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"American Pizza" by ucblockhead (2.00 / 0) #8 Mon Jul 17, 2006 at 06:24:33 PM EST

What exactly do you mean by that term? There's many different styles of pizza served in the US...
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It is not well defined by komet (2.00 / 0) #9 Mon Jul 17, 2006 at 06:38:52 PM EST

but if you order an American Pizza in Europe, you get (assuming they'll do it for you, which is usually not the case in Italian pizzerias, but is on the menu in Pizza Hut and derivatives) a pizza with a thick base, often baked in a metal dish, and a lot of toppings. