A fun project could be to quantify how much less pepperoni toppings, NY pizzerias have been putting on pizza. Train a CV model to detect what a slice is, what a pepperoni topping is. Then feed it public pictures of NY pizza over the past 10 years. An interesting result would be something like "NY pizzerias have been putting 16% less pepperoni on pizza". This would totally get news traffic and generate some buzz, and be a practical example of non-price inflation.
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#72> This calculation excludes dollar slices. So, they only counted data from places where the price has gone up and concluded that...the price has gone up.
A dollar slice and a regular slice are related things but definitely different categories
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#74> I did not rate the slices to avoid controversy and bribes.
Whew
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#75This is a fascinating list. No Mama's Too, no Prince St, no L'Industrie, no F&F. All of which are probably my top 4 for slices. Scarr's is there though, which rounds out my top 5. I don't eat a lot of pizza personally but I do love a good slice. What I love about New York isn't necessarily that we have the best pizza (although we do have places that are in the running for the best), but that the average quality is so…
No Fini and No Razza (NJ)
L'Industrie is the best ny slice in NYC (possibly the world?) as of 2023 IMO
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#76fascinating. this site crashes firefox.
Works fine here, FF 108.0.2 on MacOS 12.6.1, Apple silicon
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#77This is a fascinating list. No Mama's Too, no Prince St, no L'Industrie, no F&F. All of which are probably my top 4 for slices. Scarr's is there though, which rounds out my top 5. I don't eat a lot of pizza personally but I do love a good slice. What I love about New York isn't necessarily that we have the best pizza (although we do have places that are in the running for the best), but that the average quality is so…
They got two from Papa John's and one from Wegmans! The quality bar is all over the place.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
At the risk of sounding like an ad I’m kind of startled at how not-terrible Little Caesars is for the price. A lot of food and a completely reasonable tasting and baked pie for stupid cheap when compared to almost everything else.
Little Caesars is objectively terrible, sorry.
Even the late Anythony Bourdain could espouse on the greatness of an "objectively terrible" Wafflehouse meal.
There's a time and place for everything, and even the snobbiest of us food snobs can appreciate the time and place for the likes of Little Ceasars, Costco Pizza, Wafflehouse, et al.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, while not my favorite, Sal & Carmines is great. Only other truly great slice joint on the UWS is Freddie's (which is phenomenal). A new-ish place, Mama's Too on 106th, isn't too bad either.
Don't forget Koronet between 110 and 111. Jumbo slices FTW!
There's also a Koronet on Lex between 77th & 78th - my goto whenever I'm in the area.
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#80This is a fascinating list. No Mama's Too, no Prince St, no L'Industrie, no F&F. All of which are probably my top 4 for slices. Scarr's is there though, which rounds out my top 5. I don't eat a lot of pizza personally but I do love a good slice. What I love about New York isn't necessarily that we have the best pizza (although we do have places that are in the running for the best), but that the average quality is so…
Mama's Too has delicious toppings but is overall an oily mess (Detroit style?).
Mama's Pizza two blocks away on Amsterdam & 107th is run by the parents of the guy that runs Mama's Too and is a traditional NYC slice, and delicious.