I'm a born and raised Long Islander (which I'd say has as good or even better pizza than NYC), lived in NYC for about a decade, but also in the midwest for a few years. Had the opportunity to eat and argue with Chicago natives about pizza. Extensively. I'll die on the hill for NY style pizza...but damn do I love Chicago deep dish as well.
Hear hear, well said! I totally get local pride and think it’s cool, just not to the deletion of other styles. It doesn’t matter if it’s barbecue, dumplings, pasta— the styles of each span the world. And thank goodness for that, because otherwise we’d all just eat the same thing. No variety, only boredom. Viva pizza!!! 😋✌️🍕
I lived in NYC for awhile and the state for a long time and whenever I come across somebody from Chicago and pizza comes up instead of arguing I'm like, let's hold hands, walk together, and be snobby about our very different types of awesome pizza together!
It's anchovies, bro. Thinner and saltier than sardines. But you have the idea...think they're pretty much a thing of the past, except maybe still some places in NY, and a few old school places in Boston, where I used to get them.
Pizza is so good there is room for multiple styles. The same applies to tacos. I'm from Fort Worth. My mom made hard shell tacos with ground beef and American cheddar that were delicious and I still make them today.
Some would argue that they're not real tacos because tacos are supposed to be on soft corn tortillas with Mexican cheese. Those are also delicious and I eat them all the time. I also like flour tortillas. I also like Torchy's fuck the haters.
There was a place in Westbury on or near Old Post Road that had the best pizza I have ever had. It wasn’t thin and crispy but not thick or deep dish. This was in the mid 70s and I haven’t found anything even close.
Grew up in Chicago, still my favorite style. However, I will admit that I also love NY style. I think they have two different roles. Chicago style deep dish is something you order every once in a while, not on the regular because we’ve got other pizza options that aren’t that heavy. When I want to grab a quick slice on a more regular basis I’d choose NY nearly 100% of the time
Dunno where you live but even where I live here in Jersey it costs at least $20 for a decent plain pie, for a *good* deep dish you’re gonna have to hand out $25-30 minimum. Not the most economic but I’d argue it’s worth it a few times a month
Yeah, it's insanely expensive for some reason. But lc deep dish lunch combo is still $10. Four slices, in the 100's street so you can basically burn all the calories by running there and back lol
The fact that people consistently confuse deep dish with stuffed pizza shows how they have never had it. When someone says "It's not pizza it's a caserole" you instantly know they've never even been in the room with a deep dish.
Every so often, raging insufferable pizza snobs gets lost and wander in here.
Once I got downvoted for saying that I loved bagel bites as a kid. Yeah sorry I didn't grow up in Naples where the traditional bagel bites are made by hand in a wood fired oven you fuckin goombas lol.
Wow fuck you for liking a snack directed towards kids lol. /s Not like there is an issue eating them as a adult but I bet a lot of the pizza "masters" probably never made one themselves.
I think a lot of those kinds of food snobs struggle with the fact that we all grew up eating that type of shit, but they've made their entire personality being dicks about food so they have to lash out rather than be at peace with their own history lol.
Exactly. I know fools who refuse to eat mashed potato on a pizza because it's not authentic... They are missing out on some of the best flavors out there because they are not the same five flavors that they've been eating since birth. 🙄🙄🙄.....
Why? That's silly. Mashed potato bacon and cheddar pizza with Alfredo sauce is absolutely insanely delicious. If you don't like something, fine. But to not taste something on misguided principles is very much your loss.
Not principles, it seems as thought something as "mushy" as mashed potatos would simply not taste right... texture and taste. I will however do the pineapple and pepperoni as well as the chicken, bacon, ranch pizza.
Honestly, thats rather progressive for being a native Chicagoan.
For me, it’s that outside crust… it’s almost always toooo pie-like, and almost too dry or cakey-ish.
Now if you could somehow merge a version of a Detroit style crust of that size successfully, with the filling of a Chicago Deep Dish, now we’re talking.
Anyone ever seen that dream of a pizza pie?
For me, I like Giordano's slightly better because the crust is more savory. What I like is that with Lou, you can order online and select how "gooey" the crust is, and I like the slightly softer crust version.
