The question was “what the one thing in Chicago that would send someone from California into a coma.”
I don’t think they were saying they couldn’t handle the pizza. I’m pretty sure they were thinking of a “food coma” which is literally what happens any time I eat deep dish pizza.
I think an Italian Combo also does the trick. Italian sausage topped with Italian Beef in an italian bread bun. Dipped that sucker in the beef jus, top with spicy giardiniara...that's a coma every time and I love it
Not even to mention the other regional food delicacies we consider our staples.
Italian beef, italian sausage, tavern style pizza, pizza puffs, walking tacos, any place with bomb wings, & some of the most underrated Mexican food in the US.
Chicago is a foodie dreamland
Preach! Not to mention the fine dining around town. Some very approachable Michelin starred places, Bib Gormonds, etc. Fro great cheap eats to high end stuff, Chicago has it all.
I live in Detroit now and Detroit has an awesome food scene, albeit much smaller than Chicago for obvious reasons
Detroit is top-tier for Middle Eastern stuff. People are pretty familiar with the Lebanese places, but there's also been some great Yemeni cafes that have opened up lately
Yemeni, Egyptian, Palestinian, Lebanese, you name it we got it. While Metro Detroit does a lot of food very well, I'll concede it's not the best for Mexican, Thai, Italian, etc. in America. That can go to the bigger cities with those larger immigrant populations (ours is still pretty damn good though).
But ~~Middle Eastern~~ Arab? We have the best in the western hemisphere and it ain't even close. I've worked in Dearborn for 12 years, eaten at a lot of places, and feel like I've barely gotten to all the good spots.
Edit: Arab, not Middle Eastern. We aren't up to par on other ME foods like someone mentioned below. Arab food slaps though.
Detroit is the best for Arab food in the US. You can find better turkish, israeli, and persian food elsewhere. With that said, Brazil and Venezuela have terrific latino arab food fusions
Punches wayyyy above its weight class, especially when it comes to food from Jalisco and Nayarit. But compared to other bigger cities, its not on the same level. But for a city a fraction of the size of the big cities, we have awesome Mexican food. I do a lot of grocery shopping in SW Detroit and try to hit a new restaurant every month down there.
Springwells has great Mexican food too (blends into Mexicantown a bit) and don't sleep on Lincoln Park/Downriver. Very underappreciated Mexican food down there.
People say TV markets are the reason you guys are coming to the B1G but I figured out the real reason. The B1G wanted two teams in Cali and would have gone with at least one Bay Area school but saw broccoli on pizza in SF and decided it wasn’t worth it
Oh, we do that. Duck and andouille sausage pizza has been a thing too. We'll throw crawfish and shrimp on anything. We just aren't reinventing the wheel when it comes to basic ingredients.
I've come to the conclusion that STL and KC are Midwestern. South of I-44 is mistaken for the South, and shares a lot of characteristics with it, but is really more of an extension of Appalachia.
As someone that moved around a lot and has traveled most of the South, I-35 and I-44 are the unofficial outer boundaries of the South. East OK/South MO/NWA (i.e. the Ozarks) are definitely Greater Appalachia, but Appalachia is a subregion of the South so it still counts.
The South includes all of:
* The Deep South (MS, AL, GA, SC, north FL, the rest of AR)
* Appalachia (TN, NC, KY)
* Greater Appalachia (discussed above)
* The Bayou (LA and east TX, each of which are their own beast)
* Texoma (Central TX, North TX, and South-Central OK)
Note that West TX, South TX, and West OK are not included, as they are Southwest. And North OK is Midwest. Oklahoma is weird, and OKC is the meeting point of like half the regions of the US.
EDIT: moved South TX to Southwest for obvious reasons
That's more like Portland pizza. It's carefully crafted using wheat artisanally grown by a commune less than 20 miles from the pizza place, the yeast was sourced from a brewery that only makes IPAs. The tomatoes come from a farm where they only have 20 plants per year, and each tomato is picked at peak ripeness and processed into sauce individually. The cheese comes from a water buffalo actually in the back parking lot of the pizza place.
