The Pizza Thread

Back from Vegas.

I had two slices from a pizzeria in Paris. Terrible. Like... legitimately terrible.

I also had a five hour delay in the airport and got back to Bellingham really, really late. Then the three hour drive home. Fuks sakes.

Going riding today and gonna try and burn off a bunch of fat I accumulated big timing it in LV. It's going to suck. This is one ride I'm looking forward to the end of it versus the journey lol.

tempo_n_groove said:

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

Back from Vegas.

I had two slices from a pizzeria in Paris. Terrible. Like... legitimately terrible.

I also had a five hour delay in the airport and got back to Bellingham really, really late. Then the three hour drive home. Fuks sakes.

Going riding today and gonna try and burn off a bunch of fat I accumulated big timing it in LV. It's going to suck. This is one ride I'm looking forward to the end of it versus the journey lol.

I've been trying to tell folks out there but they don't listen...

They need to start listening gawddammit.

Ha.  Making some, I think tomorrow evening.  Will share for critiques. 

mcgruff10 said:

rgambs said:

Obviously I have a bug up my ass about this issue lol

That you do!  Did a ny/nj slice of pizza wrong you in your younger years?
did your high school sweetheart break up with you as you were munching down on a bagel while overlooking Central Park?

I had a slice from what was supposedly one of "the" places to get a NY slice in NYC. There was a line up around the corner .... I was geared up to understand why everyone is always going off about the NYC slice, and I was disappointed, or at best felt totally neutral. It was just a floppy, average-tasting slice of thin crust pizza. Perception is indeed almost everything if New Yorkers truly believe their pizza has anything on pizza anywhere else.
(side note: I had the exact opposite experience with Chicago hot dogs. They totally lived up to the hype)

tempo_n_groove said:

bbiggs said:

Not necessarily a pizza thread pic,  but for any of you that are going to the Wrigley shows in August, go to La Scarola in Halsted and Grand. The food is second to none. Authentic gnocchi...

Too damn heavy...  Maybe a 1/4 of that portion!!!

No way, pasta (or gnocchi) doggy bags are the best! There is a super popular pasta place where I am, always a line up outside for dinner, that serves ridiculously huge portions of pasta. People go there because they can order dinner and leave with dinner for the next couple of days as well, lol. 

Both rings and pizza look great there

or what.

PJ_Soul said:

Yuck. Is that what all calamari looks like in America or what?

I guess in nj,ny and pa it looks like that. It was tasty Allie!  What does fried calamari look like in bc?

PJ_Soul said:

mcgruff10 said:

PJ_Soul said:

Yuck. Is that what all calamari looks like in America or what?

I guess in nj,ny and pa it looks like that. It was tasty Allie!  What does fried calamari look like in bc?

Usually like this. Your version is missing by FAR the best part - the parts with the little tentacles. So tasty! And I don't understand why the rings are so massive for yours. The rings here are a fraction of that size. Weird!

The tentacles were buried in the bottom lol. Is that tartar sauce?  Try marinara instead!

PJ_Soul said:

mcgruff10 said:

PJ_Soul said:

mcgruff10 said:

PJ_Soul said:

Yuck. Is that what all calamari looks like in America or what?

I guess in nj,ny and pa it looks like that. It was tasty Allie!  What does fried calamari look like in bc?

Usually like this. Your version is missing by FAR the best part - the parts with the little tentacles. So tasty! And I don't understand why the rings are so massive for yours. The rings here are a fraction of that size. Weird!

The tentacles were buried in the bottom lol. Is that tartar sauce?  Try marinara instead!

Ew, no, not tartar sauce. It's Tzatziki. It usually comes with at least that, but often also with a spicy chipotle-type sauce too.
The idea of marinara sauce on calamari sickens me. I am going full-on calamari snob on you dude!!!

And here lies the difference between east coast Italian and the rest of the world lol. Marinara sauce and calamari are used in so many Italian dishes. They go hand and hand imo.