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I hear you! I love Betty's favorite food (on topicHow about this game? Super great, amirite.? On-topic
Obviously I only had Italian pizza that one time (no urge whatosever to give it a second chance) so my sample size was way too low to make broad generalizations. I just meant to point out that there is bad pizza everywhere - even in Italy - just like there is probably good pizza everywhere. [NY-style is vastly overrated and generally flavorless, unless thin and grreasy are your thing.]
I am definitelya bit ofa pizza snob, I will admit, so I don't often give a 2nd chance to any ristorante (fool me once...). But it is by far my favorite food when done even adequately. So much so that I sometimes find myself thinking in pizza-centric calendar time. Not A.D. or B.C., not b.c.e. or c.e., nor even years-after-the-Death-of-Himmel-the-Hero, but "d.s.l.p." If that reckoning climbs above 14 then I am probably significantly more surly than usual.
). It's among my three favorite dishes and the only one I need every two weeks at most. The other two dishes are comfort food I ate a lot as a kid and activate the memory lane.I'm not snobbish, but I do appreciate a good pizza (for my taste). But if there's no good pizza around, I can survive on Pizza Hut or Domino's (done that a lot on my work trips).
My shoulder injury hasn't allowed me to knead pizza dough since 2021, but I did it for years Sunday on, Sunday off. And the off-Sunday weeks, it was time for Pizza Friday. Now, Pizza Friday is still every two weeks (I can't convince my wife to do it more often), so that's my pizza schedule if I don't get one while working. We have 4-5 pizzerias (not all of them Italian-run) that we flexibly rotate during a two-month schedule.
I like to try things when it comes to pizza. Two years ago a Detroit-style place opened not far from home and I annoyed my wife until we got there and tried it. Never again. Not our style. She wanted to try the NY-style. I knew it wasn't going to be her thing, but why not? We went, tried it, I enjoyed it, she didn't. It's 10 minute walking from my job, so when I'm in the mood I go there alone.
As I said, the best pizza I tasted (for me) was that old woman's. The best pizza I tried in Italy was in Milan, in an unknown trattoria in a neighborhood far from the city center and the tourist places. The weirdest pizza I tried was in Asturias (northwest Spain); it had penne, crisp bacon flakes, and a white sauce. It was surprisingly delicious!
