Ya buy from us, or we break ya legs.
So what makes it Detroit style?
Detroit pizza: A bunch of garbage on top, and the crust is burnt to a crisp. Kinda like the city.
It's a small pizza dough slapped out to a large size, so it's a hand tossed thin crust rather than the standard thin crust.
People like it enough that it's still on the menu.
I'd eat it, but still prefer CT pizza over anything on the planet.
Sadly, your Wall Street Journal article is paywalled.
But I have heard about Detroit style for years and it is tasty.
Article from Wikipedia (which is ok unless it’s political, and then it’s a Leftist broadsheet):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit-style_pizza
Detroit-style pizza is a rectangular pizza with a thick crust that is crispy and chewy. It is traditionally topped with Wisconsin brick cheese, then tomato sauce layered on top of the other toppings (rather than directly onto the dough). This style of pizza is often baked in rectangular steel trays designed for use as automotive drip pans or to hold small industrial parts in factories. The style was developed during the mid-twentieth century in Detroit before spreading to other parts of the United States in the 2010s. The dish is one of Detroit’s iconic local foods.
The pizza was developed in 1946 at Buddy’s Rendezvous, a former blind pig owned by Gus and Anna Guerra located at the corner of Six Mile Road and Conant Street in Detroit. Sources disagree whether the original Sicilian-style recipe was based on Anna Guerra’s mother’s recipe for sfincione or a recipe from one of the restaurant’s employees, Connie Piccinato. The recipe created a “focaccia-like crust” with pepperoni pressed into the dough to “maximize the flavor penetration”. The restaurant baked it in blue steel pans available from local automotive suppliers, made in the 1930s and 1940s by Dover Parkersburg and used as drip trays or to hold small parts or scrap metal in automobile factories because baking pans available at the time were not appropriate for the dish. Some 50- to 75-year-old pans are still in use.
Detroit Style Pizza: Pizza cooked on an old car fender over a 55 gallon drum burning discarded pallet wood.
Detroit style, has Swiss cheese..............................
Never buy pizza from a chain restaurant. Support you local mom and pop pizza place.
The best pizza I’ve had was at the Village Pizza in Bonsall California. North San Diego county.
It sucks like their sports teams.
For those that don't know "Detroit Style" is basically just a thick crust Pizza with the sauce on top instead of the bottom. In fact it's not even particularly original as New Jersey has been doing the same thing for far longer with their "Tomato Pie" pizza. The only difference is the "tomato pie" tends to be a round thin crust (basically a New York style with the sauce on top), while the Detroit is a rectangular thick crust with the sauce on top.
We have Jet’s here. It’s a very good pizza. Are used to live in New Hampshire. All of the pizza there with few exceptions was a Greek style with spongy crust and lousy canned sauce. I am moved to Florida when I retired and now we have really good New York style from several places. I had never heard of Detroit style pizza, but I stopped at Jet‘s one day and I was impressed with the sauce and the crispy crust.
I have yet to find good Rhode Island rectangular pizza any place other than Rhode Island. I also miss Olneyville hot wieners. And yeah, the Chinese food in Florida is disgusting. Imagine pork fried rice that is almost white with peas and carrots!!
They don’t use chicken meat for the “sausage” or “pepperoni”.
It is locally sourced from the remains of Jimmy Hoffa.
What a crock! The best pizza in that area is across the border in Windsor Ont. Franco’s, Sam’s or Riviara. The rest are pretenders.......
Michiganers who left the state and looking for a little bit of home will all try it at least once.
When I was young and pizza was relatively new on the American food scene a pizza house opened in our small Illinois town. It became wildly popular...until an investigation linked it to a spate of dog disappearances.