Justice Scalia Rules: Deep Dish Pizza Isn’t Pizza
When it comes to pizza, Antonin Scalia is firmly in the New York camp:
New York thin-crust versus Chicago’s deep-dish: It’s a historic battle between the Big Apple and the Windy City.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia picked his preferred pie Tuesday during a Chicago conference at Chicago-Kent School of Law, “ruling” that deep-dish isn’t pizza at all.
Scalia was in town for a student conference discussing the issue of the government’s role in confiscating private property, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. But his comments didn’t stop there.
“I do indeed like so-called ‘deep dish pizza.’ It’s very tasty,” Scalia said. “But it should not be called pizza. It should be called a tomato pie. Real pizza is Neapolitan. It is thin. It is chewy and crispy, OK?”
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Chicagoans were not happy to hear his opinion on the city’s baseball teams either, the Associated Press points out.
When asked “White Sox or Cubs?” Scalia said he was a Yankees fan, drawing boos from the audience.
Original intent, my friends. Original intent.
It nice to think that Scalia and I at least agree on one thing.
@Mark:
LOL, me too.
FWIW, a good book:
American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza
(The book has a very good history of regional styles, both here and in Italy.)
Ditto what Mark said. Finally, Scalia is on the same page as me 🙂
Greetings:
Actually, there’s no pizza west of the Hudson (River, that is).
I’ve a cousin who managed Pizzeria Uno (before it syndicated). True and great Chicago deep dish pizza! But when I make my own it is always thin crust. Scalia’s opinions on pizza match my own. I do have a seriously objection with him however… on baseball. I’ll root for the White Soxs or Orioles any day within the AL, and the Cardinals and Rockies any day in MLB.
@Mark: I never thought the day would come…. but, me too. However, a YANKEE fan?????????????
Scum of the earth, I say…….
Another agreement with Scalia. On thin crust, certainly not the Yanks.