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The Spirited Seventh Heaven ...

Stevek

Stevek

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ParentsOf4 said:
Lots of places do NY style but they don't do it particularly well. For every great NY style pizza joint you can name, there are 10 more that are mediocre. It's an easy pizza to copy.

However, most places stay away from Chicago style unless they know what they are doing.
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I live about 30 miles due east of Disneyland and we are very lucky on the Pizza front. A NY pizza joint that is as authentic as I've ever had outside of NY, owned and operated by a couple of native NY'ers AND a Chicago pizza place that I actually just tried for the first time a month or so ago and was easily close to or on par with what I've had in Chicago. Again, owned and operated by a native from Chicago. Makes me wonder how folks can eat the garbage like Papa John's or Domino's which are really only somewhat good when you have had too much to drink.

That being said, Via Napoli is up there with the best if not the best, that I've ever had. Perfectly charred crust, great flavor...just out of this world and not what you'd expect to find in any theme park. It's sad that the walk up window serves such garbage when the restaurant is so great.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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PhotoDave219 said:
No. Its most likely someone at the bottom of the ocean. They took a several month break to actually map that area of where they think it went down and now are starting another search.

Its highly unikely they'll find it.
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they took like 2 years to find the Air France one... and that one had working sensors and beacons.
I imagine it would take them even more to find the Malaysian one.
Unless you're a tinfoil fan guy, and think that the plane is hidden in Diego Garcia (along with equipment supposed to be from China and taken down by remote controlling the plane.)
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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ParentsOf4 said:
I grew up with "Greek Style" pizza. For those of you unfamiliar with this, I'll quote from Wiki:

This style is baked in a pan, instead of directly on the bricks of the pizza oven, (as is more traditional for Italian pizza). The pan used is a shallow pan, in-contrast to the deep pans used in Chicago-style deep dish pizza. The pan is heavily oiled with olive oil. It has a crust that is usually chewy and puffy, almost like focaccia bread but not as thick. The crust is also rather oily, due to the heavily oiled pan used for the cooking process. The sauce is typical zesty, with a strong taste of basil. The sauce amounts are greater, relative to the light amounts of cheese placed on the pizza.​

I did my undergrad years in New Haven and was a complete convert to the brick oven style pizza found at Pepe's and Sally's.

I then spent over a decade in Chicago and was a complete convert to Chicago stuffed pizza.

As a world traveler and pizza aficionado, I've had pizza from all over.

There are many great pizza joints. However, for an individual pizza joint, Sally's (in New Haven) is still the best.

As an overall style of pizza, nothing beats a great stuffed pizza.

Heck, nowadays, I take my family to Orlando just so we can have a couple of pies at Giordano's. :)

I know, I know, I just lost all the respect of you New York Style aficionados. :p

Lots of places do NY style but they don't do it particularly well. For every great NY style pizza joint you can name, there are 10 more that are mediocre. It's an easy pizza to copy.

However, most places stay away from Chicago style unless they know what they are doing.

Let the battle begin. :D
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speaking of pizza.. What are the best pizzerias in the WDW area?
I know some people Swear to Via Napoli's.
 
C

COProgressFan

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ParentsOf4 said:
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I did my undergrad years in New Haven and was a complete convert to the brick oven style pizza found at Pepe's and Sally's.

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There are many great pizza joints. However, for an individual pizza joint, Sally's (in New Haven) is still the best.
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I prefer Pepe's, but Sally's or Modern ... any of them are just pure bliss.

Worst part about those pizzas, is the inevitable burning of the roof of your mouth on the first bite! Those coal fired ovens are hot!
 
ParentsOf4

ParentsOf4

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Cesar R M said:
speaking of pizza.. What are the best pizzerias in the WDW area?
I know some people Swear to Via Napoli's.
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We do Giordano's, sometimes Uno's. Both are famous authentic Chicago style pizza restaurants with chains in Orlando.

