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Justice: Chicago-style deep dish isn’t pizza
nypost.com ^ | february 17, 2014 | david k. li

Posted on 02/18/2014 5:25:33 PM PST by lowbridge

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia struck down Chicago-style deep dish, ruling that the overflowing mess of sauce and cheese can’t be considered pizza.

The conservative stalwart, speaking at the Union League Club of Chicago’s 126th annual George Washington’s Birthday celebration, said he enjoys Second City pie.

But in his supreme opinion, it “shouldn’t be called pizza.”

The bizarre deep-dish offering calls for vats of tomato sauce to be poured over cheese, before it’s then baked into a boiling monstrosity.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: chicago; chicagopizza; pizza; scalia
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To: Political Junkie Too

Leonardo’s and Burrito Brothers, those were my staples back in the day.


61 posted on 02/18/2014 8:38:10 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: 1rudeboy

The funny thing is, Chicagoans don’t call this style “deep dish” (it’s called “stuffed”), and it’s not the most common kind of pizza we eat. Mostly, we eat Chicago style thin crust, which is different than New York style but very much a traditional pizza. I think the stuffed is just so distinctive, it’s what the rest of the country thinks of as “Chicago style pizza”.


62 posted on 02/18/2014 8:39:41 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: The Antiyuppie

ima calling bs there has NEVER been food that has tasted better the second day


63 posted on 02/18/2014 8:40:04 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: lowbridge

I’m a thin crust guy but I still indeed like Chicago style and everything in between. It’s all good. Heck, even the frozen cardboard crap is good when preceded by at least a six pack, and perhaps covered in black pepper, red pepper and Parmesan cheese, the six pack being the most important ingredient.


64 posted on 02/18/2014 8:44:50 PM PST by Manic_Episode (GOP = The Whig Party)
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To: oldsicilian

What!!! Pizza on a Friday? When I had to eat tuna fish casserole with little bits of mushrooms that looked like tuna but tasted like erasers???? Your soul is damned!!! (snicker)


65 posted on 02/18/2014 9:05:59 PM PST by driftless2
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To: digger48

When I was a kid more than fifty years ago, my hometown of 50 thousand people had one Chinese restaurant. That was the sum total of ethnic restaurants. Now there are numerous Chinese, Mexican, Italian restaurants (if you can also call fast food places restaurants), and even an Indian and English restaurant. When the first pizza joint opened up (I can still remember the jingle from the tv ads), me and my five siblings each got one small slice. Now that I’ve told you the sorry and tear-inducing details of my childhood (excuse me, I have to reach for a handkerchief to wipe the tears away), feel free to tell me yours.


66 posted on 02/18/2014 9:16:31 PM PST by driftless2
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To: bigheadfred
Home Sausage Making by Charles G. Reavis was suggested to me awhile back for Italian Sausage and, ironically, for Pepperoni. I don't know anyone that's made the Pepperoni. But, coincidentally, the first search engine return was a reprint from that book. Go here. Be sure to check the comments for 'tweaks' by the Italian (I'm also Italia...I'd take his word for it). My mother & I are on the quest for the Perfect Italian Sausage. I would prefer not to make/cure Pepperoni, but that (above) would be the basis recipe if I were to undertake that after the Sausage, though probably at least halved.
67 posted on 02/18/2014 9:35:25 PM PST by logi_cal869
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To: The KG9 Kid

“You mean to tell me that this lo-carb California free range chicken teriyaki and cashew-pineapple pizza that I’ve been eating for all my life isn’t real pizza?”

No, that combination definitely can NOT be called “pizza” UNLESS it also includes Avocado, Artichokes, and Zucchini.


68 posted on 02/18/2014 10:18:26 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: sten

“new york produces a smudge of runny tomato sauce on the thinnest slice of undercooked dough possible. the “toppings” consist of a smattering of rancid cheese dribbled onto the dough equivalent of paper in the most sparing manner possible while still being identifiable in order to charge 10x it’s worth”

We have a “pizza” chain in the Denver-metro area called Proto’s that makes their pizza exactly like you just described, INCLUDING the price! The deluded fools around here seem to just love ‘em!


69 posted on 02/18/2014 10:24:21 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: driftless2

So glad I read through this thread and got to yours!

I was just telling myself that I must NOT read such sour news at this hour, it’s gut wrenching.

And then I came upon this thread, being from Chicago and all, and your short story just cracked me up! Well done.

My sad story is much like yours, our treat was White Castle, it was all my parents could afford with 6 kids, just one tiny square hamburger each. Now where’s my hankie?!


70 posted on 02/19/2014 12:34:35 AM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: lowbridge

I’m Italian and originally from New York.

Even though we left New York when I was a child, I knew one thing for certain, if you can’t “fold” the Slice to eat it, it isn’t Pizza.

God forbid if you use a knife and fork to eat a New York Style Pizza, shudders.

Chicago Style Deep Dish is a Pie, period. They use knives and forks to eat it there which is apparently acceptable to their God. LOL


71 posted on 02/19/2014 12:48:14 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Nobody owes you a living, so shut up and get back to work...)
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To: lowbridge

Best pizza ever IMHO -

http://www.colonygrill.com/


72 posted on 02/19/2014 5:58:09 AM PST by Faith65 (Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior!)
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