The City That Stays Asleep

Sep 17, 2008 16:27

Ever since I first arrived in Los Angeles, everyone had warned me not to eat the pizza. “Nobody in LA knows how to make pizza,” they said. Surely, I thought, this must be a broad stereotype. I knew that LA had never grown its own style of pizza, like New York or Chicago or St. Louis had, but surely they could replicate those styles to a ( Read more... )

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unclelumpy September 18 2008, 03:46:59 UTC
Are you honestly telling me they don't have a Pizzeria Uno's in LA?

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tony_goldmark September 18 2008, 04:38:38 UTC
Chains don't count. The purpose of a chain is to provide customers nationwide with the same recipes and the same experience, and the money all goes to the same bank account. Fuck that. Pizza has become the food of the common man, and if I can't buy it from the common man I'd sooner live without it.

There's no "San Francisco Pizza", but I've been to plenty of local SF pizzerias that get it right.

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unclelumpy September 18 2008, 20:51:21 UTC
There is no pizza but Pizzeria Uno's.

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tony_goldmark September 19 2008, 00:17:09 UTC
If you love Pizzeria Uno's so much, why don't you take it to Mexico for an impromptu abortion?

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wormquartet September 19 2008, 00:44:29 UTC
Pizzeria Uno is pretty awesome.

-=ShoEboX=-

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