Today’s comic is SOOO me in 1977. If you enjoy the 70s portions of this comic, you can thank my drinking habit from that era for spawning ideas like today. Um, oh, Sorrento’s Pizza in Lombard, Illinois was to die for. Deep Dish Pizza to the max. Green Peppers, Sausage & Pepperoni was the standard for the guys I hung with. And yes, I drank a 6-pack while watching “Star Trek” episodes on TV. I was a “Lost In Space” fan and I needed the blurry eyes to enjoy Kirk’s never ending speeches…
OH CANADA! Yes, today I honor our neighbors to the north. No, not Wisconsin, Canada. Canada’s Trooper had a hit with “Raise A Little Hell” in the 70s. Trooper happened to open for BTO in 1976 when they swung through Chicago. Styx managed to get in on the action and it was three groups for like $6.95 at ticket! Flaming cheese and wine at Dinah’s after the concert was standard fare for me on concert nights. My kinda place. Alcohol and FIRE!! Yes, there is a God after all…
Enjoy the Easter Holiday if you’re so inclined. I’m stuck doing chores as NASCAR is off this weekend. Damn.
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Chicago-style deep-dish ‘za. OMFG!!!
Yes, and that little restaurant made the BEST ever. It wasn’t good, it was freakin’ GREAT! It closed in the 80s (owner retired I believe) and, man, I have missed it ever since!
And no one can make deep dish pizza like they do here in Chicago. I’ve had it everywhere I’ve traveled and it’s just not the same. And what’s up with the cardboard served with cheese in New York? Could that stuff be any thinner?
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I’m from Central Jersey, and grew up in a town that was about 80% Italians from one of the 5 boroughs of NY . . so . . I might be just a LITTLE biased (and snooty) when it comes to pizza… LOL
… and raise the toilet lid while he’s at it!
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Hehe, I would like, at some point, to know just how on earth they got that house repaired so fast! But I’m glad things are back to normal… for now! lol. Great job, man.
Re_”And what’s up with the cardboard served with cheese in New York? Could that stuff be any thinner?”:
Sadly enough, the answer is “Yes”. NYC’s “Sicilian” slices might be barely thick enough to qualify as a “deep dish”, but at the opposite end of the spectrum, Stamford, CT. makes a regular slice so thin-&-stiff that it might as well be a crisp matzoh (or a saltine cracker) underneath the pizza-toppings. If they didn’t cook it a little extra-long, then they could use it to print their newspapers, because it would be too limp to pick up. Imagine trying to hold a slice that had the consistency of a thin bed-sheet, & you’ll see why it needs to be extra-crisp.
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WHY they cook it this way remains a mystery…
…perhaps they just don’t know any better…?
RE: DMC_Run – My wife and her family are originally from New Jersey and it is a standing joke that I make fun of the East Coast traditions… like thin pizza. The first pizza they got here in Illinois came sliced into little squares, and they were uber pissed as “How to you pick it up?” The answer is you get your fingers greasy!
I have offically eaten East Coast pizza and man, you’re right, it is thin and crispy. Pizza is supposed to be messy, but eating a slice downtown New York for lunch, you need it firm so you can eat it while chasing a taxi or out running a mugger. Ah, New York…. good times, good times…
True story: First visit to New York, I’m walking in the evening with my then 16 year old son from our hotel to the McDonald’s right down the street and we had TWO hookers ask us for dates. My 16 year was confused. But, I had been to Vegas and knew these were not ordinary “dates”!!
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I remember days like those. Well, I sorta remember ’em anyway.
I’ with you on that, Kevin…
Trooper is cool. Got to hang out with those guys twice this year. They played at a private Christmas party and then again March 20th. Their sound guy is old school. Has his own mixer didn’t want to use our fully digital system.