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That’s not just NY. I suspect it’s basically all of the US.

yamtaddle 4y ago
The Ninja Turtles got this picky-eater-as-a-child fella to give it a fair shake. Was my undisputed favorite type of food for like 15 years straight (when I started trying more things and discovered Middle Eastern and Indian food). And that's out in a part of the country with mostly-bad pizza options. Nothing half as good as a so-so NY slice, certainly.
cammikebrown 4y ago
Nowhere in the US is a slice as consistently affordable and ubiquitous as NYC.
o_____________o 4y ago
It's different in NY due to the ubiquity, downward pressure on price, and all-hour coverage. You can be nearly anywhere, at any time, and be fed in minutes. You often eat while standing and remaining social. The experience anchors itself in your mind as an instant, omnipresent solution to hunger. There's also probably something to the infinitely nuanced territorial aspect of which slice is better (the answer is Prince Street).
- noduerme 4y ago
  Less mentioned about NYC is the 24-hour egg and sausage breakfast sandwich, fresh off a griddle. This, more than pizza, was my staple when I went to college in New York.
  - Grazester 4y ago
    I see you did not go to college on a tight budget.
    - ahoho 4y ago
      Eh, not so long ago you used to be able to get a decent bacon egg and cheese from a bodega for $3
      - selimthegrim 4y ago
        What are chopped cheeses going for these days?
        yunwal 4y ago
        Still under $5 if you’re getting them on a Kaiser roll (as opposed to a sub)
        noduerme 4y ago
        Kaiser rolls are really the shit. It should be noted to the class warrior above... you used to be able to sit down in a lot of sit-down restaurants on the Lower East Side, and get a basket of free kaiser rolls and butter before you even ordered food. A foreign concept, I know! You could eat em and scram if you were of the mind to. That was when people had more class than to get a little nudge of self congratulations from judging each other's pocketbook based on which cheap fast food they ate, hoping for a popular online mob to agree with their stupidly ill informed opinion. But this will all fall on deaf ears, so, hallelujah there's still cheap breakfast sandwiches, and let the culture warriors who never experienced human civilization stick it up their ass.
        yunwal 4y ago
        Wtf are you talking about my guy. Subs are larger and carry more meat, so the sandwiches cost more. There’s no quality judgement in that statement (also weird to think of a sub roll as like some kind of luxury). It’s like saying a small coffee at Starbucks costs less than a large. Starting to think maybe you’ve never been in a deli!
    - Spooky23 4y ago
micromacrofoot 4y ago
Absolutely not. I've lived in a lot of places in the US, and almost none of them outside of a couple of major cities in New England had the equivalent of a NY slice. This has only changed somewhat recently (maybe past decade or so). Even still, it's not nearly as ubiquitous. It's kind of similar with bodegas, a lot of people will say "we have corner stores too" but that's not a bodega. It sounds snobbish sometimes but there are a lot of actual differences.
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- null_shift 4y ago
  New Haven CT has the best pizza in the US (and arguably the world)
  - avisser 4y ago
    Yeah, this guy needs to visit Wooster St stat. Also, my fave place after living in New Haven for a year was technically in West Haven (Zuppardi's) but that's splitting hairs.
    - yunwal 4y ago
      I’ve spent time in New Haven and NYC and… not even close. Sure there’s good slices in New Haven, but there are also pizza deserts, and a lot of them. New Haven does compete with NYC on restaurant-style pizza though.
      - avisser 4y ago
        Most of the good places in New Haven (Pepe's, Sally's, ...) didn't even do slices. New Haven style requires a fresh, whole pie.
    - micromacrofoot 4y ago
      Yeah this is how this conversation typically goes "but we've got good pizza from X, Y, Z restaurant" — is not the same as just walking to the corner and paying $2 for a big cheese slice — the NY slice is essentially a street food, like street tacos are in some states along the mexican border
adamdusty 4y ago
In the southwest it's tacos instead of pizza, in my experience.
acchow 4y ago
In Californian cities, we mostly eat tacos instead of pizza.
balderdash 4y ago
You’d be surprised how hard it is to find pizza by the slice in many cities in the US
kevinwang 4y ago
Sadly I feel this way about fast food chains and not pizza or tacos or anything cool (suburbs of California)

