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Chicago Deep Dish Pizza

3 years ago by BallShapedMan to c/foodporn

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This and the dogs are my favorite parts of Chicago!

jak 23 points 3 years ago

You’re a sadist for not showing us the cross section

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BallShapedMan 27 points 3 years ago

The sauce covered a lot of it.

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Droggelbecher 14 points 3 years ago

It looks delicious af and I'd smash, but why is it called pizza?

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distantsounds 14 points 3 years ago

MFers are out there calling hotdog’s sandwiches and you gotta start this?

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fsxylo 3 points 3 years ago

Saying deep dish isn't pizza is their personality.

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Ennon 22 points 3 years ago

Looks like Giordanos, which is fine, but I generally don’t recommend since it’s very saucy and the crust is bleh. Try Lou Malnati’s next time — it’s far superior

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droans 9 points 3 years ago

Sure, but Lou Malnati's skimps on the cheese.

It's not Chicago unless you choke on the cheese.

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TheFriar 22 points 3 years ago

Is this is a real conversation or is this all gay code

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nilloc 7 points 3 years ago

Whatever it is it’s not pizza.

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Zatore 5 points 3 years ago

Lou's sauce is trash. Gio's is the way to go

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WanderingVentra 3 points 3 years ago

Hey, I like Giardano's lol

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NerdyPopRocks 2 points 3 years ago

Lou Malnati’s crust was so yeasty and unpleasant, and super skimpy on cheese when I had it. Extremely not worth the hype.

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CptEnder 2 points 3 years ago

Anyone know a good spot in NYC to get one? We got one of the chains in times sq but I'd reckon Chicago people wouldn't recommend them just like we'd not recommend Sbarro's.

Every time I see a Chicago Deep Dish, I'm like yo I'd try that as an unique experience.

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ares35 19 points 3 years ago

all the locals i know prefer chicago's other pizza, tavern-style thin and crispy. they might have a deep dish once or twice a year, if that.

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IHawkMike 4 points 3 years ago

Pretty much just when entertaining people from out-of-town.

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Thwompthwomp 3 points 3 years ago

I ate more Costco pizza than deep dish when I lived there.

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RinseDrizzle 1 point 3 years ago

Bro Costco had the best deep dish ever. I still think about that shit. There's been a hole in my heart for years.

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ShadyGrove 2 points 3 years ago

You are correct, tavern style is the way to go.

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Heterocephalus 17 points 3 years ago

Eat what you like but please don´t call it a pizza when it´s obviously not.

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fsxylo 18 points 3 years ago

You guys are worse than the carbonara gatekeepers.

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Heterocephalus 5 points 3 years ago

Clearly defined semantics serve the purpose of precise communication. When someone says "pizza", I want to know what they mean, a pizza or a weird American pie. What is so bad about that?

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fsxylo 7 points 3 years ago

Yeah it'd be pretty useful if different styles of pizza has different names. Oh well.

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willis936 2 points 3 years ago

Two-wheel style car, or motorcycle? Sir, this is clearly a tomato pie.

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Blackmist 13 points 3 years ago

If this is a pizza then beans on toast is also a pizza.

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clay_pidgin 12 points 3 years ago

I love Deep Dish, but yeah it's more of a pizza-flavored casserole.

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tacosanonymous 8 points 3 years ago

It’s a bread bowl with tomato and cheese soup.

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maxwisecracks 1 point 3 years ago

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Armetron 17 points 3 years ago

A yes the only "pizza" you need to worry about drowning in if you ever pass out drunk while eating it

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actionjbone 9 points 3 years ago

Yes but what a delicious way to drown

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Blackmist 15 points 3 years ago

Pay no attention to Chicago, we purposely trained them wrong... as a joke.

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DrRatso 15 points 3 years ago

All of this arguing about if it is a pizza, yet the simple truth that it is a salad escapes everyone.

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drphungky 13 points 3 years ago

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DrRatso 6 points 3 years ago

You are a true scholar of food theory I see.

But alas, you fool, should you thoroughly inspect the manuscripts (specifically Appendix C), you would see that salad theory firmly debunks cuberule for the farce that it is!

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drphungky 7 points 3 years ago

While admittedly mashed potatoes and rice are miscategorized and switched from where they should be, the cube rule is a parsimonious and more accurate model! The footnote misrepresents it as location of carbs, when it is clearly stated as the location of structural starch. When reading it in this manner it is much more clear than any soup-based hyperspace nonsense!

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slingstone 9 points 3 years ago

Gentlemen, gentlemen! There's no need to fight!

However, if you would continue, I would be greatly amused.

NOTE: No offense intended with the "gentlemen" line if either of you is not male--I'm just trying to preserve the spirit of this Victorian era-style psuedoscientific slap fight.

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DrRatso 4 points 3 years ago

But even so your precious cubic musing doth fall flat when you consider your deep dish quiche permutates quickly into toast the moment it is cut.

Not to mention one might argue it misses the classification entirely, for a slice of deep dish pizza clearly is endowed with two structural carb sides. And should such a classification exist, it would permutate once more should it be eaten outside first.

While the manuscript of elegant salads stays much more robust to perturbations, a deep dish pizza remains firmly a salad untill the last bite.

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wabafee 13 points 3 years ago

Would this be considered a pie? A tomato pie perhaps.

