Pizza blind taste test

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People in New York claim it’s the water that makes the crust good. Same with bagels.

I’m not sure how true it is.
 
Having a preheated pizza stone gives you bubbles in the dough. Gotta have those bubbles.

I remember when I bought a pizza stone but didn’t have a peel to slide the pizza on it. Oh my. That was fun. lol 😄
 
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People in New York claim it’s the water that makes the crust good. Same with bagels.

I’m not sure how true it is.
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I have heard the same thing many times. The one thing that I never find outside of N.Y. is olive oil on a pizza. Good pies had to be made with some olive oil. I remember as a kid eating a slice and when you folded it to you could handle the slice (big slices!) it would drip an orange oil, probably the olive oil mixing with the tomato sauce (or gravy as real Italians call it). Everyone I know remembers wearing jeans and holding a pizza on your lap as mom or dad drove home from Papa Gelosi’s, You’d get out of the car and your legs where you had the pie in your lap, would be orange. Aahhh the memories !!!
 
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Yes. That orange’ish juice is the oil mixing with the sauce. You must have agility when eating the pizza or you WILL have a reddish stain on your clothes.
 
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And when I was a kid in Jersey, white levis were the jean of the day. Picture your lap after holding that pizza in the car for five minutes!
 
I remember New York pizza in the 1970’s the pizza boxes would be tied with that red and white string. You could save the string to play cat’s cradle!
 
You needed a paper plate, and that wax paper square. Lean the plate so it touches your hand but not your lap directly. Then sort of bend over when taking a bite. Make sure you hold the slide with that square. And pray the cheese doesn’t stretch too much to fall on you.
 
How true. Just thinking, my idea of a perfect moment in heaven is sitting at a table with Jesus and some N.Y buddies, having a extra large Papa Gelosi’s extra cheese and pepperoni pie, a cold case of Ballantine or Reingold beer, and listening to Mel Allen broadcast a Yankees game with Mickey hitting two homers, Whitey pitching a one hitter, and Yogi being interviewed after the game.
Might be dating myself, but if God’s time is the eternal present moment, if all eternity is present to God in any given moment, maybe a June day in 1957 could be dialed up.
 
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Must have pizzaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Now.
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Am going to visit some buddies in Cedar Grove and Ho Ho Kus in April. Am going to try to find a great N.Y. pizzeria and will buy three extra large pies, seal them in plastic, and bring them back to Pittsburgh. Then will freeze them and whenever I need a slice, nuke one or two and pop the top on a cold brew. Even a reheated N.Y. slice has to be better than Domino’s. Anyone care to join in???
 
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I thought Pittsburgh had decent pirogis. . .Don’t forget to hit Philly on your way home and get some cheese steaks, soft pretzels, and Italian water ice.
Umm, soft pretzels. When I was a kid in the 60s they cost a nickel, they were the size of an adult’s hand, and had big old salt crystals on top. So good!
 
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Yes. That orange’ish juice is the oil mixing with the sauce. You must have agility when eating the pizza or you WILL have a reddish stain on your clothes.
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Beards will help protect your clothing, but people will wonder if you have dyed it.
 
There’s like a 99% chance I’m going out tonight to buy pizza and some cold ale now.

I’m in southern New Mexico and there’s not much here in the way of Italian food like on the east coast. But there is a place next to the university that makes New York-style pizza and I must say that they do a pretty good job.
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Beards will help protect your clothing, but people will wonder if you have dyed it.
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Not mine.

Run-off from pizza is magnetically attracted to my pants. If I don’t eat at a table it finds a way to get on me.
 
stpurl said:
I thought Pittsburgh had decent pirogis. . .Don’t forget to hit Philly on your way home and get some cheese steaks, soft pretzels, and Italian water ice.
Umm, soft pretzels. When I was a kid in the 60s they cost a nickel, they were the size of an adult’s hand, and had big old salt crystals on top. So good!
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The Burgh has great everything. Right now the big thing is Paczki, lemon, cherry, and blueberry pastries that are big before Lent out here. The other thing about this area is all the radio stations broadcast the best Friday fish frys in Lent. All the Catholic Churches and a lot of firehouses do fund raisers and the radio stations have a contest for which fish fry is the most popular every week. I’ll say one thing, Pittsburgh is not shy about its Roman Catholic identity. A refreshing change from much of the rest of America.

So many good ethnic restaurants around here that you can’t open a restaurant that serves poor food. You’ll be out of business in 30 days.

Know what you mean about soft pretzels. There is a bar near here that serves the best; great with honey mustard. I’d stop in Phila on the way home, but the Steelers decals on the car might get me stoned. Those Phila fans are everywhere, especially in Phila.
 
We ate Greek the last time I was in Pittsburgh, but I saw quite a few other ethinc restaurants downtown.

I grew up outside of State College (Penn State).
 
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Some great trout streams for fly fisherman in that neck of the woods. Have been there many times. Come to think of it, that day in heaven with the pizza and the beer would be at a picnic table alongside Fisherman’s Paradise just outside of State College.

Come to think of it. We were wishing the Super Bowl would have been between Phila and Pittsburgh. Could move it to Happy Valley, seats 105,000, outdoors, in the snow, with the Philly fans on one side and the Burgers on the other. Only Schmitz and Iron City beer could be sold, and the only food available would be Philly cheese steaks, soft pretzels, Primanti Brothers sandwiches, and pierogis. Would have been fun.
 
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