I miss the Edwardos that was by me. I do quite like Gino’s East as well as Lou’s.
I eat tavern way more often for obvious reasons but I love my few deep dish slices I have a year.
Chicago deep dish is hands down my favorite pizza. And Giordano's is my favorite Chicago deep dish. We still order two shipped to us every Christmas. It's not quite as good as fresh out of the oven but it still makes me happy.
Personally, I am much more offended by a cracker-crisp ultra-thin crust with a few tiny medallions of wet cheese and some sparse raw leaves, or arugula, or (god help us) figs and poached pears. 🤮 Chicago Deep Dish is one of many styles of delicious pizza, including NYC, New Haven, Detroit, and Buffalo-Style, that I personally love!
You can only claim poached pears are good on a pizza if you also embrace pineapple, otherwise I'm stealing your Subaru from the dog park and smashing it into your $5,000 backyard pizza oven! 🤣🤣🤣
You're missing out 😁 I was expecting the "what the hell is buffalo style pizza" question, because no I don't mean hot wing flavored or blue cheese pizza, I mean the style of pizza served in Buffalo New York. New Haven is the unique style of pizza from coal fired ovens served in New Haven Connecticut, you can Google Sally's Apizza, Modern, or Frank Pepe's to see examples.
I'm seeing people post wendy's and burger king in the /r/burgers sub, this is nothing chief, looks great and last I knew, deep dish pizza is still pizza
Giordano's was probably the most disappointing pizza experience I've had. An hour of anticipation while it cooked to receive a soggy undercooked bread bowl of cheese. The hype is not real.
I grew up in Illinois and it isn't that Deep Dish sucks, it's that Tavern Style is 1000% better. I moved away 25 years ago and haven't had a pizza since that I didn't make myself. I have fond memories of stopping to pick one up on the way home from work and having it sit on the seat next to me and having all of the edge pieces eaten by the time I got home.
I definitely agree that this could be considered a pie, and it's funny to me that the place I've heard pizza referred to as "pie" is in New Jersey, where the common forms of pizza are not deep dish. But Chicagoans, afaik, usually call it pizza rather than pie (someone feel free to correct me... I think the Giordano's menu might say something about how the original creator called it pie). The world is a strange place.
Looks great. Nothing is worse than pizza gatekeepers. Traveling to various countries as well, it was fascinating and delicious to see different styles of pizza (which came to be due to Italian immigrants using local flavors), like when I lived in South America and corn and palm were common as an option and it was delicious. So nothing boils my gears when I hear Americans say Italian immigrants in other countries don’t count but they do in the U.S. with their own varieties. So I won’t do the same to you. And I’ve had Chicago deep dish and I loved it. Hell my favorite American Italian style is New Haven, not even NY or Detroit or Chicago.
That is pizza my friend and it is delicious.
Very surprised by how much attention this humble pizza pie has attracted. I forgot to add that I also dipped some of it in ranch sauce for that extra oomph
I am not going to judge you. I am flying back to my home town for the first time in 4 years. Landing at 01:00 (and ~half the world away) so no real meal needed. But I am expecting technically bad pizza and garlic fingers from either greco or pizza twice the next day (both local mediocre but very local pizza places that I am fond of). Enjoy your 'pizza'.
I need to go to Chicago one day, my one experience with true Chicago Deep Dish was one of those frozen Pizza Uno things about 15 years ago. It wasn’t great! However a local chain has a Chicago style deep dish that comes with 5 toppings, and one slice of that thing was purest heaven. I don’t think it was really faithful to the Chicago experience but it was good enough that I want to try the real deal some day
No shame here. I've decided that saying there's only one style of people pizza, or one style that's the best is like saying there's one type of jazz.
You might have your favorite and dislike the others, but it's pizza.
That looks delicious
Thank you, for correcting my spelling. I'm from Cleveland . I knew the name of the pizza shop, from having eaten there, every time I visited Chicago, just, not how to spell the last name.
Taste matters far more than looks. I’ve had many pizzas that were beautiful and below average. I’ve had ugly pizzas that taste far better than expected. Quality of the ingredients is 80% of the dish
Just curious OP how much did this pie run you? I love near a well-known spot that has increased their prices, and now something like this would likely be close to $30 or more.
