NYC Advice needed...

I ate at Sbarro during like a 45-minute layover because I hadn't eaten all day.

I'd rather have eaten my arm.

 

THAT'S NOT CHICAGO PIZZA!

 

Don't know, pallister. My friend, who was born and bred in Chicago, called it Chicago pizza.

 

Deep Dish pizza traditionally is thought of as "Chicago pizza," but most Chicagoans prefer the homegrown thin crust. Double-deckers are good, too.

 

IJAG,
Your friend is insane! ;D

I have eaten ungodly amounts of Chicago pizza in my life, and of that I can count on one hand the number of deep dish pieces.

True Chicago pizza from the neighborhoods is thin crust. The deep dish stuff isn't bad, but, as Doc said, it's not what most people who live in the city consider Chicago pizza.

 

Yay! Ragu gets it.

Just because you like it doesn't make it Chicago pizza. I like fried chicken. Doesn't make it Michigan chicken because I ate it there.

 

Thanks for the history lesson, but you're insane, too.

Origination Schmidgination. People who live and eat in Chicago (the city, not the suburbs; those people don't count) prefer the thin crust, thereby making it Chicago pizza, damnit! And it's not just a pizzeria here and there that offers thin crust pizza. You can hardly find a neighborhood pizzeria in the Chicago metro area that even offers that deep dish crap.

I've lived a good chunk (or slice, as it were) of my life in Chicago. I've never even been party to a person ordering deep dish in my presence. And I intend to keep it that way.

IJAG,
It's not that I like this special kind of pizza. Referencing above, it's literally the only kind offered in neighborhood pizzerias.

 

He's right. Deep Dish is something we foist upon tourists.

 

Do you realize how insane that sounds?

 

Well, it was written with a bit of sarcasm. But which part exactly didn't you like?

 

http://shopsins.com/

If you read the menu, I think they might serve something you'd eat.