How do you eat Pizza?

[Marquis]

I've heard that the unmistakable and unreplicable crispness of New York pizza crust comes from the unique minerals in the municipal water supply there.

I'm not even a huge pizza eater, but I will tell you that even the most well renowned pizza places in Florida have nothing on the average corner pizza stand in Brooklyn or Queens.

 

[Leolover711]

Missed the Pizza Eating Point

The real way to eat pizza is: when it is very hot place a slice on my naked subbies' belly and eat it from there. Its especially good when the hot cheese and sauce (not too hot) drapes and smears over her breasts!

 

[Kajira Callista]

haha, I hear that loud and clear.

I'm partial to L&B in brooklyn.


I've been stuck in Vermont for the better part of 3 years now. Its all semi thick factory ordered prego grossness up here that I'd rather die then eat it.
AND most of the places up here don't understand pizza by the slice or the concept of folding. Its some odd quasi gormet mix bettween chicago deep dish and nyc traditional thin ... drives me nuts.

There are only a few pizzas that can and should be eaten fork n knife. Salad slices, deep dish, specality slices too thick to fold, or the occasional sicilian slice too messy to eat straight on (a proper slice of sicilian isn't folded)

The rest is stacked (or not) , folded, taken for a good strut... then bitten.

*ducks from any object thrown bc of bad/stupid reference lol*



A place opened up a few months ago in the next town over, they moved up from one of the boroughs and the pizza is a fresh of breath air whenever I remember that the place exists.


[/pizza snob]

L&B! I knew we were related!

 

[BlueSugar]

L&B! I knew we were related!

*gushes*

what I would do for a slice right now...

 

[Kajira Callista]

*gushes*

what I would do for a slice right now...

im goin to brooklyn in 3 weeks...i'll mail you some

 

[snowy ciara]

What would you do?

 

[Sir_Winston54]

<snip>Am I weird ??

Yes... but that's got nothing to do with how you eat pizza.

 

[babiesmiles]

Yes... but that's got nothing to do with how you eat pizza.

hmmm..... I thought the other one was my sane part !!!

 

[DVS]

It is said that you can tell if someone is creative by the way they eat pie. If they eat it from the point, they are not creative. If they are creative, they start at the side.

OK, first, I consider myself creative and I ALWAYS eat a piece of pie from the point. Second, I know NOBODY who eats pie from the middle. If I saw that, I'd think they were SICK.

OK, I just included that, because pixxa is a pie and it is shaped the same, and all of that.

I eat pizza from the point. I guess I'm not as creative as I thought I was.

 

[graceanne]

Ditto with one other exception. My one brother's monastery makes KILLER Italian style deep dish pizza that's loaded with stuff. So whenever I'm going to be up there for any length of time; he tries to get them to do it for dinner while I'm there. They pile on, or in the toppings so you sorta HAVE to knife and fork it. It's pretty cool.

Yeah, here in Oregon they have Papa Murphy's (I don't know if they have it elsewhere). They make the most awesome Chicago Style Pizza. It's not possible to eat it without a fork. But other than that I normally start at the point. I'm not a big pizza fan, so I don't have a 'favorite part'.

 

[TaintedB]

You reminded me Grace, pizza in Chicago is decent! Even the airport pizza I got during a layover was better than anything my rather large home town can boast of.

Years ago I worked at a great pizza place in the PacNW, not a chain, it was an old house in a medium-sized town, near the bay. They got really creative with their pizzas, had lots of weird ones, great homemade wheat-white combo dough recipie, played great rock tunes while you ate, and, if I do say so myself, had some traffic stopping waitresses. It was a pain running up and down the steep stairs all the time with pizzas, but I was young and survived. The vegetarians would stop by for these elaborate piled-up fruit pizzas. The yuppies like the shrimp, avacado and pinapple one. My personal favorite was a white sauce pizza (I've had so-called white sauce pizzas since then but never anything at all like theirs) with steak and onions on top.

 

[DVS]

You reminded me Grace, pizza in Chicago is decent! Even the airport pizza I got during a layover was better than anything my rather large home town can boast of.

Years ago I worked at a great pizza place in the PacNW, not a chain, it was an old house in a medium-sized town, near the bay. They got really creative with their pizzas, had lots of weird ones, great homemade wheat-white combo dough recipie, played great rock tunes while you ate, and, if I do say so myself, had some traffic stopping waitresses. It was a pain running up and down the steep stairs all the time with pizzas, but I was young and survived. The vegetarians would stop by for these elaborate piled-up fruit pizzas. The yuppies like the shrimp, avacado and pinapple one. My personal favorite was a white sauce pizza (I've had so-called white sauce pizzas since then but never anything at all like theirs) with steak and onions on top.

