But- and hear me out- what if you are a stereotypical Italian chef with a big mustache and a chef's hat and you send it out to the customer? You gotta say, "at's-a good pizza pie!"
A deep dish pizza and a calzone are both technically pies as far as I can tell. They have a surrounding casing of crust. A flat pizza would not be a pie.
A deep dish pizza and a calzone are both technically pies as far as I can tell. They have a surrounding casing of crust. A flat pizza would not be a pie.
Read further. The page also says the crust can be on the bottom and the filling on top/inside, as well as crust on top, filling underneath, or both (calzone). So a deep dish pizza is a pie, technically.
Ok, I may have gotten a bit* carried away with the "covered" requirement, but toppings are still not fillings and it's not a pie if it doesn't have filling(s).
I don't really know what you're referring to at this point.
I'm saying:
A regular flat pizza is not a pie. It does not have a casing, and the "filling" is a topping, as you say.
A (Chicago-style) deep-dish pizza is a pie (more-so than a pizza in my opinion but whatever) because it has a bottom crust with filling on top (a pie according to Wikipedia). That's not lunacy. It's right there on Wikipedia, with even a link to Chicago-style deep-dish pizza.
A calzone is a pie because it has crust both on top and on the bottom (surrounding the filling), as well as filling inside.
This is not "lunacy". It's just reading a definition and interpreting things to fit the definition. 🤷♂️ If you think that's lunacy I'd hate to tell you about Pluto. A pie with crust on the bottom is very common. Meat pies, and pastry pies, among many others. Crust on bottom is common, crust on top is common. Crust all around is common... Not lunacy.
I'm going to refrain from talking about hotdogs, because I've yet to look up the definition of a sandwich, but I'd rather not at this point lol.
Researching Chicago style deep dish pizzas, it would seem that I wasn't aware of just HOW deep they are. Yep, that's a pie. I think we're in full agreement, actually!
Haha yeah they look ridiculously deep. I can't imagine how they wouldn't be kind of soggy with all that filling but I guess it works. Seems to be popular, eh. Would love to try a slice.
I imagine a single or at most two slices would be a meal for an average adult, so maybe I'd actually get full from eating only one completele dish pizza 😂
Get to Chicago, and don’t shy away from spinach. That shit’s delicious. I’m a fan of Giordano’s, but there’s a lot of valid argument about who does it best.