
GAH !!!
Because I have not tried either.
Thermal
11-20-2008, 18:39
i dont mind much either way, im more used to (after being shown it) NY pizza, but i like chicago, i think there both snacks, but they can both be made into meals with chips and salad (or something fattening for all you green haters)
Ser Clegane
11-20-2008, 21:34
Chicago - I had my last one at Giordano's during a business trip in September.

Excellent (very different though from what you expect from a pizza in Europe).

I have to admit I was not able to eat the entire pizza :shame:
Strike For The South
11-20-2008, 21:42
I have to admit I was not able to eat the entire pizza :shame:

I don't know if I can forgive you:no:
Hooahguy
11-20-2008, 21:45
I have to admit I was not able to eat the entire pizza :shame:
you..... you..... you.... blasphemer! :whip:
Lemur
11-20-2008, 22:38
Chicago - I had my last one at Giordano's during a business trip in September.
Giordano's is an okay Chicago pie, certainly not the top shelf. If you get a chance next time, try to eat a Carmen's stuffed spinach and pepperoni pizza. One of those bad boys is enough to feed a small Mexican army for a month. And needless to say, it tastes like an orgasm dipped in butter.
Thermal
11-20-2008, 22:43
it tastes like an orgasm dipped in butter.

LMAO thats a different one, so it tastes like dead corpses then?
Sasaki Kojiro
11-20-2008, 22:43
Papa John's is the best.
GeneralHankerchief
11-20-2008, 22:46
Papa John's is the best.

:laugh4::laugh4::laugh4::laugh4::laugh4:
Ser Clegane
11-20-2008, 22:58
If you get a chance next time, try to eat a Carmen's stuffed spinach and pepperoni pizza.

I'll give that one a try next time - seems I have to keep my fingers crossed that the recession will be a short one and I can plan for the next trip during next year :sweatdrop:

And I will give my best to finish the pizza this time
Husar
11-21-2008, 02:35
Chicago - I had my last one at Giordano's during a business trip in September.

Excellent (very different though from what you expect from a pizza in Europe).

I have to admit I was not able to eat the entire pizza :shame:

Just looking at the picture I thought maybe half of it before I'm full. :laugh4:
Thermal
11-21-2008, 14:26
wow NY and chicago have been neck and neck throughout, an interesting poll :yes:
Hosakawa Tito
11-21-2008, 15:17
I love both styles of pizza. Though Chicago style is basically quite the same as Sicilian style that my Italian roots come from; I chose NY because I really do like the crunchy texture of the thin crust. Chicago stuffed crust is more like lasagna to me. I wouldn't spit out either kind, mind you.:laugh4:

Me and food go waaay back.
Strike For The South
11-21-2008, 16:34
I love both styles of pizza. Though Chicago style is basically quite the same as Sicilian style that my Italian roots come from; I chose NY because I really do like the crunchy texture of the thin crust. Chicago stuffed crust is more like lasagna to me. I wouldn't spit out either kind, mind you.:laugh4:
Me and food go waaay back.

We're not so different, you and I
Thermal
11-21-2008, 16:52
if you like the same pizza you must be similar, is it possible that SFTS is your long lost son hosa?
Proletariat
12-29-2008, 06:13
Ah, good taste edges out freakish Sicilian/Chicago style dough-sponges covered in tomato sauce pretending to be pizza/pasta dishes at once.

There's no beating paper thin crust pizza out of a 900f oven. The pie's on me anytime for the refined 12 who voted NY style. True Orgah heroes

:bow:
Beefy187
12-29-2008, 09:05
One I had in Napoli which is supposed to be a real pizza is closer to NY. And thats how I always ate my Pizza. NY if I had the vote!:2thumbsup:
Yoyoma1910
12-29-2008, 10:14
The Chicago and the Sicilian are two completely different dishes.


Chicago style is literally a pizza pie, and the crust is generally fairly thin.

Sicilian is pumped up focaccia bread, with a thick rectangular crust.
KukriKhan
12-29-2008, 14:20
If you need a tool to eat it - it's not pizza, it's something else.

Proper pizza is folded or rolled, and fresh out of the oven so that what you fellas are calling "grease" is known as 'juice'. The obvious problem here is that you guys have been served no-longer-fresh product; that's like eating a ham sandwich that has sat out for an hour, and deciding it suxors because the bread was hard and ham smelt 'funny'.
SwordsMaster
12-29-2008, 15:13
Between those 2, I must say Chicago. Nothin like it on a cold winter evening...

Now, as of pure distilled pizza pleasure, there is a tiny restaurant around the corner from St Peter's sq in Rome that make pizza that's so beautiful I have considered marrying the cook. No matter what his sexual persuasions.
AlexanderSextus
12-31-2008, 10:41
Papa John's is the best...cardboard on the market



Fixed!:smash: