DISQUS

eagleye · 1 year ago

There's a gourmet pizza place right across the street from my house. Last night I worked up an appetite with two glasses of shiraz, then had a white pizza with pesto, garlic sausage, and black olives. Yum....

Deacon_Blues · 1 year ago

My wife is from Chicago; the first time we went up there to visit her family, they ordered a pizza from a little joint down the street. Best pizza I ever had in my life! If I ever make good on my threat to move to Blue America, Chicago's where I'm going. I love that town.

moxiegrrrl · 1 year ago

Hey, when you're PRESIDENT, you get what you want! Pizza is the least he could ask for :)

AngelaChanning · 1 year ago

Off topic...but a few of the SNL skits were a bit homophobic...

Jim Olson · 1 year ago

Yah. Seems to be a thread tonight.

EdNSted · 1 year ago

John,

I certainly don't mean to disrespect the fine pizzas of Chicago and to be honest, I've never had a Lou Malnati's, but I'll gladly put a "Chicago Style" Zoey's Pizza in Marion, IA up against all challengers. It remains the best pizza I've ever had anywhere. Every other pizza joint pales in comparison. If you ever happen to be anywhere within the area, do not miss this:

http://www.zoeyspizza.com/

Zoey's is small an quaint. If you go after 4:30pm be prepared for a 2-hour wait. There's not many tables - most folks get their pizza to go.

yellowdogdem · 1 year ago

Can't say, as a New Yorker, I'm a fan of Chicago pizza. Seems to be a tepid imitation. But chacon a son gout. More concerned about the multiple recent reports of death threats against Obama and his supporters. We need to stamp this crap out emphatically and now. There are some marginalized white folks, mostly probably impotent males, who thing the election is the end of the world as they know it. They're right in a way. And they need to get over it. And they need to get over it now. Enough of this hate mongering. It's time for this country to move on. There is no room in this or any civilized society for the kind of malice that these people think they can get away with. It's time to show them that they live in a community that has standards. And, for the rest of you, some of whom may not be particularly friendly to those of religious persuasion, it might not hurt to pray for the president-elect''s safety.

EdNSted · 1 year ago

I could not agree with you more.

One point I've tried to make in local discussions is simply this: Obama did not win the election BECAUSE he is black. He won because he was able to convince the majority of voters that he was the BEST CANDIDATE for the job. Such threats against our president, regardless of who has been elected, are small minded and reflect the ignorance of the people making the threats. I was not huge supporter of Obama, but in the end, I did vote for him. I have fairly low expectations but I think he will be far, far better than George W. Bush. Still I see him as a very traditional, middle of the road, Democrat and I do not expect a great deal of real change.

yellowdogdem · 1 year ago

I'm more optimistic than you are, But I lived through 1963, and I know how hopes can be dashed by human perfidy. But I think that the American people need to take a noisy, emphatic stand at this point that hate tactics will not be tolerated and that those who act on them will be hunted down and brought to justice. This stuff scares me, and I don't think any time or energy should be lost in denouncing and opposing it. Whatever else it is, it is destructive to civilzation, period.

Jim Olson · 1 year ago

Feh. Pizza is pizza. I'm not a fan of anyone's pizza. Never really liked it.

omahaliberal · 1 year ago

SNL: ..Justin Timberlake was just on SNL with a black t-shirt on reading "HILLARY" with the R backwards. what gives???

Jim Olson · 1 year ago

What is Beyonce doing? Looks like theyre having seizures.

satiricalpete · 1 year ago

Sorry John...Chicago pizza will always play 2nd fiddle to New York's pizza.

mellowjohn · 1 year ago

new york pizza is ketchup on cardboard.

bunnyjump · 1 year ago

I agree. Slimy ketchup on cardboard at that.

monopole · 1 year ago

South side thin crust, the one true pizza. Now on to the chicago dogs!

eclecticbrotha · 1 year ago

Italian Fiesta - Obama's favorite - is some sweet shit. I haven't had any in ages. I need to drive up there and get a cheese and sausage real soon.

omahaliberal · 1 year ago

My bad on Justin Timberlake. it says "Willrast" he's promoting his new clothing line!! William Rast

Beyonce was aight.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

When I was younger, I used to go to a pizza place in Oak Park, Illinois---which was known at the time as a Chicago suburb where a lot of "outfit guys" lived.

