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Foxon Park Birch Beer is top shelf in the soda section.
ReplyDeleteWe grew up in the New Haven area in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s. We knew we had good pizza. But, we didn’t know how good it was until we left home for college. I remember my first non-New Haven pie served to me on Cleveland Circle in Boston, freshman year. I turned to my hometown friend, who I was visiting for the weekend, and plainly asked, “what is this s***?” Later on I lived in New York City for 30 years. I ate my share of pizza. What it boils down to is this: Choose at random 10 pizza places in New York City, maybe 2 or 3 will be any good. Take the same approach in New Haven. Out of 10 pizza parlors, 7 or 8 will be not just good, but really good. Of course nowadays chefs try to duplicate New Haven ahbeets. But for some reason it does not travel well. A New Haven crust is thin, but chewy. Many “New Haven style” pizzas are made with a thin crust. But it’s not chewy. It’s what’s called the “sauce on a saltine syndrome.”
ReplyDeleteI remember Pino's Pizza and Hellas Pizza in the late 70"s in Cleveland Circle. I liked Hellas better and we would get a large mushroom pizza after a night of beer drinking.
ReplyDeleteIt must have been Hellas where I was introduced to the not (!) New Haven pizza. After I asked “what is this s***,” my friend said “they call it Greek pizza.”
DeleteMy girlfriend and I travel to New Haven (from Boston) once or twice a year simply to make the rounds eating at all of the great pizzerias around New Haven, West Haven, and the surrounding areas. I’ve had good pizza all over the country and world, but I would take the best of New Haven over any of it from Rome to NYC and beyond 100 times out of 100. Nothing better than New Haven Apizza!
ReplyDeleteIs there such a thing as bad pizza? :)
ReplyDeleteyes
DeleteThere may not be “bad pizza,” but… We raised our daughter in NYC. She ate NYC pizza as a child. But she grew up also eating the New Haven pizza bought when we visited her grandparents in the town adjacent to New Haven where I was raised. She knows from pizza. When visiting family in the Dolomites we chose one night to give the relatives a break from preparing another delicious meal for us. It was a Friday night. We came up with the idea to bring in pizza. Our daughter was in her early teens. The first thing she said when we got in the car to return to the local Albergo was, “the pizza wasn’t very good Dad.”
ReplyDeleteOnly the finest!
ReplyDeleteAnother fiercely loyal New Haven apizza fan here… Our family was vacationing two years ago in Paris. We were dining in one of those bistros where the tables are nearly on top of each other. You can’t help but speak to your neighbors. Two gentlemen sat next to us. Forty-ish. We learned one was a lawyer. The other worked at one of the big fashion houses. We talked. The lawyer asked where were we from in the states. I responded that I grew up in New Haven Connecticut. He said… “I heard the pizza there is very good.” You can’t make this stuff up.
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