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Re: NYC Slice

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Post by mtalantikite »

misiti3780 wrote: post #75
hardwaregeek wrote: post #40

This 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

I live close to l’industrie and am both happy for massimo and bummed for myself that it’s gotten so popular. I miss being able to get a slice without waiting in line for a super long time, but I agree, maybe the top slice in the city.

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by MajimasEyepatch »

acdha wrote: post #63
Justsignedup wrote: post #4

fascinating. this site crashes firefox.

Do you have some kind of extension like an ad blocker? It’s fine in Firefox and Safari on a clean install so I’m wondering whether there might be some issues related to how large the page is or possibly a video driver problem.

It crashes for me on macOS. I have a couple of password manager extensions and React Developer Tools installed. I would not be surprised if it's LastPass.

Edit: Interestingly, Chrome flashes a couple of times too when I scroll down to the section of the page with the Carto map plugin. I can see when I inspect the DOM that there's supposed to be an iframe there, but it looks Chrome is just killing the iframe rather than crashing to desktop.

Safari hangs but does not crash when it gets to Carto. So something is screwy with that map plugin.

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by arrosenberg »

qbasic_forever wrote: post #58
yamtaddle wrote: post #5

> but the overall quality of your average slice in the city has definitely suffered This is true of the big national chains, too. They've kept prices relatively stable for damn near 25 years, at this point, but quality has gotten far worse over that same time span. That mouth-watering Pizza Hut pie you remember from 1992 isn't all nostalgia—every now and then I find single-location or small-chain joints that make piz…

Pizza Hut pan pizza is the easiest pizza to make yourself at home. You don't need a stand mixer, it's a no knead recipe (long overnight rise builds all the gluten). You don't need a fancy super hot oven, it just cooks at 400 degrees F in a cast iron skillet. Give this recipe a shot, it's unbelievably good and very accessible: https://www.seriouseats.com/foolproof-pan-pizza-recipe or https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-srf…

For making small batches at home you never need a stand mixer. Once you use the food processor, you will never go back.

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by wahnfrieden »

scoofy wrote: post #125

I used to live above Best Pizza (Williamsburg) and lived there when they opened. In my opinion, the best heuristic for good pizza is just the quality of tomatoes they use. San Marzano or Roma for the east coast, but on the west coast you have a ton of local options. I'm not saying you can't have good pizza from processed tomato sauce, I'm just saying that a place that cares about the quality of tomatoes also cares ab…

the other nyc frank has good pizza advice on his instagram sometimes, on youtube anyway you can see his limone at least https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBPVwdEmkco

i also lived around the corner from best pizza from their first year and frequented there. (though my true love was saltie.) sometimes frank experimented with the dough/bake method and asked what i thought, friendly people. i love their sicilian. rip bill

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by geocrasher »

harrydehal wrote: post #78
alar44 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

In that vein, Papa Murphy's take and bake pizza is excellent for what you get. And who doesn't put on a LOT more cheese before cooking?

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by freejazz »

hardwaregeek wrote: post #40

This 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…

Those are all tourist spots. The list in the link is way better because it consists of outer borough spots.

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by Spooky23 »

yamtaddle wrote: post #5

> but the overall quality of your average slice in the city has definitely suffered This is true of the big national chains, too. They've kept prices relatively stable for damn near 25 years, at this point, but quality has gotten far worse over that same time span. That mouth-watering Pizza Hut pie you remember from 1992 isn't all nostalgia—every now and then I find single-location or small-chain joints that make piz…

Agreed. A good pizza is $20 retail, $8-12 at home.

I think the pizza problem is two-fold. Like Jewish Delis, ethnic Italians are exiting the business and selling the local shops. Instead of working 60 hours a week in the shop, the kids are mortgage brokers and IT guys.

The other issue is that manufactured pizza components are better and cheaper. You can be a lower skill operator and still churn out a mediocre product. So a shitty local shop is using a similar premade dough and mediocre cheese that a chain is using.

It’s really obvious to see in NYC.

The same thing happened to bread.

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by freejazz »

paxys wrote: post #12

> 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.

Dollar slices aren't actual pizza, it's a pizza-like product

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by freejazz »

hacker_newz wrote: post #116
nobody9999 wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Notably absent from this list is L'Industrie in Williamsburg! As an old guy, I try to avoid Hipster doofus land^W^W^W Williamsburg as much as possible. YMMV

You're about a decade behind in neighborhood stereotypes there boomer.

True, we should ignore williamsburg because it's basically just hoboken now
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