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    Tim Marchmancurry shoff
    8/09/16 3:36pm

    This is the worst blog any Gawker Media site has ever run. It’s not just wrong aesthetically, but factually—the Hyde Park Papa John’s is a desolate wasteland like the parallel dimension in the popular Netflix show “Stranger Things.”

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      stroderealtyTim Marchman
      8/09/16 3:39pm

      This blog needs to die in a fire.

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      overdoseTim Marchman
      8/09/16 3:40pm

      This, papa johns isn’t even the best crappy pizza you can get. I love how NY people pretend their pizza is special, it’s really nothing amazing.

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    Prada Lovelacecurry shoff
    8/09/16 3:28pm

    Chicago pizza does suck, but Domino’s is better than PJ’s anytime.

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      Armageddon T. ThunderbirdPrada Lovelace
      8/09/16 3:31pm

      Domino’s is ketchup on Wonder Bread.

      That being said, Papa John’s still sucks.

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      Kony TornheiserPrada Lovelace
      8/09/16 3:35pm

      No. Papa John’s isn’t great, but is by far the best out of the major pizza chains. Unless we’re counting Casey’s General Store pizza.

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    fighting polish is David Schwimmer as Rob Kardashian Srcurry shoff
    8/09/16 3:23pm

    FIGHT ME

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      Icecold Davisfighting polish is David Schwimmer as Rob Kardashian Sr
      8/09/16 3:24pm

      Do not make me call Meg.

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      Emerald D.V.fighting polish is David Schwimmer as Rob Kardashian Sr
      8/09/16 3:25pm

      Hold on, let me finish this ketchup-and-mayo topped hot dog.

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    ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Bokecurry shoff
    8/09/16 3:24pm

    I’ve never been to Chicago, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say this is right on the money. Chicago’s not really known as a pizza town, being full of Irish and Mexicans mostly. They sure can cook a mean Doyer Dog, though. Hats off to you Mr. Shoff.

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      TheBurningAnnex╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      8/09/16 3:28pm

      They do make a mean tomato soup bread bowl.

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeTheBurningAnnex
      8/09/16 3:28pm

      I heard their Olive Garden is one of the best in the world.

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    caekislove-caekingitupcurry shoff
    8/09/16 3:27pm
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      caekislove-caekingitupcaekislove-caekingitup
      8/09/16 3:29pm

      Seriously, though. That shit ain’t pizza. It’s some sort of weird meat cake. Also, stop saying “New York-style Pizza”. Bitch, I grew up in Houston(a city that is neither New York nor Chicago), and we call that just “pizza”.

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      Manic Otticaekislove-caekingitup
      8/09/16 3:33pm

      I keep hearing from everybody about the wonders of east coast pizza, but not one single person has ever been able to describe to me what’s better about it.

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    DisMyBurnerBaecurry shoff
    8/09/16 3:29pm

    Half anything on a pizza is some low-rent 1990s shit. COVER THE WHOLE PIE OR GTFO

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      PoimanentlyPuckeredDisMyBurnerBae
      8/09/16 3:45pm

      Ok, but if you don’t like my toppings, you go hungry.

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      DisMyBurnerBaePoimanentlyPuckered
      8/09/16 3:47pm

      Who orders 1 pizza for delivery? Aside from loners, 2 pies or die!

      Now don’t get me wrong, Papa JOhn is an evil scumbag, and the only redeeming quality of that pizza is it’s not Pizza Hut level of pepsi bad, but it’s still barely 1 step up from dominos.

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    Lotharcurry shoff
    8/09/16 3:41pm

    The whole article has been nullified with “I’ve lived in Lincoln Park for 10 months now”. Move outside of the doucheist part of town and then talk about the city.

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      TheWirtzIsOverLothar
      8/09/16 4:10pm

      Lincoln Park: For when you want to live in the city, but only with other white people and chain stores.

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      MojiMojiLothar
      8/09/16 4:42pm

      Pretty much when I stopped reading. And I think deep dish is trash, but the city does have good regular/thin crust options. The best pizza in any city is generally not going to be located in the most expensive neighborhoods...

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    Sobchak Securitycurry shoff
    8/09/16 3:24pm

    This is… So beautiful. If this article were a person, I’d paint the fucking shit out of it. I want to take this article behind the parking lot and get it pregnant. I want this article to use ALL the bathrooms in North Carolina. I want this article to be allowed to juice in the Olympics.

    SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!!!

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      Sparky PolastrySobchak Security
      8/09/16 3:36pm

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    Quasar Funkcurry shoff
    8/09/16 3:26pm

    Chicago pizza is hot garbage and I want to be Curry shoff’s friend.

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      Hip Brooklyn StereotypeQuasar Funk
      8/09/16 3:33pm

      No true pizza, I repeat, NO TRUE PIZZA requires a fork and knife to consume.

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      MonkeyBizHip Brooklyn Stereotype
      8/09/16 4:50pm

      Chicago style pizza can be eaten sans utensils if it’s made right.

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    Frankenbike666curry shoff
    8/09/16 3:48pm

    Not having a cultural stake in this inter city culinary rivalry, I think Chicagoans and New Yorkers look at this the wrong way.

    First, there are places in Chicago with New York style pizza. I’m sure somewhere in New York there’s someplace that serves deep dish pizzas. So obviously, there are defectors in both regions.

    Second, I don’t look at a deep dish pizza the same way that I look at flatbread style pizzas. Deep dish is a pie. New Yorkers call their pizzas “pies” but they aren’t really. A “pie” requires at least a fork to eat. Deep dish to this Californian, is about the toppings...deep thick and hot. This is why I’m not a big fan of Lou Malnati’s. Other places with deep dish in Chicago understand and encourage you to fill your deep dish with toppings until the toppings and cheese are level with the top of the pan.

    A proper Chicago pizza slice should be as thick as a New York steak. Also, I’m OK with calling deep dish a Parmesan bread bowl. When I’m in Chicago, I usually end up eating a couple of slices of three dimensional Parmesan bread bowl pie with a fork and knife, and two dimensional New York flatbread with my hands on another day.

    If you want New York style in Chicago, you get Cafe Luigi’s, Jimmy’s or Gigio’s. You buy Papa Johns if your taste buds are dead and you want to see the world burn.

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      8rianWilliamsUnhingedFrankenbike666
      8/09/16 8:13pm

      Emmet’s on MacDougal Street between Prince and Houston has a pretty popular Chicago-style casserole that Chicago transplants like to get fat on.

      But I go there for the party style thin crust pizza, which is my favorite thing from Chicago, right after John Hughes films, Wilco, and Jake & Elwood Blues.

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