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- at restaurants: usually not greasy at all since only a couple of slices of fresh mozarella are used. Definitely not thought of as junk food.
- at Kebab shops (3am on a weekend): Ah, the good old corn and ham combo. Disgustingly greasy and already sitting there for a couple of hours. Junk food at its best.
Exactly the same here. Restaurant pizza is usually of quite high quality with more greens and scarce with meat.
Lots of people love it, especially young people, and pizza offers plenty of food combinations so it can be delicious for too many people.
But it is considered junk and greasy food far from healthy or posh, sometimes overrated.
Most pizza deliveries are junk food. And Domino's is the worst of the worst.. But once in a while people go to real Italian restaurants or some American pizzerias selling pizzas with uncommon stuff on it.
I know some people who command Pizza Hut to solve their hungover. It works quite well, but then you sweat oil.
In NYC and environs, it is close to religion. Actually, it is informal, but held to a very high standard and people are devoted to their favorite parlors.
In Albuquerque, where I live now, it is largely fast food. Twenty years ago when I started university here, I remember being in a 'get to know you' circle of local students, and the question, "what is your favorite pizza?" came up. Many of the answers were actually brands of frozen supermarket pizza. Being a New Yorker, I was appalled. These days, there are a few pizzerias in Albuquerque attempting New York and Neapolitan styles with varying levels of success.
In NYC and environs, it is close to religion. Actually, it is informal, but held to a very high standard and people are devoted to their favorite parlors.
I haven't quite figured out why New York-style pizza is so special? To me, it just looks like a regular Italian pizza with some type of different cheese (doesn't look like mozarella?) and without basil.
We eat it maybe twice or thrice a month.
It's not considered junk food if cooked by an Italian (obviously there can be awful pizzas but not "junk food", also considering that generally food's quality in Italy is pretty high) and it tends to border on "junk food" if cooked by someone else like in Kebab or other international restaurant.
Obviously it's a wide generalization.
Lately, more than normal pizza, I do prefer to eat "pizza al trancio" which basically are small square-shaped pieces of pizza, usually margherita or with some ham (the best of the best is potato+ham but it's pretty expensive).
Here in Vancouver it runs the gamut and has changed over the years.
Generally the pizza you order over the phone is the typical North American style pizza's. Dipping Sauce? What's with that?LOL
Then you have your frozen pizza's. Varying quality from bad to actually quite good. Some made by big corps some not.
If I buy a frozen one for those lazy cooking days, I buy Mccain since they seem not to have all the chemicals that say Delissio's has. Current fave is
Then you have pizza restaurants. The sit down kind that again vary from being like the delivery ones and then ones that are actually what you find in Italy. Current fave
Junk food. I eat it only a few times a year, if that.
Places like Pizza Express offer pizza that isn't greasy and disgusting, though - significantly less cheese, more veg
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