What is Chicago-style Pizza?
1.
Sometimes called deep-dish or pan pizza, an excellent type of pizza originating in Chicago in the early 1940s. Now often misdescribed as "thick crust", the pizza generally has a thin or medium crust made of flour and cornmeal, upon which is laid a thick layer of cheese, with tomato sauce or crushed tomatoes on top. It is available all over the world, although the authenticity is questionable outside of Chicago.
Interestingly, many prominent Chicagoland pizzerias serve only thin pizza (i.e. not Chicago-style) which is also very popular if not moreso among Chicagoans. Some area pizza parlors offer both styles, apparently to cater to out-of-town rubes who want to try Chicago-style.
"I ate a Chicago-style pizza in London and my anus hasn't been right since."
"My grandfather ate Chicago-style pizza at Pizzeria Uno in 1945. He is dead now."
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A thoroughly disgusting, usually undercooked "Italian" style pie, hailing from the armpit of America... the city of Chicago Illinois. The entire pie weighs close to 46 lbs on average, and is overladen with acidic canned tomatoes and tomato paste in order to overpower the bitter taste of various grease and oils within the pie itself. Often filled with more gluttoning ingredients such as ground up pig innerds, or spicy red pig shavings. Usually eaten at every meal by the "gourmets" of Chicago, from the fattest women to even the meagerest metrosexual playboy.
I ate an entire Chicago-style pizza and later threw up all over my wife's hairy back.
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