Post Your Pictures, Part XIX: White Dreadlocks Edition

[Othello Harrington]

Hot like Wasabi, which one is you sir?

I'm the one sucking down the starbuks

D'oh

[Calliander]

Post your pizza? Here's some CT stuff for ya. Marco (in Branford) and Modern (in New Haven). And you drink Foxon Park's White Birch soda with it.

[icarusfall]

The only impact the water has on the finished pizza is in the water being soft or hard - there's no pixie dust in NY water. You can get a damn good pizza anywhere in the country. You just have to go to a place with a good recipe - the end. You guys are talking about food like you're some kind of authority on the matter when I guarantee you don't know shit about what you're saying.

[Othello Harrington]

Better Ingedients=Better Pizza

That's all I said. You can't argue this fact, master chef.

[Tones]

TNLNYKREW, I haven't had your pizza, but I understand your defending it. I would probably lol at someone who said that NY chili was as good as Texas chili, California BBQ was anything resembling real BBQ, or fried chicken from England is the same thing as fried chicken from the US.

[stormy]

The only impact the water has on the finished pizza is in the water being soft or hard - there's no pixie dust in NY water. You can get a damn good pizza anywhere in the country. You just have to go to a place with a good recipe - the end. You guys are talking about food like you're some kind of authority on the matter when I guarantee you don't know shit about what you're saying.

Yeah what do Pizza shop owners know anyway!? That's where my info comes from.

[Josh]

They know how to lie.

[Nash]

What the fuck for? She think they cut the milk out of cows?

Vegans don't eat anything that even comes from animals. So no eggs, milk, cheese, etc.

[icarusfall]

Yeah what do Pizza shop owners know anyway!? That's where my info comes from.

1st -l I can promise you they're lying about shipping in the water. The cost of paying for the water and shipping would be astronomical. Unless you're paying $6 a slice, that's not happening. The food cost wouldn't make any sense and they'd go out of business.

2nd - I've seen scientific analysis comparing NY water to other municipalities and there's nothing in there that supports your claim in any way. If that little bit more manganese/iron/what-have-you in the NY H2O could produce such a profound effect then you better believe that every baker in the world would be adding it to their dough - they're not.

3rd - I've worked in 5 different pizza kitchens with varying degrees of product and the best came from the guys that knew what they were doing with ingredients and dough - that's all that matters.

4th - I'd wager you don't know anything about purveyors. The ingredients that make the pizza NY'ers love so much do not only come from the tri-state area. It's the same onions I get at my restaurant here in SC. Unless they buy direct from the source (they don't) they have almost no idea where their produce comes from. Same thing with cheese - the ingredients that make cheese (rennet and milk essentially) are produced by cows all over the world. Is there a breed distinction in regards to taste? Sure, but the kind of controlled conditions implied in saying NY is the best producer simply isn't taking place.

There is no evidence to support your claim.

[gamevet]

This is true.

I've lived in the midwest, lived here on the east coast, and been out to the west coast numerous, numerous times, and I think the general rule is basically as follows:

The farther you get from any coast the worse the food gets. I've never really been to the south or the gulf coast so I don't know if it applies there.

Same with cities: the farther you get from a major city, the worse the food gets, but this still applies under the general rule: major cities on the coast house the best food there is to be had.

When it comes to BBQ in Texas, the general rule is: the farther you get from the city, the better the BBQ. Some of the best BBQ I've ever had was in some small shack, with a smoker out back, sitting next to a gas station.

Mexican/Japanese food in California ANNIHILATES anything you can get here on the east coast, and I seriously mean you can walk into any shitty mini mall on the west coast and get the best Mexican food of your life.

Texas is the same way. Some of the best Mexican food is found in some hole-in-the-wall stand, inside of a mexican grocery store, or on the bad side of town.