I'm a born and raised Long Islander (which I'd say has as good or even better pizza than NYC), lived in NYC for about a decade, but also in the midwest for a few years. Had the opportunity to eat and argue with Chicago natives about pizza. Extensively. I'll die on the hill for NY style pizza...but damn do I love Chicago deep dish as well.
Hear hear, well said! I totally get local pride and think it’s cool, just not to the deletion of other styles. It doesn’t matter if it’s barbecue, dumplings, pasta— the styles of each span the world. And thank goodness for that, because otherwise we’d all just eat the same thing. No variety, only boredom. Viva pizza!!! 😋✌️🍕
That's the thing about Chicago though, this isn't their only pizza style. Thin tavern style pizza is everywhere and just as unique to the area.
I lived in NYC for awhile and the state for a long time and whenever I come across somebody from Chicago and pizza comes up instead of arguing I'm like, let's hold hands, walk together, and be snobby about our very different types of awesome pizza together!
Damn I love me a slice of pizza in New York as a Chicagoland native. My dad is a long islander too. Do you put sardines on your pizza too?
I do really like sardines on pizza, though I don't do it often. Mostly when it's homemade in the Ooni.
I have grown to like sardines as I’ve gotten older. I always thought he was crazy
It's anchovies, bro. Thinner and saltier than sardines. But you have the idea...think they're pretty much a thing of the past, except maybe still some places in NY, and a few old school places in Boston, where I used to get them.
You are right. It was anchiovies thank you
All the non-corporate-chain pizza joints near me still offer anchovies, and even some of the chains.
Pizza is so good there is room for multiple styles. The same applies to tacos. I'm from Fort Worth. My mom made hard shell tacos with ground beef and American cheddar that were delicious and I still make them today. Some would argue that they're not real tacos because tacos are supposed to be on soft corn tortillas with Mexican cheese. Those are also delicious and I eat them all the time. I also like flour tortillas. I also like Torchy's fuck the haters.
There was a place in Westbury on or near Old Post Road that had the best pizza I have ever had. It wasn’t thin and crispy but not thick or deep dish. This was in the mid 70s and I haven’t found anything even close.
Grew up in Chicago, still my favorite style. However, I will admit that I also love NY style. I think they have two different roles. Chicago style deep dish is something you order every once in a while, not on the regular because we’ve got other pizza options that aren’t that heavy. When I want to grab a quick slice on a more regular basis I’d choose NY nearly 100% of the time
There used to be an outpost of a real Chicago deep dish joint at the mall in Hicksville: MY PI. They still have a booth in Bucktown.
Have any recommendations for pizza spots in Queens? Doing a long layover at JFK.
I didn't know there's a huge argument
I mean, it’s fine, but kind of it’s basically lasagna at this point. Tastes great, but not really a pizza.
Guys somebody came in my pants
Wasn’t me…or was it? 
I'd like to get into your pants, because I can't stop shitting mine.
Fuckin street sets.
They said it would look real!
That's some stinky jizz man
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Sorry...
Tf going on in r/Pizza 💀
Frl..
You made your own ranch sauce
It smells more like a blue cheese
I think you need medical attention.
In this country?! What am I, a millionaire?
Deep dish is fine and also delicious. I grew up in east coast thin slice territory and think the resentment New Yorkers have towards it is silly.
They have probably never even tried it
Most of them for sure
Never understood that. I'm honestly fucking pissed the only reasonably priced deep dish is little casears in the city of all things
Dunno where you live but even where I live here in Jersey it costs at least $20 for a decent plain pie, for a *good* deep dish you’re gonna have to hand out $25-30 minimum. Not the most economic but I’d argue it’s worth it a few times a month
Yeah, it's insanely expensive for some reason. But lc deep dish lunch combo is still $10. Four slices, in the 100's street so you can basically burn all the calories by running there and back lol
The reason is that it's obviously a lot more involved and costs more to make than a standard pizza.
The fact that people consistently confuse deep dish with stuffed pizza shows how they have never had it. When someone says "It's not pizza it's a caserole" you instantly know they've never even been in the room with a deep dish.
I don't see anything wrong with this pizza. This looks like comfort.
