If It Seems Like I have A Lot Of Time On My Hands Today...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Do you own a pizza pie tin?

[Rick]

There are certainly alot of hands on my time today

[Econoline]

Chicago style deep-dish pizza is real pizza. Everything else is a bad imitation. [/thread]

WHOA...I'm a native-born, life-long Chicagoan and even I wouldn't go that far! Deep-dish pizza was invented (by Ike Sewell and Ric Riccardo*, in 1943) before I was born, but it took a loooong time to catch on and for many many years was only available at their two downtown pizzerias, Uno and Due. I grew up eating only thin-crust pizza and went to Pizzeria Uno for the first time in my 20s. (I still like both varieties, but I prefer deep-dish.)

* (before he married Lucy, I guess?)

[oldr_n_wsr]

Thin crust pizza is the only pizza (the only exception is Sicilian pizza). Pizza dough gets tossed in the air where it gets stretched out into a circle of proper size and thinness. Tomato sauce, cheese and your preffered toppings come next. (Pineapple is not a pizza topping).
All else is pizza dough in a pan. Call it "deep dish whatever" but not pizza.
And pizza is never eaten with a knife and fork.
Nor can you get pizza in the frozen food aisle of the grocery store.
And pizza does not come from two guys in togas nor those dominoes players who promise it in 30 minutes or less nor those people in a hut.
Actually anyone who advertises their pizza on TV pretty much doesn't make real thin crust NY pizza

And "The Original Umberto's from New Hyde Park" has the best pizza out here in suffolk. (It's near the Smith Haven Mall).

[Jarlaxle]

So...you prefer toppings on cardboard, then.

(Mental note, never get pizza with OnW.)

[Econoline]

Nor can you get pizza in the frozen food aisle of the grocery store.

Definitely agree with you on that one, oldr!

Like deep-dish or stuffed pizza, thin-crust pizza can be good or bad.

Oldr, sorry you haven't had any really good deep-dish pizza (if you're ever in Chicago, come on by and I'll buy you one); Jarl, sorry you haven't had any really good thin-crust pizza (if you're ever in Chicago...no, I won't buy you a thin-crust pizza, but I'll treat you to a "medium-crust" version you'd probably like).

And I love pineapple...but I also love coconut gelato, and neither one belongs on a pizza. Ever. Not even in Hawaii.

[Jarlaxle]

Good thin-crust is an oxymoron. They are mutually exclusive.

[oldr_n_wsr]

if you're ever in Chicago, come on by and I'll buy you one

If I ever go there, i will take you up on that.