Whenever I order a thin crust pizza from Domino’s, it comes square-cut rather than wedge-cut. No idea why.
So what do you get if you order a “slice” of pizza? Do they have different prices for the middle/edges since they would be of significantly different sizes? How many cuts do they make? Info please!
According to their advertising, “Ledo’s pizza is square because they don’t cut corners.”
I know of a Pagliai’s in Carbondale, IL. I don’t know if it is the same “chain” or not. Very good pizza.
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Pizza-by-the-slice comes in radial slices. That’s how you know it’s pizza-by-the-slice. I always thought it was wierd how people on television always ate pizza-by-the-slice.
Marion’s Piazza is the #1 pizza joint here (Dayton, OH), and they cut the pizza into squares by default. They’ve been cutting their pizzas this way for 30 years.
Imo’s, eeeewwwwww! (which makes me a St. Louis heretic, I guess)
They use Provel cheese, which I’ve been told is a strictly St. Louis thing-- a hybrid of provolone and mozzarella that i think has really tacky melting qualities.
Give me Pizza-A-Go-Go or Fortel’s Pizza Den (both also square cut) any old day of the week for St. Louis pizza. heck, give me Papa John’s.
No answer for the OP.
In Buffalo, pizza in the form of a large rectangle, cut into squares, is very common – it’s called “party pizza” in the local vernacular. Round pizza in Buffalo is often cut into 10 or 12 “strips,” rather than wedge-shaped slices as is the norm elsewhere in the country.
Gasp!
Being a St. Louis native, I’ve grown up on square slices. I’ve come to equate square with quality, actually. And provel is the best cheese for pizzas, IMHO. I’d take a thin square topped with provel over a fat triangle topped with mozzarella. Provel melts smoother.
Anyway, legend has it Imo’s does squares because Ed Imo, the founder, was formerly a tile layer, and subconciously sliced the pizza into squares, like tiles. I don’t know the veracity of that tale, but it sounds good.
It wasn’t nearly as good as Donato’s, the Ohio chain that sued Pizza Hut over the “Edge” trademark.
I forgot to say that a Donato’s advertizment says they cut it into pieces instead of slices because “thats where the word ‘pizza’ comes from.”
[homervoice]Mmmmmmmm. Pag’s Pizza[/homervoice].
Reminisces about too many nights at the Hangar.
Actually, pizza was invented in Chicago. By a Mexican guy, no less.
Italy…ha…give me a break.
Ignorant Europeans.
Oops. It seems deep dish pizza was invented in Chicago in the early 20th century.
Thin-crust pizza seems to have originated in Naples in the 1600’s (after the Neopolitans decided American tomatoes were pretty good grub to put on thin bread).
I stand corrected (by myself).
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Fortel’s is great pizza. But I live in North County and it’s quite a haul to get there. Had it once and liked it! Would go again.
Grew up in NYC. Been to Chicago. Chicago don’t know from pizza. I got your deep dish right here! Chicago pizza is a calzone with amnesia.
Have you ever been to pizza hut?
If you pile a couple toppings on a thin crust pizza and cut it into wedges it will break when you pick it up.
-Cisco the pizza guru
Chicago style pizza? Bah! Who wants that junk? In my day, there was 2 pizza parlors on every block, and every one was better than the last. I’ve never found better pizza anywhere than there was where I grew up in Brooklyn.
PeeQueue
(Just trying to stir up the rivalry a bit more.)
All this reminds me of something I read a few years ago… some Chinese company sued an Italian company for claiming that pizzas were invented in Italy. Their argument was that when Marco Polo staying in China, he loved a Chinese dish where meat and vegetables were placed on a round piece of dough and baked. When he returned to Italy, he tried to reproduce that dish, but didn’t have the necessary ingredients. He ended up using whatever he could find, and then topped it all off with cheese, and voilà, pizza as we know it was born, all ripped off from the Chinese 
Please keep the “my pizza is better than your pizza” stuff in IMHO and the “remember this place?” stuff in MPSIMS.
Thank you