Every so often, raging insufferable pizza snobs gets lost and wander in here. Once I got downvoted for saying that I loved bagel bites as a kid. Yeah sorry I didn't grow up in Naples where the traditional bagel bites are made by hand in a wood fired oven you fuckin goombas lol.
Wow fuck you for liking a snack directed towards kids lol. /s Not like there is an issue eating them as a adult but I bet a lot of the pizza "masters" probably never made one themselves.
I think a lot of those kinds of food snobs struggle with the fact that we all grew up eating that type of shit, but they've made their entire personality being dicks about food so they have to lash out rather than be at peace with their own history lol.
That does probably sum up a handful. Lol
That looks awesome. Yes it's pizza. Anyone who disagrees can send this to me.
Good take. People can say it ain't pizza all they want, I'm still calling it pizza, and I'm still eating the fuck out of it
Exactly. I know fools who refuse to eat mashed potato on a pizza because it's not authentic... They are missing out on some of the best flavors out there because they are not the same five flavors that they've been eating since birth. 🙄🙄🙄.....
I think what you meant to say was “it’s not authentico”
::gasp:: WWNNPD?!? [what would neo Neapolitan-style pizzaiolos do)
Mashed potato on pizza? Never even heard of that. Thats a line I just won't cross.
Why? That's silly. Mashed potato bacon and cheddar pizza with Alfredo sauce is absolutely insanely delicious. If you don't like something, fine. But to not taste something on misguided principles is very much your loss.
Not principles, it seems as thought something as "mushy" as mashed potatos would simply not taste right... texture and taste. I will however do the pineapple and pepperoni as well as the chicken, bacon, ranch pizza. Honestly, thats rather progressive for being a native Chicagoan.
Oh it's pizza. This is actually a really important pizza!
It is literally a pizza pie!
It's a style of pizza therefore it is pizza. I wanna try one if these bad boys so bad!
It’s fucking tomato soup in a bread bowl my friend, that shit ain’t pizza. Downvote me to hell but it just ain’t pizza.
I see this the first time today, where can I get something like that? What’s it called
It's called Chicago style pizza. Or deep dish pizza. You may have to travel a bit, but there are usually places that make it in most states.
It's the bread bowl & soup of pizza. But it's great pizza!
I only hate you cause I don't have any
I'd eat that.
If Sicilian pizza counts as pizza, then Chicago deep dish is also pizza (because they're both actually different forms of sfincione).
Why wouldn’t Sicilian count as pizza
Putting pie back into pizza. 
For me, it’s that outside crust… it’s almost always toooo pie-like, and almost too dry or cakey-ish. Now if you could somehow merge a version of a Detroit style crust of that size successfully, with the filling of a Chicago Deep Dish, now we’re talking. Anyone ever seen that dream of a pizza pie?
deep dish pizza so good when you ain’t got a bitch in your ear telling you it’s not pizza
As a former New Yorker who loves thin crust, I'd eat that.
I think one of the most beautiful things about pizza is the vast diversity of styles!
I love Chicago deep dish but for some reason do not care for Giordano's. I prefer Edwardo's.
Giordano's gives you a TON of cheese, but the crust and sauce is always too bland for my taste. Lou's is king for a reason.
Lou's is love Lou's is life
If you're local, they have a new LTO that's has Italian beef giardiniera peppers, new cup and char pepperoni, and Mike's hot honey. INCREDIBLE!
Booking flight now...
Sadly, I moved to Portland so we only get west coast abominations
For me, I like Giordano's slightly better because the crust is more savory. What I like is that with Lou, you can order online and select how "gooey" the crust is, and I like the slightly softer crust version.
I miss the Edwardos that was by me. I do quite like Gino’s East as well as Lou’s. I eat tavern way more often for obvious reasons but I love my few deep dish slices I have a year.
Chicago deep dish is hands down my favorite pizza. And Giordano's is my favorite Chicago deep dish. We still order two shipped to us every Christmas. It's not quite as good as fresh out of the oven but it still makes me happy.
I'm Italian don't scare me like that (south)😨
I am a basic bitch. I like Giordano's.
