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View Poll Results: Giordano's vs Lou Malnati's vs Uno's vs Gino's East
Giordano's 9 30.00%
Lou Malnati's 14 46.67%
Pizzeria Uno's 2 6.67%
Gino's East 5 16.67%
Voters: 30. You may not vote on this poll

 
 
Old 05-21-2010, 02:18 PM
 
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props for the phrase "jaspers."

I have no idea what it means...
That's alright. Tom has no idea what "props" means.
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Old 05-21-2010, 02:29 PM
 
Location: Nort Seid
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That's alright. Tom has no idea what "props" means.
hahahahaha. well played.
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Old 05-21-2010, 04:25 PM
 
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
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Tom has no idea what "props" means.
Truely.
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Old 05-21-2010, 05:48 PM
 
Location: Cook County
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props for the phrase "jaspers."

I have no idea what it means, which means when I decide to throw that at someone this weekend (preferably after numerous beverages), it'll be even funnier.
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hahahahaha. well played.
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Truely.
Reps for all! Good stuff
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Old 05-22-2010, 10:24 PM
 
Location: Charlotte, NC
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Hi, Orangish! Hope y'all (and, yes, I said y'all) are enjoying your pizza .... I prefer Lou's myself. One of the "must-do's" when I get home....as you know, there is no decent pizza in Charlotte....
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Old 05-22-2010, 11:22 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Reps for all! Good stuff
Let's not forget about reps for the guy repping everyone. You!
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Old 05-23-2010, 07:11 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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From what I know about Chicago deep dish history, I would spin it like this:

Uno's started it all after WWII when Ike Sewell took the concept of pizza that GI's got a taste of during the war and turned it into a meal.

So which pizza joints have the strongest bloodlines: Uno's, of course. And Due's is merely Uno's needing more space a block north. Gino's East came along in the same era. And Lou Malnati's is an off shoot, Lou being an intregal part of the Uno's organization.

Who does it best? At one time I thought it was a toss up between Uno/Due and Gino's East. But then Gino's East corporatized and didn't offer the same type of high quality pizza they served as a two store operation on Rush and in Streterville.

Uno's and Due's, I feel, basically haven't skipped a beat and do the original recipe proud. They are enduring institutions.

Problem is, Uno's downtown carries the same name as the franchise places and they're disasters as far as I'm concerned. Uno's national chain has nothing in common with Uno's and Due's downtown other than ownership and only carry the name because the company wants to make a link with consumers with the original two joints.

So Uno's falls flat on its face in the franchise business, but does a super job with the original two restaurants.

Where does that put Lou Malnati's? To me, in basically the same place as Portillo's. Portillo's is the top of the line of fast food chains...no franchises and all restaurants serving the best quality fast food in a terrific, well run organization.

Malnati's does that kind of incredible job in deep dish pizza. Also a chain without franchises, only Malnati has been able to take the original deep dish pizza and mass produce it away from its River North birth to cover all Chicagoland. Kudos for keeping quality and product in place on a giant scale.

Does that mean that chains like Giordano's or Eduardo's or smaller ones like Gullivers don't do a great job with deep dish pizza? No. It just means that I see Uno's (downtown), Due's, Gino's East, and Malnati's as the core of the original deep dish pizza places and the ones that carried the concept from the beginning either by birth or (Malnati's) by blood line. And my favorite deep dish places are the ones that carry that Chicago original taste to them. Gino's dropped out of the mix IMHO when it didn't handle getting too big....while for Malnati's, getting big proved only to be a bonus.

So let me give high praise for Uno's and Due's downtown as the apex of deep dish pizza. And let me give Malnati's the credit of being Ike's disciples who took the concept to the hinterlands throughout Chicagoland.
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Old 05-23-2010, 08:56 AM
 
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
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Nice post there Edsg.

As long as we're waxing historical LaPiazza in Piper's Alley made an excellent Uno's style pie. I assume it's long gone.
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Old 05-23-2010, 01:06 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Nice post there Edsg.

As long as we're waxing historical LaPiazza in Piper's Alley made an excellent Uno's style pie. I assume it's long gone.
thanks, tom.

I certainly remember Piper's Alley "back in the day" when Old Town was Chicago's somewhat equivalent to Haight Ashbury. But I don't remember LaPiazza.

I do remember a place that I'm fairly sure NOBODY here would even know it existed from the same era. I was in college (UIC...which was UICC or "The Circle" at the time...I'm showing my age; I literally opened the place. Talk about ancient history, but walking south of Roosevelt was like taking your life into your hands. But I digress.). I lived in Evanston and we used to go to a place called Capri on the far north side...on Western not far from Touhy. It was a small neighborhood place but had great deep dish, somewhat akin to the downtown places.
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