[tijlover]

I would be leery of buying pizza from a Chicago chain that opened up a chain here. I will always refer to Chicago as the pizza capital of the U.S., have eaten pizza there a number of times and nothing seems to compare to it. And what's the secret?

Someone opened up a branch of a famous New York restaurant in L.A., one time, and he couldn't figure out why he couldn't achieve the taste of his restaurant in NYC, and the solution rested with the water. So when he started to import water from NYC into his cooking, he was able to duplicate the taste. Anytime when in NYC, I found the tap water to be the best-tasting water anywhere, it comes south from the Adirondack Mountains.

When I was last in Milwaukee, bringing my mother along, to visit relatives, my cousin asked one morning, where we would eat that night, and I said Gino's East in Chicago. Yes, we drove the 75-80 miles to Chicago for dinner. My mother remarked that she had never eaten better pizza anywhere, the cheese that melted in your mouth.

When Oprah was in Chicago, she'd order up to 20 pizza's from Gino's East to be delivered if she was staging a get together. It's that good!

I've eaten at other Chicago pizzeria's but Gino's has always been my favorite, as there's both a Gino's East and Gino's West.

$36 for a pizza?

[EA]

If I wasn't renting I would be burning down this house.

[tijlover]

Lots of luck burning a house down in Mexico, as they build all their houses, apartment buildings, motels out of concrete! Our wood frame developers are unwanted in Mexico!

[ElleTea]

Originally Posted by EA

If I wasn't renting I would be burning down this house.

I have a lot of those around my yard. I always try to catch and release bugs that get inside, but no mercy for black widows, scorpions, or those big nasty roaches. The 2 first ones can potentially hurt me or my animals, the last is just NASTY!

[Tek_Freek]

Originally Posted by tijlover

I would be leery of buying pizza from a Chicago chain that opened up a chain here. I will always refer to Chicago as the pizza capital of the U.S., have eaten pizza there a number of times and nothing seems to compare to it. And what's the secret?

Someone opened up a branch of a famous New York restaurant in L.A., one time, and he couldn't figure out why he couldn't achieve the taste of his restaurant in NYC, and the solution rested with the water. So when he started to import water from NYC into his cooking, he was able to duplicate the taste. Anytime when in NYC, I found the tap water to be the best-tasting water anywhere, it comes south from the Adirondack Mountains.

When I was last in Milwaukee, bringing my mother along, to visit relatives, my cousin asked one morning, where we would eat that night, and I said Gino's East in Chicago. Yes, we drove the 75-80 miles to Chicago for dinner. My mother remarked that she had never eaten better pizza anywhere, the cheese that melted in your mouth.

When Oprah was in Chicago, she'd order up to 20 pizza's from Gino's East to be delivered if she was staging a get together. It's that good!

I've eaten at other Chicago pizzeria's but Gino's has always been my favorite, as there's both a Gino's East and Gino's West.

$36 for a pizza?

I have had pizza at Gino's. Damn. Good. Pizza!

[saligia]

Originally Posted by Tek_Freek

I have had pizza at Gino's. Damn. Good. Pizza!

I actually don't care for Gino's that much; prefer Lou Malnati's by far.

[ElleTea]

I don't get the fascination with pizza, period, from Chicago or anywhere.

[elkotronics]

Papa John's Chicken Barbecue pizza and a Seahawk's NFL football game and you'll all be in like Flint.

[Tek_Freek]

Originally Posted by ElleTea

I don't get the fascination with pizza, period, from Chicago or anywhere.

You have my sympathy.

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by ElleTea

I don't get the fascination with pizza, period, from Chicago or anywhere.

What changes all that is stumbling across the "Real McCoy", and then there's no turning back.

I was in Alaska with my mother and we had a plate of deep fried halibut and fries. I have never tasted halibut like that before and I immediately ordered another plate, knowing full-well I might never have this opportunity again, halibut fresh out of the ocean. Haven't eaten halibut since!

The nurses sometimes bring pizza's to work to share, and I don't even give Pizza Hut or Domino's a 2nd look, or Napoli's. In Grand Junction, 2 months ago, there was a Papa John's near the hotel and, having never tried it, I ordered one, took it to my room, and took one bite and gave the rest to my roommate and I dashed out in the car to a McDonald's. The only pizza that someone brought into work one night was from Sofia's, and that was the best pizza of the bunch, but it's too far from my house, and I'm the laziest when it comes to driving a car, restricting myself to a one mile radius of my house.

Spent too many years living an urban lifestyle in downtown Minneapolis without a car.

I'm just thankful, in some ways, I have no access to the "Real McCoy" pizza of Chicago, or I'd be 100 more pounds overweight!

Like chocolate, if it isn't Lindt, then you eat it!