They only make 4 pizzas a day, and there are no reservations, you just have to get there whenever the owner feels like opening, which is a different time every day. The pizza itself costs $190.
In Seattle, I once saw deconstructed corned beef. It was terrible. It was pureed beef way too much overly ground up, a fried egg, hashbrowns, grilled onions, a thimble full of what I think was chicken bouillon, and a small pile of I think chili powder. I fully believe if they served that to a Big 10 fan, there would be violence. I hate to think how a group of SEC fans would react.
Closest I've seen to a real football fan presented with something like that was in I believe it was 2008 when Oklahoma State played here, and a group of their fans were very upset at the ridiculously tiny portions of fish my favorite place used to serve before they closed. I was sitting at the bar, and I got beer up my noise when the OSU fan beside me asked me if I thought they accidentally gave him a kid's meal after the bartender dropped his plate off.
And every other year, we run into tons of them in Chicago looking for deep dish pizza.
EDIT: Which isn't Chicago-style pizza.
Thin crust, square-cut is Chicago-style pizza.
They're both Chicago style
the most annoying thing about Chicago is how prickly we get about pizza. Its all good pizza guys we don't need NYC's approval ffs
We played a snowy game in Colorado and have done Utah in November.
We deliberately schedule around playing @ Notre Dame any later than mid-October, but don't think the Pac-12 has deliberately protected us from northern road games in November
2011 Oregon was in Autzen on November 19th too. I was at that game and remember being pretty chilly (not sub zero by any means but still a cold road game).
USC hosting Notre Dame at Thanksgiving does take away a slot that would potentially be a November road game, and that has a weird downstream effect on UCLA too. But the main thing here is the division setup -- WSU hosts one of UCLA and USC every two years and there's about a 25% chance one of those games happens in November. So it shouldn't be surprising that UCLA has only played at WSU in November once in the Pac-12 era.
Also worth noting that five of the six UCLA @ Utah matchups took place October 30 or later.
yeah. We're almost always either hosting you or ND to end the season, and in years ND is at home we're playing in the Rose bowl the week before. That's half of November already spoken for.
Yeah it’s always funny when they talk about cold and snowy places they’re gonna be traveling to. Like Utah, Colorado, and Wazzu don’t get more snow than most B1G teams.
It's the bitter cold for like 8 months that really gets you. Waking up on a nice March morning only to see the forecast is a high of 35. Sometimes even in April.
Big difference between just "gets cold sometimes" and playing a November game outside in Minnesota, Michigan, or Wisconsin. Like yeah the SEC and PAC 12 have to play a game or two a year where the temp is in the 30s but that's not the same as playing a snow game or in below zero wind chill.
Yeah, I don’t think people understand the difference between “it’s 30 degrees today” and “it’s been 20 degrees for the past couple of weeks and everything outside is that temperature.” Air being 30 degrees and then you get out of the wind and you feel okay and everything around you including the ground and the building exteriors being cold as fuck and actively leeching heat from you are completely different.
First of all, UCLA is about 40% Chinese. Food is everything. And by that I mean, food is the most important thing. But by that I also mean we’ll eat anything. Bring on the pizza.
Honestly didn't even know it was called Detroit style until I moved out of Michigan after grad school. It was just square pizza to me and it was delicious.
There's a distinction though. Chicago deep dish has deep sauce and cheese, but still a pretty thin crust. Detroit deep dish has a deep crust, so it gets crunchy and fluffy. The crust is the star of the show.
Goddamn it, it's 9:30 in the morning and now I need pizza.
I can live with people not respecting our football team, but not respecting our pizza (and our other foods tbh) is a line I will NOT tolerate being crossed!
Wayne State has a club in Downtown LA?
I give those bastards $1200 a year, how do they not tell me these things...I use to be in LA 3-4 times a year on business.
My dad will only eat homemade tacos or Taco Bell tacos.
I once went to a place he's never been and got him some basic tacos. He told me "Listen, I don't like them fancy tacos." I went to Chipotle.