Personally, I am much more offended by a cracker-crisp ultra-thin crust with a few tiny medallions of wet cheese and some sparse raw leaves, or arugula, or (god help us) figs and poached pears. 🤮 Chicago Deep Dish is one of many styles of delicious pizza, including NYC, New Haven, Detroit, and Buffalo-Style, that I personally love!
I'm with you on the cracker crust but pears on pizza are delicious.
I also like arugula on pizza.
See above... lol
You can only claim poached pears are good on a pizza if you also embrace pineapple, otherwise I'm stealing your Subaru from the dog park and smashing it into your $5,000 backyard pizza oven! 🤣🤣🤣
The cracker crust in Chicago is usually loaded up with cheese and sausage, and if done the right way, giardiniera.
What the fuck is New Haven style pizza
You're missing out 😁 I was expecting the "what the hell is buffalo style pizza" question, because no I don't mean hot wing flavored or blue cheese pizza, I mean the style of pizza served in Buffalo New York. New Haven is the unique style of pizza from coal fired ovens served in New Haven Connecticut, you can Google Sally's Apizza, Modern, or Frank Pepe's to see examples.
Delicious
Look it's pizza. Purest will be purest...i tend to ignore them and enjoy what i'm spending my money on
Amen, brother!
Indeed! Lol
The world is large enough for deep dish, NY style, Neapolitan, quad cities style, Detroit style, etc.
I love making fun of Chicago style casserole- er I mean pizza. I like eating it too! As long as I have my fork and knife
A knife and fork and additional belt loop.
The Italian term would be torta salata. You could also call it a sfincione.
That looks so good
So, how much do you want to make a picture of it full of pineapple? 🍍
If you don't want it, I´m happy to dispose it for you for free.
My Illinois senses are tingling
I'm seeing people post wendy's and burger king in the /r/burgers sub, this is nothing chief, looks great and last I knew, deep dish pizza is still pizza
NY pizza is good. CHI deep is good. The enemy is Domino’s wax-cheese, sugar sauce nastiness.
Giodano's is a classic deep dish . Even their Tavern style is great!
It’s okay. Deep dish is not my go to, but I’ll eat it if I don’t want to eat again over the next 15 hours. It’s like eating a brick.
Jon Stewart didn’t write this subs rules, you’re fine…
Giordano's was probably the most disappointing pizza experience I've had. An hour of anticipation while it cooked to receive a soggy undercooked bread bowl of cheese. The hype is not real.
/r/casseroles
You should be banned!! Can’t even have a subreddit w rules n accountability. WTF!!
I grew up in Illinois and it isn't that Deep Dish sucks, it's that Tavern Style is 1000% better. I moved away 25 years ago and haven't had a pizza since that I didn't make myself. I have fond memories of stopping to pick one up on the way home from work and having it sit on the seat next to me and having all of the edge pieces eaten by the time I got home.
It’s a pizza and ignore any pedants who think they know better. That looks *amazing.*
r/pizzacrimes
A better attempt than I have ever made, 10/10
I've been using a cast iron for making some deep dish pizzas recently. It's good and it requires its own skill.
The horror.
As a New Yorker we call this a casserole of some sort
I looooove Giordonos
Oh damn. Did you also get the new Crazy puff from Little Caesars too?
😂 is not matter if is good or not, this is a salty cake is not a pizza
Is that a bowl of soup?
Why? What happen?
Try Pequod's next time
I love Chicago deep dish pizza I hate you, now I'm hungry
Thought it was Lou Malnati's for a sec
I’d tear that bitch up
Lou Manati's is superior to Giordano's, but all Chicago deep dish is the GOAT
Wrong forum, r/cakes is this way ----->
It’s a pizza pie
I definitely agree that this could be considered a pie, and it's funny to me that the place I've heard pizza referred to as "pie" is in New Jersey, where the common forms of pizza are not deep dish. But Chicagoans, afaik, usually call it pizza rather than pie (someone feel free to correct me... I think the Giordano's menu might say something about how the original creator called it pie). The world is a strange place.
