Just wait until you’ve heard about the war crime that is Ohio Valley-style pizza

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Detroit Pizza has entered the chat:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit-style_pizza

“Detroit-style pizza was originally baked in rectangular steel trays designed for use as automotive drip pans or to hold small industrial parts in factories.”

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Detroit Pizza is my favorite pizza style. I love a good New York pizza but the toasty favors and tang of detroit style are my favorite by far. I got the special pan to make it, and Charlie Anderson on YouTube has a fantastic recipe.

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4 points

The tang is tetanus!

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Sad thing is though that when I moved to Detroit, I learned that the “representative” pizza chains here are terrible. Jet’s has so much sugar in their sauce it’s literally sickening to even smell their pizza, and Buddy’s is flavorless.

Hell, my favorite pizza place near me is ran by a Chaldean couple. Fuck their pizza is so good.

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15 points

Came here for this one.

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10 points

Detroit pizza is pretty good. It’s more or less a hybrid between Chicago and New York that matches the geographic location, same with Buffalo.

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I am sure it’s true, but the wiki description sounds gross to me. A crispy and chewy crust does not sound appealing.

Geez everyone be gentle, I’m entitled to my opinions about pizza

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22 points

focaccia??

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16 points

A crispy and chewy crust does not sound appealing.

Speak for yourself. That sounds delicious.

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I mean it’s very crispy around the edges and it’s got a nice focaccia like texture in the middle. Honestly it’s great. I mean, it’s not life altering or anything, but as regional pizza goes it’s one of the better ones.

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2 points

You sure are entitled to your opinion. But we’re also entitled to make fun of your dumb opinion

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1 point

Never ate a bagel?

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I feel like chewy is the wrong word.
As two extremes, picture wonderbread and a thick sourdough. Wonderbread smushes, and tears effortlessly. The sourdough bounces back and takes effort to tear.

If wonderbread is a 1 and sourdough is a 10, most pizza is a 4 or 5. Detroit style would be a 5 or 6.
It’s mostly because it’s a bit thicker in the dough department, and the pan it’s cooked in is greased so the dough is a bit more crisp than the crunch of another pizza crust.

You would not say that it’s “gummy”, just a little thicker and a slightly closer texture.

Depending on where you are, jets pizza is a good representative. Domino’s and little Caesars both have a low grade offering in their deep dish or pan pizzas, as they’re both Detroit or Detroit adjacent.

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It’s mid-deep dish, so crispy on the bottom/sides and a little chewy in the middle.

I’m a New Yorker so I also have a preference for pizza that is foldable, but the bottom is crispy enough that it cracks when you fold it, but Detroit pizza is good. They use cupping pepperoni, like Buffalo, which I think is superior to the pepperoni we use broadly in NYC.

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I love Detroit style, especially from Jet’s pizza, so when I last went to Detroit I thought I’d try the original Detroit style from Buddy’s Pizza. It was pretty disappointing, so I guess, copycats do improve it sometimes.

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My take was that buddy’s was a let down compared to the hype, but otherwise perfectly fine. They also charged for what the hype led me to expect.

Jets on the other hand gives you just as traditional Detroit style, but the quality advertised, expected, delivered and paid for is entirely uniform.

Buddy’s wants to be “nice” in a way that’s above what you can actually get out of a pizza place without being a “restaurant that can also make pizza”.

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Jets is probably one of the best widespread chains out there. If you’re in the area though, Green Lantern in Royal Oak absolutely slaps and is hands-down the best pizza I’ve ever had in my life. Don’t mistake it for the one in Madison, since they only have a “tavern” style.

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-32 points

Oh we’re soooo distinctive, ours is square!

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And cooked in old automotive drip pans!

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They’re not used drip pans, buddy. They were brand new pans made by the UAW because that pizza was thicc.

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Mmm tell me more about how this pizza is contaminated with motor oil and antifreeze. That’s really making my mouth water.

Edit: Your downvotes have convinced me that thinking of an oil drip pan while eating pizza is appetizing. Detroit, I’m sure your pizza is as good as your football team.

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18 points

lol you think they still make it in drip pans?

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28 points

Or that they used used drip pans?

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I don’t know, but I wouldn’t have thought that would have occurred to anyone in the first place.

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81 points

Detroit style is the best, fight me.

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37 points

Detroit pizza is so fucking good. New York pizza is a greasy flap of falling toppings and Chicagoans will be the first to tell you chicago deep dish is an overrated cheese pool in a piecrust

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20 points

Chicago’s thin crust/tavern pizza is far better than deep dish. That’s what they should be promoting.

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5 points

You are so fucking right.

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2 points

I’m from Chicago and you don’t know anything about pizza. Chicago style Pizza is wildly popular for a reason, it is incredible.

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19 points

I never heard of Detroit style but I think it looks very similar to what I would call a baking tray pizza (Blechpizza) in Germany.

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Pretty similar, yeah.
Big difference would be that the Detroit pizza is a fair bit greasier, and the cheese goes to the edge so there’s no visible crust.
It basically makes it so that the dough is fried rather than baked.

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4 points

Yes quite similar looking

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No, not really. Detroit style has a much thinker crust, which is sort of what makes it unique.

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Is “thinker” both thinner and thicker?

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We call this style of pizza ‘deep dish’ here in Detroit which, I suppose, is just another name for the baking tray its cooked in. Though as the other commenter said, the deep dish allows you to cover it with cheese right up to the edge, which usually ends up dark and crunchy where it touches the pan.

