I've already said enough honest but controversial things about pasta, football, and pizza to be banned for life from entering Italy, so I might as well add this: Chicago style pizza is in fact quite good, despite my usual preference for thin crust pizza.
EDIT: Downvoted by Meloni
The ratio is way off and it's a mess.
Me after seeing this post shitting on one of my favorite pizza styles: 😰😭💀
Me after seeing this comment getting all the well deserved upvotes: 🥹🥰🙂↕️
True Chicago style pizza actually does have a thin crust (tavern style, cut into squares). Deep dish is for tourists. Chicagoans also mostly enjoy deep dish, but they'll be the first to tell you it's not the "true" Chicago style
I enjoy both
Miss me with that cracker crust garbage
-signed, the NYC-style gang
That sounds like hipster shit. True Chicagoans know that language is descriptive, not prescriptive, and they know what everyone means by “Chicago style pizza”.
Yeah I grew up there. "Chicago style pizza" is thin crust, tavern cut, usually sausage inspired, not required. Now that I have moved regions, I know going forth, people will assume I am talking about deep dish as that is what they have been told by publications.
Assumptions usually is that I don't like the pizza because it's not deep dish, but no, it's because it's some type of monster between a red Baron pizza and a digiorno. Either way, way too much bread. Deep dish crust doesn't support the toppings, it's not that thick of a crust.
Everybody's allowed their opinion, but you can fuck all the way off talking shit about Chicago dogs! The combination of beef fankfurter, poppyseed bun, quality mustard, relish, chopped onion, tomato, sport peppers, celery salt... It sounds weird, but people who try it usually love them! You have to not be obsessed with ketchup though. One of the things I really miss from working in Chicago for a bit...
How are you going to describe a Chicago dog and forget the pickle?
That was intentional. I love pickles, but not on anything. But that's not the Chicago dog's fault, that's my journey! So I pick them off and eat the pickle separately...
And when something is a crime against god and man we call it “Altoona-style”
I don't want to know what an Altoona-style hot dog would look like.
They soak the dog in ice water over night, and the bun is soggy. Served with cold hotdog water.
If you lived three or four centuries ago, you'd be burned at the stake as a demon, just for coming up with that.
I'll take a deep dish pie or that dog. Fuck y'all if you're a hater.
Detroit style deep dish is the best deep dish pizza, Chicago style is vomit lasagna in a cardboard cup, fight me!
I don't fight. Just eat. I'd be happy to eat a Detroit pie.
Your weak stomach can't handle it, and thats okay. But thats no reason to get upset and spew lies and hate
Deeeeeeeetroiiiiiiit
I feel like the food is really a strong point for Chicago? I get da Bears, totally, but the food? Not sure
Food IN Chicago is good. The use of "Chicago style" outside of Chicago is largely a label for "this shit sucks."
while I wouldnt consider it on the same tier as like nola/creole/cajun cuisine for example, but its distinctive enough to get a name.
Chicago Style "deep dish" is an affront to both to god and the deliciousness that is Detroit Style deep dish
I thought we just called terrible things Ohio?
Illinois and Ohio: the Midwest's armpit and asshole!
As an ex ohioan, it's an honor to be compared to Illinois.
Fr though ohio is Midwest mid. Minnesota and Illinois are great. Michigan and Wisconsin are fine. Ohio is bad, but it only goes downhill from there.
Illinoisan here - will own this as long as it's the arm pit. That makes Indiana the taint, and Iowa the red neck?
That puts Michigan into beer gut and Wisconsin the man-boobs territory.
Also, I'll take Chicago food over Ohio any day. What do they have? ChiliMac? it's fine, but not exactly a hallmark.
The food in any big city is really good
I only ever hear people hate on deep dish who have never tried it (from a good restaurant) before 🤔
Fuckin nobody does deep dish like Chicago.
Ive never had anything remotely close to what I had in South Chicago . I still think about 20 years later.
No true Scotsman, meet no true Chicago deep dish!
But you do make a good point, good restaurants don't serve that Chicago-style monstrosity :)
I mean like any chicago deep dish which is not frozen from a grocery store is good (and in chicago).
Johnny's Beef, Gene and Jude's, Lou's.
Edit: Ricobenes breaded steak sandwich
Chicago dogs are the most vile fucking thing I have ever seen done to hotdogs.
Also Ketchup belongs on a hot dog.
Why are they vile? It's just a bunch of toppings on a hot dog?
For the Rest oft the world: Just call it USA Style
Please don't associate the chicago-style sauce mush in a cardboard bag with rest of the country :'(
Damn. Did Chicago fuck your girlfriend or something?
No, Chicago fucked my dinner plans when I got a Chicago style "deep dish". At least we got to laugh at how dogshit the pizza was for rest of the night!
GO BEARS!!!
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAA BEAAAAARS!
So many bettah ways to deserve the heart attahk.
Ooh burn
What are the bottom two?
Hot dogs and pizza are awesome. Chicago deep dish, I only had it once in the windy. So yea maybe it wasnt the best, but it was really good. The reason the difference is important, chicago deep dish vs pizza from anywhere else in the states, is like the difference between a slice of warm melty pie and a sandwhich. Sure, its best if you sit down at a table for either one, but the sandwich you can eat while walking if needed.
That lineup of toppings for their basic hotdogs, they have a name for it right?
The bottom left is called a Jibarito, they are really popular on the NW side. Basically a sandwich with fried plantains (think tostones) instead of bread. Definitely my favorite of the 4 options here.
Bottom right is an Italian Beef; I think it’s usually just bread, roast beef, and giardiniera.
(I live in Chicago)
Thanks!
As a New Yorker whos heavily biased against Chicago this is just untrue. I mean sure deep dish sucks but tavern style is almost as good as New Haven (possibly because its just New Haven). Other than that Italian beef is good and the Chicago dog is amazing (the only place ketchup belongs is in the trash).
