A List of Regional Pizza Styles
Everything that everyone has had to say about St. Louis-style pizza above is true. It's wonderful and it's awful, provel is both sickening and transcendentally amazing, and Cecil Whitaker's is different and in some ways better than Imo's.
Really ... it just takes some getting used to, and after that it's addictive. I hated it the first time I tried it, loved it the second time, and still go back and forth. I'll usually go with New York or Chicago deep-dish, but sometimes I just jones for St. Louis-style.
I don't know if it's a national thing or a regional variant just available in certain parts of Missouri or what, but I'm aware of two non-St. Louis pizzerias (McSalty's in Springfield and Shakespeare's in Columbia) which serve their pies on a wheat crust by default. It's not a dark, dry wheat crust -- McSalty's, I believe, refers to theirs as a "honey wheat" crust. A little less crisp / more flexible than standard New York style, but about the same thickness. Best. Stuff. Ever.
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Favorite foods: Pizza, Springfield Missouri style cashew chicken, prime rib.
Last bite on earth: If I can get them to make it, a Shakespeare's pizza topped with prime rib and Springfield Missouri style cashew chicken.