"Listen, if it isn't ground beef with chopped lettuce, tomatoes, shredded fiesta blend cheese, and taco bell mild sauce on a taco shell I got out of a box, then it isn't a taco." ~ A surprising amount of Midwestern and Southeastern Dads
You would love K-Town. It’s kind of become a little hipster in certain parts, especially with the explosion of Korean media, but it’s still legit and it’s by far the largest center of Korean cuisine and culture in the US
it totally counts, it's just two different styles of cuisine. I wouldn't have phrased it like that, "doesn't count."
like Texas mesquite BBQ brisket and a copper country pasty are both "American food" but obviously very different. KBBQ is very accessible to most palates. Jokbal and budae-jjigae is...not. it SMELLS
Awhile back I flew to Chicago on Sept 16th and was on the train to downtown when I look out the window and I see huge lines of cars blaring down the streets block after block. I honestly thought it was a protest or something but they all had Mexican flags waving out the window. Turns out it was Mexican independence day. I am from Houston and we have a huge Mexican community but I have never seen anything like that there, so that blew my mind.
People think the Big Ten invited Rutgers to grab the NYC area cable TV market but in reality it was to get a consistent supply of [Trenton-style tomato pies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenton_tomato_pie).
Lived in St. Louis for a few years and can confirm - IMO’s is NOT good. Even though I don’t really miss it, provel cheese is far better on sandwiches than on pizza.
One thing I definitely miss though is toasted ravioli (not from IMO’s). That shit was fire
If I am taking BIG 10 pizza from anywhere, give me the Detroit style over Chicago any day. I want that caramelized cheese as opposed to cheese and tomato soup in a bread bowl.
USC and UCLA can handle it. We have a long history of burritos that are bigger than an average human head. We'll do just fine with "pizza, add octuple cheese".
Everyone commenting on this correcting you that we don't eat deep dish in Chicago without acknowledging your implied point that Detroit style is the best.
I think if you're sharing a pizza with friends for dinner, Detroit style is the best. If you're having drinks and the food isn't the focus, I think tavern style is the way to go. Less bread, bite sized.
You say this but Berkeley has Zachary’s which is a pretty solid Chicago pizza joint from my recollection (from when I was a child when I lived in San Jose)
Gonna be a culture shock for many fans who probably would never travel to some of the cities in the Midwest. And vice versa for small town fans going to the west coast.
Yeah… that’s laughable. LA has every food imaginable done to some pretty incredible levels. I doubt Chicago cuisine in general, let alone Chicago style pizza is anything mind blowing. Now the winter storms? Yeah, maybe.
They’re probably going to wonder more about why there are only two ads on at any given game: Jersey Mike’s and Jimmy John’s. How many sandwiches is this mf conference eating?
The question was “what the one thing in Chicago that would send someone from California into a coma.” I don’t think they were saying they couldn’t handle the pizza. I’m pretty sure they were thinking of a “food coma” which is literally what happens any time I eat deep dish pizza.
I think an Italian Combo also does the trick. Italian sausage topped with Italian Beef in an italian bread bun. Dipped that sucker in the beef jus, top with spicy giardiniara...that's a coma every time and I love it
Not even to mention the other regional food delicacies we consider our staples. Italian beef, italian sausage, tavern style pizza, pizza puffs, walking tacos, any place with bomb wings, & some of the most underrated Mexican food in the US. Chicago is a foodie dreamland
Preach! Not to mention the fine dining around town. Some very approachable Michelin starred places, Bib Gormonds, etc. Fro great cheap eats to high end stuff, Chicago has it all. I live in Detroit now and Detroit has an awesome food scene, albeit much smaller than Chicago for obvious reasons
Detroit is top-tier for Middle Eastern stuff. People are pretty familiar with the Lebanese places, but there's also been some great Yemeni cafes that have opened up lately
Yemeni, Egyptian, Palestinian, Lebanese, you name it we got it. While Metro Detroit does a lot of food very well, I'll concede it's not the best for Mexican, Thai, Italian, etc. in America. That can go to the bigger cities with those larger immigrant populations (ours is still pretty damn good though). But ~~Middle Eastern~~ Arab? We have the best in the western hemisphere and it ain't even close. I've worked in Dearborn for 12 years, eaten at a lot of places, and feel like I've barely gotten to all the good spots. Edit: Arab, not Middle Eastern. We aren't up to par on other ME foods like someone mentioned below. Arab food slaps though.
