So I'm stuck in Chicago for 12 hours

Peas

https://youtu.be/k5yo5UGsU2Q

Mmmmmmm mmmm

Gustav

Excuse me a hot dog is a canine.

Crippl3

The only thing I like on pizza is cheese, and extra cheese. I'll put some parmesan and/or some hot sauce on there too.
No pepperoni, no sausage, no buffalo chicken, none of it.

Raijin Quickfoot

Gustav wrote: »

Excuse me a hot dog is a canine.

You're a canine!

Now come here so I can scritch your ears.

Gustav

Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »

Gustav wrote: »

Excuse me a hot dog is a canine.

You're a canine!

Now come here so I can scritch your ears.

This thing my leg is doing. I don't get it. But I'm way ok with it.

Kakodaimonos

Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »

Everybody knows a hot dog is a vegetable.

If it's a veggie dog it is.

Donovan Puppyfucker

Melding wrote: »

The Geebs That Knows Everything About Animorphs wrote: »

generally speaking I ain't want to get into semantics wars about if a food is actually some kind of other food

if you look at a chicago style pizza it's pretty easy to tell it is a pizza. it has all the classic pizza ingredients, it's just...you know, taller. I ain't about to tell you that you gotta think it's the best pizza of all time but "wehhhhhhhhh it's a casserole" is l a m e, go argue that a hot dog is actually a taco or some other fucking nonsense

it's not a casserole it's a lasagna. these are not the same thing.

Not really, no. I have had a lasagna pizza, and it's not like a Chicago pizza at all.

Blake T

Cheese pizza just, isn't a thing here. Back when I worked at a pizza store, it was probably one of the least popular options, and the only reason they had it was because they already had all the ingredients for it there.

Vivienne talks them up, but my attitude is, if I want cheese, I'd just eat cheese.

Aphostile

rhylith wrote: »

Inquisitor wrote: »

rhylith wrote: »

Duke 2.0 wrote: »

Pepperoni is something I don't go for by choice on pizza because I can never trust it will be done right. Lots of places have the circles so big you can't bite the whole thing at once, or its so firm biting into it will cause structural risk to the slice, or it uses an especially strong sausage that dominates the flavor. Good pepperoni is great, but most places are mediocre.

It's why my burritos come in bowels with a fork, one too many of those things disintegrated in my hands for me to trust.

Leave your burrito in the foil and peel as you eat.

This is basic burrito technique.

Most burritos I eat don't come in foil. Please advise.

Of course, most burritos I've eaten don't fall apart while eating either.

Most of the time when people say a burrito they're talkin Mission district style with a big ass tortilla filled with goodness and wrapped in foil. Chains that do this would be chipotle, qdoba, freebirds, etc.

I guess your burritos are served on a plate and it's open on both ends? Pretty sure even Taco Bell rolls it and puts it in a wrapper.

Either way the foil keeps it from falling apart, much like a wrapper on a very overloaded burger.

I will get my Mission style burritos here in the Mission and I will eat them with a smile because they're the best and I will STAB YOU IF YOU DISAGREE. It's the proper Mission way.

Veldrin

Cheese garlic bread is far more popular here than cheese pizza, in my experience.

Dead Legend

Straightzi wrote: »

Gustav wrote: »

Pepperoni pizza is a good default order when you're drunk and don't wanna argue over toppings.

But that's about the only time it's my go to.

Firm disagree

It's a bad choice because it doesn't take into account vegetarians or people who don't eat pork products

Like, even not considering personal taste and preference factors

Your crusade against pepperoni is flawed. It's a fine topping for basic pizza.

And it's their fault if they're vegetarian or don't eat pork products, not mine. I'm all for being inclusive, but they best be pitching in if I'm ordering special pizzas for special people

Duke 2.0

rhylith wrote: »

Duke 2.0 wrote: »

Pepperoni is something I don't go for by choice on pizza because I can never trust it will be done right. Lots of places have the circles so big you can't bite the whole thing at once, or its so firm biting into it will cause structural risk to the slice, or it uses an especially strong sausage that dominates the flavor. Good pepperoni is great, but most places are mediocre.

It's why my burritos come in bowels with a fork, one too many of those things disintegrated in my hands for me to trust.

Leave your burrito in the foil and peel as you eat.