"Chicago style" pizza is quite good. It's always thick and does need a fork. The so called toppings are actually inside.

Pizza has different styles and types. Shit, Pizza Hut alone has several different types of crust.
No offense, but in the rest of your post, you explain the pizza place you worked in the PacNW...and when it goes through all of that change, you put on fruit and different sauce and on and on...is that really pizza, any more?

OK, it is still round, I assume, and somewhat flat and it's got crust and sauce and cooked in an oven? But, it just seems to cry out for its own name, somehow. Maybe at the least..."PacNW style"? Where's tradition going?

 

[FuckDoll]

A while back I managed to work at a Pizza Hut for 4 years. I can barely stand the smell of it now.

 

[TaintedB]

Answer below:


PS: Does anybody know where the nice ass thread went to? I have a nice ass photo to put up in it, but if I can't find the thread, I'll have to stick it in Jason's ass thread.

 

[flowerchilde]

I'm a from the point girl, but for certain pizzas knife and fork are called for! I'm going to be making my own pizza from scratch soon and I'll let you all know how it turned out! It should be really good!

 

[DVS]

A while back I managed to work at a Pizza Hut for 4 years. I can barely stand the smell of it now.

I was night manager of a Pizza Hut for a couple years. I was also the cook. Back then, the ovens were set at 600 degrees and every time you put your arm in there, all of the hair was burned off. I had one arm with lots of hair on it, and one arm with no hair on it. I was strange looking.

Come to think of it, I think I still have some of those red and white checkered shirts, too. I still like the pizza, though, but they've changed the sauce since I worked there. Maybe that's the reason.

 

[petboy]

Pizza hands down is my favorite food and I eat it a few times a week usually! I start from the point of course. I like Pizza Hut and Olive Gardens best, and red baron has the best microwave pizza if I need to grab and go. lol

 

[Seduce]

I used to eat pizza with knife and fork till 4 years ago (in restaurants back home), then I came to Germany and freaked out when I saw what they actually put in pizza here..... I really dont like ananas or mayo in my pizza.
So I started to make my own homemade pizza and I usually cut it in small pieces handy to eat with fingers.

 

[h_i_s]

i start at the point.
i eat the crust.
i like the 'dough bubbles'.
i like it hot.
i like it cold.
i don't like it for breakfast.
Pizza topped with pineapple and sliced ham is my favorite (i pick the pineapple chuncks off and eat them separate.)
i don't like anchovies.

Most unique, and the best i ever had: Pizza topped with Bar-B-Qed chicken. Yummm .....

 

[snowy ciara]

OK, first, I consider myself creative and I ALWAYS eat a piece of pie from the point. Second, I know NOBODY who eats pie from the middle. If I saw that, I'd think they were SICK.

I had a piece of french silk pie the other day and I ate it from the sides, symmetrically, in your honour, Sir W. I'm glad someone bumped this thread cause I couldn't remember where I'd seen you say this.

 

[canadiancutie]

I'm vegan. I can only eat pizza when I can afford vegan pizza, or have the ingredients to make vegan pizza. So I don't eat pizza.

 

[jasonlf]

Answer below:


PS: Does anybody know where the nice ass thread went to? I have a nice ass photo to put up in it, but if I can't find the thread, I'll have to stick it in Jason's ass thread.

I read that as "I'll have to stick it in Jason's ass"

And I was like FUCK NO, WOMAN!

Then I reread it, and I was like.

YEAH, my thread is *THE* place for the hot ass.

 

[BlueSugar]

I'm going to staten island on tuesday, and brooklyn on wednesday and thursday...


I'M GETTIN' PIIIIZZAA !!!!!!


... and a few bagles.


I don't know if how excited I am is sick and should be considered insane... or just a true pizza snob's level for someone who hasn't had a real slice in months !!


:: dances ::

 

[ghosst_K&H]

The "Only Way"...Chicago style deep dish pizza, point first, awesome crust last.

 

[Private_Label]

many ways

Actually I eat mine a couple of ways.
If it is very hot, very fresh and has lots of cheese oozing over it I use knife and fork. Normally though if the pizza is not so oozing, I eat it from the point, with the slice folded slightly, just enough to keep the extra cheese from sliding off.