FoodPorn @lemmy.world BallShapedMan @lemmy.world 1y ago

Chicago Deep Dish Pizza

This and the dogs are my favorite parts of Chicago!

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Looks like Giordanos, which is fine, but I generally don’t recommend since it’s very saucy and the crust is bleh. Try Lou Malnati’s next time — it’s far superior
- Sure, but Lou Malnati's skimps on the cheese.
  
  It's not Chicago unless you choke on the cheese.
  
  Is this is a real conversation or is this all gay code
- Lou's sauce is trash. Gio's is the way to go
- Hey, I like Giardano's lol
- Lou Malnati’s crust was so yeasty and unpleasant, and super skimpy on cheese when I had it. Extremely not worth the hype.
- Anyone know a good spot in NYC to get one? We got one of the chains in times sq but I'd reckon Chicago people wouldn't recommend them just like we'd not recommend Sbarro's.
  
  Every time I see a Chicago Deep Dish, I'm like yo I'd try that as an unique experience.
You’re a sadist for not showing us the cross section
- The sauce covered a lot of it.
  
  It looks delicious af and I'd smash, but why is it called pizza?
all the locals i know prefer chicago's other pizza, tavern-style thin and crispy. they might have a deep dish once or twice a year, if that.
- Pretty much just when entertaining people from out-of-town.
- I ate more Costco pizza than deep dish when I lived there.
  
  Bro Costco had the best deep dish ever. I still think about that shit. There's been a hole in my heart for years.
- You are correct, tavern style is the way to go.
A yes the only "pizza" you need to worry about drowning in if you ever pass out drunk while eating it
- Yes but what a delicious way to drown
All of this arguing about if it is a pizza, yet the simple truth that it is a salad escapes everyone.
- You're a mad man, and your food classification theories are overwrought AND lead to bad conclusions!
  
  A salad?! Clearly a deep-dish pizza is a form of quiche!
  
  You are a true scholar of food theory I see.
  
  But alas, you fool, should you thoroughly inspect the manuscripts (specifically Appendix C), you would see that salad theory firmly debunks cuberule for the farce that it is!
Pay no attention to Chicago, we purposely trained them wrong... as a joke.
Eat what you like but please don´t call it a pizza when it´s obviously not.
- You guys are worse than the carbonara gatekeepers.
  
  Clearly defined semantics serve the purpose of precise communication. When someone says "pizza", I want to know what they mean, a pizza or a weird American pie. What is so bad about that?
- If this is a pizza then beans on toast is also a pizza.
- I love Deep Dish, but yeah it's more of a pizza-flavored casserole.
- It’s a bread bowl with tomato and cheese soup.
Would this be considered a pie? A tomato pie perhaps.
- It's a pizza pie
Who tf cares what it actually is? Do some people refuse to try this because it's named after something they don't agree with? It's fucking cheese and tomato sauce, idgaf what it's called, I'm eating it.
Soup bread bowl
Don't forget to have a proper polish with mustard, onions and sport peppers.
- Hell yeah!!!
- That doesn't sound very polishing to me.
Delicious, delicious casserole
- Sandwich, per the canonical diagram.
So much sauce! Is this normal? When I try Chicago style at home, having never visited, it's like quarter that
- Yes it’s normal, but it’s not that much sauce. The sauce is on top, and the cheese and meat are below. What you’re seeing is only the top layer of sauce, hiding the deliciously gooey and savoury layers below.
  
  Cheese below sauce sounds like an unnecessary mess.
- I ate at Giordano's and it was all sauce. Kind of gross it was like soup
  
  It was gross because it was Giordano’s. They are the worst
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Inb4 "tHiS iSnT piZzA RAAAAAAAGE" damn too late.
- I'm not seeing a lot of "RAAAAAAAGE" here, I'm seeing a lot of people questioning whether it meets the definition but everyone is being civil about it (at the time of this comment).
  
  My vote, it should be called dough lasagna instead of pizza. But I'm not a local so I probably don't get a vote.
With that much filling, doesn't the base get soggy? Can you leat a slice like a normal pizza? Ie: held by the crust
- No, it's cheese on the bottom then meat then more cheese then sauce. It held up pretty good but not nearly as well as a normal slice of pizza. Think more like a sturdy pie crust in how strong it is.
Illuminati's? That stuff makes me physically ill.
- I don't think that's where we were, I forget the name. Why does it make you sick?
  
  No idea. I was told it was the "world's best pizza". They had it shipped frozen to where I live and we cooked them and they were gross. My stomach and a few other people's did not like them.
It looks like a bowl of marinara. 2/10.
- This is like seeing an iceberg and not realizing everything that was happening below.
  
  Wow, never knew it had so many layers ;D
  
  Ok as an italian you got my interest; it kind of reminds me of a pizza ripiena without the top layer of dough
  
  Think that's mostly Uno. At least, the other restaurants I've tried don't put a full layer of sausage on them.
  
  Which is rather unfortunate. That's the best part.
- For those who are unfamiliar with Chicago deep dish, the crust is thick, and the cheese and topping ingredients are underneath the sauce. That layer of sauce on the top is very thin.
  
  Looks delicious, I'm assuming is a fork and knife in restaurant pizza rather than take away and eat with friends in the couch.
- No, it doesn’t.
Chicago style... the only real pizza on the planet!
It's like a mozzarella stick. Only worse!

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