decent pizza (or any Italian food for that matter)
It's been my experience in upstate New York that the two are mutually exclusive. A place can have great Italian food of the type Olive Garden tries to do, or it can have great Italian food of the type you can get from street vendors in New York City, or it can have great pizza. Occasionally you'll find a place that'll do one very well and another middling fair. Rarely will you find a place that can do two well. You'll never find a place that can do all three decently.
Pizza is supposed to be big and flat and grease should run off of it when you pick it up. The cheese should be thick and not too stringy; the sauce should be liberally applied but wholly covered by the cheese; the crust should be thin and crispy on the bottom but soft on the outer rim of the pie, so you can eat it like a breadstick when you've finished the rest of the slice. You should have to fold your slice in half to fit it in your mouth. The pie should have a two-foot diameter. It should be washed down with cola or beer.
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Date: 2004-01-04 11:57 pm (UTC)It's been my experience in upstate New York that the two are mutually exclusive. A place can have great Italian food of the type Olive Garden tries to do, or it can have great Italian food of the type you can get from street vendors in New York City, or it can have great pizza. Occasionally you'll find a place that'll do one very well and another middling fair. Rarely will you find a place that can do two well. You'll never find a place that can do all three decently.
Pizza is supposed to be big and flat and grease should run off of it when you pick it up. The cheese should be thick and not too stringy; the sauce should be liberally applied but wholly covered by the cheese; the crust should be thin and crispy on the bottom but soft on the outer rim of the pie, so you can eat it like a breadstick when you've finished the rest of the slice. You should have to fold your slice in half to fit it in your mouth. The pie should have a two-foot diameter. It should be washed down with cola or beer.