There were always guys in suits in the kitchen, which you could see from where you placed your order.

The pizza was great, so I kept going back, but I always took my pizza "to go" and didn't ask any questions or make eye contact with the guys in back.

Last time I was in Oak Park, I noticed the place was gone.

WadeMD · 1 year ago

I lived in IL for a while. The best Chicago style pizza, anywhere, is Papa Del's in Urbana. A "real chicago style pizza" restaurant opened here in Tampa. They aren't even close. The big mistake people make is the sauce to cheese ratio, which has to be high. Most have WAY too much cheese. The one I had here must've had three pounds of cheese on it with barely any sauce. NASTY!!!

Gary SF · 1 year ago

Sadly, great pizza is the one thing that San Francisco doesn't have. We do have some good pizzas but nothing like what is available in Chicago or New York.

ComradeRutherford · 1 year ago

Chicago Pizza is to New York Pizza as Dub is to Roots Reggae.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Well, there ya go.

I prefer Dub to Reggae too.

Judas Peckerwood · 1 year ago

As a native East-Coaster and former professional pizza maker there, I never developed a taste for the crust-heavy Chicago-style version. But hey, whatever floats your boat. After relocating to the West Coast, I was despairing of ever finding decent pizza again -- until I moved to Olympia, WA, where Old School Pizza does an utterly righteous pie.

However, the best bet for finding pizza that you like is to make your own. Invest in a pizza stone (or two) and spend some time in learning how to make decent dough for the crust -- you won't be sorry.

mirele · 1 year ago

omg! omg! omg! I remember my brother sent me a couple of Lou Malnati's pizzas on dry ice one Christmas when I was living in Salt Lake City. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

dommyluc · 1 year ago

Although I now live in TN., I was born and raised in Chicago, and the best pizza was Palermo's, which used to be located on the south side on Maplewood Ave. but is now mainly in the burbs. Thin crust, tons of cheese, great sausage with lots of fennel, and a sweet/spicy basil-flavored sauce that cannot be matched. Our family has been ordering from them for 42 years, and whenever they hear our name they always go all out on the order. Phenomenal pie!!!

kh7463 · 1 year ago

There's a place near me called Barton's that makes a pizza that is very similar - but not quite - to Palermo's. It's to die for.

Bubbles · 1 year ago

Chicago style is just awesome. Edwardo's first, Giodano's second. There is no bad pizza. However, I find New York to be all bread.

God bless pizza.

zadig · 1 year ago

All right, cue the wingnuts:

- Hundreds of airline flights were delayed four hours while they rolled the pizza out onto the tarmac under heavy security, inconveniencing regular folk and showing how elite and out of touch Obama is.

- Each pizza cost 700 dollars during the Obama recession.

- Pizza is unamerican, because it's italian, and they were fascists in WW II.

- Obama got meatballs, which are elite, instead of sausage, which is working-class.

- He also ordered snooty foreign beer to drink with it instead of whatever Joe Six-Pack drinks

- Chicago pizza, being near the heartland, is somehow more elite than New York pizza, which is on the east coast and is therefore near lattes and priuses (priusi?), but is still more authentically working-class american

I'm sure there's more. Just wait for the first news reports to circulate a bit.

kh7463 · 1 year ago

i'm seeing a trip to Lou's in my immediate future. man I love that place.

bunnyjump · 1 year ago

Just a thing about Chicago pizza (from a 50+ native). There are more variations than you can name...Chicago pizza is not only the heavy pan stuff most tourists sample - (and being a native...I grew up with thin crust Home Run Inn pizza on Kostner). "Chicago pizza" can be thin crust, pan, stuffed....whatever. The thing about Chicago pizza is the number of small family restaurants and local chains that do it right. There's someone's favorite pizza place in every neighborhood and suburb.

I can't figure how Pizza Hut and Dominos can stay in business in the Chicagoland area. Maybe it's the transplants that eat that stuff.
But hands down, Chicago pizza, in whatever form, is the best in the nation. Period. End of debate.