On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:44:54 -0500, Doug Freyburger
> wrote:

>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.

GASP! I think somebody was sneaking into Gary (IN) and breathing too
much of that multi-colored air. Cutting a round pizza into squares is
just plain nuts. I guess that's what to expect from the land of the
Mafia and the Daley Machine.

>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. ;^)

I left the midwest when people were still looking for the best steak
not pizza and the Est Est Est was still in business.
>
>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.

It was probably Chef Boyardee in a box. LOL! I can't knock it. That
was my introduction to pizza.

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