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Helpful guide to US culture for my fellow North Americans! (thelemmy.club)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/2northamerican4you@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 31 points 6 months ago* (41 children)

"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

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  • [–] 35 points 6 months ago (13 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (12 children)

    The world needs to know that Chicagoans rarely order deep dish

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    "your cousins from Michigan are coming, get a deep dish with the pizzas"

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    And that tavern style is amazing

    If you want to mock a steady pizza, the better target is on another lake, Detroit

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I will throw hands over the disparagement of a hot beef dipped

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    I thought the square cut pizza was Detroit style?

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    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

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    is worth claiming

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    What makes the hot dog Chicago style? It mostly just looks like a normal hot dog with a bunch of toppings

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    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.

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