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Re: NYC Slice

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Post by balderdash »

kasey_junk wrote: post #25
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.

That’s not just NY. I suspect it’s basically all of the US.

You’d be surprised how hard it is to find pizza by the slice in many cities in the US

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by freejazz »

yunwal wrote: post #403
freejazz wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't say they were illegitimate. They are certainly pizza spots. Acting like it's not a good list because the poster didn't go to the top 5 most famous tourist traps for pizza is just indicating more on your part. >"Outer-borough superiority is a myth. Most local outer-borough places are simply bad. This includes all the usual suspect neighborhoods: Belmont, Pelham Bay, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, most of Staten Isla…

You’re dismissing a very legitimate quality difference in inner vs outer boroughs. There’s like 3 or 4 notable places in outer Brooklyn (s/o krispy pizza) that can compete with the dozens of incredible slices in inner Brooklyn. I’ve spent less time in Queens, but it seems Queens really does have a lot of great food outside of the hotspots.

Here's my take... if the pizza place isn't covered in little league baseball team portraits and autographed photos from the 90s and earlier, I don't want to hear about it. And who suddenly made it a contest about where there's more better pizza? And since when did Brooklyn become an inner borough? oh since you moved here and decided you needed to find the 'best slice'? Here's a suggestion, go find a new yorker and ask them to take you to their favorite pizza place where they grew up. Go do that, and then tell me how fucking amazing inner brooklyn is. The point isn't that L'Industrie isn't good. The point is that if all you do is go to popular pizza places, because that's what's popular, you don't really get what's awesome about NYC pizza. I'm glad you enjoy the food. But what makes NYC Pizza what it is, is the fact that everyone knows a good spot where they are from. It's all over the city, but folks like you gotta make lists.

Oh, and you heard that Queens has good food too? Wow, we've got Pete Wells over here! Share more secrets.

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by rcme »

stephencanon wrote: post #352
rcme wrote: post #109

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Out-of-towners are obsessed with the BEST, most obscure everything. It's one of the things I liked least about living in the city. Everything always felt like a competition about who knew the coolest places. It's comical that someone would travel more than a few minutes within NYC just to try a slice of pizza. Like if it's a nice neapolitan pie, sure. But just for a standard NYC-style slice? That's a waste of time. A…

If you’re in NYC and you want the _best_ pizza, step 1 is to take the train to New Haven.

Everyone loves the pizza from where they grew up.

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by balderdash »

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.

Don’t forget the the pre-drinks or dinner slice!

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by atonse »

qbasic_forever wrote: post #401
alarge wrote: post #390

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There is no way that New York style pizza can be compared to Focaccia. They have almost nothing in common. Now that Chicago thing, maybe. But as far as I'm concerned, that's not pizza.

No one said this was NY style. The original comment was lamenting that Pizza Hut pan pizza doesn't taste as good as it did in the 80s and 90s. I pointed out recipes that directly mimic that classic pan pizza style. Pizza Hut is not and has never claimed to be New York style pizza. It's an entirely different style that's neither New York nor Chicago style. It's closest to Detroit style pizza.

Love it. Pizza Hut slices also worked well for eating with a fork and knife cuz they were thick and crunchy.

Been meaning to try Kenji’s pan pizza recipe. Thanks for jogging my memory.

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by jghn »

billiam wrote: post #90

Native New Yorker here. Out of towners are obsessed with the BEST slice, but the true measure of NYC's 45 degree greatness is the decent quality following a Poisson distribution. My tip: just travel to any random spot in the five boroughs. First; you will be impressed how close you are to a pizza spot wherever you are. Second: you will be impressed with the slice, and with the variety of people who are good at making…

I have found it to be the opposite. If I walk into whatever random pizza shop happens to be nearby I’m always taken aback out how often it’s … ok.

There’s a lot of good pizza to be found but even more if it is just ok. Mind you I mean ok in the literal sense, and don’t mean it’s bad. But a lot of people make it seem like every street corner has amazing pizza. But that’s just not true

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by splistud »

jjeaff wrote: post #284
pastor_bob wrote: post #43

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Have you been to Cicis? Literally all you can eat + pasta. Dirt cheap. If you're the 'one-meal-a-day' type, is there a cheaper option?

I don't know what it is now, but Cici used to have $1.99 all you can eat pizza buffets on certain days of the week. This would have been in the mid 90s. Unbelievably (suspiciously?) cheap even for then.

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Re: NYC Slice

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Post by hparadiz »

hnick wrote: post #351
hparadiz wrote: post #349

Everyone is obsessed with NYC but these types of slices can be found in all the major east coast cities and is definitely one thing I miss about Philly. I'm in LA now and you'd think with how many Italians there are around here there'd be a higher standard but nope.

Well, and I can't personally confirm this, they say NYC water is somehow better for making the dough in this style of pizza.

That's a myth.

There's a pretty good NYC style pizza place in Maui and it tastes exactly the same.

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by yunwal »

freejazz wrote: post #422
yunwal wrote: post #403

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’re dismissing a very legitimate quality difference in inner vs outer boroughs. There’s like 3 or 4 notable places in outer Brooklyn (s/o krispy pizza) that can compete with the dozens of incredible slices in inner Brooklyn. I’ve spent less time in Queens, but it seems Queens really does have a lot of great food outside of the hotspots.

Here's my take... if the pizza place isn't covered in little league baseball team portraits and autographed photos from the 90s and earlier, I don't want to hear about it. And who suddenly made it a contest about where there's more better pizza? And since when did Brooklyn become an inner borough? oh since you moved here and decided you needed to find the 'best slice'? Here's a suggestion, go find a new yorker and as…

> And who suddenly made it a contest about where there's more better pizza?

But this is a thread about pizza. It’s a guy who tried 400 slices of pizza. You think he only tried 400 slices because his kids played on a little league team? So that’s my take. In no way am I saying Williamsburg is objectively better than Bay Ridge in all aspects of life (if anything I’d say the opposite I’d probably never live in Williamsburg), which for some reason you took from my post. I’m saying the pizza tastes better to a person who doesn’t have an emotional attachment to some other place.

> It's all over the city, but folks like you gotta make lists.

You seem very confused about the post you’re commenting on. It’s a list. I mean, it’s a map, but for all intents and purposes it’s a list. It doesn’t capture anything that you seem to care about when it comes to slice shops. It actually only seems to note price which is perhaps the shallowest metric out there.

Also yeah, Ill go ahead and say elmhurst has better food than Bensonhurst just to see what your reaction is lol.

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by rcme »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #279
moloch-hai wrote: post #265

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That you can blame on sugar in everything. Even what was blamed on saturated fat turns out to be caused by sugar and trans fat ("hydrogenated vegetable oil", now more-or-less banned, with certain disgraceful exceptions). Pizza is relatively benign.

The dough is all carbs, which causes the same problem as sugar, and I am sure many places use sugar in their sauce. Unless you are doing a lot of cardio, a slice of cheese pizza is pretty void of nutrition.

Mozzarella is like 22% protein by weight.
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