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    I disagree with the glasses part as counterargument. Pizzas are sold by diameter in places that offer large and small - some even do medium. I also believe it would be nicer to have wider burgers instead of taller

    • daed
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      Who would even eat the taller pizza? I’d find it disgusting. I’m not saying anything about the burger.

      • @[email protected]
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        Lol you know nothing about pizza. There’s pizza al trancio, pizza al tegamino, generic pizza alta, pizza doppia pasta (double dough), so on…

        Source: Italian

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          I’ll do it, Chicago has terrible taste in food. Deep dish is preposterous, Malort is an abomination, and despite how you feel about ketchup, relish should not look like the ooze that creates ninja turtles.

          • @[email protected]
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            32 months ago

            Unsurprising from the same people who light train tracks on fire and lean out on glass 400 stories in the air for a thrill.

          • StametsOP
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            Thank you. A deep dish pizza isn’t a pizza. It’s, at best, a fucking stew.

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                I recorded this rant because I’m bored. I fuckin hate deep dish and NY style pizza.

                I don’t know what kind of culinary trauma Chicago is working through but their pizza isn’t pizza, it’s a STEW, or at best a stew with ambitions. It’s a stew with a gluten lid. I need a ladle, not a fork. I have to displace sauce like I’m fording the fucking Oregon Trail just to find the crust. It’s lasagna that forgot it was Italian. It’s soup gaslit into thinking it can achieve something. You don’t eat that shit you survive it. You don’t chew it, you contemplate your entire life while shoveling it in and wondering how something with so much molten cheese could still feel emotionally cold.

                I’m in agreement with Jon when it comes to Deep-Dish pizza and how it isn’t a pizza but a tomato-laden crime scene in a cast-iron pan. But he comes in so hot and screaming like he’s right about how real pizza folds. No. No Jon. I ain’t ever going to trust a fucking dude from New Jersey when it comes to pizza. That’s just New York opinions with worse parking. It’s like if Staten Island got a podcast and decided it was a food critic. These are people who look at a strip mall and say “This is where I want my Italian food experience to begin.” You ever seen a pizza joint from Jersey? Half of them double as laundromats or vape shops. They serve slices so thin you could laminate one and use it as a fucking bookmark. Their idea of crust is “whatever’s left after sadness finishes baking.” You pick up a slice and it’ll collapse faster than their economy would if you banned tanning beds.

                Fucking Jon motherfucking goddamn Stewart out here talking about how reall pizza fooooolds. Oh. Does it? DOES IT JON? Real pizza folds? My money folds (jiggle jiggle). My spine folds after sleeping the wrong way. My dreams fold under the pressure of existence. That doesn’t make thme LUNCH. But of course he would love this goddamn monstrosity called ‘New York Style Pizza’. You would too if you grew up being told that thin floppy bread covered in oily regret was pizza. It isn’t pizza. It’s barely a suggestion of pizza. It’s whispering the concpet of mozzarella over a saltine while screaming about the Jets.

                I love Jon. I really do but I wish he would stick to tearing down Fox News and republicans because when he says NY Pizza is the real deal all I hear is “I enjoy food that is as thin, undercooked and as lacking in substance as a conservative argument.” Stay with eviscerating fascists and not defending pizza that looks like it needs an intervention and a fuckin’ towel.

                • Emptiness
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                  This was the most enjoyable read I’ve had since I joined Lemmy! Took me back to reddit just around the Digg-exodus era. Bravo!

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                    I’m preparing for a wave of downvotes from people who will praise Jon for the same rip but will give me shit for ripping apart his tarp of grease and failed dreams. I mean at least his ‘pizza’ folds easier than his morals. I do love the dude but he is just wrong on pizza.

                    Edit: Look at that, I was right lol

                • @[email protected]
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                  You ever seen a pizza joint from Jersey? Half of them double as laundromats or vape shops.

                  I’ve been getting pizza from NJ for ~45 years. I have never seen this crossover.

                  Folded pizza is real, and it’s delicious.

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                    72 months ago

                    I was being facetious for comedy effect. My point was that they’re like if Remy the Rat opened a pizzeria but was just a literal fuckin’ rat.

                    You can keep your folded monstrosity but keep in your borders!

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                  You bitch about Chicago Pizza? Fucking CHICAGO?!?

                  Let me introduce you to the abomination I’m trying to eliminate: Quad Cities Pizza

                  They are called TOPPINGS. toppings, not middleings, for the love of all things just and right.

                • @[email protected]
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                  22 months ago

                  I loved the Chicago bit!!! Absolutely hilarious! If new york pizza isnt real pizza what is real pizza in your opinion?

                  • StametsOP
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                    32 months ago

                    Thank you lol and Detroit-Style or bust.

                • @[email protected]
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                  32 months ago

                  I don’t agree with your tastes in food, but I agree, fuck New Jersey.

                  It’s great to have you back!

                • @[email protected]
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                  72 months ago

                  I’m a big fan of Detroit style. And I’m aware it’s basically focaccia bread with pizza toppings on it.

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                    Detroit is what I like, actually. And it ain’t focaccia, that’s sicilian style pizza. Detroit is boss bread with bamf toppings on top.

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                  92 months ago

                  I make no comment about the merit of your argument either way, but hot damn you love to see the passion!

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                    62 months ago

                    I’ve seen that Stewart clip for years and I’ve never been in a position where my rant against it would make sense but this shit has been prepared over the course of years.

                    Much like the vulcanized rubber New Yorkers insist on calling pepperoni.

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            For anyone who is not from Chicago, Malort is a bitter liquor that tastes like you poured anise through a filter of mud and used motor oil.

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              It tastes like what male cat pee smells like.

              Though to be fair, I don’t think Chicago people like it either and only buy it because it’s terrible

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                From what I understand it’s what you drink at the family reunion once you run out of cheap beer and need to forget how bad Chicago is.

          • @[email protected]
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            This guy gets it. It’s fascinating being judged on what one puts on a hotdog by the dyed relish gang.

          • @[email protected]
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            222 months ago

            Deep dish is delicious. Lasagna is delicious. Baked ziti is delicious. Calzones are delicious.

            Look, you can’t go wrong with tomato sauce, cheese, dough, and optional meat. It’s all delicious, and playing around with different ratios is still great.

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          62 months ago

          Okay, but to be fair, while it is delicious, it also is not “pizza” (insert bit from Jon Stewart:-).

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      Counterpoint - pizzas are sold by diameter, but pretty much everyone I know underestimates how diameter corresponds to actual pizza size and think a 16" pizza is twice as big as an 8" pizza instead of four times as big, which it actually is. Meanwhile, a burger patty that is twice as big as another one is actually twice as tall, while one that is wider is only about ~41% wider. Vertical dimension is more intuitive for the overall mass difference.