Pizza. Do you call it 'pie'?

[Bront]

Chicago-style deep-dish pizza is closer to the former that you describe. From top to bottom on a "true" Chicago-style pizza, as made by Pizzeria Uno (the folks who invented it):
- Crushed tomatoes (no tomato sauce)
- Toppings
- Mozzerella cheese (the standard-sized Chicago-style, which is about 12" in diameter, apparently has a pound of cheese)
- Crust

I've lived in Chicago for 16 years, and have never heard anyone here refer to any pizza (either deep-dish or thin crust) as "pizza pie." Sounds East Coast-y to me, too.

I've lived in Chicago for almost 30 years, and have heard people refer to it as a 'pie' all the time, though usually it's a reference to it once it's allready been established that it's a pizza. "I usually order from XXXX, they make a good pie."

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

I don't call it pie.

... Mmm. Pizza.

 

[StupidSmurf]

I knew someone who referred to pizza as "Steve". I don't hang out with him anymore.

 

[mojo1701]

I knew someone who referred to pizza as "Steve". I don't hang out with him anymore.

Is that an "American Dad" allusion? Like calling a woman's ... "Steve"?

 

[freebfrost]

I vaguely remembering my parents calling it a pizza pie back in the 70s, but most of the pizza shops where I grew up made pizza in rectangular trays and you typically just purchased pieces or a "tray" if you wanted the whole thing.

 

[StupidSmurf]

Is that an "American Dad" allusion? Like calling a woman's ... "Steve"?

Nahhh....I don't watch AD....The name Steve has stuck in my head because of two reasons:

1. I once read some parody thing that had the tagline: "Terror has a new name, and it's 'Steve'!"

2. An episode of Dave the Barbarian has this amazingly funny non-sequitir song about "Steve the Egg".

Hey don't mind me, I'm just take a swim in my stream of consciousness.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

but most of the pizza shops where I grew up made pizza in rectangular trays and you typically just purchased pieces or a "tray" if you wanted the whole thing.

But you see, that would be a Scilian pie.

Here's a picture of a slice of each next to the other, to show the difference.

 

[freebfrost]

But you see, that would be a Scilian pie.

Well, problem is that Sicilian pizza has a thick crust, and ours did not. It wasn't thin either, but it was not the "pan" crust that is indicative of a Sicilian pizza.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Well, problem is that Sicilian pizza has a thick crust, and ours did not. It wasn't thin either, but it was not the "pan" crust that is indicative of a Sicilian pizza.

Huh. What's the point of making it in a square pan then? You wouldn't get a crust on one end to hold it with as you ate it if it was a thin crust. Don't tell me you ate it with a fork and knife! That would be a crime!

 

[was]

I think it's an east coast thing. That's the only place I've ever heard it used.