Chicago style pizza is not deep dish, Chicago style pizza is crispy tavern style and cut into squares. They rarely eat deep dish and it's mostly served to tourists, while they constantly eat the real one
Today I learned that Americans refer to perfectly normal and typical Italian street pizza as "Detroit style pizza"
In most Pennsylvania stores when you order a pizza without giving them special instructions they serve you crust with cheese on top and the sauce sprayed on top of the cheese and if you want sauce on the bottom you have to order it upside down
You were in a low-budget horror movie where they forgot to tell you that all that stuff was fake.
No it's way different, Detroit pizza is in a pan, Chicago pizza is flat large and round, and usually kinda flaky with cheese on top of the toppings and everything all the way up to the edge to make sure the little rounded corner bits still have stuff on them when you make the square cuts. Detroit is thicc as hell, Chicago is thin but not super thin.
It's perfect for a bunch of people getting some beers and like one pizza to nibble on just to balance out the beers without having to eat a ton of food. You just have 1 or 2 of the little squares. And it's crispy so it stays good even if it sits on the counter a little while
One of the advantages of that particular formulation is that you don't need a specialized 900 degree oven, you bake it for like 12-15 minutes at 450, which is why it got so popular for taverns and bars throughout the great lakes region
Maybe this is what I grew up eating when I visited my cousin in Syracuse. I always thought it was Detroit. Good as hell, legit Italian restaurant, crispy olive oil soaked bottom and edges.
Hell yeah it's so good. Incidentally, you should see if you can find Detroit style pan pizza, it's very different but also amazing. Detroit might be my favorite kind of all. The widest Detroit pizza franchise I know of is Jet's Pizza, they kick ass
The Great Lakes Italians are the best because most, like one side of my family that is clearly very Italian don’t even acknowledge it lol. Go east and it’s like Hey Tony wheres Tommy? Frank they said they were bringing clams, yeah yeah hey you hurt my sister pal I got connections ya know, all shouting level. Yes this was my childhood.
What Chicago did you visit? This is what real Chicago Style Deep Dish looks like. Some places also have the crackery style (thin crust) you mention, and others have that particular heaven known as thick crust which still has the same general urform as conventional pizza.
SerLava wasn't talking about Chicago deep dish, they're talking about Chicago tavern style thin crust which is great stuff and preferred over deep dish by most Chicago-ans
Deep dish isn't tourist food, it's just not something you'd eat all the time. Much as it is more maneuverable than people think, it's still just not as easy to eat as regular pizza. So you mainly get it only when you're sitting down and want something special. Of course tourists would eat it most often because they would come specifically for the pizza as what they were doing. I would imagine most regional delicacies work that way.
Yeah that's what I meant by mostly, visitors consume it at probably 100 times the rate but yeah it's still really good
I have never had deep dish pizza but I know it is ontologically good, since it makes italy larpers mad.
detroit pizza is so much better. im not sure people from chicago even like that casserole.
Jets is fine, but it really is the fast food version of Detroit pizza. It's too greasy for me to eat more than 2 slices. Luckily i have more then 1 Detroit pizza choice near me. My fav in Detroit is Nikis Pizza, which i never see on any lists. It's in Greektown. Detroit because my fav place to go to at one point because I really like house music. Plus they get way more concerts than my hometown did.
Nikis is a classic.
I haven’t had them in years.
In the area of Detroit I like buddies the most.
But I like Detroit pizza made elsewhere like the Paulie G franchise.
Honestly I just like pan pizza more than flat, as I like the crunch style more. I could eat pequads all day or Art of Pizza in Chicago.
Admittedly it's rare for me to meet a pizza I don't like but pizza casserole is kind of a sweet idea
This is heresy. True Chicago deep dish is the master of the four elements. Fire: spicy jalapeno or pepperoni. Water: the CONTAINED and loving embrace of the cheese sauce river. Earth: the crispy ever-so-blackened outside of the crust. Air: the buttery, light je ne sais quoi of the intermediate layer of crust between the exterior and the filling.
If your 'pizza' looks like this, you are probably eating that counterfeit dreck put out by the inept dogs at Giordano's. Their fame (infamy!) is the reason chicago style pizza is slandered so.
my stance on food is "just eat what you like and try to be healthy, who cares"
i am being tested
It probably tastes alright in that "shitty comfort food" way, just not in that "I want a pizza" way
I like Chicago, New York, and Neapolitan pizzas. :blob-no-thoughts: I haven't really had any other styles.
IT HAS A CRUST. FOR MOST OF THE TIME YOU CAN ACTUALLY HOLD AN ENTIRE SLICE UP UNLIKE MANY A NEW YORK CITY SPECIMEN I HAVE TRIED.
If you can hold up a slice of Chicago deep dish, they are doing it wrong. It should be nearly collapsing under the weight of the toppings.
It may just be a deep dish slice, but not a CHICAGO slice at that point.
YOU BEND THE SLICE. CHICAGOAN'S LACK THE FINE MOTOR SKILLS TO UNDERSTAND THIS MANEUVER.
is the joke supposed to be that its 95% sauce because yeah thats whats good about it. now if only I could get them to leave the cheese out entirely......i'd be cooking...
I'm not sure if I've ever had Chicago style but I have very strong opinions on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCgYMFtxUUw
He could have stuck to this bit instead of teaching New Englanders how to become lib scolds
