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From Slice

Scary Pizza, for Chicagoans

I really like all the coal-fired and wood-fired pizzerias here in Chicago - they avoid the floppy, flaccid crusts and light, underseasoned toppings that for some perverse reasons New Yorkers seem to take pride in.

nr706 at 10:21AM on 11/01/07

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Boo! More Scary Pizza for New Yorkers

Just to clarify, deep dish is a style of pizza based on Sicilian pizza. It may be valid to say you dislike the style, but to call it a "horror show" is a bit over the top, don't you think? There are plenty of people who enjoy this style, although to be fair, the franchised Pizzaria Unos (which do not share ownership with the original) are at best pale imitations of the original. If that style of pizza was so horrific, why do you think Saveur magazine recently featured the master of the style, Burt, on their cover?

nr706 at 10:14AM on 11/01/07

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From Slice

Scary Pizza, for Chicagoans

Cute, except that thin-crust pizza IS far and away the predominant style in Chicago. Deep dish and stuffed is for tourists and special occassions. We do, however, cut our thin pizzas in squares instead of pie-shaped slices.

pulykamell at 5:46PM on 11/02/07

From Slice

Boo! More Scary Pizza for New Yorkers

I have lived in Chicago most of my life outside of a 5 yr stint in the NYC, and a few yrs in Denver, and Albuquerque. All of my friends, and everyone I know in Chicago, for the most part, view the whole "Deep Dish" thing as a tourist craze. There are a TON of thin crust places in Chicago, and everyone I know prefers thin crust. I for one really never order stuffed or deep dish unless I am entertaining out of town guests.

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homeslyce at 9:18AM on 11/02/07

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Boo! More Scary Pizza for New Yorkers

nr706: Maybe it was not clear, but "Slice Dude" was trying to "scare" New Yorkers with a gallery of deep dish pizza. There are some people who would go so far as to call it a "horror show."

Slice Dude is an equal-opportunity offender, so he also made a horror show out of NY-style pizza. That was to "scare" the Chicago folks out there.

Adam Kuban at 11:47AM on 11/01/07