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Well I'm waiting for dinner and want to have a decent argument about something that doesn't make me depressed!

What is the BEST possible type, geographic location, large chain franchise and toppings for a pizza?

Thin Crust? "Normal"?, Deep Crust? Crust So Deep It's Practically Lasagna? Crust So Thin It's Theoretically Two Dimensional? That Horrible Pizza Hut Heresy with Cheese in the edges?

Chicago? New York? Classic Italian?

Pizza Hut (you are provably wrong)?, Papa Johns?, Dominos? Black Jack? Little Caesars?

Love letters to your favorite local joint are also acceptable, especially if they're in poetic verse.

Authentic New York City Pizza is best Pizza. Any other answer is blatantly incorrect. Vito's Pizza in Hollywood is probably the best local pizza I've had, because the guy is from Jersey and makes as close to real NYC style pizza as I've found outside of NYC. Back in my hometown there was a place called Arrivederci for 20 or something years and it was the best in town. Not NYC style, but the best pizza locally.

As far as national pizza chains go, Papa John's is best and Pizza Hut is worst.

Chicago deep dish is an abomination unto the world, and its place is in the Lake of Fire with Lucifer himself.

I like all types, but some places do their style better than others.

For New York style Pizza, its gotta be Mombo's Pizza. Its a little chain in the local area that does it amazingly.

For Deep Dish, there is a chain called Old Chicago. Of course it takes an hour for your pizza to be finished, but when it gets to you its awsome.

Then there is Mary's Pizza. They do the best pizza ever. Thinner pizza, closer to New York style but not quite. Maybe a fusion of Italian and New York is what you would call it.


Of the three, I like Marys Pizza best. So Thin Crust Italian New York Fusion.


For fast pizza, Little Ceasers is pretty darn good.

Best Pizza's the Homemade stuff, or the sort you get from that little Italian place where the oven takes up half the floorspace, and uses wood...

In terms of Franchises/Chains/Other

1) Avalanche (Not sure if this is a chain, but boy it's tasty!)
2) Boston Pizza
3) Little Ceasars
4) Dominos. Cheap, Fairly tasty, and a staple of the University diet.
5) Pizza 73. Not bad if you time it right, but not really good.
6) Pizza Hut
7) Panago Burn, Ketchup-flavoured abomination

 Crazy_Carnifex wrote:
Best Pizza's the Homemade stuff, or the sort you get from that little Italian place where the oven takes up half the floorspace, and uses wood...

Right, or more generally: the fresh stuff.

The real key is a proper Pizza oven. It doesn't have to be stone or anything but it helps.

Cooking Pizza in a conventional oven just isn't great pizza.

Traditional NY pizza... no substitute...

But, here in St. Louis, we have thin crust with provolone cheese... its awesome in its own way.

Chicago pizza with chorizo, roast chicken, pepperoni, green peppers, olives and onions :3

RatBot wrote:Authentic New York City Pizza is best Pizza. Any other answer is blatantly incorrect. Chicago deep dish is an abomination unto the world, and its place is in the Lake of Fire with Lucifer himself.

These statements are Gospel.

Any pizza that cannot be folded up and eaten like a taco full of pure joy has failed you.

 azazel the cat wrote:

RatBot wrote:Authentic New York City Pizza is best Pizza. Any other answer is blatantly incorrect. Chicago deep dish is an abomination unto the world, and its place is in the Lake of Fire with Lucifer himself.

These statements are Gospel.

Any pizza that cannot be folded up and eaten like a taco full of pure joy has failed you.

feth that, thick crust is where the gaks at.

 Cheesecat wrote:

 azazel the cat wrote:

RatBot wrote:Authentic New York City Pizza is best Pizza. Any other answer is blatantly incorrect. Chicago deep dish is an abomination unto the world, and its place is in the Lake of Fire with Lucifer himself.

These statements are Gospel.

Any pizza that cannot be folded up and eaten like a taco full of pure joy has failed you.

feth that, thick crust is where the gaks at.

I agree.

