I can't stand it anymore...so many pizza heretics on this site. A proper and excellent pizza does not
need ham and pineapple. Just a plain cheese pizza should be fantastic.
I has horrified to see the depraved west coast pizzas so covered with ingredients that they might as well
be hand held casserole slices. NY pizza for the win. Also Chicago. Here is the secret...tomatoes from Italy.
Cheese from Italy. Flour from Italy. Olive oil from Italy. NY and Chicago have all of those ingredients imported
straight in. So the pizza is epic.
Covering the pizza with giant amounts of topping just conceals the crust and sauce fail. There. I said it.
I was raised in NY. And had friends from Chicago and have sampled their pizza extensively. I am not
a snob in anything...except for pizza. I have spent untold hours in NY pizza joints and the family favorite one
closed when I was a teen. I used to help the owner in the back...and he taught me the sauce and crust recipe
because he was closing and his kids would not continue the place. Aside from onions and the bay leaf and water
everything else was Italian. I live in the South now. It is expensive to get the ingredients here.
The best Pizza in Chicago I ate was just like my friends. I looked at his food case. Same exact ingredients.
I have had some good pizza in other parts of the US. All of it by Italians from Chicago or NY.
Both cities have their own styles and people have strong opinions over what place is their favorite. In both,
the segregation of fans of different places is remarkable and just as stark as the division between real pizza
in either vs the west coast horror show casseroles.
I am not hating on the west coast here. I am a Socal native. But pizza? I don't think so!
So there!...you pineapple and ham gobbling heretics.