I used to do this, but not any more.
I also opine that the “comestible” which is served at Charles and Various Cheeses (aka Chuck E. Cheese’s) is undeserving of the name “pizza”, in that it is of markedly inferior quality.
If this is offensive to any reader, I hereby proffer, in advance, my profound apologies and further warrant that, should it happen that I have been so devoid of moral turpitude and basic human decency as to be so offensive to anyone, I shall immediately cease posting on this board and hope that such action will help to ease the pain of my transgression, vile calumny though it was.
Note: If anyone can discern whence this post is truly directed, I applaud you, good Sir and/or Madam.
Yeah, all the pizza in New York is like that. All eight million of us are just fucking delusional. It’s a mystery.
I am inclined to agree. I can see why you’d want to take your KIDS there, but between the insane level of cacaphony, flashing lights, screaming robots, and other elements reminiscent of some Disney flavored hell, I was glad to leave.
Having to tilt the pizza to drain the grease off, and STILL having enough grease to saturate a dozen napkins was just the cherry on the turd.
Well, the Yale campus is quite pretty in the autumn. The collections at the university art and natural history museums are excellent. If you like sports or history or sports history, you could go the annual Harvard football game. But the pizza is the only real reason to go to New Haven.
Wait, if you are devoid of moral turpitude, then you are behaving decently and within moral standards.
Oh, good God, I’m a moron. I just realized I’ve never actually been to New Haven. It’s Providence I’ve been to. Wrong Ivy League town. :smack: Next time I’m up in New York I’ll have to take a day trip or an overnight to New Haven. I never quite realized how close they were until I looked at a map just now. All those New England towns screw me up.
The magician on Penn and Teller Fool Us who had an act based on Scrabble?
He was being indefatigably magniloquent.
Light mayo is indistinguishable from the regular stuff except that it’s sort of softer and foamier in a blob. I still keep a small jar of the regular stuff for that kind of service (to dip 'sparagrass in, for example), but for anything spread or blended… the light stuff is just as good and has a significant calorie reduction.
(I generally don’t do “lite” anything and had to be convinced of this one. It proved out.)
As for pizza, I am still trying to find a place here in the northeast that doesn’t make so wet and gooey you can’t pick it up without wearing it, all grease issues aside.
Pizzeria Regina in Boston used to have extra oil as a menu selection. Till it’s dripping down your arm is my motto. I must respectfully disagree with Master Wang-Ka. Whole milk mozzarella will release a fair amount of grease when atop a pizza. Part skim mozzarella, not so much.
You are quite correct, sir. I’ve never seen mozz that didn’t have some milkfat. But it releases far less when cooked than certain bargain basement brands of white cheeselike fat based food product that’s chopped into leetle bitty cubes and used to top pizzas at Chuck E. Cheese, Cici’s, and various other pizza joints at which I do not dine.
I like my pizza with real mozz, and I am prepared to admit that it ain’t health food. But I prefer it made with real mozz, as opposed to a product that has had large amounts of hydrogenated fat added to bulk it up and add to the weight of the bag in which it is sold… and which melts and releases ludicrous amounts of oil when you cook it.
Just an opinion.
Reducing the fat of pizza seems to be the exact opposite of what I would want to do. Fat free cheese is gross. People who remove fat from food that should have fat and replace it with sugar or worse things are responsible for ruining the world.
If anything I would want to reduce the flour content.
And I do. But even I have to admit the crust makes a pizza delicious. So I mostly just abstain.
I started doing it when I lived in Brooklyn. It was almost as accepted as folding a slice.
The day you see me blotting my 'za, I give you permission to shoot me, because I’m clearly just done at that point. You don’t spit into the wind, you don’t tug on the Batman’s cape (Superman, yeah, go ahead, he’s too nice to do jack about it), and you don’t worry about grease on pizza.
You dip asparagus in mayo?
I sometimes do the same. Learned it from a roommate in college. Best if you doctor up the mayo with a fresh squeeze of lemon juice.
I thought that’s what dried-out, powdery parmesan was for.
I’ve lived in New York for nearly 35 years, and I STILL don’t fold pizza. Never saw the point.
Why would I want to eat the slice twice as fast? Why would I want twice as much in each mouthful? It’s like getting ready to mainline heroin, and you suddenly decide to take a double dose. “Hey, if X is good, than X-squared must be that much better, huh?”
I also like mayonnaise on my cheeseburger, something else I’ve been told is “not a New York thing, whaada ya, from California?.” (said with dripping disdain)
Also, I lift my pinky when I sip tea.
I mostly folded it when I was walking somewhere with a slice. I just took smaller bites. I was surprised when I learned the fast food burger places didn’t put mustard on burgers. I never have put mayo on anything, even though I grew up in a part of the country where people ate banana and mayonnaise sandwiches.
Yeah, I grew up in Cleveland, where McDonald’s and such gave you a squirt of yellow mustard along with the ketchup on any burger. I noticed the absence of mustard when I moved to the East Coast at 17, but I hate fast food so it never really bothered me much.
I often find myself defending mayonnaise when I hang out with my multi-ethnic anarchist buddies (“Haw haw, white boy!”)
“Yeah? Yeah? Ya go to a Jewish deli, whadda they got? EGG SALAD, asshole. Whaddaya think they PUT IN IT? Jews LOVE egg salad. Ya go to an African-American church picnic, what’s the biggest bowl on the buffet table? POTATO SALAD, asshole. Whaddaya think they PUT IN IT? Blacks LOVE potato salad.”