What Does Pizza Taste like in NC??? (Huntersville, Smithfield: delivery, eat)

[NCgirl]

Amen Kmway and Sunnykayak! I don't understand it. If I ever move out of the South, I know I will not be able to find the same food in another region. Of course there is generic american food everywhere but I doubt I'll find good southern staples.

[kmway]

Thanks NCGirl and Sunny Kayak.

I can't believe how whiny some of these people are. I actually got a negative rep point from someone for pointing out the truth. And that truth is that there are plenty of Chinese, Mexican, and Pizza places here. You are in NC, not Ethiopia. It just gets exhausting to have transplants come to NC and complain about it not being NY.

Ok, I am off to the Alaska board now to ask what hamburgers there taste like.

And to the brainiac who gave me the negative rep point: having a differing opinion is not a flame. Pointing out that there are plenty of northern owned pizza places is not a flame. Giving suggestions of good places to eat is not a flame.
Quit abusing the system.

[Niki]

I agree with kmway, SunnyKayak and NCgirl.

About the birthplace of pizza, if I remember correctly, a travel show about Italy that I watched on the Travel Channel (and also a show about pizza on either the Travel Channel or the History Channel) said that pizza was invented in Naples, Italy and was basically only eaten there until American soldiers "discovered" it during WWII. They wanted more of it when they got home to America and Italian immigrants started opening their own little pizza places. America's love for pizza began.

[NC man]

Here is a take on this common post, I have noticed that most Northern transplants have to have something that was better from where they chose to leave, and it is stuff like Pizza or Taylor Pork roll or Hostess cupcake, Tasty cakes ect. The fact is all that stuff is right here you just have to look for it and as far as pizza goes Raleigh has tons of pizza joints all different styles just as good and or better then up north, folks the guys who own alot of them are from up north and making the same stuff you had there, same cheese sauce ect....The only difference is where you are eating it.

[renriq02]

We like Tony's Pizza...are there better pizzerias in charlotte?

[mm34b]

Originally Posted by Niki

I agree with kmway, SunnyKayak and NCgirl.

About the birthplace of pizza, if I remember correctly, a travel show about Italy that I watched on the Travel Channel (and also a show about pizza on either the Travel Channel or the History Channel) said that pizza was invented in Naples, Italy and was basically only eaten there until American soldiers "discovered" it during WWII. They wanted more of it when they got home to America and Italian immigrants started opening their own little pizza places. America's love for pizza began.

Another take on that.

History of pizza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[lovesMountains]

Originally Posted by banker0679

We like Tony's Pizza...are there better pizzerias in charlotte?

I didn't care for the sauce at Tony's as much as other places - I prefer Mario's Pizza in Matthews (near the Siskey YMCA).

[NCN]

Originally Posted by CJ-FROM-NJ

This might be a stupd question but...I am italian and good food is important to me. LOL I was thinking....what if I move there and the pizza sucks. LOL

We have such great pizza up here. For all the people that know good food in NC....I ask you....what is the pizza/food like?

I was thinking about the end of the movie GoodFellas when Henry Hill says at the end..."you can't get good food out here. The other day I order spaghetti and I got noodles with ketchup!"

This question really takes me back. I remember my brother who had joined the US Air Force and came home with a pizza mix in a box. We followed the directions and baked it and promptly fed it to the dogs and they wouldn't even eat it. I don't think I had ever smelled anything that horrible in my life. When I married my husband was in the Air Force in Fayetteville and took me to a pizza place. He ate the pizza and I ate the crust.

You will find a lot of English foods in North Carolina. Most of it is cooked in a pot. Then you find the less healthy what I call the "greasy spoon" cooking. More and more Italian, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, etc. places are around.
I don't have an Italian bone in my body, but I have learned to like pizza, because my husband loves it. Now neither of us eat it very often, because it has too much fat.

This was not a dumb question. All parts of the country have their own types of food. I remember going on vacation to Ohio and asked for a sausage biscuit. The waitress did not know what I was talking about, so I looked on the menu, ordered two biscuits and two sausage patties, sliced open the biscuits, put the sausage inside and told her, "This is a sausage biscuit."

You will not think you are missing anything when you discover Krispy Kreme.

[mm34b]

I would imagine local food preferences and availability has a lot to do with the traditional ancestry of a given area. Historically, Italian influence has been rather limited compared to the British in North Carolina. The British culture has been dominate here for over 400 years.

[engineman529]

My wife and I are from NY, and have relocated to Charlotte. There are a lot of transpants down here and opening stores. There are a few pizza places that are just about on, with NY. Also ate at a pizza place in denver, that had a chicken cutlet hero, that was better than a lot of places where i had them in NY.

Its not just pizza. Bagles are good down here depending on where you get them.

By the way, I am still on the hunt for good Chinese food will let you know if I find that.