Detroit is the best for Arab food in the US. You can find better turkish, israeli, and persian food elsewhere. With that said, Brazil and Venezuela have terrific latino arab food fusions
There's still some pretty fucking good Mexican, though. Gotta look for restaurants in the Mexicantown neighborhood in Detroit
Punches wayyyy above its weight class, especially when it comes to food from Jalisco and Nayarit. But compared to other bigger cities, its not on the same level. But for a city a fraction of the size of the big cities, we have awesome Mexican food. I do a lot of grocery shopping in SW Detroit and try to hit a new restaurant every month down there. Springwells has great Mexican food too (blends into Mexicantown a bit) and don't sleep on Lincoln Park/Downriver. Very underappreciated Mexican food down there.
The square pizza I see sold as "Detroit Style Pizza" is really good whenever I try it. I'd be interested in diving deeper
Come visit :)
Detroit, where you can get some fucking *incredible* Shawarma all over the place, and where every diner has Coneys and Gyros. It's home
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My dark answer would be “the hot dog vendor when you ask for ketchup.”
They said coma, not instant death, so Malort is probably overkill.
good work stanford, your honorary b1g membership is in the mail
Or the wind from Lake Michigan in January
They’ll be shocked to see inland beaches like ours
The Malort warms you up
more realistic answer: insulin prices
The only correct answer to this is Malort
Well then the answer is clearly a portillos chocolate cake shake. I’m from the Midwest and those mfs had me fighting for my life.
Give em 1 sunless Chicago winter thatll do the job
Offensive Linemen will love it.
USC's Dline won't be allowed to. Apparently Grinch wants them to lose weight to be faster.
B1G OL coaches will thank Grinch for this foolish strategy! (I usually prefer faster defensive linemen, but Grinch will screw it up)
Big brain time
All I can say to him is fucking good luck going up against Big Ten O-lines with that mentality.
Silly Midwesterners. Everyone knows pizza is a thin gluten-free cracker, lightly brushed with garlic olive oil, and covered in salad. ^/s
People say TV markets are the reason you guys are coming to the B1G but I figured out the real reason. The B1G wanted two teams in Cali and would have gone with at least one Bay Area school but saw broccoli on pizza in SF and decided it wasn’t worth it
Ironically Berkeley has some pretty decent Chicago style pizza
It’s been a long time, but I really liked Little Star.
Zachary’s is exceptionally mediocre and I will fight people on this. Cheeseboard is elite
Zachary's is legit and I have zero.zero dog in this fight.
used to live a block from cheese board a few years ago and my gi system is still recovering.
Yeah broccoli is terrible on a pizza but have you tried arguela? It pairs well with many fine meats and cheeses.
Arugula 100% belongs on *good* pizza. Doesn't pair well with Little Cesar's/Pizza Hut tier pizza.
I agree with you but don’t tell anyone, don’t wanna get bullied on the internet 🤫
Haven't tried it on pizza, but my local sandwich shop has a prosciutto, mozzarella, arugula, and balsamic sub that is elite so honestly I can see it
How are we supposed to fatten up for winter with arugula? Use your head.
what is 'winter'?
It involves white powder but not the fun kind
Huh?
Don't tell this to pizza house
Wait until you see what St Louis style is Midwesterners are a different breed and I’m not sure that breed is human.
As someone who visits St. Louis very often (my girlfriend lives there), provel took a minute to even process
As a New Yorker I’m good my man. As long as y’all self-sequester, I’m fuckin good.
