Happy April Cools! My not-tech post this year is Chicago vs New York Pizza is the Wrong Argument, which is mostly an excuse for me to talk about Chicago food. See here for all of the other April Cools submissions. As of this email we have sixteen posts; there's still time to submit something!¹

This one came out of a pizza argument with Marianne Bellotti, a true New Yorker who doesn't think deep dish is real pizza. I wanted to find a new angle on the old argument and this is what I came up with. Interestingly, there's arguably no real New York analog to deep dish (Khatchapuri is kinda similar but doesn't have the same cultural relevance). If I had to pick something to compare deep dish to, it'd be toasted ravioli (despite that being a appetizer and not an entree).

Also, I didn't really touch on it in the article, but one of the annoying things about pizza debates is that the most of the Chicago pizza chains don't serve deep dish. Instead they do "stuffed pizzas". Deep dish is crust, cheese, tomato, while stuffed pizza is crust, cheese, another layer of crust, tomato. It's heavy and more casserole like and they always have way too much cheese. Don't get me wrong, it's still decent, but I think it's a worse kind of pizza overall.

Anyway, the real point of the post is that Chicago's a damn good sausage city. Even the Home Depots here have hot dogs.