Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Here's my 2 cents regarding best pizzas. Take it from me, I've had it all over the world 😉

1)Chicago style deep dish
1.5) digiorno frozen pie
2)Napolitano style Italy
3)Chicago tavern style thin crust
4)new York style
5) Detroit style deep dish

I will now sit back and watch as this thread burns to a crisp

@ThanosReXXX - I probably could have found a more respectful way to choose my words, but I have a bad habit of mirroring the respect that’s being given. As a straight, old, white dude, I don’t really feel I have the experience necessary to comment on a lot of today’s hot button topics, pineapple on pizza aside. I would say it can be confusing trying to understand some of these things (such as gender fluidity), but I also feel it’s not necessarily my duty to understand, but accept, and I enjoy challenging my prior convictions with new ways of thinking.

@Tyranexx - Haha, Cap’n Novolin absolutely sounds like an exceptionally boring edutainment game! I’m going to have to do a google search later to see it in action. It better be 60fps though. No reason it shouldn’t.

@NintendoByNature - You forgot Digiornio on your list. I’m guessing it would be first, second at worst. I know you gotta rep deep dish, please don’t hate me, but I think it’s just a tad overrated. I’m shielding myself from punches. It’s pizza, so it’s all great, but I’d probably put NY/BK folding slices at my top spot. If it’s deep dish that can still be picked up and eaten by hand, I’m in, but I don’t like when it’s excessively saucy and has to be eaten with a fork.

@bimmy-lee Hawaiian pizza is terrific, though the quality of the ham makes a huge difference! Actually making pizza for dinner tonight, grilled chicken & bacon specifically. Awesome combo!!

@bimmy-lee original post edited for you my friend 😋. I think you hit the nail on the head though. All pizza is good, for the most part. There's very few Zza's I'll pass on. And fine... fine... I won't pitchfork you for not liking Chicago style. It's all preference. I just prefer it over others but I love ALL of it. But if you ever come to Chicago, I'll have to take you to my spots to show you deep dish I prefer. I may even change your mind.

Here's a top 3 for me(hoping the link works). Mouth is watering just thinking of it. Look at that sausage patty. And they cut into squares so you don't need a knife and fork. Not to mention it's 5 min from the house. So I order there often.

Oh and thats Walter Paytons daughter. Figured you'd like that tidbit..

Done right (not with regular tomato sauce, plz no), I've found my favorite pizza is probably steak and cheese. Also bonus points for brick oven pizza, great stuff.

@ThanosReXXX Are potatoes a Netherlands thing? I didn't know you lived there or that that was a thing. Potatoes are just my go to example when I start spouting nonsense. XD

@NintendoByNature Ive had that famous Detroit pizza from Buddy's? by Plymouth MI. I'm an east-coaster but that square deep dish style pizza is amazing.

@Woomy_NNYes I haven't had Detroit deep IN Detroit. Just imitators like jets but I do love that style. It's sooooo good.

I used to work at Pizza Hut when I was in university, and if they paid well and gave good hours, I might still be there. It was honestly a really fun job, but the pay was crap and the hours insulting.

Still, pineapple on pizza is annoying because it's one of the toppings that's very easy to ruin a pizza with. It's just too juicy.

On the other hand, I once had someone call in and order a "pizza" with no sauce, no cheese and only sausage. In other words, cooked pizza dough with bits of sausage in the box. In the box because there was nothing to keep them on the "pizza". Probably the only time I broke the rules and said "Sir, are you sure that's what you want?"

My friend thinks the person was ordering it as a joke for someone, which seems likely.

Watching movie from the 50s
My mind, every once in a while:
"Wow, the vast majority or all the actors are now dead"
shut up, mind!

But yeah, enjoying some Hitchcock recently.

@NintendoByNature Funnily enough, I live in the same state as Chi-town and have never had a deep dish pizza from the area. I need to make that a bucket list item the next time I'm up there. I've had deep dish pizza from chain pizza places, but I'm sure the real thing is loads better.

My favorite pizza place is a family-owned eatery about 45 minutes away. It's a thin crust pizza, (not as thin as a place like Monical's, but somewhat thin/average thickness) that's pretty filling. It's a little pricey, but worth it IMO.

