Just ordered a pizza!

OK, I lied. But I dang sure want to.

Ok, now you've gone too far joking about food. That's a serious as a heart attack!

Being from NJ, I always giggle when people try to tell me what good pizza is out here in the mid west where I live now. :)

Yep... welcome to the Midwest, where it's ok to double up on starches, praise the carbs, and pump up the protein (hehe).

Don't know if these show up in Illinois... 'round these parts, you can get what's called a "hot sandwich," usually a thick chicken or beef sandwich placed on a goodly helping of mashed potatoes with gravy over top of everything.  Sometimes with fries on the side.  I've had 'em in ND, SD, and IA.  Deluxe comfort food...

I hate it when these posts catch me on a low-cal day... I've been hauling my intake back to get my metabolism kicked up a couple notches... gotta go chew on the counter top or something...

Oh I see you moved...poor guy

You can't have your pizza andeat it too 

I like all kinds of Pizza, but when they start putting these these fruit (pineapple), anchovies, or other bizzare items on it........that makes it  

bapu


Pizza (for me) is med to thin crust 3x Cheese, 2x Italian sausage (sometimes pepperoni).

That's it. 

+1
(and Pizza Hut has very good Italian sausage + good pizza sauce).

This weekend, I enjoyed a stuffed pizza from Giordano's in Chicago.

Oh.  Yes.

I'm still happy...

Eat now.

Worry about the mess later.
















I'm not allowed at the dinner table most of the time...

Shirley you're confused and mixing pizza with what the Italians are truly known for.........the Tower of Pisa?

I try not to think about pizza anymore.

I do eat a lot of bratwurst now ... helps me keep my mind off of it.

me too...

Guitarhacker

Bub

Being from NJ, I always giggle when people try to tell me what good pizza is out here in the mid west where I live now. :)

Yes... me too.....  There were a number of small mom and pop deli's and Italian Pie shops in South Jersey where I was raised..... the people working there were Italian and that language was spoken in the shops quite a bit and the owners and guys working there had names like Mario and Antonio.

Luigi's was our local place. I remember he was always singing in Italian. Pronounced Eye-Talian in Jersey with emphasis on 'eye'.  The only time he stopped singing was to take your order, your money, and to say thank you. When he retired he handed the business over to his son and he ran it in to the ground. It's still there, just down the road a bit in their own building now, but I hear it's really bad. I think drugs or booze ruined him. His brain was fried. He always called me by my brothers name, eventually I just stopped correcting him and responded to his name.

I no longer live there, and the last time I was back, the deli was now a jewelry shop advertising that they BUY GOLD..... times they are a changing.... but the memories of the old shops and the aroma of fresh Italian pie........

My sister still lives in the same house she's always lived in since she was 19, she just turned 60 two weeks ago, so what's that, 41 years? Sheesh. Still married to the same guy she married when she was 19. She said it's changed so much it would make me sick to come back home. Nothing is the same. All the farmers fields have been sold for housing developments and retirement homes, everyone is either dead or moved away. My x-wife's grandmother just died a few days ago. I was their favorite son in law because I 'straightened' out the wild child. Felt bad, but best I don't contact them.

Dominoes, Pizza Hut, Papa John's... they all try but none can quite capture that South Jersey secret recipe.

I've been frequenting Papa Murphey's Take & Bake shop here. I doctor it up when I get it home and it's as close as I think I'm going to get to the real thing out here. Went in the other day and said to the overly friendly and bubbly teeny bopper behind the counter, "I'm not used to getting my pizza from someone so nice, I'm from Jersey, I'm used to getting it from a grumpy, sweaty, old 'eye-talian' guy." She looked at me like I had 3 heads and I felt really old and really stupid so I just shut up. I really clash a lot out here with my East Coast/Jersey personality. Things I find funny are quite offensive to some, and things that boil me are nothing to others. I think I should spend the remainder of my days in isolation. LOL! :)

Bub


Being from NJ, I always giggle when people try to tell me what good pizza is out here in the mid west where I live now. :)

I believe that. The best pizza I've ever eaten was from a pizzeria in my little hometown. Nothing comes close.


When I moved to Montreal, I spent months trying different ones from all those different places - each recommended by local friends, as their favorite and THE best pizza.  Quebec City, same thing. Nope, not even close.


Since then, I've eaten the best local pizza everywhere, from Russia to New York. And even New Jersey. ;) Nothing even comes close to my hometown's pizza.