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BTW, I've been to New York. I've been to LA. I've been to Atlanta. I've been to San Francisco. I live here in San Diego.

The best pizza I ever had was in Chicago. That's not a knock against anyone else, I loved the New York style, but any of those Italian places on Lake Shore Drive in the Windy City makes a pizza that you will never forget. It's so big and thick I can't believe they can get it in the oven.

But Chicago is the home of Al Capone. If you owned an Italian restaurant in Chicago, you didn't dare do anything half-assed or you'd sleep with the fishes.
 
There's a pizza place here called Antonio's and they've won mulitple national pizza awards. Excellent pizza that I now have to order this week.
 
TFitz said:
There's a pizza place here called Antonio's and they've won mulitple national pizza awards. Excellent pizza that I now have to order this week.
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Are you still in Northwest Indiana? That's where I'm from. We were about a 40 minute drive from Chicago. Everytime we went up there it was either pizza or White Castle hamburgers for dinner.

There are restaurants here in San Diego that claim they make Chicago style pizza and hot dogs but ... not really. They try but they're not quite there.
 
SDcomics said:
Are you still in Northwest Indiana? That's where I'm from. We were about a 40 minute drive from Chicago. Everytime we went up there it was either pizza or White Castle hamburgers for dinner.

There are restaurants here in San Diego that claim they make Chicago style pizza and hot dogs but ... not really. They try but they're not quite there.
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I am. I live about 15 minutes from the hideous Notre Dame campus. Roughly 2 hours from Chicago. I go there several times a year for concerts.
 
Yep. My family and I used to go up there to watch the Cubbies and White Sox play baseball. We saw some epic concerts there, too. We saw the Rolling Stones play in Soldier Field and Paul McCartney and Wings in Chicago Stadium.

Epic times.
 
SDcomics said:
I wonder what the Pizza in Italy tastes like.
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Pretty much like NY/NJ pizza. (Seriously, had pizza in Italy a few times, main difference is that some are a bit less "round" in shape, and a bit more basic, less likely to be loaded up.)

SDcomics said:
The best pizza I ever had was in Chicago.
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Chicago deep dish pizza is like Chicago style hot dogs, overstuffed, overwrought, and morally wrong on every level.

Damien said:
I've had pizza in Chicago. Boston area still has the best pizza on the planet.
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I know "Boston Pizza" is some sort of chain up there (I ate there, it was OK) but Canadians need to stay out of a discussion they have no understanding of.
 
fac said:
I know "Boston Pizza" is some sort of chain up there (I ate there, it was OK) but Canadians need to stay out of a discussion they have no understanding of.
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Okay, first of all.. calling me Canadian is a good way to start a fist fight.
Second of all, that place absolutely infuriates me and I genuinely think almost killed my relationship with my ex before it even started because I went on like a 30 minute rant when I found out it existed and was forced to go there.
 
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Damien said:
Okay, first of all.. calling me Canadian is a good way to start a fist fight.
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What is your preferred term - "Person who lives in Canada"?

Damien said:
Second of all, that place absolutely infuriates me and I genuinely think almost killed my relationship with my ex before it even started because I went on like a 30 minute rant when I found out it existed and was forced to go there.
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I'll accept this reaction.
 
fac said:
What is your preferred term - "Person who lives in Canada"?
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I guess? I never really thought about it. I just don't consider myself 'Canadian.' And I'm not a citizen here, so I guess I'm also legally not a Canadian so... feels weird. To be fair, these days I'm not super excited about being called American either.


fac said:
I'll accept this reaction.
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Canadians do not. They get very upset when I point out what a disgusting sham 'Boston Pizza' is and how genuinely offensive I find it.
I still remember sitting down at dinner there and saying to my ex 'Is this what you think we eat in Boston -- garbage?'
 
Chicago deep dish is delicious. But it’s a lot. It’s like an experience. And it’s honestly not really pizza.

My favorite pizza in the world no longer exists. Original Famous Ray’s formerly on 6th Ave and 11th Street. It’s the place referenced in Iron Man and Elf (Favreau is obviously a connoisseur), and was also the storefront in TMNT 2: The Secret of the Ooze. They changed the signage slightly to say Roy’s instead of Ray’s. But scenes shot there were authentic. I’ve never tasted cheese like they on pizza, the kind of pull you’d be likely to choke on. If I ever got to taste that pizza again, I’d have gone to heaven.
 
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