Deep Dish is not pizza

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Ram27

this

you can really only get it in chicago or frozen in the tri-state area i believe. i live in indiana and they used to have it frozen here; not anymore

you can also order it frozen to be shipped



cromulent reference and correct pizzaing

pinnacle of this is neapolitan. the crust is divine; lovely leoparding and flavor. sauce and cheese are just a bonus

A good Neapolitan is hard to beat. 2 Amys and Pizzeria Paradiso are both in DC and pretty great.

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

A good Neapolitan is hard to beat. 2 Amys and Pizzeria Paradiso are both in DC and pretty great.

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by reprise85

that sounds like pan pizza

chicago style deep dish and pan pizza are not the same thing. all the "pan pizza" I've had outside of chicago is just thick crust pizza baked in a pan.

Chicago is different starting with the crust, but also how the ingredients are layered.

[Eulogy]

https://www.chowhound.com/food-news/...dish-pizza/amp

Decent overview here

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by MyOneAndOnly

I haven’t had either in like eight years : (

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

What do you even consider proper thin crust? And where in Chicago have you had pizza?

Uno's, Giordano's, Pequod's... I've had it at other places that I can't remember. The original Uno's location downtown is basically a tourist trap. But we used to go there when i was a kid. We had an Uno's in Ann Arbor (where I went to college), but the pizza never tasted or looked the same there as it did in chicago. I remember likeing Giordano's the most.

I like proper thin crust... cooked fast in a high temp oven. Neopolitan style is the only type of pizza where I'll eat the bones.

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

I haven’t had either in like eight years : (

for the most part i give DC a grade of "C" for pizza quality. The big slices the city is known for are garbage. And the weird square pizza that seems to be popular out in Maryland is just meh. But there are a few good pizza shops if you know where to look.

&Pizza has become a big thing here for some reason. To me it is the Chipotle of pizza. They seem to be in every neighborhood. I liked Campono which was next door to my building. Wood fired thin crust. But COVID put them out of business.

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by MyOneAndOnly

Uno's, Giordano's, Pequod's... I've had it at other places that I can't remember. The original Uno's location downtown is basically a tourist trap. But we used to go there when i was a kid. We had an Uno's in Ann Arbor (where I went to college), but the pizza never tasted or looked the same there as it did in chicago. I remember likeing Giordano's the most.

I like proper thin crust... cooked fast in a high temp oven. Neopolitan style is the only type of pizza where I'll eat the bones.

Not liking pequod’s is certainly a take!

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by MyOneAndOnly

chicago style deep dish and pan pizza are not the same thing. all the "pan pizza" I've had outside of chicago is just thick crust pizza baked in a pan.

Chicago is different starting with the crust, but also how the ingredients are layered.

yeah, I agree. it just sounds like that is what DK was describing

[Disco King]

Originally Posted by reprise85

that sounds like pan pizza

Weird how the place literally calls itself "Chicago Deep Dish."

I feel a though I should write a review warning people that this establishment sells pan pizza, rather than its namesake. But at the same time, the place did give me a free Orange Crush and two complimentary mints, as well as a note asking me to rate them well. I feel it would be a betrayal.

Can I be bought?

[Eulogy]

No one should be leaving bad reviews during a pandemic lol. Where is this place? I want to look it up and judge it.

[MyOneAndOnly]

I have never seen proper "deep dish" outside of Chi town. Almost everywhere it ends up just being pan pizza.

I have also seen a lot of places advertising Detroit Style outside of Detroit and it usually is only a square pizza

[Ram27]

Originally Posted by Disco King

Weird how the place literally calls itself "Chicago Deep Dish."

I feel a though I should write a review warning people that this establishment sells pan pizza, rather than its namesake. But at the same time, the place did give me a free Orange Crush and two complimentary mints, as well as a note asking me to rate them well. I feel it would be a betrayal.

Can I be bought?

rate them well but also note that the description is wrong

i am sure there are multiple rubes that don't know the difference; that doesn't make it bad pizza per se

[butthurt]

I’ve never understood this categorizing types of pizza by city, as if every pizza place in a megacity follows the same rules for making pizza. I lived in Manhattan, and every pizza place I frequented was different.

[Disco King]

It's not salami unless it comes from the Salami region of Brooklyn.

[Ram27]

i think it's like, the platonic ideal of pizza in that place that exists less elsewhere

i'm not entirely sure what platonic ideal means but i've heard other people use it in that sort of way, i think

[Cool As Ice Cream]

Originally Posted by Ram27

i think it's like, the platonic ideal of pizza in that place that exists less elsewhere

i'm not entirely sure what platonic ideal means but i've heard other people use it in that sort of way, i think

try using the term "logos" more often, ram.

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by Ram27

i think it's like, the platonic ideal of pizza in that place that exists less elsewhere

i'm not entirely sure what platonic ideal means but i've heard other people use it in that sort of way, i think

bro it's like the world of forms bro

[Disco King]

I do feel as though I've only ever tasted shadows of Chicago deep-dish pizza on cave walls.

[Eulogy]

Had some deep dish delivered last night. V good.

[MyOneAndOnly]

From where?

[killtrocity]

Fuck this thread.

I mean you're not necessarily wrong, but deep dish pizza is the closest thing I have to a culture. It's just that, watching the Cubs lose, drinking Old Style, and going to Christmas Eve mass at the Catholic church with my mom, which we don't even really do anymore because organized religion and particularly the Catholic church are cancer.

Out of those things, deep dish pizza is the only one that I feel is beyond reproach. Until someone comes along with an axe to grind like "IT'S JUST SOUPY BREAD IT'S NOT PIZZA YOU FUCKTARD"

YOU GOT WHAT YOU WANTED ARE YOU HAPPY

[killtrocity]

Originally Posted by MyOneAndOnly

chicago style deep dish and pan pizza are not the same thing. all the "pan pizza" I've had outside of chicago is just thick crust pizza baked in a pan.

Chicago is different starting with the crust, but also how the ingredients are layered.

The Twin Cities metro recently got a couple of Giordanos, and the locals simply could not understand how it was different from Old Chicago, which is the "Chicago thick" bullshit that you mentioned. It's perfectly fine BUT IS NOT DEEP DISH.

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by MyOneAndOnly

From where?

Bartoli’s

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

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