Pizza - why is it the greatest food ever concocted?

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A bit of a twist ...

A calzone, from a reall pizzeria. The ricotta cheese with mushrooms and pepperonis with over the top garlicky red sauce to dip it in.

Also something similar to a calzone, a stuffed pizza that you can get in most malls ... broccoli and spinach.


ah yes...I love calzones as well...from one place in particular that i get them at they are delicous

yum :tongue:
 

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In Italy they serve pizza with egg.
Go to NYC and go to 33 east and 3rd ave and get a Marghurita <sp> pizza.
Thin crust , heavy basil and garlic marinara with Fresh buffalo mossarella and basil cooked at extreme high heat. Mangia
Brooklyn rules pizza.
I forgot---thin sicilian is called Grandma pizza.
 

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Papa Johns Pizza.

Handtossed, with ham, anchovies, green peppers, olives with extra tomato sauce.

Jeez, I am gonna order some right now, and eat some straight outta the fridge the next morning for breakfast. Hehe, miss my college days. :)
 

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There is a place in Freehold, NJ on Main Street called Federici's. They make THE BEST thin crust pizza on the planet. The crust is so thin and crispy it crunches like a matzoh but it's never hard. I know it sounds weird; but if you love thin crust pizza this is the best you will find outside of the 5 boroughs of NYC.

In NYC...criminy where to begin!?!? You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a fabbo pizza parlor.

I will eat Domino's when nothing else is available, but I prefer a real pizza parlor. How do I determine a real pizza parlor? Stand at the front door and yell, "Yo Vinny!" If no one answers, walk away you will not be getting good pizza there. Any place that doesn't sell it by the slice is also an indicator of a bad pizza experience.



yes, like sausage and sometimes peppers and onions.
what about those "desginer type" of pizzas...like hawaiian, or BBQ chicken etc.?
I have not tried them, but i don't know if they'd be my thing.
i like thin crust too...hard to go wrong with pizza IMO :biggrin1:

I am a bit of a pizza purist. I do not want ham, spam, ground beef, pineapple, or any orange cheese on my pizza. I lived in Italy for 3 months and never once saw cheddar cheese on a pizza or a sandwich . . . or for that matter anywhere else.


I love pesto pizza too, it tastes really quite weird but delicious. However, pizza isn't the greatest food ever invented chocolate it.
I used to make a great thin crust pizza, with pesto, mozzarella, eggplant arrabiata sauce, pepperoni, and shrimp scampi.
 

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In Italy they serve pizza with egg.
Go to NYC and go to 33 east and 3rd ave and get a Marghurita <sp> pizza.
Thin crust , heavy basil and garlic marinara with Fresh buffalo mossarella and basil cooked at extreme high heat. Mangia
Brooklyn rules pizza.
I forgot---thin sicilian is called Grandma pizza.

What's the name of that place on the corner of 9th St by the PATH station? The used to sell a decent slice. I want to say Balducci's but I'm pretty sure that was further uptown.
 

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Pizza without anchovies and capers is like sex without oral.

The greatest Pizza comes from Italy and Naples specifically. D'ont bother to argue unless you have been there. Proper tomatos, mozzerella, salami etc...
 

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Pizza without anchovies and capers is like sex without oral.
The greatest Pizza comes from Italy and Naples specifically. D'ont bother to argue unless you have been there. Proper tomatos, mozzerella, salami etc...
Been there done that. :rolleyes: Pizza in Napoli was okay but there is a town called Vico Equense about an hour south of Naples by train on the coast. AWESOME pizza! Also, in the park, in Cortona up in Tuscany is a family owned restaurant that makes not just great pizza but great everything.
 

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Normally prefer thick crust or hand tossed. A place called Pizza King in Indianapolis made good thin crust pizza, though.

Toppings: Pepperoni, sausage, olives, onions - I would add mushrooms too but I'd been involved with someone who is allergic to mushrooms for a long time so I just got used to having no mushrooms. I still like them, though.

(Yeah, I'm kind of a pizza traditionalist. :smile: )
 

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Been there done that. :rolleyes: Pizza in Napoli was okay but there is a town called Vico Equense about an hour south of Naples by train on the coast. AWESOME pizza! Also, in the park, in Cortona up in Tuscany is a family owned restaurant that makes not just great pizza but great everything.

I thought that I was maybe being a bit food snobby. But I think it's the same with most regional dishes that become popular. Regions create classic dishes with the foods that are local to them. Some travel well with good ingredients, but rarely can they be replicated to the quality of the original.

For me, Deep Pan is an abomination of calorie overload.
 

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I thought that I was maybe being a bit food snobby. But I think it's the same with most regional dishes that become popular. Regions create classic dishes with the foods that are local to them. Some travel well with good ingredients, but rarely can they be replicated to the quality of the original.
For me, Deep Pan is an abomination of calorie overload.

I am a total pizza and Italian food snob. :biggrin1: Heck, I dragged my 79 year old dad 45 miles into Atlanta yesterday just so I could shop at Trader Joe's and get sweet Italian sausage, Fresh mozzarella balls in olive oil, and some other stuff just like they sell back home in Jersey. :smile: Mom was thrilled, she bought like 6 pounds of sausage! She hadn't been able to find any sweet Italian sausage since they moved down here 3 years ago.

Agreed, Chicago style or deep dish pzza is not pizza to me, it is pizza casserole. If I can't fold the slice and hold it comfortably in one hand; I don't want it.
 

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What's the name of that place on the corner of 9th St by the PATH station? The used to sell a decent slice. I want to say Balducci's but I'm pretty sure that was further uptown.

Probably one of the 25 Famous Rays Original Famous Pizza.

But there was a place with great pizza near the 9th street Path station. You had to make a right as you exited and walk to the right on the Avenue.
All there pizzas had extra-extra cheese. they had these big spool like tables where you could stand to eat the pizza.
 

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That's how I have my eggs , sunny side up . I think they scramble them for pizza . Not sure really , never tried one , couldn't think of a worse topping for pizza actually .

This reminded me a funny thing that happened years ago. My brother and his wife came to visit from Iowa. I showed them around L.A. and we ended up at a restaurant that was supposedly a place that a lot of stars ate at. There was a pizza on the menu that was topped with an egg, sunny-side up. None of us had ever heard of an egg on pizza and my brother decided to order it, since it figured it must be what the stars eat. When the waiter took our order, he laughed and said 'I've waited years for someone to order the egg pizza."
 

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I used to like chicken and sweetcorn pizza. Now I like anything. As long as its not got onions, peppers, anchovies or olives on it.

A few times I've eaten a 12" deep pan margherita all to myself. Cos sometimes I like bein a fat pig :biggrin1:

Pizza is good, I agree.
 

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Probably one of the 25 Famous Rays Original Famous Pizza.
It wasn't a Ray's that I know for sure.

But there was a place with great pizza near the 9th street Path station. You had to make a right as you exited and walk to the right on the Avenue.

All there pizzas had extra-extra cheese. they had these big spool like tables where you could stand to eat the pizza. That might be it! :smile: I remember Large spool like tables and walking up about 8 steps from the sidewalk to get inside. It had a large green awning. I keep wanting to say it was Balducci's as it also had great cannoli's but I know thats not it. :confused: