# Barbecue Styles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [June 24, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecue-styles/944974 "2021-06-24T23:36:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 24
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecue-styles/944974/24 "2021-06-25T03:32:20Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > For most people who aren’t from Chicago, when they hear “Chicago style pizza,” they picture only a deep dish and/or stuffed pizza, as that’s the style which gets press, and to which tourists tend to get steered. But, there’s a completely different Chicago style, which, IME, is what locals actually eat more often – it has a very thin crust (usually a crisp “cracker crust”), and gets cut into smallish squares (“tavern cut”), like so: What the…they cut the pizza into squares? Like Showbiz Pizza for little children that can’t handle a whole slice? What is the point of that? Pizza is a trigonometric expression of analytical cuisinometry, hence the name. It is supposed to come in slices measuring in fractions of 𝞹, not rectangles and weird little leftover off-angle segments like some kind of failed origami experiment. If anything, that is worse than deep dish pizza, which is at least half-honest in its description. How do you even eat that? With chopsticks? Everything about this is so wrong in a Lovecraftian cosmic horror sort of way. Stranger --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecue-styles/944974)._