Oishinbo - Vol. 27 Ch. 251 - The Yokozuna of Pizza

[MangaDex]

 

[Mugiwara325]

Oishinbo won't be talking about pizza again anytime soon, so if you wanna talk about your favorite pizzas, now's the time.

My family doesn't eat beef, so growing up, our go-to pizza was our local Pizza Hut's Hawaiian Chicken. It's got chicken and pineapples.
I only learned later in life that most people eat pepperoni as their meat topping of choice. But pepperoni is made with beef, so my mom would never have allowed it.
I started eating it after moving out. Don't tell her.

Despite all that, I find my favorite pizza is still the simple cheese pizza. Thin, crunchy crust.

 

[Babymech2]

I have to say, of all the Western cuisine that's allowed into the manga, I think the Italians get it worst... There was the carbonara incident a while back, and now in the pizza chapter they end up gushing over Chicago deep dish...

 

[Mugiwara325]

I have to say, of all the Western cuisine that's allowed into the manga, I think the Italians get it worst... There was the carbonara incident a while back, and now in the pizza chapter they end up gushing over Chicago deep dish...

Yup. That's something I've noticed as well.

Luckily for Italians, Kariya does end up learning more about proper Italian cuisine as the series progresses.
Unfortunately, we'll really only see the results of it in the Volume 70s or so.

 

[BippidiBoppetyBoob]

I said it in my TL and I'll say it again. Chicago style is a casserole, not a pizza and they're wrong for doing it. I also know this is ironic coming from someone who comes from Pittsburgh, where they do what they call Ohio Valley style (It's uncooked cheese placed on top of hot toppings so that the cheese will melt as you eat it. I hate it).

 

[d_a_renoir]

The pizza depicted is the Chicago stuffed pizza, not deep dish. The two are very similar and both falls under "Chicago pizza" category, so it's an understandable mistake.

The pizza's illustration shows that there's a second layer of dough on top, so it kind of looks like two pizzas stacked like a sandwich. That is called stuffed pizza, and this is the IRL photo of it:

Deep dish just has a single bowl-like layer of crust at the bottom, and it's all just sauce and filling inside. Here's an example with a clearer cross section so you can see that there's no extra bread/crust in this pizza, unlike the stuffed pizza above.

 

[Mugiwara325]

The pizza depicted is the Chicago stuffed pizza, not deep dish. The two are very similar and both falls under "Chicago pizza" category, so it's an understandable mistake.

The pizza's illustration shows that there's a second layer of dough on top, so it kind of looks like two pizzas stacked like a sandwich. That is called stuffed pizza, and this is the IRL photo of it:

Deep dish just has a single bowl-like layer of crust at the bottom, and it's all just sauce and filling inside. Here's an example with a clearer cross section so you can see that there's no extra bread/crust in this pizza, unlike the stuffed pizza above.

Thanks for the correction!
I must've spent literal days flip-flopping between whether the chapter's pizza was a deep-dish or a stuffed pizza. That close-up cross-section is surprisingly ambiguous, despite the clear layering. The top layer of 'dough' appears to be a layer of cheese to me, since it's repeated at the bottom as a layer above the crust. The text description also doesn't mention a lid of dough on top, only saying 'two layers of toppings then tomato sauce and mozzarella', further suggesting it's just a casserole-style deep-dish.

I could just be interpreting the art wrong, but I'll probably sit on this decision a bit longer before I correct it.
Actually, maybe I should just put it in the Gourmet Notes as an extra option.

 

[cawfinch]

i went to high school in chicagoland, and it wasn't uncommon to see this type of pizza at parties and events! i have fond memories of high-school plays that we'd kick off with Lou Malnati's at the last dress rehearsal.. a lot of unpaid labor, but hella worth it for even a slice of the stuff at the end of the semester! (it's also funny seeing the range of how much a student can eat-- the girls and i would stop at 1-2 slices, and watch in awe as the guys dusted 5-6, though with consequences.. the food coma that that amount of cheese alone could put you in🤣😭🤣)

 

[d_a_renoir]

Thanks for the correction!
I must've spent literal days flip-flopping between whether the chapter's pizza was a deep-dish or a stuffed pizza. That close-up cross-section is surprisingly ambiguous, despite the clear layering. The top layer of 'dough' appears to be a layer of cheese to me, since it's repeated at the bottom as a layer above the crust. The text description also doesn't mention a lid of dough on top, only saying 'two layers of toppings then tomato sauce and mozzarella', further suggesting it's just a casserole-style deep-dish.

I could just be interpreting the art wrong, but I'll probably sit on this decision a bit longer before I correct it.
Actually, maybe I should just put it in the Gourmet Notes as an extra option.

Well, that extra layer on top is definitely not cheese. The way that it's shaded and textured looks near identical to the part of the crust that goes up the sides. The cheese is the white gooey dripping bits.

To me this art looks like the artist understood the description of "two layers" as a double-decker where you have bottom crust + topping + cheese + second crust + topping + more cheese.

But yeah, to be fair, I guess that could have been meant to be the meat sauce.