Posted on 11/16/2017 9:33:02 PM PST by nickcarraway
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The press secretary for the mayor of New York City — America’s pizza epicenter — took to Twitter to claim that a Chicago pizzeria makes better pies than all of New York.
“This is the best pizza in the United States and it’s not close,” Eric Phillips tweeted Saturday along with a photo depicting an amorphous pile of pepperoni and sauce that is purportedly a pie from some place called “Pequod’s Pizza.”
That specious assessment did not sit well with Big Apple gourmands, who were quick to pile on the seemingly clueless Midwest native.
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I agree.
Are they talking about Pizza or are they talking about “Pizza”?
Hey, nice move, Numb Nuts. Dust off your resume.
When it comes to cheese, Chicago deep dish pizza is hands down the best. Chicago style pizza is not at all like pizza from other places. Every slice is a meal.
Now you can say that NY pizza is the best. But its not in the same ball park. They aren’t similar at all. Thin crust has lots of variants. And you can argue which is better. But Chicago deep dish should not even be included. You like it or you don’t but its not like thin pizza.
The best pizza is that which is closest to which is made in Naples, Italy. There is none better. There are places in New York that make great Neapolitan pizza, but this is the exception rather than the rule. I grew up in Chicago, and never had Neapolitan pizza in Chicago. It may exist there, but I never had it there. The deep dish pizza in Chicago is the best in the world, and I love it, but this is not traditional pizza. My point is that neither Chicago or New York generally make the best pizza in the world. If you went to Naples, and compared that to what is considered top notch pizza in New York, you would see that New York pizza (with the exception of a very few places that have imported Neapolitan pizza making methods) doesn’t even come close to comparing. It’s like NCAA division II vs the major leagues. No comparison.
Apples and oranges.
The pic he tweeted is a deep dish pizza. Maybe he should be fired for bad political judgment...
And it's even better as breakfast in the am.
Also - Get yourself some giardiniera to go with it.
These first world problems...
I was at Pequod’s once some years back and remember enjoying it. Outside of that, nothing in particular stands out about it, and I tend not to proclaim something I like “the best in the country”. I have no way of knowing that. I never cared for any city’s food chauvinism. There is great pizza in Chicago and lousy pizza in Chicago, same as anywhere else. It depends on who is preparing it how they prepare it.
The guy writing this is bogus. Both places make all different kinds of pizzas, and both places make a lot of the same kinds of pizza styles.
It’s Heresy.
It’s like not rooting for the home team.
How out of touch can they be?
As long as he says that NYC Salsa isn’t better than Texas Salsa.
Shortly after I moved to Chicago from NYC, co-workers INSISTED on taking me and my boss, also a NYC transplant, to the original UNOs for deep dish pizza. Upon returning to the office, his assessment was “it’s good, but it’s not pizza!” I like deep dish, but, really, it’s NOT pizza!!
Why didn’t he take you to Lou Malnoti’s?
Folks should take Scott’s Pizza Tour in NYC takes you to places that serve authentic Neapolitan pizza, as well as inauthentic, to show differences. Fun tour.
Meh. Most Europeans will tell you that US or German pizza by Italian immigrants is far better than in Italy
I will take NYC Croton water pizza over Chicago polluted lake water any day
Went to Uno’s once. Crust was very dry.
Giordano’s deep dish and the thin crust “mostly meat” were outstanding.
The best pizza is always the one in front of you.
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