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#77 Feb 20 2015 at 8:57 PM Rating: Excellent
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Heaven forbid that I suggest people try something outside the box a little.

Maybe next time try it without the "Some of us expand our horizons..." self-congratulations. Some of us made the zany decision to get chicken and tomatoes on a pizza years ago.
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#78 Feb 20 2015 at 9:02 PM Rating: Decent
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Oh. And on the same kind of theme, I was there with a friend who ordered the Margherita pizza and said she always orders that same pizza because she knows she likes it and isn't sure if she'll like any other pizza she might try. Dunno. It just stuck in my head because my thinking is that if I'm in a place that is all about a wide assortment of different pizzas that you might not see at your stock pizza place, why not take a risk and order some random thing you've never tried before? What's the worst that can happen? Barring some unknown food allergy, not much.


Again, it was about the idea of trying different things rather than sticking only with your "favorite" all the time. And I thought it was funny about the whole lettuce thing.

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#79 Feb 20 2015 at 9:03 PM Rating: Decent
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Jophiel wrote:
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Heaven forbid that I suggest people try something outside the box a little.

Maybe next time try it without the "Some of us expand our horizons..." self-congratulations. Some of us made the zany decision to get chicken and tomatoes on a pizza years ago.


I'm not sure how the national availability of the restaurant I was at affects that in any way at all. I wasn't talking about the restaurant Joph. I was talking about what you choose to order at a restaurant. How the heck do you manage to go so far out of your way to turn something into an argument?
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gbaji wrote:
How the heck do you manage to go so far out of your way to turn something into an argument?

Just gifted, I guess. Rock on with your trail-blazing pizza ways Smiley: smile
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What's the worst that can happen?

Try the artichoke hearts and get back to me. I don't wanna have to order dinner twice.

Speaking of pizza joints, I was at a restaurant the other day and the table next to us had ordered a pizza. Big ole 20-odd inch thing on a stand in the middle of a round table with eight people. Occurred to me that I couldn't remember the last time I ate a pizza at its place of origin rather than delivery or carry-out. Used to do it fairly regularly when I was younger though.

Edited, Feb 20th 2015 9:08pm by Jophiel
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#81 Feb 20 2015 at 9:42 PM Rating: Good
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gbaji wrote:
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It has like olive oil, basil, bacon bits, grilled chicken, sliced tomatoes, avocados, and romaine lettuce.
That sounds pretty tasty. Send me one.Smiley: drool


I think Joph's little rant was that CPK is a nationwide chain, so you can probably find one near you if you want. Didn't mean to imply that this was some special regional thing, just that there's more to pizza than what kind of crust to ladle your tomato sauce, peperoni, and cheese onto.
Yeah, no. No CPK in 605 Area Code. I was serious; send me one.


ALSO: tomato pizza sauce is the devil's work.
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#82 Feb 20 2015 at 9:43 PM Rating: Good
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Jophiel wrote:
Occurred to me that I couldn't remember the last time I ate a pizza at its place of origin rather than delivery or carry-out. Used to do it fairly regularly when I was younger though.
Maybe it has something to do with the sizes, but I've never been overly fond of the idea of going to a place to dine on pizza. For me, pizza is just something you grab and eat while walking from one destination to another.

Someone hands me a fork and I wonder if it's to defend my slice like some kind of mini gladiator.
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#83 Feb 21 2015 at 12:48 AM Rating: Good
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You all ever heard of "cilantro"?
I was about to call the avocado on Gbaji's pizza disgusting, but then you had to bring up something worse.
#84 Feb 21 2015 at 4:31 AM Rating: Good
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Can we move on to donairs and gyros yet?
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#85 Feb 21 2015 at 8:52 AM Rating: Decent
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Can we move on to donairs and gyros yet?

Joph's kind of a pÄ…czki expert if I recall. We could probably go for three or four pages on how that, somehow, isn't just a doughnut.
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Joph's kind of a pÄ…czki expert if I recall. We could probably go for three or four pages on how that, somehow, isn't just a doughnut.

"Hey guys, last Tuesday I was at Dunkin' Donuts and they had this new thing called a punchkey! Expand your horizons!"

