Ball of Confusion: its a pizza thread because pizza is like 800x more interesting than baseball.

This.

/Chicago-style for me, please

GQueue: I realize deep dish is a matter of taste. New Yorkers obviously don't have it.

Haha, yeah New Yorkers just don't have the sophisticated palate it takes to handle a shiatty bread bowl loaded filled with five pounds of greasy cheese, sauce and butter.

Perhaps you meant "a matter of obesity"?

Bill Frist: Haha, yeah New Yorkers just don't have the sophisticated palate it takes to handle a shiatty bread bowl loaded filled

Well, apparently it's not sophisticated enough if you think that floppy junk you call "pizza" is so much better than anything anywhere else. The only thing New York pizza has on anywhere else is its being dirt-ass cheap and sold by the slice.

Bill Frist: Haha, yeah New Yorkers just don't have the sophisticated palate it takes to handle a shiatty bread bowl loaded filled with five pounds of greasy cheese, sauce and butter.

Perhaps you meant "a matter of obesity"?

And by the way, I was really just joking above, since you guys are such doucherockets about it I figured one of you would jump on it. News flash: everything in New York City is not the greatest thing ever. I'll give you this, you have the "best" hipsters, in that they're way, way more annoying and obnoxious than the goofs who live in my neighborhood.

I like NY AND Chicago pizza.

/Do I have to leave Fark?

GQueue: News flash: everything in New York City is not the greatest thing ever.

This is true.

however, everything in New York is greater than in Chicago. Theater, pizza, beer, restaurants etc. The perpetually second place city.

GQueue: I'll give you this, you have the "best" hipsters, in that they're way, way more annoying and obnoxious than the goofs who live in my neighborhood.

I actually think San Fran has taken this title from NYC recently.

The hipsters in NYC are indeed horrible... luckily they are confined to a few neighborhoods you can easily avoid though.

I'm sorry, but nothing New York has will ever top this.

tacchimonster: [www.chicago.com image 340x200]


I'm sorry, but nothing New York has will ever top this.

That's my favorite, too. Do they have a booth at the Taste? I'm going after work today.

Brooklyn Irish Mets Fan: Eh L+B's sicilian is overrated, not enough cheese, and what's with the sauce on top? I mean the sauce is fantastic, but the balance is just off for my taste. Now the spumoni there, that may just be the best on Earth.

Best sicilian = Davinci's on 18th and 65th in bensonhurst.

For me, L&B is pizza + sentimental attachment. And by "sentimental attachment" I mean "I grew up with a family member living in the house directly behind L&B." The guys come out back and pass it over the fence. I'm kind of spoiled in that regard.

So I have some extra factors, but enough people agree that I feel like I haven't been misled.

tacchimonster: I'm sorry, but nothing New York has will ever top this.

That looks like Giordano's. Papa Passero's and Lou Malnotti's also make a wonderful pie.

Bill Frist: however, everything in New York is greater than in Chicago. Theater, pizza, beer, restaurants etc. The perpetually second place city.

I can't dispute the theater (even if it's something I could give a rat's ass about, it's only something that my wife drags me to maybe once a year, preferably less), but you're absolutely delusional if you think the beer is better in NYC.

What brewery in Chicago is as good as Brooklyn (with the caveat that brooklyn lager is pretty pedestrian)?

Bill Frist: What brewery in Chicago is as good as Brooklyn (with the caveat that brooklyn lager is pretty pedestrian)?

I'll look for it!

cheers to beer

RonwellQuincyDobbs: I love how all baseball threads on Fark are Cub-related.

Because that's the way I want it.

Bill Frist: What brewery in Chicago is as good as Brooklyn (with the caveat that brooklyn lager is pretty pedestrian)?

Goose Island should distribute in NY, or at least I'd think they would -- they have ins with the Bud distribution network and while they don't show up nationwide I do know that they are sold in England. If you can find the Bourbon County Stout or the Imperial IPA, that'd probably be the ideal ones. Matilda is good too. Unfortunately, some of their best stuff really only shows up in the brewpub, and only at the original Clybourn location at that (the one by Wrigley usually doesn't have as many on tap).

I like Brooklyn beers and especially appreciate what Garrett has done to try to educate people on food and beer, but I think we have it better on beers brewed here as well as what we have access to from distribution (even with our retarded distribution laws which have kept breweries like Stone from distributing here even though you can buy them in Michigan and Indiana). I suspect it's just too expensive to brew in New York City -- certainly that's the case in Manhattan. Given we're about 1/5 the size of NYC (all boroughs) but have as many or more breweries, there has to be a reason.

The near suburbs (which probably really isn't much different in drive time from areas of Manhattan to the breweries in Brooklyn) include breweries like Three Floyds, which may not distribute up there but brews a bunch of really good stuff.

Bill Frist: cheers to beer

I'll drink to that.

I must admit that, while I do think there are some good breweries around NYC like Brooklyn, I have no idea why I listed beer there. NYC is famous for a ton of things (music, restaurants, theater, comedy, pizza, literature, etc. etc.) but beer isn't one of them.

Guess I'm just thirsty....

Bill Frist: I must admit that, while I do think there are some good breweries around NYC like Brooklyn, I have no idea why I listed beer there. NYC is famous for a ton of things (music, restaurants, theater, comedy, pizza, literature, etc. etc.) but beer isn't one of them.

Guess I'm just thirsty....

Well, it's quittin time on a de facto Friday, that'll make anyone think of beer.

Two Brothers out in the west burbs of Chicago has some really nice beers as well.