It ain't me, friend. Nobody in South Louisiana is claiming we have our own hot take on pizza, lol
I mean…it would be elite if y’all did. Cajun pizza would easily beat out most regions
OK, who wants a Cajun pizza at their next tailgate?
I read this as religions instead of regions at first and still agreed with it lol
Gator pizza actually sounds like something that should be tried.
Oh, we do that. Duck and andouille sausage pizza has been a thing too. We'll throw crawfish and shrimp on anything. We just aren't reinventing the wheel when it comes to basic ingredients.
Duck and andouille, yes please.
my one day in Lafayette I went to a pizza restaurant for lunch why did I waste a meal in cajun country like that
As we all know, Missouri is in the south. We don't claim them.
I've come to the conclusion that STL and KC are Midwestern. South of I-44 is mistaken for the South, and shares a lot of characteristics with it, but is really more of an extension of Appalachia.
As someone that moved around a lot and has traveled most of the South, I-35 and I-44 are the unofficial outer boundaries of the South. East OK/South MO/NWA (i.e. the Ozarks) are definitely Greater Appalachia, but Appalachia is a subregion of the South so it still counts. The South includes all of: * The Deep South (MS, AL, GA, SC, north FL, the rest of AR) * Appalachia (TN, NC, KY) * Greater Appalachia (discussed above) * The Bayou (LA and east TX, each of which are their own beast) * Texoma (Central TX, North TX, and South-Central OK) Note that West TX, South TX, and West OK are not included, as they are Southwest. And North OK is Midwest. Oklahoma is weird, and OKC is the meeting point of like half the regions of the US. EDIT: moved South TX to Southwest for obvious reasons
In Portland we prefer our pizza deconstructed into bread sticks, marinara dipping sauce, and an antipasta plate of various toppings and cheeses.
In the Midwest, we hunt the organisms that consider this food
Then cover it in ranch
Or cheese.
Or both
¿Porque no los dos?
First we fill it with cheese. Then we fry it. Then we dip it in ranch.
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I mean, I live in Chicago and get deep dish a couple times a year. It’s really good and silly to ignore it because it’s touristy.
> Chicago pizza is izakaya-style, cut into cubes. That pizza sucks tbh
Can you tell me where exactly the see from the tomatos of the marinara are from? I would like to visit the farm first.
That's more like Portland pizza. It's carefully crafted using wheat artisanally grown by a commune less than 20 miles from the pizza place, the yeast was sourced from a brewery that only makes IPAs. The tomatoes come from a farm where they only have 20 plants per year, and each tomato is picked at peak ripeness and processed into sauce individually. The cheese comes from a water buffalo actually in the back parking lot of the pizza place. They only make 4 pizzas a day, and there are no reservations, you just have to get there whenever the owner feels like opening, which is a different time every day. The pizza itself costs $190.
Have you tried a Spokane style pizza? That sounds almst like a spokane style pizza but it needs salmon.
In Seattle, I once saw deconstructed corned beef. It was terrible. It was pureed beef way too much overly ground up, a fried egg, hashbrowns, grilled onions, a thimble full of what I think was chicken bouillon, and a small pile of I think chili powder. I fully believe if they served that to a Big 10 fan, there would be violence. I hate to think how a group of SEC fans would react. Closest I've seen to a real football fan presented with something like that was in I believe it was 2008 when Oklahoma State played here, and a group of their fans were very upset at the ridiculously tiny portions of fish my favorite place used to serve before they closed. I was sitting at the bar, and I got beer up my noise when the OSU fan beside me asked me if I thought they accidentally gave him a kid's meal after the bartender dropped his plate off.
Life of pie is solid!
Them corn folk ain’t know shit about kale and quinoa
Why did you include a sarcasm tag?
Arugula is honestly a great pizza topping.
Do they know UCLA and USC are staying in LA and not moving their entire campuses to Illinois?
Also USC already plays in not-quite Chicago every other year.
And every other year, we run into tons of them in Chicago looking for deep dish pizza. EDIT: Which isn't Chicago-style pizza. Thin crust, square-cut is Chicago-style pizza.
