Is Deep Dish Pizza Really Pizza?
Through all the clear definitions, the Chicago-style fried pizza is a pizza. It contains a shell, sauce and (lots) cheese, so it definitely meets traditional requirements, and more, it sells as pizza. If the restaurant contacts some "pizza" and the customer agrees, it is pizza. However, whether the deep dish of Chicago flavor is a good representation of what pizza should be is a difficult problem to solve, which caused a heated debate. As Meridith Hill of Thrillist observed, the experience of eating a deep dish is more like eating a pizza soup in a bread bowl instead of a real pizza. We will mention Heil in New York here, where thin shells are mandatory. However, countless others agree with her point of view: the profound cuisine of the Chicago way is its own thing. Even the Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia discussed the debate, and the Chicago Sun Times was told that the dish was "delicious, but not pizza." The debate reached its boiling point in 2013, ...