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Helpful guide to US culture for my fellow North Americans!
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"Chicago Style" pizza isn't deep dish, it's square cut tavern style pizza. Yeah, deep dish isn't that great.
The hot dog is indeed Chicago style and it's good
I don't know what's in the lower left but it looks good
That's Italian beef in the lower right and it's really good.
So 1 out of 4 is Chicago style
Source: Lived here my whole life with over half of it in the city itself
Inside Chicago the thin tavern is “Chicago style” outside of Chicago deep dish is “Chicago style”
I know it sucks but you can’t change everyone’s mind.
The world needs to know that Chicagoans rarely order deep dish
ugh this is so annoying. I get thing crust square cut all the time but rarely cracker type tavern style and I will indulge in deep dish once I know a place can do it well.
Because it takes an hour to prepare and sucks
That’s fair, and true.
"your cousins from Michigan are coming, get a deep dish with the pizzas"
"cheese only, you know how they are"
Hilariously similar to a conversation I heard at work. But swap the cousins from Michigan with the Milwaukee office
Ooh. The satisfaction you just delivered me. 🎯
The world rarely orders deep dish too, usually only once, minutes before having their dinner ruined!
And that tavern style is amazing
If you want to mock a steady pizza, the better target is on another lake, Detroit
Detroit pizza is delicious though
It's good, but imo it's overrated
You spelled underrated wrong
I will throw hands over the disparagement of a hot beef dipped
My main problem with an Italian Beef is that a French dip requires a fraction of the ingredients but tastes just as good, if not better.
French dip be like “oh non! my je ne sais quoi!”
stuffed pizza is chicago style. lived here my whole life to. just because its not ordered all the time don't mean its not chicago.
I thought the square cut pizza was Detroit style?
Detroit style is a square pan pizza, pan being a very thick bready bottom. Chicago or tavern style is a thin crust round pizza that is cut into squares. I personally love Detroit style!
No you the thin crust cut tavern style is at Louis style and has provel cheese with toasted ravioli on the side
Also sounds like Maryland style
https://www.foodrepublic.com/1992561/what-makes-maryland-style-pizza-stand-out/
It is but it's pan pizza, not thin crust. And it's made a bit differently.
Chicago style is basically just normal pizza. Good but nothing to write home about
That's the problem. Everywhere has thing crust pizza cut into squares. But that deep dish italian pot-pie of amazing is worth claiming imo. I love the deep dish Chicago style pizza, but rarely can find it outside of Chicago.
Truly; I don't know why so many Chicagoans want to distance ourselves from it.
It – also – wholly originated in Chicago, no one's going to give us prop.s for tavern style Chicago pizza – they'll likely just forget we originated anything –, and – also (as you said) – it's fucking good and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
Every person I've known who swore up and down that it was an abomination to pizza I managed to get lost in the sauce after they finally allowed me to introduce them to it; it is amazing.
Yeah it's pretty good but it's like....If you're in the mood for deep dish, you get deep dish. If you're in the mood for pizza, deep dish isn't an option.
I can see that. Like if I'm craving "pizza" that wouldn't satisfy the craving.
Exactly. It's also heavy and isn't great cold which makes it a pretty bad party food, too
It is, and it is an actual pizza, so much better than the Chicago damp lasagna on bread they call deep dish
Yes you did.
What makes the hot dog Chicago style? It mostly just looks like a normal hot dog with a bunch of toppings
The toppings.
Really just the toppings. I guess it "needs" to be an all-beef hotdog on a steamed bun, too, but yeah really just the toppings. No idea why this guy's so upset by mustard, relish, onions, hot peppers, and tomato lol
It has to be the tomato
those toppings are standard. mustard, onions, celery salt, tomato, pickle, sweet relish, and sport peppers. If it says chicago style it means that. Most places will ask if you want the peppers since people can be iffy on spice heat. Some places will ask what you want it and "drag it through the garden" means to have everything on it.
No ketchup. Evar. I'm not kidding.
As God intended.
Amen and pass the Old Style
No comment about da bears?
Don't follow football so all I can say is that their stunt with the stadium is fuckin stupid and they make enough money to not be subsidized by the city
Im gonna say it, tavern style pizza is just a worse New Haven. Y'all just stole their pizza to distract everyone from the fact that the original Chicago style pizza sucks.