"Steve Jackson" > wrote in
news:%Otqf.44539$CL.30605@trnddc04:

> "Scott Kaczorowski" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>> I saw some guy on the Food Channel one night and he
>> claimed the business he inherited (don't remember the name
>> because I don't care) invented Chicago style pizza. And
>> then he made one. "Gotta put the cheese down first. A
>> *real* Chicago style pizza starts with cheese, *then* the
>> sauce."
>
> Sounds about right.

And I should have mentioned the crust. By "big" I meant
tall, not thick.

>> Haven't had
>> a "real" Chicago pizza, so I will reserve opinion (for a
>> change), but I do think that BJ's makes a good pizza no
>> matter what the label.
>
> And see, even there, I don't really agree. Then again, I
> haven't found good pizza at all in southern California yet.

I'll be darned. I subscribe to the "pizza is like sex"
theory: Even bad pizza is not really all that bad.

(Try Spinelli's at Los Coyotes and Spring.)

> Find me some white American cheese, and we'll talk.

There's no difference in taste. Find it yourself.

Oh yeah, and I'm pretty sure I've seen the Land'o'Lakes
version at the local Pavilions. Willing to be wrong about
that, but then, I fail to see how it matters.

Geez...Whiz, American cheese...

> Or, hell, I'll take you up to Burbank, and we'll go to a
> place that people I knew who grew up near Philly swear is
> the best, most authentic cheesesteak they've had outside of
> Philly.

Deal. But only if they are originally from inside the 60
mile limit.

>> But to your point: One ought not call Heineken a Belgian
>> Tripel. And you should stop snivelling/whinging/whining
>> about BJ's pizza.
>
> Only when you stop snivelling/whinging/whining about In 'N
> Out Burger.

It's just not a great burger. It just isn't. And I STILL
don't understand how the burger can be the subject of legend,
but the flacid and undercooked fries are on the verge of
being pointless.

> Every bit as bad and over-rated as you think
> they are, that's what I think of BJ's pizza.

Your wonrngering, giggy.



Scott Kaczorowski
Long Beach, CA