Deadspin - why your team sucks 2018 : da Bears (pizza talk)

Bad Flanders · Wed Aug 15, 2018 3:41 pm

I like all kinds of pizza - although I'd argue that some deep dish has moved from pizza to lasagna almost.

BUT... I really miss the OLD Pizza Hut pan pizza. The good thick buttery crust when they used to really do it right and make it all in-house and not just reheat frozen crap. We have a chain here called Old Chicago, they come close, but not as good as a Pizza Hut pan pizza from 1985... Could be that I'm being hyperbolically sentimental and it was never that good, but I sure remember it well!

The Marshall Plan · Wed Aug 15, 2018 6:12 pm

I remember Pizza Hut as a kid from the Book It program at school. It was something like get five stars on your Book It button for reading and you go to Pizza Hut for a personal pan pizza. It was awesome every time.

Otis Day · Thu Aug 16, 2018 5:44 am

Never like Pizza Hut. Where I live, I stick to the mom and pop places, no chain pizza joints for me.

Boris13c · Thu Aug 16, 2018 7:53 am

I remember Pizza Pete on the south side while growing up ... they served me good pizza from elementary school all the way through high school ... simply perfect thin crust

many of the chains just can't get the crust right, which really does negatively affect the overall pizza .. pizza toppings on what tastes like a saltine cracker is not good pizza

Thu Aug 16, 2018 8:47 am

"Artisan" pizza is a thing here in North Dallas. Figs and honey and goat cheese and apples and all manner of things. Some of it is admittedly pretty tasty, but it's not pizza. It's a fancy round flatbread.

Mikefive · Thu Aug 16, 2018 8:53 am

wab wrote:"Artisan" pizza is a thing here in North Dallas. Figs and honey and goat cheese and apples and all manner of things. Some of it is admittedly pretty tasty, but it's not pizza. It's a fancy round flatbread.

Blasphemy.

Boris13c · Thu Aug 16, 2018 9:17 am

Chicago's 10 Oldest Pizzerias Are Full Of Delicious Secrets

been to 4 of the places listed ... a couple on the list I never heard of ... so maybe this will be a quest for the next trip to Chicago - hit all 10 within 10 days

G08 · Thu Aug 16, 2018 9:54 am

Boris13c wrote:Chicago's 10 Oldest Pizzerias Are Full Of Delicious Secrets

been to 4 of the places listed ... a couple on the list I never heard of ... so maybe this will be a quest for the next trip to Chicago - hit all 10 within 10 days

Pete's Pizza is a hidden gem in this city... their homemade sausage is out of this fucking world.

Bad Flanders · Thu Aug 16, 2018 12:07 pm

Otis Day wrote:Never like Pizza Hut. Where I live, I stick to the mom and pop places, no chain pizza joints for me.

Oh, don't get me wrong, like I said, I'll try any pizza and love tons of mom and pop places. If you are ever in South Sioux City Nebraska, go to Rosie's, as good of thin crust as you'll get anywhere. We also have Townhouse, Bob Roes, and Jerry's. I doubt any of you will ever get that shot though, so I went with the thing we'd all know.

And, I'm not going to dis a good food just cause it's from a chain either. The majority of chains have some damn crappy food but most have something that keeps them in the game, some just because they are cheap but most because they have something decent on the menu. There is a reason why Pizza Hut got as big as it got and it was that old style pan pizza crust in my opinion. Now they just want to compete with domino's and little ceaser's... so just cheap cheap cheap crap.

BUT, seriously, ever in SSC, grab a Rosies.

Boris13c · Thu Aug 16, 2018 1:38 pm

G08 wrote:
Boris13c wrote:Chicago's 10 Oldest Pizzerias Are Full Of Delicious Secrets

been to 4 of the places listed ... a couple on the list I never heard of ... so maybe this will be a quest for the next trip to Chicago - hit all 10 within 10 days
Pete's Pizza is a hidden gem in this city... their homemade sausage is out of this fucking world.

I don't remember ever going there, but I do remember the old Riverview Amusement Park the article mentions ... so I'm guessing I must have gone to the pizza place at some point but a long time ago

Boris13c · Sat Aug 18, 2018 9:30 am

I do have a great place for quality thin crust pizza in my area ... a regional chain called Ledo Pizza ... a very high quality pizza from the crust to the toppings

only negative is if you get the version with all the toppings, it can detonate on the way from the plate to your mouth as the thin crust surrenders to the laws of physics ... other than that, highly recommended if you ever venture this way

and, their pizzas are square or rectangle depending on the size

Ormazd · Sat Aug 18, 2018 6:17 pm

Boris13c wrote:I do have a great place for quality thin crust pizza in my area ... a regional chain called Ledo Pizza ... a very high quality pizza from the crust to the toppings

only negative is if you get the version with all the toppings, it can detonate on the way from the plate to your mouth as the thin crust surrenders to the laws of physics ... other than that, highly recommended if you ever venture this way

and, their pizzas are square or rectangle depending on the size

I stopped at the one in La Plata recently and, yeah, it was quite good.