Just made a stuffed crust pizza loaded with toppings last night from scratch and ate half of it within 5 minutes before forceing myself to slow down and enjoy the goodness.

Yeah, Chicago style gets my vote. I like the foldable stuff too, but not as much. And as far as the national chains go, I like Dominos the most, since they switched to the new stuff.

 RatBot wrote:
Authentic New York City Pizza is best Pizza. Any other answer is blatantly incorrect.

And, we can now conclude the thread; as there is simply nothing left of value to add to this.

I just like pizza. All pizza. Except Pizza Hut and Dominos since A. they both taste like cardboard, and B. I know their ingredients... Little Caesars is good, especially for the money! $5 for a large pizza? Gimme! Any more then that and I'm going to the local awesome normal pizza chain Louie's or Boriello Brothers for NY style.

Toppings wise I used to be a carnivore but then mushrooms became a regular topping, now I'm all into good Supreme pizza.

 RatBot wrote:
Authentic New York City Pizza is best Pizza. Any other answer is blatantly incorrect.

I'm calling you on this one.

The best pizzas in the world are in Naples, Italy.
I've had both, and the NY stuff is nearly as good, but just doesn't quite cut it.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I just like pizza. All pizza. Except Pizza Hut and Dominos since A. they both taste like cardboard, and B. I know their ingredients... Little Caesars is good, especially for the money! $5 for a large pizza? Gimme! Any more then that and I'm going to the local awesome normal pizza chain Louie's or Boriello Brothers for NY style.

Toppings wise I used to be a carnivore but then mushrooms became a regular topping, now I'm all into good Supreme pizza.

I find Pizza Hut, Papa John's, Domino's and Little Caesar's all taste too similar I like them but I can't eat there too often otherwise I get bored with the food.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Well I'm waiting for dinner and want to have a decent argument about something that doesn't make me depressed!

What is the BEST possible type, geographic location, large chain franchise and toppings for a pizza?

Stuffed crust meat lovers. If you don't like that you simply don't belong in any sort of neckbeard group.

New York has some pretty good pizza. I think it's because the cheese is supposedly super fresh.

Papa Johns ranks the highest if you're not worried about price. Their specialty pizzas rock the house. While other pizza joints seem to use the thinnest layer of toppings and a rather abundant amount of sauce (bleh), PJ's just dumps on the topings.

Best toppings are, as you might guess, animal flesh and cheese. I love me some pineapple and black olives, but these are not loved by everyone so I can't call them top toppings.

Small restaurant where the dough is made by hand, thrown in the air, topped with fresh local ingredients, baked in a wood fired brick oven while sitting on a patio on the beach next to the Adriatic Sea in Italy.

NYC style pizza, I'm told has something to do with the water used when making the crust. All bread in general from the city, really. I work down there, and that's what I've had explained to me from locals. And NYC pizza is great, but so is deep dish-there was a small town in Southern Illinois, right along the main N-S highway (forgot the number) that made a deep dish pizza, cost $25 and was about 14" diameter. It was also an inch and a half thick, with all homemade toppings, fresh and delicious. My friend and I felt cheated for the size when we ordered it, it came in 6 slices, and 3 starving men couldn't finish every last bite on the pie. It was amazing. Wish I could remember the name.

Homemade is also great-especially when you come up with your own. I recommend a creamy tomato sauce, almost like a vodka sauce w/out the vodka, with slices (not shredded) of fresh mozzarella on top. Wow. It's good.

For fast pizza...I go Dominos.

Oh, also, I once had a friend who worked at a pizza joint, made me free pizzas all the time. One day I asked him to use alfredo sauce instead of marinara. I was hooked after that point.

I've never tried asking a normal pizza chain to do that though. I Somehow doubt they would comply.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
especially if they're in poetic verse.

She Calls to Me from The City
By Rubiksnoob

Slice, from the long isle of Manhattan
to the starry gods dost thou alone compare,
for no deity in Greek nor Latin
is as you so delectable and rare.

Thine touch, a sublime caress so elegant
angels cannot a lighter finger place
upon the strings of harps as eloquent
as your delicate and decadent embrace.