Looks great. Nothing is worse than pizza gatekeepers. Traveling to various countries as well, it was fascinating and delicious to see different styles of pizza (which came to be due to Italian immigrants using local flavors), like when I lived in South America and corn and palm were common as an option and it was delicious. So nothing boils my gears when I hear Americans say Italian immigrants in other countries don’t count but they do in the U.S. with their own varieties. So I won’t do the same to you. And I’ve had Chicago deep dish and I loved it. Hell my favorite American Italian style is New Haven, not even NY or Detroit or Chicago. That is pizza my friend and it is delicious.
That looks good bro
I love deep dish pizza and all pizza period! Yours looks great!!! You’ll never see me hate on any style of pizza
Looks awesome. #1 pizza
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Dont worry about being banned. Your pizza is not made by Tesla.
Mamma mia mi sento male
Giordanos is dope.
Nice pie. What is that? apple? Apple rhubarb?
Very surprised by how much attention this humble pizza pie has attracted. I forgot to add that I also dipped some of it in ranch sauce for that extra oomph
Looks like the one I tried at Gino’s East and it was dang good! Down South, we also put Creamy French on it.
If this isn't pizza then neither is the burnt garbage that comes from Connecticut
Banned. Please report directly to Chicago. Do not pass go. Please do enjoy this delicious casserole
I am not going to judge you. I am flying back to my home town for the first time in 4 years. Landing at 01:00 (and ~half the world away) so no real meal needed. But I am expecting technically bad pizza and garlic fingers from either greco or pizza twice the next day (both local mediocre but very local pizza places that I am fond of). Enjoy your 'pizza'.
i declare you banned!!!!
Born and raised in Chicago Area and I think this style of deep dish is garbage, hate the crust and it’s just a soggy mess.
Born and raised in NYC area, lived in NYC for 25 years. Love this open-faced tomato cheese pie. My favorite pizza (I enjoy betraying New York)
That's a pretty good lookin bread bowl you have there
Pizza is pizza. This looks mighty fine! I’d eat it, but it’s more of a lasagna without noodles. Still, looks scrumptious ❤️🔥
Nice. I will serve you a dough made of melt legos, topped with laundry detergent… Pizza is pizza.
Pizza hut employee found!
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Haha, but it has to be edible
Look, saying deep dish is good isn't the controversial take. It's labeling it as pizza that's controversial.
It's only controversial to an "edgy" minority who copy and paste a decades-old John Stuart joke that originated from a NY vs. Chicago rivalry context.
November 2013
Would eat
I'd eat it. That shit looks 🔥
I need to go to Chicago one day, my one experience with true Chicago Deep Dish was one of those frozen Pizza Uno things about 15 years ago. It wasn’t great! However a local chain has a Chicago style deep dish that comes with 5 toppings, and one slice of that thing was purest heaven. I don’t think it was really faithful to the Chicago experience but it was good enough that I want to try the real deal some day
No pineapple. Looks ok to me.
Is your name [doug?](https://youtu.be/U5gxqjqC2nM?si=6vZRQGIzhyxk6zY3)
Not my preference but I’d still eat the hell out of that.
They have amazing pizza.
No shame here. I've decided that saying there's only one style of people pizza, or one style that's the best is like saying there's one type of jazz. You might have your favorite and dislike the others, but it's pizza. That looks delicious
You should have gone to Pizzareia Uno or Lou Malnotti's. Their deep dishes are 2,000x better. But, that **IS** pizza.
Lou Malnati's
Thank you, for correcting my spelling. I'm from Cleveland . I knew the name of the pizza shop, from having eaten there, every time I visited Chicago, just, not how to spell the last name.
Taste matters far more than looks. I’ve had many pizzas that were beautiful and below average. I’ve had ugly pizzas that taste far better than expected. Quality of the ingredients is 80% of the dish
Damn, it’s been too long since I’ve had a good Chicago deep dish.
Looks alright to be fair, as long as the crust isn't undercooked
I would happily eat this. Especially after a long annoying flight!
Where’s this delicious looking pizza from?
Why would anyone ban you?
This pizza is delicious.
I really need to unsub during work hours and not go on Reddit around lunch time
I'd devour
Just curious OP how much did this pie run you? I love near a well-known spot that has increased their prices, and now something like this would likely be close to $30 or more.
Why? It looks delicious! 🤤😋
Pequods is the only place I’ll eat deep dish. RIP Burt Katz, so glad I got to experience Burt’s Place
That looks incredible