I love almost all pizza, but here's my general preference order:
Local/family-owned joints with their own formula > most chain pizza > Little Caesar's to order > gas station pizza (though some of this ranks near the other chains, depending) > most frozen pizza from the store >>>>>>> Little Caesar's Hot 'N Ready.

@bimmy-lee The only reason they even had Captain Novolin was because the game is specifically about diabetes. Two of my cousins are type 1 diabetics. It's a pretty meh platformer with aliens as "bad" foods and a lot of educational in-game text.

@Tyranexx yea, you have to try it next time you're up here. Almost all of it is good, so it's more hit than miss. I've had Monicals once or twice it's pretty good. I think i had pan though if i recall. And im 100% with you,mom and pop is the way to go.

@NintendoByNature There's a place with thin crust pizza in the nearby town I really like too. Plus the staff is friendly and the owner is a pretty nice guy and helps the staff out when they're short on people too.

In my opinion, it's hard to go wrong with pizza. I've had very few bad pizzas in my life. Besides disliking the hot & ready pizzas from Little Caesar's (usually because they've sat under a warmer and taste bleh), there were also these barely passable square-shaped things my high school had for a little while. Thankfully they changed up to actual triangle slices that sometimes had cheese in the crust at some point. That was LOADS better.

@Tyranexx its always nice when you get to know the owners and they know you back. It makes dining there that much more special.

Usually my cut off is gas station pizza but In a pinch, I might go for it. The only one I would say is a step above gas station pizza is Casey's. I'm sure you have them down by you. We have them west and South of me and they're throughout Illinois I'm pretty sure. Their pizza is pretty decent I would say.

Little Caesar's hot and ready hand tossed is not my favorite, but their deep dish is actually pretty good in a pinch too, but very greasy. And honestly i usually go for the crazy bread anyway 😋

@NintendoByNature We have some great pizza places over here as well. And there's this small town in Italy, I forgot the name, that is supposed to be famous worldwide, and arguably one of the birthplaces (if not THE) of the modern pizza, and people come there from miles around, just to have one of those famous pizzas.

@bimmy-lee Yeah, I guess we're pretty much on the same page here. Must be an age/generational thing, then. Except thanks to my job, I've learned to use fancy words to describe my thoughts with...

Nah, just kidding. As an empath, I've always been able to (quite elaborately) put my thoughts into words, and I'm all for people speaking their minds, because I myself also do that. Of course, it is often not what you say, but the way you say it, but in general, I don't feel any need to sugar coat anything (although I do always weigh my own words before I post them), except where more grave matters such as disease or death are concerned.

@Heavyarms55 Well, not necessarily, but your comment made me think about Van Gogh's "The Potato Eaters". And yes, I live over there. Amsterdam to be exact. Originally from a small town in California, but I've lived here since I was 9.

As for pineapple on pizza: the trick is to put the pieces of pineapple in a sieve first, so that most of the excess moisture is drained, and then the oven will take care of the rest. The moisture should bake in and it will then still result in a good, firm pizza base. Where I always go to get my pizza Hawaii with salami/pepperoni, I've never once had a soggy pizza.

@NintendoByNature Casey's was actually what I had in mind when I mentioned gas station pizza; it's pretty good! There was also a Citgo near my house growing up that had some decent pizza from the Hunt Brothers brand too.

Little Caesar's to order isn't bad, but I consider their hot & ready pizzas emergency only food. I've never had their crazy bread though...I'm curious now.

I'd say my favorite chain pizza is Domino's. I used to really like Pizza Hut too, but the one here has definitely gone downhill. Papa John's is good but a little too greasy sometimes. Monical's is good, but I have to go a little ways to get to one and have to be in the mood for thin crust.

We've got most half of those pizza franchises here too, except for Little Caesar's and Papa John's. And besides Pizza Hut and Domino's, we've also got New York Pizza. I usually go to the local Italian though, instead of to what's basically the pizza version of a fast food chain...

We only have locally owned pizzerias here in this town.

I have this nice memory of eating the best pizza ever in a Little Caesars when I was a kid. Unfortunately that specific restaurant is closed now, and all the Little Caesars I've seen since have been exclusively of the hot & ready variety.

Krusty Krab Pizza is the pizza for you and me!

By the way, we have Domino Pizza in Indonesia.