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GreatRam 3 points 3 years ago

It's a pizza pie

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UsernameIsTooLon 11 points 3 years ago

Who tf cares so much about semantics? It's fucking cheese and tomato sauce, idgaf what it's called, I'm eating it.

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neo2478 10 points 3 years ago

Soup bread bowl

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Andonyx 10 points 3 years ago

Don't forget to have a proper polish with mustard, onions and sport peppers.

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BallShapedMan 3 points 3 years ago

Hell yeah!!!

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HerbalGamer 1 point 3 years ago

That doesn't sound very polishing to me.

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actionjbone 7 points 3 years ago

Delicious, delicious casserole

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littlebluespark 3 points 3 years ago

Sandwich, per the canonical diagram.

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Olap 6 points 3 years ago

So much sauce! Is this normal? When I try Chicago style at home, having never visited, it's like quarter that

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TheRaven 26 points 3 years ago

Yes it’s normal, but it’s not that much sauce. The sauce is on top, and the cheese and meat are below. What you’re seeing is only the top layer of sauce, hiding the deliciously gooey and savoury layers below.

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zeekaran 4 points 3 years ago

Cheese below sauce sounds like an unnecessary mess.

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droans 3 points 3 years ago

I mean, you're supposed to eat it with a fork, not with your fingers.

Unless you're into that. You do you.

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HerbalGamer 3 points 3 years ago

That defeats the entire purpose of pizza.

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zeekaran -1 points 3 years ago

Better bring wet wipes to all the dudes with facial hair.

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tim-clark 1 point 3 years ago

I ate at Giordano's and it was all sauce. Kind of gross it was like soup

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distantsounds 6 points 3 years ago

It was gross because it was Giordano’s. They are the worst

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SrTobi 5 points 3 years ago

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SmoothIsFast 2 points 3 years ago

It's it bad that I knew what this was before I clicked it?

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jeze3D 5 points 3 years ago

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anothermember 12 points 3 years ago

I'm not seeing a lot of "RAAAAAAAGE" here, I'm seeing a lot of people questioning whether it meets the definition but everyone is being civil about it (at the time of this comment).

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BallShapedMan 7 points 3 years ago

My vote, it should be called dough lasagna instead of pizza. But I'm not a local so I probably don't get a vote.

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anothermember 3 points 3 years ago

I've never tried it, I'd be interested to but there's nowhere I know that does it in my country. It does seem to push the boundaries of what is internationally accepted as pizza but the same can be said with a lot of things so I'm fine with it.

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kaffiene 2 points 3 years ago

With that much filling, doesn't the base get soggy? Can you leat a slice like a normal pizza? Ie: held by the crust

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Bigoldmustard 3 points 3 years ago

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BallShapedMan 2 points 3 years ago

No, it's cheese on the bottom then meat then more cheese then sauce. It held up pretty good but not nearly as well as a normal slice of pizza. Think more like a sturdy pie crust in how strong it is.

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GrammatonCleric 2 points 3 years ago

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OrderedChaos 1 point 3 years ago

Illuminati's? That stuff makes me physically ill.

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BallShapedMan 1 point 3 years ago

I don't think that's where we were, I forget the name. Why does it make you sick?

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OrderedChaos 2 points 3 years ago

No idea. I was told it was the "world's best pizza". They had it shipped frozen to where I live and we cooked them and they were gross. My stomach and a few other people's did not like them.

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GrammatonCleric -7 points 3 years ago

It looks like a bowl of marinara. 2/10.

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TheRaven 26 points 3 years ago

This is like seeing an iceberg and not realizing everything that was happening below.

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Rooki 7 points 3 years ago

Wow, never knew it had so many layers ;D

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HubertManne 7 points 3 years ago

thats really dependent on the place but it is a true pizza pie.

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Rooki 3 points 3 years ago

Sadly in my area there is no place that sells pizzas like it.

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brokenlcd 6 points 3 years ago

Ok as an italian you got my interest; it kind of reminds me of a pizza ripiena without the top layer of dough

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droans 1 point 3 years ago

Think that's mostly Uno. At least, the other restaurants I've tried don't put a full layer of sausage on them.

Which is rather unfortunate. That's the best part.

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TheRaven 1 point 3 years ago

Yeah, I used this image as a general idea of what’s going on underneath. Of course, you can also get entirely different toppings. Most of the time, I’ve found the sausage to be little balls with the rest of the meat.

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Nougat 10 points 3 years ago

For those who are unfamiliar with Chicago deep dish, the crust is thick, and the cheese and topping ingredients are underneath the sauce. That layer of sauce on the top is very thin.

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KaiFeng 3 points 3 years ago

Looks delicious, I'm assuming is a fork and knife in restaurant pizza rather than take away and eat with friends in the couch.

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LOLjoeWTF 5 points 3 years ago

You can certainly get it to-go. I usually start with a fork and knife and then switch to handheld about midway through.

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Pratai 4 points 3 years ago

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GrammatonCleric -1 points 3 years ago

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Pratai 3 points 3 years ago

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GrammatonCleric -2 points 3 years ago

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Decoy321 -3 points 3 years ago

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Anon6317 -8 points 3 years ago

Chicago style... the only real pizza on the planet!

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Dkarma -11 points 3 years ago

It's like a mozzarella stick. Only worse!

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