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What are the bottom two?
Hot dogs and pizza are awesome. Chicago deep dish, I only had it once in the windy. So yea maybe it wasnt the best, but it was really good. The reason the difference is important, chicago deep dish vs pizza from anywhere else in the states, is like the difference between a slice of warm melty pie and a sandwhich. Sure, its best if you sit down at a table for either one, but the sandwich you can eat while walking if needed.
That lineup of toppings for their basic hotdogs, they have a name for it right?
I've already said enough honest but controversial things about pasta, football, and pizza to be banned for life from entering Italy, so I might as well add this: Chicago style pizza is in fact quite good, despite my usual preference for thin crust pizza.
The ratio is way off and it's a mess.
"Chicago Style" pizza isn't deep dish, it's square cut tavern style pizza. Yeah, deep dish isn't that great.
The hot dog is indeed Chicago style and it's good
I don't know what's in the lower left but it looks good
That's Italian beef in the lower right and it's really good.
So 1 out of 4 is Chicago style
Source: Lived here my whole life with over half of it in the city itself
stuffed pizza is chicago style. lived here my whole life to. just because its not ordered all the time don't mean its not chicago.
I will throw hands over the disparagement of a hot beef dipped
My main problem with an Italian Beef is that a French dip requires a fraction of the ingredients but tastes just as good, if not better.
Inside Chicago the thin tavern is “Chicago style” outside of Chicago deep dish is “Chicago style”
I know it sucks but you can’t change everyone’s mind.
The world needs to know that Chicagoans rarely order deep dish
ugh this is so annoying. I get thing crust square cut all the time but rarely cracker type tavern style and I will indulge in deep dish once I know a place can do it well.
And that tavern style is amazing
If you want to mock a steady pizza, the better target is on another lake, Detroit
Because it takes an hour to prepare and sucks
I thought the square cut pizza was Detroit style?
Yes you did.
Detroit style is a square pan pizza, pan being a very thick bready bottom. Chicago or tavern style is a thin crust round pizza that is cut into squares. I personally love Detroit style!
No you the thin crust cut tavern style is at Louis style and has provel cheese with toasted ravioli on the side
It is but it's pan pizza, not thin crust. And it's made a bit differently.
Chicago style is basically just normal pizza. Good but nothing to write home about
That's the problem. Everywhere has thing crust pizza cut into squares. But that deep dish italian pot-pie of amazing is worth claiming imo. I love the deep dish Chicago style pizza, but rarely can find it outside of Chicago.
Yeah it's pretty good but it's like....If you're in the mood for deep dish, you get deep dish. If you're in the mood for pizza, deep dish isn't an option.
I can see that. Like if I'm craving "pizza" that wouldn't satisfy the craving.
Exactly. It's also heavy and isn't great cold which makes it a pretty bad party food, too
is worth claiming
Truly; I don't know why so many Chicagoans want to distance ourselves from it.
It – also – wholly originated in Chicago, no one's going to give us prop.s for tavern style Chicago pizza – they'll likely just forget we originated anything –, and – also (as you said) – it's fucking good and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
Every person I've known who swore up and down that it was an abomination to pizza I managed to get lost in the sauce after they finally allowed me to introduce them to it; it is amazing.
It is, and it is an actual pizza, so much better than the Chicago damp lasagna on bread they call deep dish
What makes the hot dog Chicago style? It mostly just looks like a normal hot dog with a bunch of toppings
those toppings are standard. mustard, onions, celery salt, tomato, pickle, sweet relish, and sport peppers. If it says chicago style it means that. Most places will ask if you want the peppers since people can be iffy on spice heat. Some places will ask what you want it and "drag it through the garden" means to have everything on it.
The toppings.
Really just the toppings. I guess it "needs" to be an all-beef hotdog on a steamed bun, too, but yeah really just the toppings. No idea why this guy's so upset by mustard, relish, onions, hot peppers, and tomato lol
It has to be the tomato
No ketchup. Evar. I'm not kidding.
As God intended.
Amen and pass the Old Style
No comment about da bears?
