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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 3213586, member: 153"] This is the kind of thing that drives me mad about pizza outside Connecticut. A recent transplant to my area (Buffalo/Niagara) posted that he loved the pizza at one spot. He wrote: Where does one begin with this? He makes a virtue out of everything I despise in pizza. 1. Sweet sauce 2. Chicken fingers on pizza (if I want chicken fingers while I'm eating pizza, I'll eat chicken fingers while I'm eating pizza--I don't need you to put them literally ON the pizza). 3. Double dough. What the freak is that? "You will wonder if it was cooked through." What? It's not even cooked through? And maybe the yeast opens up your taste buds? 4. "Do not order well done." Yeah, the bread is more moist this way! But it's not only the clueless transplants that like things this way. Read this from a local who somehow does food reviews for big media outlets: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-americas-pizza-capital-buffalo-new-york[/URL] Again, he takes the worst of it and makes it a virtue: "Buffalo-style pizza is typically a cup-and-char pepperoni pizza, one with a slim, sometimes non-existent crust coastline with ingredients out to, and sometimes even over the edges, a thick, airy undercarriage with little to no structural integrity that’s topped by a sweet sauce and enough cheese to nearly always guarantee a cheese pull." He's right. 1. Cupped, char pepperoni style started in Buffalo because of one particular pepperoni maker 2. Can't see the crust because it's covered in cheese 3. Thick "airy" bread [but really not airy, just thick, very bready] 4. No structural integrity (this means the whole thing flops and separates as soon as you pick it up). 5. There's a thick carpet of cheese on top that is barely in contact with the tomato sauce 6. Again, a very sweet sauce. And this is why there is no New York style pizza up here (other than first 2 places he mentions, a food truck and a high end restaurant that only makes personal pizzas); because the people wouldn't even want to eat it. Give them sweet sauce, thick, double uncooked dough, a half inch of unseparated cheese, all of which falls apart instantly, and they're happy. (I do like the cupped, charred pepperoni though). [/QUOTE]

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