Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

NYC Slice

elkue.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

231–240 of 534 posts

Re: NYC Slice

#231

Post by lotsofpulp »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #211
rcme wrote: post #15

Many who grow up in the NY area grow up on pizza. In childhood, it's often eaten as a quick meal that doesn't require cooking. In adolescence, pizza is one of the only foods you can afford to eat out with your friends after school. In college, there's nothing like a drunken slice of pizza at 1 am. It's hard to overstate what a satisfying comfort food pizza is. There's truly nothing like it.

> Many who grow up in the NY area grow up on pizza. Average pizza slice that we're discussing is according to https://www.nutritionix.com/i/nutritionix/new-york-style-piz... 500+ calories, lots of saturated fat, lots of sodium. How healthy is it to grow up on pizza?

>How healthy is it to grow up on pizza?

See USA statistics for obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease.

Re: NYC Slice

#232

Post by tptacek »

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #214
tptacek wrote: post #94

I'm not a New Yorker, but a New York food person I follow has a small rant about how people obsess about the best NYC slice, but that the real point of NYC pizza is that it's available everywhere in the city, like that you are never far from a good NYC slice --- so that the idea of seeking out particular slices kind of misses the point. NYC'ers: how bad is that take? (None of this is to say that it's illegitimate for…

This is why the current restaurant reviews all suck. What I want is: IMO what do most people do when talking about restaurants, especially in a group? Someone brings up restaurant X and THEN they say "I usually get dish X, but sometimes Y and Z." and then someone ELSE says "nah, don't get X there, go to restaurant A to get that. But I do like the Z they make there", and then someone ELSE has a different opinion like…

There is this in Chicago. It's called LTHForum. It's a PHPBB, not a startup with an app. It's a big enough deal that restaurants that get the LTH seal of approval frame it.

Re: NYC Slice

#233

Post by etblg »

mprovost wrote: post #189
JustSomeNobody wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I make pizza at home. If you let the dough ferment cold for at least overnight, the results are pretty darned good. I usually do a 3 day ferment in the fridge.

This is the downside to pizza at home. Step 1 is always "go back in time 3 days and make dough".

Keep it in the freezer and that time comes down to "defrost overnight 1 day in advance", or you can try thawing it out under a tap or something.

Always nice having some frozen dough and sauce handy in the freezer.

Re: NYC Slice

#234

Post by [deleted] »

dcow wrote: post #128
ethbr0 wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's only because Dominos infamously, sometime during the 2010s(?), ran a campaign that amounted to "Our current pizza sucked, but we've got a new recipe that's better."

Yeah I occasionally get caught in the trap of trying their Brooklyn crust and every time I come to the conclusion that it's a lackluster disappointing product that isn't in any way different from any of their other pizzas in terms of quality. I've maybe had dominoes 2 times in the last 5 years which is why I keep forgetting XD

[deleted]

Re: NYC Slice

#235

Post by winphone1974 »

LarryMullins wrote: post #96
ncallaway wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don’t need to apologize to them. We should be saying sorry to you. Someone who gets enjoyment out of a $5 pizza is in an objectively better position than someone who can only get enjoyment out of a $10 pizza. Sorry!

This is how I explain my refusal to learn anything about the varieties and nuances of "good coffee". If I learned to appreciate good coffee, would I still be able to enjoy common dinner coffee? I fear not.

I think you'd be ok, because good diner coffee is about a lot of things, but typically not the actual coffee.

Re: NYC Slice

#236

Post by msoad »

The obsession with "best NYC pizza" is funny to New Yorkers. Pizza is usually not a food that you plan for it and go somewhere far to have it. The best pizza is the one nearby. They're all good. Just enjoy it and stop with the FOMO

Re: NYC Slice

#237

Post by pzone »

neilv wrote: post #218
awhitty wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I 100% agree, and I've only visited NYC a couple times. Each time I visit, I try to eat at least one slice of pizza and one bagel every day. The thing that blows me away is how generally good they are, no matter where I buy them. Of course I'll look at reviews, but I won't walk more than 5 blocks to get a slice. Never been disappointed. Same thing visiting Paris - you can hunt for the BEST croissant, but the remarkab…

Has any NYC bagel aficionado living in Boston tried Bagelsaurus? (In Porter Square, on Mass. Ave.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xup2Lcd4Ers

I used to live near Bagelsaurus and it is better than any bagel I can get in my Brooklyn neighborhood now.

Dragon Pizza there similarly high quality.

Re: NYC Slice

#238

Post by noduerme »

count wrote: post #226
noduerme wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Egg and bacon / egg and sausage were like $2 when I was there in the 90s. And they were about twice the diameter of the ones you get at McDonalds. I don't know what it costs now, maybe this is something like avocado toast that's become anomalously expensive, but calorie for calorie it was as cheap or cheaper than pizza back then. They could be bought from most bodegas that had a stove, as the peer points out. (The LA…

$2 vs. a $1 slice...is twice the expense :)

> but calorie for calorie

Re: NYC Slice

#239

Post by _elkue »

nemo44x wrote: post #190
_elkue wrote: post #111

Hello, I am the maker of the website. I'm sorry to hear it's crashing some browsers, I'll try to figure out what's happening. It's a clean install of wordpress so I'm confused what I did wrong. The reason there is an odd amount for dollar slice total is that one place had the nerve to charge me tax ($1.09). I concede that the quality at Joes has gone down over the years. I am closely noting the recommendations in thi…

Do you call it a "plain slice" for everyone else? Everyone I know in NYC calls it a "regular slice".

I've always called it a plain slice but I've heard regular/cheese/plain used interchangeably

Re: NYC Slice

#240

Post by airstrike »

greenhearth wrote: post #86

Artichoke is gross. How do people like it, I will never understand.

It's open super late and when you're drunk after going to a nearby club at 2:30am it hits the spot like few other slices do
Post reply on HN