Posted on 02/24/2022 5:58:15 AM PST by mylife
If you were raised in northern New England, or spent any appreciable amount of time there, you already know what I am about to tell you: Beach pizza is a thing of local lore. There is some debate among people in my hometown — Newburyport, Massachusetts, a coastal city tucked between Boston and the New Hampshire border — about whether or not I, a person born in New York and raised in New England, should be allowed to identify as a Bay Stater. But when the conversation turns to pizza, my provenance becomes clear. I’m from New England. If I were not, I would not have a horse in this pizza race.
In the lengthy annals of pizzadom, New England beach pizza is little more than a blip on the carbohydrate radar; a connoisseur might deem beach pizza objectively bad. Cooked in sheet trays, it has a barely perceptible crust, an even less prominent dusting of cheese, and an overly sweet sauce that owes its flavor profile to Prego. Hold a square in your hand and you’ll be reminded, somewhat nostalgically, of an Ellio’s slice. There is wafer-thin crust and crunch, and your inevitable impatience to take a chomp out of it will be repaid with a burnt roof of the mouth, because waiting for perfectly imperfect things is difficult. For an extra 50 cents, the pizzaiolos at Cristy’s and Tripoli Pizza Bakery, the two rival vendors who produce this species of pizza, will melt an extra disk of provolone onto your slice. This is not great pizza. And yet, somehow, it is.
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I’ll pass, thanks. I’ll have some of the Haitian peanut butter from the other thread, though!
Does it have Pineapple?..................
They didn’t even post a picture of the pizza. Now I want to be angry.
In competition with Skyline chili for most polarizing food in America.
No thanks. I’ll keep my Jersey pizza - THE BEST!
all pizza, I have had on the Atlantic was acceptable but this one sounds sucky
Joey Tomatoes on the boardwalk in Point Pleasant is the best beach pizza I ever had.
“This is not great pizza. But somehow it is.”
That’s about all I need to hear. #Pass
Get the fried clams instead.
looks hideous!!!
whole belly fried clams please :)
Ha! I was in Cincy on Monday but didn’t partake. I like it though.
I’ve seen elementary school lunch pizza that looked better.
Im from Mass, this is not really a thing.
I would be more open if not for the clove ingredient....if not for that I could learn to like it.
we had good school lunch pizza every thurs.
good spaghetti too.
yet there it is...
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