Food, Food, and More Food Thread

bmwracer wrote:
The "Got Something to Say" thread.... I've asked Aho to move those pertinent posts over here... :)

Posts split and merged! :D

ahochaude wrote:Posts split and merged! :D

Good job! :applaud: :applaud: :woot:

Mr.ChoyBoi wrote:I have left overs, and somebody ate my MANGO!!... :angry:

Hehe :hehe:

Sounds like "Who moved my cheese?"
-PCM

I just had the best Pizza from this small Northern California pizza chain called Mary's Pizza. So yummy. Only problem is I ate too much and now I have a food comma. :sleep:

Oh man, there's this great little pizza place in Gardena called Pizza Machine that's run by this Korean family... Excellent Hawaiian pizza: pineapple and Portugese sausage... Yum.

Doramafan113 wrote:I just had the best Pizza from this small Northern California pizza chain called Mary's Pizza. So yummy. Only problem is I ate too much and now I have a food comma. :sleep:

I know of Mary's Pizza Shack... is that the place?
-PCM

pcmodem wrote:

I know of Mary's Pizza Shack... is that the place?
-PCM

Yes, That's the place. Great Pizza, plus the Salad, and Garlic bread were fantastic too. :mrgreen:

Lunchtime in SoCal folks.... :applaud:

Turkey with lettuce and mayo on a plain bagel... It's not fine dining, but it beats starvation.

Late morning, breakfast time here on the aina -- having my habitual "on the way to a meeting, no time! No time!" non-fat yogurt and whole natural almonds.

ARrrrgh!

I haven't had a decent pizza since I left the really Big Island. Manhattan.

Now I'll be thinking about eating pizza for the rest of the day... and I know the best I'll be able to find is some California version of some kind of cheese melted over a bit'o'dough. Blechhh! :grumble:

I knew I shouldn't have started reading this thread.

Geezer wrote:ARrrrgh!

I haven't had a decent pizza since I left the really Big Island. Manhattan.

Now I'll be thinking about eating pizza for the rest of the day... and I know the best I'll be able to find is some California version of some kind of cheese melted over a bit'o'dough. Blechhh! :grumble:

I knew I shouldn't have started reading this thread.

Actually, the best NY style pizza I had wasn't in NYC. It was the NYC suburbs.

Used to be an awesome NY style pizza place on Durant in Berkeley around the late 1970s to the early 1980s, called the Carolina Pizzeria. Man I miss that place.

Escape from New York in the Haight is okay.
-PCM

Geezer wrote:ARrrrgh!

I haven't had a decent pizza since I left the really Big Island. Manhattan.

Now I'll be thinking about eating pizza for the rest of the day... and I know the best I'll be able to find is some California version of some kind of cheese melted over a bit'o'dough. Blechhh! :grumble:

I knew I shouldn't have started reading this thread.

You sound like my ex-office mate who's from Chicago: "the pizza here sucks!" But when he brought back a bunch of 'em, he wouldn't share, so we couldn't make a judgement...

I always prefered Chicago style Pizza personaly. It's hard to fing a good one in California but a few places exist.

I traveled back East and through the Mid West a lot and realized how much I missed the great Mexican, and Chinese food that is easily available here. I suppose each area has it's own things it does well.

Okay, Easterners: what constitutes a Chicago Style pizza and a New York Style pizza? Pollution levels? :hehe:

Chicago style pizza isn't pizza.

Mostly Chicago style is what's called... Deep dish pizza.

Doramafan113 wrote:I always prefered Chicago style Pizza personaly. It's hard to fing a good one in California but a few places exist.

I traveled back East and through the Mid West a lot and realized how much I missed the great Mexican, and Chinese food that is easily available here. I suppose each area has it's own things it does well.

Zachary's on College Avenue in Berkeley makes respectable Chicago style. And I've spent some time in Chicago and eaten quite a bit of pizza there, so have made the comparison.
-PCM

Geezer wrote:Chicago style pizza isn't pizza.

Mostly Chicago style is what's called... Deep dish pizza.

Didn't you just contradict yourself: "It isn't pizza, it's deep dish pizza??"

Now I'm totally confused.

PC

Actually I was born and raised in Brooklyn, so that's my frame of reference. You want pizza, you go into any pizzaria on the street.

I've had some awful stuff posing as pizza in expensive restaurants in Manhattan.

I've never had a decent pizza outside N.Y. And I've tried.

Georgio's on Clement does a pretty good job. But I'd dump their best pizza in the trash if I was offered a slice from J's on Fort Hamilton Parkway and 73rd.

I love The Bay Area. I've travelled all over the country, and lived everywhere from Brooklyn, to Hibbing Minn. to LaPort Texas, to... but no place is like the Bay Area. And I could happily live on Boudin's sour dough bread for the rest of my life.

But pizza lives in Brooklyn.

Pretty much everybody loves the food they were brought up with.

Geezer wrote:Pretty much everybody loves the food they were brought up with.

Now I'm scared.

bmwracer wrote:
Didn't you just contradict yourself: "It isn't pizza, it's deep dish pizza??"

Now I'm totally confused.

You can call it whatever you want, but the stuff they make in Chicago, and call pizza... ain't.

Pizza was actually created in N.Y. By Italian immigrants, yes. But pizza didn't come over from Italy.

Pizza was already established as the food of the gods long before anyone got lost in the middle of the country and started calling the place they got tired and stopped in, Chicago.

Calling Chicago Style deep dish pizza, Pizza, is sort of like calling Taco Bell fine Mexican food.