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Ulysses E. McGill
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Pizza poll
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3/29/2011 6:35:53 PM (updated 3/29/2011 6:39:17 PM)
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I watched a show on Pizza recently (either travel or food network) and it got me thinking about how different people are in their likes and tastes for this common dish. Pizza is probably the most diverse dish in the world when one looks at the variations that are made under the same name. Some tout NY style, others Chicago, and there are hundreds of variations in between. If one looks at reviews from local pizza parlors to national brands, there are always some folks that love and others that dislike the same product (if enough reviews are present). Even in my own house, we can't agree on the perfect pizza and often argue over brand when we want to order out.
Here's the poll
1. Favorite national or regional brand pizza and the way you order it
2. Your perfect pizza. Tell us what you like and don't like. Toppings or cheeses on top? Home made or bought? How you love it and why.
3. Worst national/regional brand pizza
My answers:
1. Papa Johns (traditional crust, extra cheese, mushrooms, spicy sausage, ham, bacon, canadian bacon, pepperoni, onions, banana peppers, Italian salami, and Roma tomatoes.
2. My perfect pizza is home made. Cheese over sauce and then toppings. Crispy crust, light sauce (I use spaghetti sauce), provolone, mozzarella and Parmesan cheese, Jimmy Dean hot sausage, peperoni, vidialia onion, crispy bacon, thin sliced tomatoes, fresh portabella mushrooms, fresh hot banana peppers, black olives and fresh basil leafs......then baked in the green egg for a slightly smoked taste.
For me, toppings rule. The typical NY pizza is edible, but it doesn't ring my bell ( I'm in downtown NY on a regular basis, so yes I'm dissin' the real thing).
Chicago style is thick and plentiful (the way I like a pizza) but the deep dish crust is wrong for me. The closest I've
had to my perfect bought pizza is at a friends place
(called TJ's) in Lima Ohio.....but then TJ let's me build the pizza
myself on his special cracker crust.
3. CiCi's
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Talullahhound
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Pizza poll
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3/29/2011 8:28:17 PM
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. Favorite national or regional brand pizza and the way you order it
My hands down favorite is NY style from a pizza shop. Like it with Italian sausage, green peppers, mushrooms (only if fresh). I don't do chain pizza, although I understand that Dominos has improved immensely. I don't like Chicago pizza either. If I have to eat frozen pizza, it will be Wolfgang Pucks.
2. Your perfect pizza. Tell us what you like and don't like. Toppings or cheeses on top? Home made or bought? How you love it and why.
My perfect pizza has thin crust, red pizza sauce(none of that sweet stuff), cheese (this would be mozzerella, no cheddar or mix) and then toppings as described above. Season with oregano, crushed reds, maybe a little bit of garlic). No anchovies, no ham, pineapple, chicken or broccoli.
3. Worst national/regional brand pizza
The worst national brand has to be Pizza Hut. Some of the frozen pizza brands are pretty awful too.
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roswellric
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Pizza poll
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3/30/2011 10:01:12 PM
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Wow. We could open a pizza place on our preferences. I still say Johnny Bruscos in Auburn..... University & Dean.
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roswellric
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But!
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3/30/2011 10:03:36 PM
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The thin crust has to be chewy... not like that awful "graham cracker" crust at Pizza Hut. That comes from hand spun not comissary dough.
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You are right. Thin crust must be chewy. None of that cracker stuff.
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Exactly what I mean about the many differences in taste....I love a properly cooked crispy crust with a crunch. I don't like greasy (like pizza hut) or pizzas that emphasize a chewy crust over toppings.
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roswellric
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But!
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3/31/2011 8:20:51 PM
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Chewy good - greasy BAD! But ...after a pitcher of beer and some good company who cares :-)
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folks would be passionate about their pizza.....
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