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Posted on 01/06/2022 11:44:54 AM PST by mylife
We all know the two great pizza quotes, right? The first is Sam Sifton's Pizza Cognition Theory, which goes like this: "The first slice of pizza a child sees and tastes...becomes, for him, pizza." The second is the old chestnut about pizza and sex: even when it's bad, it's still pretty good.
Then we get to the St. Louis-style pizza made popular by their local chain, Imo's , which seems to buck both of these statements. Of the myriad styles of pizza we've got in this country, it's got to be the most maligned.* Its thin, unleavened cracker crust bears no resemblance to the real dough that great pizza is built on. It gets loaded high with toppings that span all the way from edge to edge. It's so unbalanced that it has to be cut into squares just to be able to support its own weight. And let's not get started on that Provel cheese—if it can even be called cheese, am I right?
And yet, ever since tasting it for the first time, I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. And I've finally figured out why I love it so much. St. Louis-style pizza is not pizza. It's a big, pizza-flavored nacho. Hear me out.
My wife Adri and I ate a lot of things last summer when we were driving from New York to San Francisco. A LOT of things. Many of them hyper-regional,
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No thanks, bar sex is more frustrating than no sex..
I’m in Tacoma for a few days and we always get a pizza from Katie Downs. My favorite pan pizza.
cheers... ;)
Toast a flour tortilla with cheese and sauce and toppings on it. Not too much cheese or it won’t melt before the tortilla burns. Cheese below the sauce.
Is it pizza? Well, I like the Red Baron’s offerings, so don’t ask me!
I am more than 30 pounds over my goal weight.
progress, not perfection.
Same here. I love pizza but only eat it for the sauce, cheese, and toppings. Crust is just the conveyance.
I remember Shakey’s, good pizza! We ate there every summer when on vacation in Florida.
Shakey’s still exists in some places, but who knows if the pizza is the same. I also remember Village Inn pizza.
What I’d really like to find is mustard that tastes like Burger Chefs.
the baron has a better crust ;)
I binged at Halloween and saw my blood sugar go through the
roof, I gained weight and felt awful, really bad.
Resolved to do better and began taking a table spoon of
extra virgin olive oil on an empty stomach twice a day, which seemed to ease my craving and also paid more attention to portion control,often only having two meals a day.
I believe it has effected my intestinal biotics and
I’m not having food stay in my system as long.
I have dropped 15 lbs, and feel much better, I still have
thirty five more to go.
All that weight was self defeating, my arthritis was
exacerbated to where I couldn’t move and was in extreme
pain all day and night. Now I’m much better and look
forward to becoming more active and not as depressed.
I hope it will turn out as well for you.
t.
OK Thank you!
I felt the need to go back and follow up on this.
I had previously only ever eaten the thin crust versions.
Today I experienced the thick crust.
Rather than the pleasant experience of the thin crust, it was halfway toward those frozen personal ones. Not quite snot on a pottery shard, more like phlegm on a 33 1/3 LP.
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