Great job Patrick. That's a crash course in Pizza.OK this thread is in DIRE need of pizza education
NY/NJ Pizza--thin crust, cheese on top![]()
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![]()
There are more too. There are upstate NY style, Ohio style St Louis style ( f***ing gross) and others
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I've done that in various states and usually they have no idea what I'm talking about.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?
You can call it pizza, you can call it pie. You just can't call it "pizza pie."
Tomatoe pie has NO cheese! Visit Santillo's in Elizabeth, NJ. And order a 1960 Tomatoe Pie!
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.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.
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?OK this thread is in DIRE need of pizza education
NY/NJ Pizza--thin crust, cheese on top![]()
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
![]()
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![]()
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?
Or one of those old school burger diners with names starting with "White" and ordering a Jersey Burger (cheeseburger with pork roll/Taylor ham)Taylor ham, egg, and cheese on a hard roll is a must for breakfast.
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.
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.
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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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".Does anyone in this state still call a pizza a pizza pie? Like, insist that's the only expression for it?
Thanks. It is amazing what the stomach can remember. :)That is indeed Lou Malnati's
I wonder if Carnegie Deli still serves their delicacies?? Really great stuff...The Jamaican joints are better. . . . . .
I wonder if Carnegie Deli still serves their delicacies?? Really great stuff...
Sarge's on 3rd ave btwn 36th and 37thCarnegie Deli closed New Years Eve. Katz's on the lower East side is still open & Second Ave Deli is still around.