Lets have a proper debate.

[GeorgeG]

It's New York pizza for me. It's just not the same anywhere else and that includes anywhere outside a 50 mile radius of NYC.

One thing I've learned living in an area where people are from all over the country is that you tend to favor what you're used to. If you grew up with it or lived with is for much of your life, it's the benchmark for judging everything else. For us former New Yorkers it's pizza, bagels, deli, bakery, even bugers (what some people put on a burger...) and dogs. Here in The Villages area we have countless pizza shops, delis, and other places that claim to be "New York style,", but not on their best day and a New Yorker's worst day. That doesn't necessarilly mean they're bad, just not "New York style."

 

[Free4Life11]

Chicago, but more specifically, Lou Malnatis ALL the way!

 

[Duckfan-in-Chicago]

I think Chicago style pizza is a misnomer. There is more thin crust pizza in this city than thick. Even Wiki lists two different kinds of Chicago-style.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza

In fact, most of the neighborhood pizza parlors in Chicago and the rest of the Midwest serve Chicago-style thin crust, not deep dish as is commonly assumed.

I wanted to try the NY pizza last time I was there, but didn't get a chance so I'll have to hold off on my opinion. I'm sure it's better than most of the country's pizza.

I do hope that we all agree, be it Chicagoans or NYers, Canadian Bacon and Pineapple are NOT pizza toppings.

 

[lovesmurfs]

NY!!! Grew up in NJ, living in Chicago, and just don't get Chicago pizza.

 

[friendofgusgus]

New York, no question!

If I can't fold it before I eat it, it's not pizza to me!

 

[Took]

NY-style! Don't hate Chicago-style but prefer NY. Unfortunately, live nearer Chicago.

 

[LuvOrlando]

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[Nancy]

I like the deep dish pizza but not all the time. I hate thin crust pizza so for me I guess it's Buffalo style..kind of a mix. Thicker crust, just the right amount of sauce and lots of cheese and pepperoni

 

[I loveStitchnippyjon]

New York!
We visited Chicago for the first time two years ago. Our first day there, we asked the front desk clerk at the hotel where to get the best pizza for lunch. We went where he told us the pizza was THE BEST, and DH, DD, and I all HATED it. Yuck! We had them put the rest in a take-out container and took it back to the hotel for the desk clerk (who was thrilled!)

 

[HelenePA]

I gotta go with NY style.

Funny, I never had Chicago style though? Is it like a Sicilian pie, thick crust, a rectangle with a smattering of cheese and a nice & crunchy crust? I dig a good Sicilian pie every now & then. Tomato pie is just like a Sicilian, just without the cheese, and sort of mushy because they aren't meant to be eaten hot. I never even heard of them before I moved to Pennsylvania & they are not bad, sorta like when I was a kid & dipped my Italian bread into grandma's gravy before dinner.

No its not like Sicilian. Think of a circle crust about one and a half inches deep filled with sauce.. I really hate alot of sauce on my pizza, the thought of eating deep dish Chicago makes me gag actually I have to stop thinking about this now.. I'm getting myself sick Google Pictures of deep dish chicago pizza you'll see what its like

 

[fraggle551]

New York! That other stuff isn't even pizza.

 

[John Smith1]

Yo, NOO YAWK babeee!!!

But I must admit when Pizzeria Uno opened in the Village I was there every weekend!

 

[kydisneyfans]

Chicago-no doubt about it.

The only pizza we have ever thrown away because nobody would eat it was in NYC. If I wanted cardboard I would just eat the box.

 

[figment52]

NY. I don't need an entire loaf of bread with my tomato sauce and cheese.

and I like my pizza to be thicker than a piece of cardboard and have more flavor than cardboard too...Chicago style.

It wasn't on the list but the best pizza was the one in Napoli (Italy).