Giordano's and Uno's both have locations near Downtown Disney. Giordano's also has one on Route 192 near Animal Kingdom Lodge.

Giordano's:

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Uno's:

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You've got to be willing to eat at least half your pizza slice with a knife and folk, which seems to offend most New York Style purists, who feel a pizza slice has to be folded or it's not pizza. :D
 
PhotoDave219

PhotoDave219

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ParentsOf4 said:
We do Giordano's, sometimes Uno's. Both are famous authentic Chicago style pizza restaurants with chains in Orlando.

Giordano's and Uno's both have locations near Downtown Disney. Giordano's also has one on Route 192 near Animal Kingdom Lodge.

Giordano's:

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Uno's:

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You've got to be willing to eat at least half your pizza slice with a knife and folk, which seems to offend most New York Style purists, who feel a pizza slice has to be folded or it's not pizza. :D
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Yes. That's quite offensive. Lol.
 
WDW1974

WDW1974

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Spirited Holiday Musings:

Should I feel dirty about the title of this thread in lieu of recent events in the real world?

I know there's a thread about how WDW has never been this busy in October before and all ... but that's just not reality. It's a mix of seasonal crowds (October is BUSY generally ... this isn't the old days when MK closed at 6 or 7 and EPCOT closed at 8 almost every night of the month and FALL was the season, not Halloween!), free dining, shuttered attractions and less entertainment mixed with MM+ and it's MAGICal ability to create lines where they never existed before.

Safe travels to a friend and MAGICal member who is on his way to Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. I can't wait to hear about his theme park (and other) adventures. ... Maybe by then @WDWFigment will be back stateside and have tales to tell about Halloween in HK and Tokyo and Osaka. I would love it so if at the same time he gushed over those places, he (rightfully) attacked WDW for it stale, tired and old upcharge events, entertainment and decor.

Hey, I love the guy playing the young Penguin (even if he died without a word on Walking Dead last night), but this show just can't keep my attention anymore than a fanboi who wants to talk about Future World all night long.

Speaking of Walking Dead. Man, did that episode last night rock almost as much as me in a pair of jorts.


The BIG news of the day came from UNI, but not anything relating to O-Town. Nope, they finally made the Beijing deal official. I love that city. I have friends there. It was my intro to the nation, the culture, the people of China. The one thing it was missing was a development like this and UNI is smart to be building there with Disney and Dreamworks building in Shanghai.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-universal-studios-beijing-20141012-story.html

http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/universal-to-open-beijing-theme-park-in-2019-1201328390/

It really is amazing how little of note is happening at WDW these days. I can disappear for a week and there still isn't anything to chat about.
 
WDW1974

WDW1974

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Speaking of EPCOT. Had a chat with a fanboi friend recently and the topic came up about 'What if?' as in 'What if Disney had built Walt's version?'

It's not a question worth discussing unless you have a two hour and 56 minute podcast and can only tell so many fart jokes, put out so much misinformation or gush about (fill this in with Marvel, UNI, Potter, Star Wars, Frozen or whatever you like).

We'll never know whether what Walt proposed was possible or feasible or even if he would have followed through had he lived.

The great EPCOT Debate should be focused around the amazing permanent world's fair theme park that Card Walker (the real one, not Michael Crawford's best friend), Ron Miller, Marty Sklar, John Hench and countless others created out of the swamps. That vision was one that almost anyone who ever knew or worked with the man was one they were sure he would have been proud of and enjoyed, whether it was truly 'his EPCOT' or not.

It's the destruction of the EPCOT that existed from 1982 to the late 90s that IS the issue in the Great EPCOT Debate and the only one worthy of any of your time or attention.

That's why sticking Frozen in Norway is such a hot button topic and deservedly so.

But I must run ... don't y'all forget (except you kids who think you are too kewl for network TV) that the Emmy award winning James Spader in Blacklist will be on NBC tonight at 10 Eastern time.
 

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