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West Coast invasion comming @ ya this Sept. 1st !!!

OK this thread is in DIRE need of pizza education

NY/NJ Pizza--thin crust, cheese on top
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Tomato pie--southern NJ/Trenton style--sauce on top of cheese
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NY/NJ Sicilian Style--thick bready, airy crust. Sauce can either be on top or on bottom
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Chicago Deep Dish--Dense crust, almost pie-like made typically with cornmeal
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Chicago Thin crust--many native Chicagoans claim this to be "real" Chicago pizza and deep dish is for tourists. Thin, wafer like crust, slices cut into squares

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Detroit style--yup its a real thing. Crust similar to NY/NJ Sicilian but must have the cheese pushed all the way to the edge so there is a "burnt cheese" layer at the crust. In addition the cheese is not mozz--it's brick cheese, sometimes mixed with cheddar
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There are more too. There are upstate NY style, Ohio style St Louis style ( f***ing gross) and others

You're welcome!
Great job Patrick. That's a crash course in Pizza.
 
Dawg, make sure you post your seat location, or atleast your section, so the board regulars can meet the legend.
 
No question that you should stretch out this trip for the entire weekend. Friday, game day. Saturday, hit one of many great NJ beaches. And still time to hit NYC, etc on Sunday.
 
Right right, that usage is inarguable. But is that a strictly local usage of the word "pie" like the OP is saying? If you called a Spokane pizza joint and asked for two large pies with pepperoni and olives, they wouldn't have any idea what you meant?
I've done that in various states and usually they have no idea what I'm talking about.
 
Tomatoe pie has NO cheese! Visit Santillo's in Elizabeth, NJ. And order a 1960 Tomatoe Pie!

Wrong. Oh so, oh so, oh so wrong my friend! "Tomato Pie" is simply made a tad differently. The "sauce" is the key, however, there is still cheese:

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Also if you are done partying at 2:00 AM, go to the one of dozens of famous diners in the state and order the disco fries.
 
We live in Robbinsville... Can walk to Papas and to Delorenzos. Tomato pie is very good but I much prefer the cheese pizza I grew up with in Queens.
I'm crying over here on the coast. I was born in Trenton and weaned on Chambersburg food. I just don't make it over that much anymore and I much prefer the tomato pies to regular pizza.
 
OK this thread is in DIRE need of pizza education

NY/NJ Pizza--thin crust, cheese on top
3tU4NKe.jpg



Tomato pie--southern NJ/Trenton style--sauce on top of cheese
20050124DLZHamiltonPie-thumb.jpg



NY/NJ Sicilian Style--thick bready, airy crust. Sauce can either be on top or on bottom
20110327-144755-Rudys-sicilian-toscale.jpg


Chicago Deep Dish--Dense crust, almost pie-like made typically with cornmeal
Lous-Buttercrust-620x400.jpg


Chicago Thin crust--many native Chicagoans claim this to be "real" Chicago pizza and deep dish is for tourists. Thin, wafer like crust, slices cut into squares

14-reg-styles-chicago-thin-crust.jpg


Detroit style--yup its a real thing. Crust similar to NY/NJ Sicilian but must have the cheese pushed all the way to the edge so there is a "burnt cheese" layer at the crust. In addition the cheese is not mozz--it's brick cheese, sometimes mixed with cheddar
detroit-corner-comparison.jpg

There are more too. There are upstate NY style, Ohio style St Louis style ( f***ing gross) and others

You're welcome!
Patrick, the picture of the Chicago Thin Crust looks kind of like like the pizza at Lou Malnati's out in Chicago, if i remember correctly. I always thought this was the authentic, honest-to-goodness, Chicago Deep Dish Pizza. Any idea where that picture was taken?
 
Patrick, the picture of the Chicago Thin Crust looks kind of like like the pizza at Lou Malnati's out in Chicago, if i remember correctly. I always thought this was the authentic, honest-to-goodness, Chicago Deep Dish Pizza. Any idea where that picture was taken?

That is indeed Lou Malnati's
 
Hopefully, the Washington fans football skills will be as bad as their spelling. "Comming?"

-Scarlet Jerry
 
Taylor ham, egg, and cheese on a hard roll is a must for breakfast.
Or one of those old school burger diners with names starting with "White" and ordering a Jersey Burger (cheeseburger with pork roll/Taylor ham)
 
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I wish the game could be cancelled because of excessive heat.Playing Washington at the start of the season isn't helpful to Rutgers at all while their fans will be having a great time in NJ.

A night game on Sept 1st will not have excessive heat... at least not in the 2nd Half.
 
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Yes you can get toppings but they still are called Tomato Pies. Please refer to Delorenzo's menu below. Many other places call them Tomato Pie such as Metro North in Princeton (the old Rusty Scupper location) as well as their other location in West Trenton.

http://www.delorenzostomatopies.com/our-menu.html

I can name dozens of places where they also refer to them as Tomato Pie including 2 places in Hamilton: Corleone's Old Fashion Tomato Pie (yes that is the name of the place) and Palermo's.

I love living in Jersey... for more reasons than this, but... just sayin'.
 
Does anyone in this state still call a pizza a pizza pie? Like, insist that's the only expression for it?
tomato pie sometimes I hear that... but mostly its just pizza... until you go to order, then you order a "2 large pies, one pepperoni and one meatball". You are ordering at a pizza place.. "pizza" is understood when you say "pie".
 
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Dawg starts an invasion thread and all we care about are the nuances of pizza naming conventions. Jersey indeed.
 
Carnegie Deli closed New Years Eve. Katz's on the lower East side is still open & Second Ave Deli is still around.
Sarge's on 3rd ave btwn 36th and 37th

Best corned beef of any Jewish deli I've tried, big quantity and fair prices (esp compared to 2nd Ave Deli and Katz). Tongue and brisket there is really tasty. They make a good kreplach and matzo ball soup, and have a nice price for their steak and eggs combo. I've been going to this place for years.
 
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