The Ninja Turtles got this picky-eater-as-a-child fella to give it a fair shake. Was my undisputed favorite type of food for like 15 years straight (when I started trying more things and discovered Middle Eastern and Indian food). And that's out in a part of the country with mostly-bad pizza options. Nothing half as good as a so-so NY slice, certainly.

cammikebrown 4y ago

Nowhere in the US is a slice as consistently affordable and ubiquitous as NYC.

o_____________o 4y ago

It's different in NY due to the ubiquity, downward pressure on price, and all-hour coverage. You can be nearly anywhere, at any time, and be fed in minutes. You often eat while standing and remaining social. The experience anchors itself in your mind as an instant, omnipresent solution to hunger. There's also probably something to the infinitely nuanced territorial aspect of which slice is better (the answer is Prince Street).

noduerme 4y ago
Less mentioned about NYC is the 24-hour egg and sausage breakfast sandwich, fresh off a griddle. This, more than pizza, was my staple when I went to college in New York.
- Grazester 4y ago
  I see you did not go to college on a tight budget.
  - ahoho 4y ago
    Eh, not so long ago you used to be able to get a decent bacon egg and cheese from a bodega for $3
    - selimthegrim 4y ago
      What are chopped cheeses going for these days?
      - yunwal 4y ago
        Still under $5 if you’re getting them on a Kaiser roll (as opposed to a sub)
        noduerme 4y ago
        Kaiser rolls are really the shit. It should be noted to the class warrior above... you used to be able to sit down in a lot of sit-down restaurants on the Lower East Side, and get a basket of free kaiser rolls and butter before you even ordered food. A foreign concept, I know! You could eat em and scram if you were of the mind to. That was when people had more class than to get a little nudge of self congratulations from judging each other's pocketbook based on which cheap fast food they ate, hoping for a popular online mob to agree with their stupidly ill informed opinion. But this will all fall on deaf ears, so, hallelujah there's still cheap breakfast sandwiches, and let the culture warriors who never experienced human civilization stick it up their ass.
        yunwal 4y ago
        Wtf are you talking about my guy. Subs are larger and carry more meat, so the sandwiches cost more. There’s no quality judgement in that statement (also weird to think of a sub roll as like some kind of luxury). It’s like saying a small coffee at Starbucks costs less than a large. Starting to think maybe you’ve never been in a deli!
  - Spooky23 4y ago

micromacrofoot 4y ago

Absolutely not. I've lived in a lot of places in the US, and almost none of them outside of a couple of major cities in New England had the equivalent of a NY slice. This has only changed somewhat recently (maybe past decade or so). Even still, it's not nearly as ubiquitous. It's kind of similar with bodegas, a lot of people will say "we have corner stores too" but that's not a bodega. It sounds snobbish sometimes but there are a lot of actual differences.

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null_shift 4y ago
New Haven CT has the best pizza in the US (and arguably the world)
- avisser 4y ago
  Yeah, this guy needs to visit Wooster St stat. Also, my fave place after living in New Haven for a year was technically in West Haven (Zuppardi's) but that's splitting hairs.
  - yunwal 4y ago
    I’ve spent time in New Haven and NYC and… not even close. Sure there’s good slices in New Haven, but there are also pizza deserts, and a lot of them. New Haven does compete with NYC on restaurant-style pizza though.
    - avisser 4y ago
      Most of the good places in New Haven (Pepe's, Sally's, ...) didn't even do slices. New Haven style requires a fresh, whole pie.
  - micromacrofoot 4y ago
    Yeah this is how this conversation typically goes "but we've got good pizza from X, Y, Z restaurant" — is not the same as just walking to the corner and paying $2 for a big cheese slice — the NY slice is essentially a street food, like street tacos are in some states along the mexican border

adamdusty 4y ago

In the southwest it's tacos instead of pizza, in my experience.

acchow 4y ago

In Californian cities, we mostly eat tacos instead of pizza.

balderdash 4y ago

You’d be surprised how hard it is to find pizza by the slice in many cities in the US

kevinwang 4y ago

Sadly I feel this way about fast food chains and not pizza or tacos or anything cool (suburbs of California)