sf wrote:
> Doug Freyburger > wrote:
>
>> Folks whose families have been in Chicago a long
>> time say that Chicago style has to do with the cut
>> and deep dish is a newcomer.
>
> How many ways are there to cut a pizza? You have round pizzas and
> rectangular.... but the cuts are always straight. Pieces are wedge
> shaped or rectangular (which includes square). None are called
> Chicago Style.

I'd had several 3rd generation Chicagoan tell me that
in decades past Chicago style meant round pizza with
square cuts not wedges. Definitely not the current
meaning more like an amusing historical anecdote at
this point. Deep dish was invented in the 1960s so
it's a newcomer? Alrighty then. ;^)

But to me the style is about the ingredients, the
texture and such but I haven't gotten any of these
folks to express what they mean by what the style was
before the advent of deep dish.