Out of Pod Experience

They need lots of spices in the crawfish boil. Add some potatoes, onions, and corn on the cob and you'll slap yer mama it's so good! You really need to have some!

Think of it like this: Labrador Retrievers and German Shepherds are both dogs, but they're not the same type of dog. They're different "races". Same with prawns and shrimp. Prawns are a little bigger than shrimp, their physical attributes are different, but they're still very similar. That said, they're not the same animal. A prawn is not a shrimp no more than a Lab is a German Shepherd and a tiger is a lion.

You're right, American creations like deep dish pizza and stuffed pizza are original and distinct from anything served in Italy...because they're awful.

First of all, it wouldn't be sold in Italy because no one would eat it. It's like eating a pound of grease in a bread bowl filled with enough tomato "sauce" to make soup, topped with some shredded plastic concoction that somehow passes FDA approval and is considered mozzarella cheese, on a layer of D-grade meat and vegetables. Then they inject the "pasta" crust with more fake plastic cheese that tastes like greasy cardboard. This is not American pizza. This is awful, artery-clogging, gag-inducing "food" that's not worthy of consumption.

Don't insult Chicago pizza by throwing it in with the rest of what people call deep dish pizza...it's not. Chicago pizza is more like a cross between focaccia and pizza...or pizza grossa, which, by the way, existed in Italy well before anyone in Chicago thought of it. Who do you think brought it to Chicago? It didn't just magically appear one day.

Have you ever even been to Italy? Do you even know how many different types of pizza there are here? This is a place that's about 10 miles from my house that specializes in what you'd call "deep dish" pizza, only it doesn't suck: Vecchio

And come to think of it, I guess that Jucy Lucy I got in Minneapolis last week is German food. Who brought burgers to Minneapolis? German sailors from Hamburg, that's who!

And Coney Island hot dogs are Viennese/Austrian cuisine! Who brought wieners to New York? Austrian sailors from Wien, that's who!

Sorry dude, you're insufferable.

LOL at the second comment! This place reminded me of Pizza Hut in the US! Must be a great place if they're comparable with the second worst pizza joint ever.

All this talk of pizza made got me in the mood for it tonight so I made 2 tonight. For the first I used deer burger, mushrooms, and onions with some spices. And the second was ham (not Canadian Bacon), olives, and pineapple over some New Mexico salsa I had laying around.

I am insufferable. I'm insufferable because I take food seriously. If more Americans were insufferable about the food they ate, then maybe it wouldn't be the fattest, unhealthiest country on the planet. After I got out of the military, I decided to not go back because of it. It wasn't the government or the job market or anything like that, it was the people. So go ahead and keep calling pizza American food, I give up. You might as well if you consider a lot of the garbage from the states that passes for pizza. Now that you mention it, maybe it should be considered completely different, and while we're at it, it should probably adopt a new name so as to not ruin the name of pizza. It's a shame that you don't know any better because there are many fine pizzerias in the states that make fantastic, real pizza, but you'll be too busy working on your next heart attack by eating at the terrible ones. I will concede that they're not Italian dishes because they're not worthy of the association.

There's something here that's basically stuffed pizza, only it's a bajillion times better and is where your stuffed pizza came from. It's called schiacciata. It's two entire pizzas facing each other like a sandwich, crust on top and bottom, and in the middle there's all the ingredients with added sliced, fresh pomodorini (cherry tomatoes) and other vegetables, along with all the other ingredients from the pizza. It's what you would call stuffed pizza, only with real, fresh ingredients and real mozzarella cheese. Mozzarella cheese comes in a ball about the size of a baseball and is submerged in water and kept there. As a rule of thumb, don't eat anywhere that uses shredded mozzarella...it's the equivalent of using Spam and calling it a T-bone steak.

Funny story. So I'm eating a hamburger at a local place here and I'm friendly with the owner. There's an Australian guy who's friends with him and we strike up a conversation as I'm paying for my meal at the counter. He asks me, "Why do we call it a hamburger? There's no ham in it." I then proceed to tell him that it's not a ham-burger, but a hamburg-er, as in from Hamburg, Germany. The look on his face was priceless, as if to say, "Can you please delete what I just said from your memory? Now I feel like an idiot."

*Sigh*

Also you can deny it all you want, but the rating is still there and will remain there for all to see. This pizza connoisseur traveled to Italy to try out some of their restaurants, and when he tasted that pizza he used his vast pizza knowledge and he said,'this pizza tastes like Pizza Hut!'. He could have gone with a family owned joint or one of the name brands that uses higher quality goods but he chose Pizza Hut.

I guess that's understandable considering what happens when you try to order pepperoni from the one place in the world that turns it into a vegetable.

Just because you disagree with a review doesn't mean that they are unintelligent. Reviews are simply matters of opinion and your opinion is different than his. And I believe his exact words were 'But it reminded me sooo much of pizza hut back in the US'. Apparently this pizza he ate is reminiscent of his experiences with those that he had at Pizza Hut. Personally, I think that Pizza hut sucks, but that is merely my opinion. Given the review I would probably think that place sucks too.