- 11 days
Does it not depend on hunger for you? I’ll honestly find the frozen pizza from Aldi to be amazing when I’m super hungry.
Apart from that I had really great pizza at an Italian grocery store in Dijon. They’re all the same after a certain point. It was also great somewhere in Amalfi
10 daysAldis pizzas are passable, used to get the thin crusts all the time and jazz em up with sautèd veggies and extra cheese. Unfortunately, like most low cost items, it was hit extra hard when inflation price increases started ramping up.
I’ve actually started buying fancier frozen pizzas. The prices comparatively haven’t risen as much as they have for the cheap aldis za
- 11 days
The best pizza I’ve ever had is probably the Little Caesars by my old apartment. Money can’t buy the experience of getting a couple cheap zas on your way home from work, sitting down in your living room with your brother, and playing Overwatch “split screen” (two TVs next to each other) until 4 o’clock on Friday (as in 4:00 AM on Saturday)
- 11 days
Elephant & Co. in Detroit. But I grew up on Detroit style, so I may be biased.
- 11 days
Detroit style is the deep dish pan greasy crunchy stuff right? If so, then thats probably my favorite second to wood fired hand tossed.
- 11 days
Yeah. Deep dish with thick bread, crispy cheesy edges, and always square (or rectangular). It should also use brick cheese, not mozzarella.
- 11 days
Nothing in my area after 2020. They all got greedy, switched to Sysco to save a buck, and now they all taste the same.
- Wren@lemmy.todayEnglish11 days
Ordering from Sysco is the same as going to a giant grocery store. Quality entirely depends on how much effort they put into it.
That said, I still get annoyed when I order at a high end place and I can tell they used some sysco pre-made sauce instead of their own recipe. Don’t get me started on pre-packaged hollandaise, it tastes like miracle whip.
- 10 days
There’s a place just a 5 minute walk from me that does $10 any size up to 5 toppings every Monday… So my weekly extra large 5 topping pizza is the only pizza I eat now. I have no memory of other pizzas. (It is actually pretty good though!)
- 11 days
Imo’s in St. Louis, is my favorite overall. Thin, crispy crust, square cut, Provel as the base cheese. It scratches an itch that all other pizzas don’t. I’d eat it 7 days a week if I could, hot or cold.
I’ve had pizzas with superior ingredients, made in fancy ovens, served with wine instead of cold beer, but if I could get any pizza right now, it’d be Imo’s black olive or veggie pizza.
- 11 days
Burt’s in Morton Grove Il is still my favorite.
Burt passed a few years ago, but some locals bought it and reopened. It’s as good as ever.
- proudblond@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Okay this is totally not what you’re asking but I have to share a funny story. (To answer your actual question, can’t think of anything but I don’t live in NY or Chicago so…)
My family visited Scotland when my daughter was about 6, and there was one night we got to a hotel and just needed some food, and not a lot of places near us were open. But there was a pizza place, which would satisfy the kids. My daughter chose the “American” pizza, which had chicken, barbecue sauce, and yellow corn on it. (Yes, I’m serious.) She has been asking for that pizza for years since then. WTF?
- proudblond@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
I mean, you do you! My daughter agrees with you in matters of taste. I did think it was awfully funny what the Scots thought of as “American.”
- sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.orgEnglish11 days
they dont really think of it as american, they just dont really care. like american pizza in ireland is almost always “hot” pepperoni and jalepenos, mixed peppers and like a shake of some kind of pepper flakes.
also in ireland they have “american wine gums” which as you know isnt a thing, theyre these really chewey gummy things live ive never seen
- 9 days
I was introduced to sweet corn on pizza by someone from the U.K. It was pretty good.
- 11 days
The first time I had Papa John’s with the garlic sauce. I guess I just like garlic.
- Wren@lemmy.todayEnglish11 days
A random delivery from a place I can’t remember the name of in Vancouver. The cheese was fresh and thick, the veggies were fragrant, the sauce was sweetly herbal with a hint of red wine, the pepperoni was perfectly crispy and the dough was soft and firm in all the right ways with that just-baked-bread earthy musk.
When I tried to order again they’d just shut down. That pizza was too pure for this world.
- 11 days
It was in a pizzeria called Da Michele in Naples. It does only Margherita and Napoletana. It is on another level.
- 11 days
I’m a fan of flatbreads, where you pick your own toppings sandwich shop style.