Edited, Feb 21st 2015 9:06am by Jophiel
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#87 Feb 21 2015 at 2:17 PM Rating: Good
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FYI, artichoke hearts on pizza are AMAZING.

Rocco's in Portland used to have this pizza that had Artichoke hearts, crushed garlic, and sausage. So good!
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Jophiel wrote:
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Joph's kind of a pÄ…czki expert if I recall. We could probably go for three or four pages on how that, somehow, isn't just a doughnut.

"Hey guys, last Tuesday I was at Dunkin' Donuts and they had this new thing called a punchkey! Expand your horizons!"


Maybe there's not a lot of Polish folk over in California?

I didn't know how to pronounce pÄ…czki, nor had I had one, until a few years ago when someone brought some into work.

Everyone thought I was crazy when I told them I had never heard of them before.
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Just like it's spelled, obviously!
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I didn't know how to pronounce pÄ…czki

Just like it's spelled, obviously!

So does the "Ä…" always have the "n" sound with it, or do the Polish just like to pronounce the consonant clusters at the end how ever they please?
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gbaji wrote:
The fact that alternatives are readily available all over the place doesn't change the fact that an alarming number of people are stuck in the paradigm of "thick vs thin crust, but otherwise identical" pizza. Hence my comment about expanding horizons. I never meant to suggest that such pizza is only available in one location or another, any more than that NY style pizza is only available in NY. It's about preferences and choices and how they are associated with regions.

Heaven forbid that I suggest people try something outside the box a little.


Blasphemy, there can be no deviation from the perfect pizza, no expanding of horizons; to suggest otherwise is to invite evil into to our humble bodies and abodes.
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I didn't know how to pronounce pÄ…czki

Just like it's spelled, obviously!

So does the "Ä…" always have the "n" sound with it, or do the Polish just like to pronounce the consonant clusters at the end how ever they please?


Typically on a day ending in 'day', typically.
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"New York Style" pizza is just pizza. Doesn't mean anything. What makes *New York pizza* special is the water used in the dough. Something about the upstate reservoir water that makes the crust something special. You can't just do that unless you have the water, which people have been known to ship all over the country for that reason.
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#94 Feb 23 2015 at 8:42 AM Rating: Good
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A dollar slice is almost the size of a whole medium pizza from a chain, so that's also a plus.
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Jophiel wrote:
You all ever heard of "cilantro"?
I was about to call the avocado on Gbaji's pizza disgusting, but then you had to bring up something worse.


The avocado was delicious! Expand your horizons. Nom nom nom.

Oh. And ditto on the artichoke hearts. Honestly, there aren't a whole lot of dishes that can't be made better with artichoke hearts. Yum!
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gbaji wrote:
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Jophiel wrote:
You all ever heard of "cilantro"?
I was about to call the avocado on Gbaji's pizza disgusting, but then you had to bring up something worse.


The avocado was delicious! Expand your horizons. Nom nom nom.

Oh. And ditto on the artichoke hearts. Honestly, there aren't a whole lot of dishes that can't be made better with artichoke hearts. Yum!
Avocado is only good for guacamole. And guac is only good for ham sandwiches. But only thick cut ham. And needs a good cheese to go with it.
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I like how someone's horizon expanding experience is a mundane Tuesday afternoon to me.
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You spend your Tuesdays at California Pizza Kitchen Smiley: disappointed

Beats that New York stuff, I guess (zing!)
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You spend your Tuesdays at California Pizza Kitchen Smiley: disappointed
How else are you going to appreciate the good stuff if you don't occasionally remind yourself of the bad? It's the next worst thing to that loaf of bread you ingest.
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I like how someone's horizon expanding experience is a mundane Tuesday afternoon to me.


I've got to hand it to you, you've got a more interesting life than gbaji. Might want to rethink wolfing down shitty take-out on a weekly basis, though.
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In other local news...for Joph...and some other guy who lives near there, i don't really keep track.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-americans-black-site

The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.

The facility, a nondescript warehouse on Chicago’s west side known as Homan Square, has long been the scene of secretive work by special police units. Interviews with local attorneys and one protester who spent the better part of a day shackled in Homan Square describe operations that deny access to basic constitutional rights.


It's my kind of town...Chicaguantanamo...
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