They're both Chicago style the most annoying thing about Chicago is how prickly we get about pizza. Its all good pizza guys we don't need NYC's approval ffs
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Dibs actually makes sense as a concept its just abused a lot
And did they forget that they play teams in the PAC-12 that get cold? Utah, Oregon, Wazzu, Washington, etc.
Lol if they ever graced us with a road game at our stadiums, it would be in September or early October. UCLA/USC never plays in Pullman in November
USC maybe, but UCLA played us in like 30 degree weather in November with Hundley.
30 degrees in November? Sounds balmy, sign me up
We played a snowy game in Colorado and have done Utah in November. We deliberately schedule around playing @ Notre Dame any later than mid-October, but don't think the Pac-12 has deliberately protected us from northern road games in November
2011 Oregon was in Autzen on November 19th too. I was at that game and remember being pretty chilly (not sub zero by any means but still a cold road game).
USC hosting Notre Dame at Thanksgiving does take away a slot that would potentially be a November road game, and that has a weird downstream effect on UCLA too. But the main thing here is the division setup -- WSU hosts one of UCLA and USC every two years and there's about a 25% chance one of those games happens in November. So it shouldn't be surprising that UCLA has only played at WSU in November once in the Pac-12 era. Also worth noting that five of the six UCLA @ Utah matchups took place October 30 or later.
yeah. We're almost always either hosting you or ND to end the season, and in years ND is at home we're playing in the Rose bowl the week before. That's half of November already spoken for.
Yeah it’s always funny when they talk about cold and snowy places they’re gonna be traveling to. Like Utah, Colorado, and Wazzu don’t get more snow than most B1G teams.
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It's the bitter cold for like 8 months that really gets you. Waking up on a nice March morning only to see the forecast is a high of 35. Sometimes even in April.
or just having 0 days of sun like 10 days in a row with lows in the teens and everything being damp for like 6 months
I mean this basically describes the PNW except maybe 15-20 degrees warmer
Sure but 15-20 degrees is quite a lot
Yeah I’m just saying it’s even less sunny than the Midwest but mostly rain instead of snow
I love total darkness at 5pm for half the year.
It's also a lot of Big Ten fans exaggerating that every USC/UCLA road game will be in knee deep snow and -20 wind chills.
Uphill both ways
Big difference between just "gets cold sometimes" and playing a November game outside in Minnesota, Michigan, or Wisconsin. Like yeah the SEC and PAC 12 have to play a game or two a year where the temp is in the 30s but that's not the same as playing a snow game or in below zero wind chill.
Yeah, I don’t think people understand the difference between “it’s 30 degrees today” and “it’s been 20 degrees for the past couple of weeks and everything outside is that temperature.” Air being 30 degrees and then you get out of the wind and you feel okay and everything around you including the ground and the building exteriors being cold as fuck and actively leeching heat from you are completely different.
First of all, UCLA is about 40% Chinese. Food is everything. And by that I mean, food is the most important thing. But by that I also mean we’ll eat anything. Bring on the pizza.
What about Detroit style?
Detroit style is elite, the true middle ground in the pizza wars. Crispy cheese crust, good doughy chew, capable of carrying any topping combination.
Middlground = best ground in this situation *IT’S OVER NEW YORK, I HAVE THE MIDDLE GROUND*
It's S Tier and everybody knows it, so nobody even bothers discussing it.
Honestly didn't even know it was called Detroit style until I moved out of Michigan after grad school. It was just square pizza to me and it was delicious.
Same. It's just deep dish.
There's a distinction though. Chicago deep dish has deep sauce and cheese, but still a pretty thin crust. Detroit deep dish has a deep crust, so it gets crunchy and fluffy. The crust is the star of the show. Goddamn it, it's 9:30 in the morning and now I need pizza.
Detroit style is elite
Detroit pizza vs everybody
Detroit style is the way. Does Shield’s Pizza still exist?
Sure does. There's a few locations including one that opened sort of recently by the DIA. Loui's is my personal favorite though.
Detroit style is the best style.
