Who likes pizza?
I love pizza. New York pizza.
If you live outside of the New York or Chicago areas, I’m fine with you saying you like a pizza-like substance, but please don’t try to tell me, outside of when you visit the above two cities, that you like pizza. Cause you ain’t eatin’ it.
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Cheers,
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
I get sick when I eat pizza. I don’t know why though. 
How can you be so sure when you’re not really eating pizza?
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Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
I like the pizza type that JJuggle will hate. Pizza hut is okay, tombstone is best, anything else is a waste of my time.
And for any of you who have access to Gary’s Pizza in St. Joseph, MN - they have he best pizza in the world, but only for the first 2-3 minutes after it arrives. After that, it’s nearly impossible to enjoy.
I make damned good Upstate-New-York home-made pizza.
who doesn’t like pizza??? 
I love pizza too it’s the most amazing thing.I love pizza hut i don’t know of any other pizza places in the uk.All you can eat pizza amazing!
Ben
I eat both of those. I just don’t call it pizza.
BS!
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
I’m sure you make damned good Upstate-New-York home-made something, it just ain’t pizza.
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
What about pizza from Philadelphia/Chester.
Dont even answer that until you have eaten at Cacia’s or Romano’s (my uncle owns Romano’s )
My favorite is Papa Murphy’s “Chicago-Style Pizza” (I put it in quotes for JJuggle’s sake). It’s the kind where they make the “pizza,” put a layer of dough on top of it, and put more toppings on top of that. One slice is enough to fill you up (I sometimes eat a normal large “pizza” by myself, since I don’t have any real friends.)
You get the nod for cheesesteak, but you’re out of your league on pizza.
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
Chicago-Style Pizza is fine…if it’s ordered, paid for, and eaten IN CHICAGO!
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
I know! I also know I live in California, but my family lives in New York and I went to Chicago for a month. The pizza there is much better. Nobody in California knows how to eat, so everybody thinks I’m weird at restaurants.
Agreed! I wouldn’t be surprised if you can order an avocado/sprout/tofu pizza there. Another thing that is just plain WRONG is Hawaiian pizza. I’m sorry, but pineapples don’t even belong in the same room as tomato sauce.
I dont think that I will ever like southern california…
Dang, he’s a total pizza snob!
That stuff in NY and Chicago is a distortion of the stuff from Italy that’s the original pizza. If they can call those thin things pizzas, even Little Ceasars can call their junk pizza.
Pizza snobs. I lived in New York for ten years. I never found that amazing pizza people kept talking about. Sure, there’s lots of good pizza all over the place, but I mean all over the place. My favorite “regular” pizza, as in plain, by-the-slice, is from Reino’s Pizzeria in Hicksville, NY. Don’t laugh, Hicksville had a population of about 80,000 back in the 80s. It got the first Ikea store on the NY side of the Hudson River.
Anyway, awesome pizza from Reino’s. On Long Island. Those of you not familiar with the New York area should know that there’s an unwritten rule out there. Anywhere you have a strip mall, that is, a small shopping center with 5 or more stores, you have to have at least two of these three:
- A pizza place
- A Chinese take-out place
- A deli
Usually you get all three, but you’re almost guaranteed to get two at nearly every strip mall out there. Lots of mom and pop pizzas to choose from.
I’ve had my share of lame to bad pizza in New York too.
I have less experience with Chicago pizza. Chicago is considered the origin point for the deep-dish “Chicago-style.” Deep doesn’t mean good. It has to be both. Actually it just has to be good.
Pizzeria Uno is a Chicago chain. Are their pizzas only good at the locations in the Chicago city limits or metro area?
C’mon, Mr. pizza shob. Be more specific. What’s your favorite pizza?
For a proprietary style of pizza, the Buddy’s chain in the Detroit area has a really good one. It’s like a crispy Sicilian, with the ingredients underneath the cheese. They win awards every year. We usually end up there anytime I visit back there. It’s non-traditional pizza, but good stuff: http://www.buddyspizza.com/
Guilty as charged.
I have no experience with Italy or its pizza. That, however, changes nothing.
As far as I’m concerned Hicksville counts as NY and I will not dispute the quality of its pizza, though I’ve never had it.
Off-topic, but true. True in New Jersey as well. I can not think of a single strip mall within 5 miles of my house that does not have two of these, many which have all three.
Definitely. Not all New York pizza is good pizza. Strombolis on University Place near the bowling alley (forget the name) had pizza that positively sucked.
[/b]I have had Pizzeria Uno pizza in Chicago, NY, London, upstate New York (the Crossgates mall in Albany which digigal1 probably knows), Orlando, and at least a couple of other locations. It’s decent at all the US locations, sucked in London, but is definitely best in Chicago. There was another place in Chicago, Evanston actually, I recall, called Carmen’s that had kick ass pizza way better than Uno’s. When I was younger and childless, we’d wait forever to be able to eat there.
There was a Ray’s near the intersection of Mullberry and Elizabeth Streets that had awesome pizza. Ben’s on MacDougal St. had great pizza. There is a place I can’t remember the name of near Pratt Institute in Brooklyn (where I got my library degree) that had and still has fantastic pizza. Also a place called Smiling Pizza in Park Slope that is excellent. John’s (where you’d also have to wait forever) on Bleecker off 7th Ave was always a treat. When I was growing up on the lower east side, Angelo’s on 2nd Ave between 4th and 5th Streets was the place to eat. I had my first date there in 4th grade. Margaret was her name. 
Two slices and two Cokes for $1.00. That was when the “man” paid and I did.
Yeah, yeah, whatever.
My pizza confession: I haven’t yet but do want to try pizza with pineapple, Hawaiin Pizza.
Anybody want to talk bagels?
Cheers,
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
I know I don’t. SFBA all the way!
Unfortunately I plan to go to UCLA and then be an actor (ba any means necessary). Oh well. I’ll get over it.