I’ve known people to fight over the corner pieces and I think it was Jet’s that has a whole thing with an “8-corner pizza” (as in, two smaller pizzas in a box-shaped trenchcoat, cut into quarters so that every piece is a corner piece)

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That looks like what’s called a grandma pie in the NY area.

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10 points

Thick, crispy, cheese-overloaded crust, that shit is awesome. I still think sauce-on-cheese is freaking stupid, but aside from that it’s a 10/10.

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I am born and raised in metro Detroit and the only place I think I’ve seen this “sauce on cheese” you speak of is just now, in the ultra staged photos that came up when I searched “detroit-style pizza” to figure out what you meant

You’re right, this is blasphemy. Let the record show that this is not at all authentic to Detroit what makes it a Detroit-style pizza

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I don’t believe you. I’m also born and raised in Detroit and you’re only faking being a Detroiter if you haven’t had Jet’s Pizza, Buddy’s Pizza, or Nikki’s Pizza in Greektown. All 3 places are well-known in the metro area for their pizza and all 3 of them serve it sauce on cheese. That’s what makes a Detroit Pizza a Detroit Pizza. There’s also Shield’s Pizza which is also sauce on cheese but they weren’t in “Detroit” proper for years until 2019 (even though they originally opened in Detroit).

Did you grow up in the suburbs or something?

Edit: Shield’s and Buddy’s are the original Detroit pizzas. Anyone who tells you they know anything about Detroit pizza that hasn’t tried them is lying to you.

For the posers coming in here trying to redefine the classic, even Wikipedia knows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit-style_pizza. Note the image descriptions too:

“Detroit-style pizza showing typical lacy cheese crust edge and sauce on top”

“Detroit-style pizza showing sauce on top of some of the toppings, lacy cheese crust, and cheese to the edge”

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3 points

represent

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laughs in brazil

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They can’t just do this! sobbing

They can’t just keep getting away with it! crying into a blanket

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9 points

I feel unsafe.

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8 points

I think you just gave me diabetes

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6 points

That man’s face is brimming with unspeakable regret.

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6 points

This man needs his pizza license revoked.

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46 points

I do get pretty tired of food snobbery. Try it! You might like it! Worst thing that happens is you don’t eat it again.

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No no, the way I like it is the way everyone should like it!

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I tried fried caterpillars in Zambia. Despite a bit of hesitation, they were tastier than I expected. People tried to tell me they are full of brain controlling parasites, bla, bla, bla, but I would just like to say that it is perfectly safe for all your world leaders to eat them.

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I live in Ohio and have no idea what Ohio-valley style Pizza is. Is that a thing? Is this a joke? Am I a joke to you? (I mean, it’s justifiable. I live in Ohio after all)

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The pizza is known for its distinctive cold toppings which are added after the pizza is cooked. It was nicknamed “The Poor Man’s Cheesecake” in the 1940s. In 2018, DiCarlo said he did not remember why the pizza was originally prepared that way but speculated that it may have been to avoid burning the toppings. The style became a part of local cuisine in Ohio and West Virginia, and was replicated by several other chains. However, its method of preparation is polarizing, and it has been negatively compared to Lunchables.

🤣😂🤣

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Aight gotta be a culture that practically eats raw dough [pizza] too then

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23 points

It looks like if an adult was banned from buying Lunchables pizza, but still wanted that same disappointment.

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4 points

Except the crust and sauce are hot, which makes the cheese warm.

I say don’t knock it until you try it. I love it

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8 points

That made my stomach hurt looking at it

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7 points

Never heard of Steubenville, but I’m going to blame this war crime on the people of Pittsburgh nearby. That sounds like some Pittsburgh bullshit.

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Steubenville has more than one Wikipedia page, and not all press is good press.

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While it didn’t originate there, it did make its way to Pittsburgh before going westward

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4 points

Ok that looks terrible especially compared to the Dayton style that’s right nearby.

Steubenville has produced nothing but disappointment and tragedy

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2 points

Wait… Dayton style?

This is getting out of hand. Now there’s two of them!

Also, what’s Dayton style? If it came from the Oregon District it might actually be good

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Steubenville

I mean, that says it all right there. That’s not a pizza style, that’s a war crime

Okay, anyone that got this far and isn’t from the area, Steubenville is Pittsburgh lite. They speak Yinzer, call the above abomination “cuisine”, and generally suffer from generational lead poisoning. Also, the “Ohio Valley” isn’t some canyon in Ohio (although I’d encourage you to visit the Hocking Hills sometime, it’s quite beautiful, with several breathtaking ravines). No, the Ohio Valley refers to both the basin of the Ohio River particularly and more broadly the geographic region that feeds the Ohio River. That means the “Ohio Valley” stretches as far as Tennessee lol

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It oddly reminds me of something I had in Florence, Italy in the late '90s. I didn’t speak Italian more than enough to order food (though I could get by in French for the most part for the simple interactions I was doing), so I don’t know exactly what it was, but it looked like what is in that wiki. I grew up in Ohio but never had that style (which I think is more in the eastern part of the state).

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Only in… nah, I shan’t say it.

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I thought Ohio pizza was just square cut and thin crust which is hardly a style. I’ve been here my whole life and never had that cold pizza style but it might actually be good…or reheat in the oven nicely ha

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