The Grim Greaser

1) Lorenzo's in the Italian Market was an excellent NY slice. Thin, chewy top with beautifully crisp bottom. Sauce on the sweet side, we liked it. Standard cheese that was a proper role player. Crust had a great flavor all on its own. Great stuff and totally uncomplicated. Not many better ways to spend $2.

2) Marra's disappointed. HUGE 18" pie for just $13.75 before toppings (only $1.50 for each topping). The sauce was good, and the standard mozz was OK if applied a bit too thickly. The crust was expertly cooked, but it lacked character and flavor and smacked of Sysco origin. This was a good pie, but also the crust was soggy in the middle from overload of cheese and sauce. Sausage topping was superb, squeezed out raw from real Italian sausage ropes. This could go from good to great if they used better dough.

love Lorenzo's for a basic slice or pie. no one else I know seems to for some reason

Houshphandzadeh wrote:love Lorenzo's for a basic slice or pie. no one else I know seems to for some reason

Folks are very divided over it. Some swear by it, others regard it as junk for drunks.

I think that dummies who want a pile of buffalo chicken on their pizza can't always appreciate the ying and yang of a perfectly balanced simple slice of well-made pie.

they close at like 7 pm though

TomatoPie wrote:I think that dummies who want a pile of buffalo chicken on their pizza can't always appreciate the ying and yang of a perfectly balanced simple slice of well-made pie.

Pretentious much?

Ying

phatj wrote:

TomatoPie wrote:I think that dummies who want a pile of buffalo chicken on their pizza can't always appreciate the ying and yang of a perfectly balanced simple slice of well-made pie.

Pretentious much?

Nah - I wouldn't accuse buffalo chicken pizza eaters of being pretentious, even as they diss the good stuff

Bucky wrote:Ying

The phrase needed balance. Sounded better than yin and yan

Why are people who eat buffalo chicken pizza dummies?

Don't mess with phatj when it comes to food

I'm not an acolyte in the Church of Pizza though

how dare people like toppings

i thought he was just saying it's hard for people that like toppings like that on their pizza to just appreciate a plain slice. I kind of know what he means. It's like saying that people who only like their Evan Williams in Coke can't appreciate that it tastes good with one giant ice cube, too. He didn't say toppings were bad. most of his pics have toppins and asian women. of course i didn't take my bitch pills today!

i take them everday. it's best if you take them in the morning to get into a routine.

phatj wrote:Why are people who eat buffalo chicken pizza dummies?

Ahhh, it's fine for belly filling, but anything that begins with white chicken meat is gonna be flavor deprived.

Chicken, whether by its breeding or its genetics, is bland. It doesn't add much to a slice of pizza that it wouldn't add just as well if served on the side, see what I mean? There's no cosmic synergy in a chicken pizza, no greater-than-the-sum-of-its-partsness.

...buffalo, ranch, and barbecue chicken pizza were created only to cover up poor pizza. That is, it was created in places where the basics—crust, good sauce, good cheese—were not understood or executed well enough, and thus needed an additional dish of food spread on top of it to add flavor.

To sum up: cured meats, like pepperoni, sausage, ham, guanciale, lardo, soppresata, capicola, pancetta, heck, even anchovies = all good. Fresh meats like steak, ground meat, chicken, pork, seared tuna = leave it on the side, thanks.

http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2 ... pings.html

Truly though - you should eat the pizza you like, even if the snobs disapprove

I agree that chicken is generally bland (particularly when compared to cured meats but that's not really a fair comparison). But buffalo chicken isn't bland. And I disagree that putting buffalo chicken on a pizza is necessarily a crutch. It's a different kind of pizza. Would your objections go away if it were called Buffalo Chicken Tart instead?

phatj wrote:I agree that chicken is generally bland (particularly when compared to cured meats but that's not really a fair comparison). But buffalo chicken isn't bland. And I disagree that putting buffalo chicken on a pizza is necessarily a crutch. It's a different kind of pizza. Would your objections go away if it were called Buffalo Chicken Tart instead?

If served by an Asian woman, I'd stop complaining. But if you are gonna put chicken on your pie, you might as well put on tofu. The texture is all wrong, too.

2 places in DE make a great buffalo chicken pie. Some of my favorite pizza.