Pizza: Thick or Thin?

It’s obvious what you mean by “thin pizza”, but when you say “thick pizza” do you mean Chicago style deep dish (which most respondents seem to be assuming) or do you mean Sicilian style?

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If you mean Sicilian then I have to vote thick. I love the standard NY style thin slice but Via Veneto’s Sicilian Pizza is famous in my area. Everyone swears it’s the world’s best.

Me, I vote for thin crust, cracker-style, from Chicago. Cut in Chicago Squares. Not those wimpy triangles :cool:

If I’m slumming it by ordering from the usual chain delivery, I choose thin every time.

Our favourite brick oven pizza restarant serves some fantastic medium to thin crust pies.

My wife makes amazing deep dish pizza which she bakes in a cast iron pan. Epic.

So I guess, it all depends.

This. Everyone thinks of Chicago pizza as deep dish but 95% off what’s eaten around here is the thin crisp square cut crust.

Thin. I don’t like chewing on a bunch of dough.

It’s all good. But if I had to pick, I’d pick thin crust: it’s less filling and carby, so I can enjoy more of the rest of the pizza (sauce/cheese/toppings).

For me, Thick crust could Sicilian Pizza or just a regular round pizza but the crust is thicker (you order it that way). Chicago style is a different animal to me.

Really? No one’s going to address this?

You do realize cheese is one of the three defining ingredients of pizza? Without cheese, you’ve just got bread with sauce on it.

Yep. Another vote for that style.

I prefer thin/thiner side of things, but thick/deep dish can be okay too.

I think the bigger problem is that thin is much more likely to be done correctly. A poorly done (and more likely to be that way) thick/deep dish is just terrible IMO. Its like a cross between an under cooked giant biscuit and a shallow thick stew.

Pizza actually does not require cheese. And bread is essentially what pizza is. It doesn’t even require sauce,

Yeah, go ahead and make a round piece of bread, throw some toppings on it, without cheese or sauce and see how many people besides some hipster douches call it a pizza.

I disagree. Pizza is at a minimum cheese, sauce and bread. Leave one of those three out you may have something yummy but it wouldn’t be pizza.

White pizza is a common offering, at least in my area. It’s cheese, oil, and garlic; no sauce.

You’ll note they call it a WHITE pizza, not just A pizza. What do you think the reason for that is?

Yes, and the call pizza with pepperoni “pepperoni pizza”. That doesn’t mean it’s not pizza.

I assume you mean “cold” Sicilian? You may mean tomato pie, which is a different thing from pizza.
This place is famous around here for their tomato pie. http://www.corropolesebakery.com/?page_id=13

Tell that to the Italians.

Serve a random person a white pizza with pepperoni on it, but just call it a pepperoni pizza. Tally the responses and get back to us.

Yeah, technically speaking a hamburger bun with ketchup and american cheese is a pizza too, but I wouldnt go head to head with Pappa Johns with that business model.

Then again, I am kinda racist, so I might like a pizza with an extra helping of white on it.

I like thin crispy cracker crust type pizza for a veggie pizza. But hailing from the Chicahgah area, real pizza is deep dish pizza.