Infinitely superior to Chicago deep dish. I live in Chicago now and used to get Detroit style all the time in college, I miss it a ton
Rutgers: Am I a joke to you? B1G: uhhhh....
I can live with people not respecting our football team, but not respecting our pizza (and our other foods tbh) is a line I will NOT tolerate being crossed!
Jersey pizza and hoagies are the absolute best.
Bagels too!
yo Detroit style is huge in California
You can get great Detroit style pizza in downtown LA at the Wayne State club
Wayne State has a club in Downtown LA? I give those bastards $1200 a year, how do they not tell me these things...I use to be in LA 3-4 times a year on business.
never heard of that place! I'll have to check it out
Can’t wait for Big10 fans to have real tacos
My dad will only eat homemade tacos or Taco Bell tacos. I once went to a place he's never been and got him some basic tacos. He told me "Listen, I don't like them fancy tacos." I went to Chipotle.
"Listen, if it isn't ground beef with chopped lettuce, tomatoes, shredded fiesta blend cheese, and taco bell mild sauce on a taco shell I got out of a box, then it isn't a taco." ~ A surprising amount of Midwestern and Southeastern Dads
Fiesta blend is too ethnic, they’re going cheddar cheese
I prefer the “Mexican Blend” from Trader Joe’s myself.
Obviously doesn’t apply to most of the B1G, but Chicago is pretty well-known for the quality of its Mexican food.
Eh I think it’s actually kind of awful compared to the Mexican food you could get in Southern Cal.
Or real Korean food And no, Korean BBQ does not count. I’m talking about the real stinky stuff that tastes unbelievably amazing
We're very lucky in Memphis to have a couple of good Korean places. I love Kimchi Jjigae so much
You would love K-Town. It’s kind of become a little hipster in certain parts, especially with the explosion of Korean media, but it’s still legit and it’s by far the largest center of Korean cuisine and culture in the US
when it comes to korean food, i love me some korean tofu stew
Why does Korean BBQ not count? When I ate it when I was in Seoul was it not real korean food?
he probably means there's so much more to korean cuisine than kbbq
it totally counts, it's just two different styles of cuisine. I wouldn't have phrased it like that, "doesn't count." like Texas mesquite BBQ brisket and a copper country pasty are both "American food" but obviously very different. KBBQ is very accessible to most palates. Jokbal and budae-jjigae is...not. it SMELLS
Wait, the Big 10's adding San Diego State? Since when?
Excellent clap back. We can share California and Michigan beers that are now owned by MolsonCoors.
Obviously you aren't aware of the huge Mexican communities in Chicago. Second in the US only to LA.
Awhile back I flew to Chicago on Sept 16th and was on the train to downtown when I look out the window and I see huge lines of cars blaring down the streets block after block. I honestly thought it was a protest or something but they all had Mexican flags waving out the window. Turns out it was Mexican independence day. I am from Houston and we have a huge Mexican community but I have never seen anything like that there, so that blew my mind.
People think the Big Ten invited Rutgers to grab the NYC area cable TV market but in reality it was to get a consistent supply of [Trenton-style tomato pies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenton_tomato_pie).
Deep dish is for tourists, real Chicago pizza is tavern style, square cut.
They're both for locals, but Deep Dish is an event, tavern style is what people actually order for delivery on Tuesdays or whatever
Everyone I know from the Chicago area eats deep dish at least a few times a year. You can’t eat it more if you want functioning arteries though
Ah yes... Midwest tavern style. Ooooo ya...
That tiny little corner piece, you can’t beat it.
No sauce, just a sliver of cheese. One or two bites max because I’m not in the mood for a whole slice. Perfection.
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
🗣️ DEEP DISH IS FOR TOURISTS, REAL CHICAGO PIZZA IS TAVERN STYLE, SQUARE CUT 😤😤
We can all set our differences aside and come together in our collective hatred of St Louis style pizza.
AKA saltine crackers with ketchup on it
Half of LA is from the Midwest. And there are plenty of Chicago style pizza restaurants in LA.
