Who has had a NY pizza and thought there was anything betta? Fungool!

(you got to shake it babe)

sorry - felt the need to do that.

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missin' and dissin' me. :hi:

It has too little cheese for my taste. Though the koronot pizza by Columbia had great pizza, even though it had little cheese.

When I first moved to NYC and went out for pizza (at Koronet, by the way), I looked at it and almost cried. I'm a Wisconsin native, so I grew up with pizzas with cheese on them!

I came to love NY pizza, though I realized that pizza from one place to the next is wide in variety. My favorite pizza in the city was a little place between 138th and 139th on Broadway - fantastic fucking pizza, and with extra cheese it was divine. Total dingy little hole in the wall place, and one of the few places in the area not staffed by Dominicans or Chinese.

ass or prejudice is showing. I remember a little place on 126th St. in Rockaway that had THE BEST NY pizza! I do believe Italians ran the show, the oil oozed down your arm, the crust was thin, the pizza slices wide and delicious, it was heaven!
I live in TX, and my best pizza now is DiGournio's thin sliced, squared pizza.
I've lost a lot living away from NY. :cry:
I've also discovered excellent pizza in Bali, Indonesia and Boca Chica, DR! It's there if you look!
If someone would pay me to examine the ins and outs of pizza in different countries - that would be a dream job. So I'll just do it anyway! :9

I lived in a Dominican neighborhood. Of course most everything was Dominican run, except the Chinese retaurants, which were Chinese run.

The pizza place just happened to be, oddly enough, the only business for blocks around me that wasn't staffed by Dominicans or Chinese, and always felt odd going in there seeing the Italians, and wondering, "Where the hell did you people come from in this neighborhood?"

I think if I'd grown up in NY, I'd think their pizza is the best. But I grew up in WI, with thicker crust pizza swimming in cheese, with almost no grease, so to me that's "normal". My one complaint with Koronet pizza was the grease - it would take me one or two napkins to mop the grease up before I could eat it.

Chicago, NY, classic Italian, Sicilian...

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It's almost impossible out here in CA to find a decent pizza. Or a decent bagel for that matter. I finally found a place in one of the malls that makes a pretty good NY style pizza, thin crust, not greasy and they sell slices.

I still haven't found anyone who can make a bagel right. :grr:

We have now an Einstein bagel place where I live, which is as close to a NY bagel as one can find outside the city. Thank God for it!

But it still isn't Columbia bagels.

there just isn't. I still remember the ones my uncle used to bring from NYC when I was a kid, and then my first Village bagel when my sister went to NYU. Serious stuff. WOW.

We do have some pretty good ones here in Pittsburgh, but a lot of places here cheat, and make what I call "bread" bagels. Yuk.

oh, BTW, I remember having the occasional "slice" in NYC as well. It was, well, like the Sicilian pizza we used to have in grade school. Unique.

is from there. I prefer the thinner, crispier crust. I don't care much for the much more bready Chicago type pizza. Fortunately for me, we have a restaurant near me that is owned by a man that had his own pizzeria in Brooklyn. The pizza is as good as any I remember from NY.

Vincent's Pizza (Forest Hills, PA) and don't go to any of the branches. :-)

in my college days.

they went to Vincent's. Then of course we went there as a special treat when we were growing up.

I still remember Vincent with his cigarette hanging out of his mouth tossing that pizza dough (sigh).......

and its fantastic. He actually was elected mayor of Greentree last month.

The branch closest to my Mom is out on Route 286 in Monroeville/Plum border. It's okay, but I love the original. Something about the atmosphere, I guess.

And since I live far, far away from Ditmars Boulevard now, my oven is the only place you can get decent pizza in this state :-)

I've lived away from NYC for 30 yrs now. Still miss the pizza.

i was watching Grease on VH1 the other day and when Rizzo says "Hey, Fungool, I'm Sandra Dee" during that song where she prances around in the wig they bleeped out "fungool." me and my BF were like wtf.

in Italy.

From what I understand, you don't get our type of pizza, you don't have bagel shops, kinishes are very rare, 24-hour deli's are also rare, and you don't have black-and-white cookies. You deprived people! :)

and my idea of good pizza is Papa John's or Pizza Hut. I've never had the luxury of tasting real, non-corporate pizza, unfortunately.

:smoke: that's it and that's that !:applause: