Look...wadda you expect from people who live in an oxygen thin environment!
LOL, yeah, I guess.
I do love it out there, actually, just their pizza is not quite what we east of the Mississippi think of as pizza. Then again, native Sicilians and Italians say the same thing about Philly, NYC and Chicago pizza as well. (But what do they know?
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When we did ski trips to Colorado...that was always the hardest food to find...GOOD pizza!
That and iced tea. I don't know if it's the water or the culture or the altitude, but I couldn't find a glass of iced tea that looked or tasted like anything other than slightly rusty water out there.
When we were in Boulder there was a pizza joint called "Old Chicago" or something like that, that specialized in "authentic Chicago-style" deep dish pizza. When the manager found out through our waitress that we were from Chicago, he came over and asked us what we thought. It wasn't awful, but it was rather off the mark for real Chicago deep dish - though honestly I don't now remember just exactly how. But we told the guy we'd set him up with a real one and let him decide for himself. When we got back to our hotel, we got on the blower and managed to have a Giordano's* deep dish fresh made, iced and sent out to this guy via FedEx. It cost us something like $50 to do that, but we were on a mission from God
. All he had to do was stick it in the oven and try it for himself. We had to leave town before the pizza arrived, so to this day we have no idea how it turned out or whether it changed his ideas or not, but we figured we did our part at least
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Oh, and don't even get me started about the guy in Estes Park that claims to sell Chicago-style italian beef sandwiches. Not even close, even though he had the proper brand of beef (La Scalia's) shipped in.
But...I gotta have my 'shrooms man!
I mostly like my pizza plain, w/sausage, or w/mushrooms...or a combination of the three....and EASY on the damn cheese...I wanna see and taste some sauce!
I can understand the shrooms, I let people slide on that. And if I find shrooms on my pizza, I won't pick that many off. I have no real problem with the flavor, I just have this unfair bias against eating something so low on the food chain. just a personal thing.
I'm a bell pepper, onion and peperoni guy myself, in any combination, and the peperoni has to be on top of the cheese and not in it or under it so it gets nice and crispy around the edges.
I don;t have a problem with lots of cheese, as long as the sauce is there to match it. So many pizzas these days seem to be cheese and bread with a thin watery, spotty layer of something pinkish that's supposed to pass for sauce, if even that much. Hogwash! If that's what I wanted, I'd order cheese bread and not pizza! Give me some cheese if you want, but there had better be just as much sauce. It's like peanut butter and jelly; you have to have fair proportions of both.
G.
*We would have preferred to send out a Pizzaria Uno pizza, but they didn't ship out at the time.
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. Of course that's south. Go north into cheezeland and it's all "Ya Hey Dere".
