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Dip it in ranch dressing.

I don't put ranch on anything! Gross tasting stuff.

I absolutely love ranch on my pizza. Granted, I am a middle-school student (though homeschooled), and got the idea from my (middle school, homeschooled) friends after we started dipping French-Fries in Ranch (that's justified in Mich--here most of the fries are way too greasy or way too dry). We decided to try it on our pizza--and it's great. Only Hidden Valley (tm) works though. Deep dish pizza doesn't need it, fortunately. A group fave for us is cayenne pepper, fresh black pepper, ranch, and tabasco sauce. I agree, if it's good pizza, it doesn't need condiments, but (1) pizza in metro-detroit isn't that good, and (2), it doesn't matter if it needs it--if ya want it, I say put it on unashamedly!

I moved to nyc in late june and have been to some pizza places. so far co. takes the prize.

the best pizza I have ever had in my entire life was at pinocchios off harvard square in cambridge ma

I have NEVER heard of this culinary habit of ranch dressing on pizza until I read this in the Wash. Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/27/AR2008052700821.html

It just seems like such an incongruous flavor or condiment to add to a pizza.

Rudy's had good calzones. We used to order those on Thursdays nights when I worked the copy desk at the Daily Kansan.

Allenb: I'd say anything along the lines of Pizza Shuttle and Gumby's, in retrospect. Though to a drunk, poor college student, they were good. Rudy's was basically just a thick hunk of dough with some plasticy cheese and too-sweet sauce.

"Why did you pick Chicago. What about the rest of the East Coast. Boston, Philly, D.C., New Heaven, and New Jersey are all better pizza regions. Every thing from Chicago looks like poop." -two pizzas

then you either havent been here or you eat at Pizza hut and Dominoes. Where you from? obviously somewhere out east with that dumb statement you made. Not only are we an amazing pizza region but its so serious that we have three different types. Get familiar so you dont make yourself look like a fool anymore. Ive been to all those places you mention. try Zaffiros in Milwaukee too while your at it.

http://chibbqking.blogspot.com/2008/09/best-pizza-in-world.html

Love everyone's enthusiasm on the topic. The correction or maybe more a distintiction (wasn't being harsh, just playful) I was making was that the oven @ Lee's is a brick oven. It is absolutley gas lined with bricks, that is correct. You guys are terrific fun. I thought by the mention of "standard gas oven" you didn't realize it was brick. The smack down is all yours. Enjoy. :)
LOL

What a bunch of snobs. Don't put Ranch on pizza!! Eat whatever you want on pizza.

It certainly looks like a standard deck gas oven in the Bridge and Tunnel Club shot of their kitchen. If they use an additional brick oven, it's surely not to be found in those photos. You'd think they would have captured it. Perhaps as Ed Levine suggests in Slice of Heaven, they place a brick in there.

Ciao,

Paulie Gee

@pizza321: Trying to whack the Truth Hammer, are you? ;) I called Lee's and talked to them. They said they do not have a coal-fired oven. They may have a brick oven, but it's not fired with coal. There's a difference. You can have a brick oven fired with gas, wood, or coal -- or even oil in some rare instances. But Lee's said they did not have a coal oven.

OMG, I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Never mind ranch alone, but the thought of ham, pineapple, and ranch ? My goodness, what a sacrilege to the almighty pizza.(NY style of course)
Well does any other really even exist?

I'm a Northern transplant here in the south (NC)
This is where I first discovered people using ranch as a condiment rather then the ones I had been brought up around such as Grated cheese or crushed red pepper .
C'mon, everyone knows if the pizza is good you don't need anything else besides napkins!
Come to think of it, some of the pizza I've tried to choke down here in the south might have actually tasted better with a jar of ranch for dipping!
Now it's starting to make sense.
I finally found a great pizza joint here without having to disgrace the almighty pizza pie!
And I can't stop laughing about Keith W 3:33 10/21/08 comment !