This is basic burrito technique.

so I can have a disintegrated burrito with a wrapper dripping fluids around it

Kaplar

Hi pizza thread. The Domino's cheesy bread stuffed with bacon and jalapeños is great.

godmode

Fuckin papa johns started making these pepperoni and cheese rolls and they're basically edible heroin.

Melding

godmode wrote: »

Fuckin papa johns started making these pepperoni and cheese rolls and they're basically edible heroin.

heroin is already edible.

godmode

Well these pepperoni rolls are like pepperoni and cheese-flavored heroin.

Melding

godmode wrote: »

Well these pepperoni rolls are like pepperoni and cheese-flavored heroin.

please do not overdose on pepperoni rolls. i don't want someone to come check in on you, there you are roll half sticking out of your mouth, eyes rolled back, generally smelling worse than normal because of rot. "i should have known. The Papa has taken another child home."

Vixx

Blake T wrote: »

Cheese pizza just, isn't a thing here. Back when I worked at a pizza store, it was probably one of the least popular options, and the only reason they had it was because they already had all the ingredients for it there.

Vivienne talks them up, but my attitude is, if I want cheese, I'd just eat cheese.

The best cheese pizza I ever had was actually in Brisbane, and it was made from like 5 different cheeses and I think one of them might've been a blue cheese!

Evidently we should go to Brisbane!

DJ Eebs

Melding wrote: »

The Geebs That Knows Everything About Animorphs wrote: »

generally speaking I ain't want to get into semantics wars about if a food is actually some kind of other food

if you look at a chicago style pizza it's pretty easy to tell it is a pizza. it has all the classic pizza ingredients, it's just...you know, taller. I ain't about to tell you that you gotta think it's the best pizza of all time but "wehhhhhhhhh it's a casserole" is l a m e, go argue that a hot dog is actually a taco or some other fucking nonsense

it's not a casserole it's a lasagna. these are not the same thing.

it doesn't have any pasta in it tho

Melding

The Geebs That Knows Everything About Animorphs wrote: »

Melding wrote: »

The Geebs That Knows Everything About Animorphs wrote: »

generally speaking I ain't want to get into semantics wars about if a food is actually some kind of other food

if you look at a chicago style pizza it's pretty easy to tell it is a pizza. it has all the classic pizza ingredients, it's just...you know, taller. I ain't about to tell you that you gotta think it's the best pizza of all time but "wehhhhhhhhh it's a casserole" is l a m e, go argue that a hot dog is actually a taco or some other fucking nonsense

it's not a casserole it's a lasagna. these are not the same thing.

it doesn't have any pasta in it tho

listen, i'm not here to make the argument, i'm just saying the argument had ended with someone from chicago saying "it's more like a lasagna than a normal pizza"

in closing, deep dish pizza is pretty good food.

Veldrin

America, I was really disappointed when I visited you and you were boasting salty pretzel crust Dominos pizzas and then I ordered one of your salty pretzel crust pizzas and it was just normal crust with salt sprinkled into it.

DJ Eebs

eat whatever pizza you like as long as you don't eat it with a goddamned fork, is all I have to say on the matter

Melding

Veldrin wrote: »

America, I was really disappointed when I visited you and you were boasting salty pretzel crust Dominos pizzas and then I ordered one of your salty pretzel crust pizzas and it was just normal crust with salt sprinkled into it.

they probably ran out of the pretzel crust and figured you'd be too dumb to notice. it works pretty often.

DarkPrimus

Melding wrote: »

godmode wrote: »

Fuckin papa johns started making these pepperoni and cheese rolls and they're basically edible heroin.

heroin is already edible.

I've often enjoyed smoking heroin, but I never considered ingesting it.

Veldrin

Melding wrote: »

Veldrin wrote: »

America, I was really disappointed when I visited you and you were boasting salty pretzel crust Dominos pizzas and then I ordered one of your salty pretzel crust pizzas and it was just normal crust with salt sprinkled into it.

they probably ran out of the pretzel crust and figured you'd be too dumb to notice. it works pretty often.

I was so annoyed.

But admittedly the pizza was still quite good.

So I hate-ate the hell out of it.

altlat55

A Chicago thread. Just need to do a quick skim to make sure we covered everything........Second City, go to a Cub's game, quick dig at the White Sox, Englewood, and a four page argument about pizza. Yep, I think we're good here.

I'm just glad Frontera came up. I fly quite a bit and I always make time for that ridiculous line for overpriced airport food.