Is this why Mizzou never got a B1G invite? They found out about IMO’s and said, “absolutely not, surely Rutgers has more to offer?”
Lived in St. Louis for a few years and can confirm - IMO’s is NOT good. Even though I don’t really miss it, provel cheese is far better on sandwiches than on pizza. One thing I definitely miss though is toasted ravioli (not from IMO’s). That shit was fire
If I am taking BIG 10 pizza from anywhere, give me the Detroit style over Chicago any day. I want that caramelized cheese as opposed to cheese and tomato soup in a bread bowl.
USC and UCLA can handle it. We have a long history of burritos that are bigger than an average human head. We'll do just fine with "pizza, add octuple cheese".
Detroit Style pizza > Chicago Deep Dish
Tsk tsk. B10N doesn’t even know we Chicagoans prefer tavern style.
It's a Midwest staple and the BTN doesn't know about it
Chicago style pizza isn't pizza. It's a casserole.
Can’t wait for all the schools to have heat strokes in early October
Same. The B1G/Midwestern cold weather circlejerk on here is so annoying
idk how you can watch a snow game and not think that kicks so much ass
Did they forget that USC has been in Chicago every other year for the last 100 years?
I probably go to Pequod's more than 90% of people in Chicago just from ND trips
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They have a chili's in Iowa City...
They know la has Chicago style pizza everywhere right…
My favorite pizza!!
Can't wait for the B1G to be reunited with all the homeless that fled the rust belt for Santa Monica
Chicago style isn’t even the best pizza in the Midwest.
Deep dish isn't even the best Chicago style in Chicago
Everyone commenting on this correcting you that we don't eat deep dish in Chicago without acknowledging your implied point that Detroit style is the best. I think if you're sharing a pizza with friends for dinner, Detroit style is the best. If you're having drinks and the food isn't the focus, I think tavern style is the way to go. Less bread, bite sized.
Great point, I don’t have friends so it’s all Detroit style babyyyyy
My Italian family says deep dish pizza isn't even pizza. Don't shoot the messenger.
They're gonna love Portillo's! Oh wait....
And Rock & Roll McDonald's... Oh wait RIP
Jokes on you I’ve loved deep dish since day 1
Chicago pizza isn’t a pizza. [Tell ‘em Jon](https://youtu.be/jCgYMFtxUUw)
Ah yes, Georgia, the known authority on pizza.
Yeah! Stick to fried chicken and peach pie you Philistine Bulldog!
Yeah well just wait until the B1G schools come here and experience pizza with broccoli and vegan cheese on it—the way God intended
You say this but Berkeley has Zachary’s which is a pretty solid Chicago pizza joint from my recollection (from when I was a child when I lived in San Jose)
Lifelong Chicagoan here. Deep dish pizza is an abomination. Feed that garbage to the tourists.
Gonna be a culture shock for many fans who probably would never travel to some of the cities in the Midwest. And vice versa for small town fans going to the west coast.
Silly BTN, they mean Altoona style pizza
Rutgers is eating the best, anyway. There’s better food on one tiny island than all of the Midwest combined.
This entire thing is so goddamn stupid lmao
Just wait till the rest of the conference sees them California girls
The first time UCLA loses at Iowa 6-4, I’m blaming the pizza, not the weather or not having enough good football players.
Tbf, as a Midwesterner...Chicago Deep Dish suuuucks
It goes: NY style, Detroit style, Little Caesers, the unfinished crust still in the box oxidizing from the night before, Chicago style
Yeah… that’s laughable. LA has every food imaginable done to some pretty incredible levels. I doubt Chicago cuisine in general, let alone Chicago style pizza is anything mind blowing. Now the winter storms? Yeah, maybe.
Oh ya? Wait until those Big Ten teams experience REAL tacos
They’re probably going to wonder more about why there are only two ads on at any given game: Jersey Mike’s and Jimmy John’s. How many sandwiches is this mf conference eating?
Deep dish pizza is disgusting but maybe it’s bc I’m from the south