Thou may judge, though I am compelled to say
that thine crust is by many measures more
a treat than what lays 'neath any lady's lace;
for you I would brave any woman's scorn.

But rush not we must, nor hasten hasty flight,
for I would slowly savor e'ry last bite.

As a Chicago native I can say that I find both Chicago and New York style pizza delicious. St. Louis style is also good, its basically a slightly thicker version of New York style.

But my favorite pizza is a wood-fired Neapolitan with mozzarella di bufala, prosciutto, olive oil, and basil. Aside from all the pretty girls, that place is what I miss most about college.

If we're confining it to my home city, I would say that Pizzeria Due is the best representation of Chicago-style, and Bacci is the best representation of the hybrid that is St. Louis style.

 rubiksnoob wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
especially if they're in poetic verse.

She Calls to Me from The City
By Rubiksnoob

Slice, from the long isle of Manhattan
to the starry gods dost thou alone compare,
for no deity in Greek nor Latin
is as you so delectable and rare.

Thine touch, a sublime caress so elegant
angels cannot a lighter finger place
upon the strings of harps as eloquent
as your delicate and decadent embrace.

Thou may judge, though I am compelled to say
that thine crust is by many measures more
a treat than what lays 'neath any lady's lace;
for you I would brave any woman's scorn.

But rush not we must, nor hasten hasty flight,
for I would slowly savor e'ry last bite.

You win the thread.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:

 rubiksnoob wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
especially if they're in poetic verse.

She Calls to Me from The City
By Rubiksnoob

Slice, from the long isle of Manhattan
to the starry gods dost thou alone compare,
for no deity in Greek nor Latin
is as you so delectable and rare.

Thine touch, a sublime caress so elegant
angels cannot a lighter finger place
upon the strings of harps as eloquent
as your delicate and decadent embrace.

Thou may judge, though I am compelled to say
that thine crust is by many measures more
a treat than what lays 'neath any lady's lace;
for you I would brave any woman's scorn.

But rush not we must, nor hasten hasty flight,
for I would slowly savor e'ry last bite.

You win the thread.

All yall got to get yourselves a Newfoundlander Special. Heaps of cheese, thick crust, pepporoni, moose sausage slices, and ground seal meat. If you haven't had that then you haven't eaten pizza.

Props for my Newfie buddy for introducing us mere mortals to the head of the pizza pantheon.

After that probably Tony's Pizza and Panzerrotti. The only pizza that you can buy that comes close is Joe Cools.

I love pizza, although I'm not really picky. I'm not picky about food in general. Every day I have food on my plate is a good day in my book.

I like really deep, bready pizza, almost like a meatball sandwich in consistency, or possibly a thick calzone. Toppings are whatever sounds good to me at the time, but I like pepperoni. Anything aromatic.

I am not an officianado when it comes to pizza. I know large chains and that's about it.

Now it used to be IMO that nothing could beat a Papa Johns thin crust with ham. Then they changed the ham slices to ham chunks and it's not so awesome.

Dominoes new pan pizza is pretty awesome.

There's a few places here in So Cal that are pretty damn good. There's this place literally a block from my house that makes the best "normal" style pizza. In La Miorada Gondola's, a little whole in the wall makes good thin crust style. BJ's brewery (don't know how big they are anywhere else, but they have quite a few locations out here) has the best deep dish I've had.


Round Table is probably my favorite chain, especially the one by my house.

Also, anyone who ranks Little Caesar's as anything other than "I am poor and need something slightly food-esque" has something wrong with them. I have never eaten there and not regret it later.

cptbravo wrote:

Also, anyone who ranks Little Caesar's as anything other than "I am poor and need something slightly food-esque" has something wrong with them. I have never eaten there and not regret it later.

You speak the truth.

cptbravo wrote:
Also, anyone who ranks Little Caesar's as anything other than "I am poor and need something slightly food-esque" has something wrong with them. I have never eaten there and not regret it later.

How can you judge Little Caesar's if you haven't eaten there?