And when something is a crime against god and man we call it “Altoona-style”
I don't want to know what an Altoona-style hot dog would look like.
They soak the dog in ice water over night, and the bun is soggy. Served with cold hotdog water.
If you lived three or four centuries ago, you'd be burned at the stake as a demon, just for coming up with that.
Humanity is lucky there isn't a "Florida style" used nation wide.
That’s just meth.
With swampy gator sausage
Yet somehow it's the best gumbo you've ever had.
I never quite figured out what Gumbo actually is, but I did have gator and fries in Texas once. It was alright. Nice herb and spice blend, a good sauce, and tasted like a bit richer chicken with a hint of flavor that resembled the smell one of my cats bring back from the forest sometimes.
Gumbo is a soup that is thickened with dark roux, and usually contains okra (also a thickener). I say "usually" because I understand some people omit okra or make filé gumbos or what have you. The word "gumbo" comes from the word for okra in various West African languages.
The choice of meats, proteins, and other ingredients is arbitrary. Throw in whatever you've got. More kinds of stuff is usually better. Chicken, sausage, and seafood are popular.
Mmm, fried gator tail.
Ok well no, it is not just meth. We can make fun of it without needing to make things up. Geez.
It's meth, and pepperoni. It's meth and hot wings. Meth with chicken and ranch. It's a whole lot of things. Not just meth!
I grew up in Florida. "Florida style" is just Cuban and sea food. The only quintessentially Florida thing I ever ate in Florida was fried gator. God I miss Cuban food.
I tried fried Gator the other day. Better than chicken!
I miss fried Gator. So good!
Would key lime pie be quintessentially Floridian?
Oh, that's a good one! Honestly I forgot key limes are a Florida thing, having lived all over the U.S. I've never experienced any issues getting my hands on key limes or their pie, so they're definitely available and popular nationwide. I can go grab both from my local Safeway on the complete opposite end of the country.
That reminds me that oranges used to be THE Florida thing as well, before citrus canker wiped them out in the 90s. Now all Florida Orange Juice^TM is from California.
I still have yet to find orange juice with extra pulp anywhere else in the country. Its hard to find it with normal amounts even.
I feel like the food is really a strong point for Chicago? I get da Bears, totally, but the food? Not sure
Chicago Style "deep dish" is an affront to both to god and the deliciousness that is Detroit Style deep dish
Chicago has an incredible food scene across the entire cuisine spectrum and only 1 thing on the list is "Chicago Style" (the hot dog)
Food IN Chicago is good. The use of "Chicago style" outside of Chicago is largely a label for "this shit sucks."
while I wouldnt consider it on the same tier as like nola/creole/cajun cuisine for example, but its distinctive enough to get a name.
I thought we just called terrible things Ohio?
Illinois and Ohio: the Midwest's armpit and asshole!
As an ex ohioan, it's an honor to be compared to Illinois.
Fr though ohio is Midwest mid. Minnesota and Illinois are great. Michigan and Wisconsin are fine. Ohio is bad, but it only goes downhill from there.
Illinoisan here - will own this as long as it's the arm pit. That makes Indiana the taint, and Iowa the red neck?
That puts Michigan into beer gut and Wisconsin the man-boobs territory.
Also, I'll take Chicago food over Ohio any day. What do they have? ChiliMac? it's fine, but not exactly a hallmark.
I've heard stories of Cleveland style chili. You have to go to the right restaruants to get something really authentic, and when you taste it, you understand that it actually is quite awful.
For the Rest oft the world: Just call it USA Style
Please don't associate the chicago-style sauce mush in a cardboard bag with rest of the country :'(
Damn. Did Chicago fuck your girlfriend or something?
Chicago dogs are the most vile fucking thing I have even seen done to hotdogs.
Also Ketchup belongs on a hot dog.
You put sugar paste on your hot dog and you say peppers are vile?
Why are they vile? It's just a bunch of toppings on a hot dog?
That is a hot dog salad served on bread. Not a thing I would dream up for culinary delight.
Bread goes great with salad though
Johnny's Beef, Gene and Jude's, Lou's.
Edit: Ricobenes breaded steak sandwich
