justjustin
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Yeah, NYC does have amazing tap water. And it does make your food taste better-- if your cooking actually uses a lot of water. Soups taste better. Noodles, rice, etc cooked with water taste better. But for pizza dough?... No.
I need to try some NY pizza but all the hype makes me think I'm gonna get let down.
Interested to hear about the other places that top it in variety.
Yeah if you exclude all the good restaurants then food in NYC is average.
Wait.
That is not what I said, read again.
Which part? If it was Naples I don't believe you, I've had both NYC and Neopolitan Pizza and Neopolitan Pizza makes NYC Pizza taste like someone tried to make a meal out of garbage by comparison.I've been to Italy multiple times and had the best pizza there. I went to NYC and the place I went beat anything else I have ever had before and I couldn't believe it. Subjective, but there is real good pizza in NYC.
I think it is. Any person can come up with some internal filtering logic to reduce the food quality in any city to whatever they want. If an argument relies on food in X or Y city being average, anyone can come up with conditions to make that happen. Especially given the impossibility of ever quantifying the average quality of food in any given city.
I thought it was pretty clear what I said was that EVEN THOUGHT the high end cuisine is world class, if you add the high end cuisine to everything else as an agregate the food scene comes out as average, this in the context of talking about "food scene" and therefore im not addibg any qualifier. Im just plainly saying the food is average. Not filtering anything.
I dont think you will find anyone argue high end NYC food is average when taken alone, but thats not what I responded to.
The country is a hodgepodge of different ethnicities and cultures, NYC being an enormous hub and its food scene being a shrine to that idea. Chefs flock here to participate in that and as result we boast both quality and quantity.
We've got amazing lowtier, midtier and hightier food littered throughout the city. That is the "food scene". You can't downplay their existence because the city is also littered with stale pizza joints, nasty hole in the walls, franchise restaurants and garbage locations. They exist for the original purpose of selling food, which is sustenance and income. We live in an age where information is at our fingertips, it's incredibly easy to ignore and avoid those places. It's silly to lump that all together.
Also, we've got shrimp in our water.
What you are saying anyone can say about Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Madrid, Barcelona, Hong Kong, etc.
What you are saying anyone can say about Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Madrid, Barcelona, Hong Kong, etc.
Are you telling me I can sell my tap water. That's what I'm getting out of this OP.
I'm from NYC. I can confirm that our tap water is indeed the greatest. And by extension, our pizza and bagels too.
Sure,and theyd be wrong. Saying it about Nyc thought? They would be right.
NYC pizza tastes like that Mac and Manco crap on the boardwalks.
I've never met a pizza in New York which wasn't proclaimed the best pizza.
I can get the same shit in Boston.
Good thin crust pizza aka the best version of pizza is hard to find in Seattle. I want to try making it myself but read somewhere that the tap water in NYC is one of the reasons that the version in NYC is unique.
Thinking about a trusted service only since it's easy for me to get scammed with regular tap water. Don't want to throw $100 down the drain literally.
I thought the tap water thing was bogus.
You would be more right about south american countries like Peru and modern Nordic cuisine in cities like Copenhagen. Barcelona food isn't much to write home about. Average NYC food is very good, but you would have to stay here at least 3 weeks travel to all the boroughs and seek out the food. Manhattan tourist neighborhoods are typically pretty bad for judging "average" NYC cuisine (except chinatown and ktown). Your statement is pretty wrong and I'm not a vocal New Yorker when it comes to these things.What you are saying anyone can say about Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Madrid, Barcelona, Hong Kong, etc.
I do not know about "any" NYC pizza, but given NYC, you can walk into any pizzeria at midnight, in a hipster neighborhood (Greenpoint, Bed Stuy, Williamsburg) and get an amazingly fresh slice of pizza, straight off the oven. Any average NYC pizza is very good.
That doesn't mean you can't get similar quality in Boston. Neither does it mean that these average good/great slices are the best in NYC. That's a VERY subjective issue. Most people LOVE the plain cheese slice from a typical pizzeria. While I do like that, it's not my favorite. I love a simple, well done Margherita slice. And that's not a traditional NYC style. But do we have great Margherita here? You bet your ass we do.
Also most people seem to be wholly uninformed about NYC tap water. The water comes from huge reservations upstate, by Catskills and Adirondack mountain ranges. Where the water is stored, gravity is used to bring it into the city, then old school system is used: the water is rotated at high speeds to extract the crap out of it, at water filtration facilities, then distributed via pipes to buildings. It's very good quality mountain water. I still filter it using my fridge.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/drinking_water/maplevels_wide.shtml
I just looked up "giant pizza Yonkers" and I must look like a kid on Christmas morning while browsing these pics.
Looks like Pizza Barn is only an hour bus ride away. Gotta plan to go there and then get a colonoscopy the following week.
I just looked up "giant pizza Yonkers" and I must look like a kid on Christmas morning while browsing these pics.
Looks like Pizza Barn is only an hour bus ride away. Gotta plan to go there and then get a colonoscopy the following week.
You would be more right about south american countries like Peru and modern Nordic cuisine in cities like Copenhagen. Barcelona food isn't much to write home about. Average NYC food is very good, but you would have to stay here at least 3 weeks travel to all the boroughs and seek out the food. Manhattan tourist neighborhoods are typically pretty bad for judging "average" NYC cuisine (except chinatown and ktown). Your statement is pretty wrong and I'm not a vocal New Yorker when it comes to these things.
Example, tacos el pastor apparently is pretty exotic. The taco truck one block from my house in brooklyn has these tacos, made to order:
Suadero
El Pastor
Carne Enchilada
Carnitas
Cecina
Asada
Chorizo
Tinga
Barbacoa
Lengua
Camaron
Tilapia
Cabeza
Tripa
Pollo
Bistec
Amazing fast food prepared in minutes.
yes my dude, because, like, no new yorker has been to barcelona:I cant believe I just read someone say barcelonas food is nothing to write home about, and Fucking Copenhagen lmao. This sounds like straight out of Google.
Mac went to jail or some shit. It's manco and manco now
Also important reading http://gawker.com/the-pizza-belt-the-most-important-pizza-theory-youll-r-743629037
yes my dude, because, like, no new yorker has been to barcelona:
https://pix.sfly.com/w1Or9_
and OMG the Copenhagen food scene sucks so much! its not like Noma is rated the best restaurant in the world:
https://pix.sfly.com/7Kocdw
Its not like I spent so much money at Amass (how could I as a poor new yorker?) that they gave me free wine and let me watch the sunset from their backyard garden:
https://pix.sfly.com/Ri7Ycd
lol.. were you going for douchey? Because you nailed it.
New Haven, CT must have really good water then cause there pizza is better
We live on a planet where a lot of people don't even have fucking water.
And us motherfuckers are importing special water to make our pizzas.
Fucking hell.
I've never heard of anyone doing this, let along NYC water being the preferred water for such a practice. And I grew up in NY!!Let me know if you find out. I like dipping pizza crusts in water before I eat it. If NYC got that GOAT water I need it in my life.