Lost Salient

mcp wrote: »

Here's what you should do in Chicago.

Find some little shit bar, and drink a whole bunch of whatever. Have a few shots of Malort in there somewhere.

Then, do a search for italian beef on your phone. Stumble to the nearest place that's open, and get an italian beef dipped.

That is good, delicious times.

Sorry but a combo is the truth and the light.

It's a direct tunnel to heaven by way of cardiac arrest.

As an aside, anyone who sends me giardiniera in the post, I'll send you some Singapore food mysteries.

Lost Salient

Oh and I guess given altlat55's post, I gotta throw this in:

Cubs suuuuck~

Donovan Puppyfucker

Lost Salient wrote: »

mcp wrote: »

Here's what you should do in Chicago.

Find some little shit bar, and drink a whole bunch of whatever. Have a few shots of Malort in there somewhere.

Then, do a search for italian beef on your phone. Stumble to the nearest place that's open, and get an italian beef dipped.

That is good, delicious times.

Sorry but a combo is the truth and the light.

It's a direct tunnel to heaven by way of cardiac arrest.

As an aside, anyone who sends me giardiniera in the post, I'll send you some Singapore food mysteries.

Sorry, best I can do is giardia.

Ketar

If I'm flying out of O'Hare I will skip lunch/whatever more locally just so I can eat at Tortas Frontera.

Lost Salient

That Frontera is forever tainted by the dude from Ohio who talked at me about Rick Bayless and good tacos for a solid thirty minutes. It was a conversation that opened with "I'm from Chicago, originally," on my part and "I haven't been to Mexico, but," on his.

Blake T

There is a place down the road that sells cake.

Big freaking pieces of cake. Like I think the cake pans are like fourteen inches at least.

I've had one piece and nothing else. I. Am. So. Full.

I feel they would sell more cake if their slices are smaller.

Veldrin

Lost Salient wrote: »

mcp wrote: »

Here's what you should do in Chicago.

Find some little shit bar, and drink a whole bunch of whatever. Have a few shots of Malort in there somewhere.

Then, do a search for italian beef on your phone. Stumble to the nearest place that's open, and get an italian beef dipped.

That is good, delicious times.

Sorry but a combo is the truth and the light.

It's a direct tunnel to heaven by way of cardiac arrest.

As an aside, anyone who sends me giardiniera in the post, I'll send you some Singapore food mysteries.

Send them a ramly burger

sarukun

Moriveth wrote: »

Like enjoy whatever the fuck toppings you want but don't act like because you dislike another topping it somehow means you're on some higher fuckin' level of pizza enjoyment

Sausage and mushroom or you're an infant.

(The joke is, it's me, I'm the infant.)

sarukun

pooka wrote: »

my drunk pizza of choice was pineapple and black olives, and whatever is in the Papa John's special seasoning. that shit is delicious.

Oh my God the salt and sugar how did I never see it I must have this immediately!

tynic

Veldrin wrote: »

Cheese garlic bread is far more popular here than cheese pizza, in my experience.

how would you order a cheese pizza in australia, even
can i have a medium pizza, no toppings

Tube

Frontera wasn't open by the time I left, I had to make do with a McDonalds (which was honestly pretty great after not eating for 16 hours). Although it was breakfast time and breakfast at McDonalds is not my favourite.

Lalabox

tynic wrote: »

Veldrin wrote: »

Cheese garlic bread is far more popular here than cheese pizza, in my experience.

how would you order a cheese pizza in australia, even
can i have a medium pizza, no toppings

i think they are pretty uniformly called margheritas. Like, that just seems to be the standard name these days.

Blake T

Margheritas are cheese, tomato and herbs though.

Donovan Puppyfucker

Lalabox wrote: »

tynic wrote: »

Veldrin wrote: »

Cheese garlic bread is far more popular here than cheese pizza, in my experience.

how would you order a cheese pizza in australia, even
can i have a medium pizza, no toppings

i think they are pretty uniformly called margheritas. Like, that just seems to be the standard name these days.

The difference between a New-York style cheese pizza and an Aussie margherita pizza is pretty wide, I think? Like, an Aussie margherita pizza usually has sliced bocconcini and cherry tomatoes and basil and stuff on it, whereas what I see decribed as a cheese pizza in the US is a thin and crispy base with pizza sauce and just melted mozzarella on top, nothing else.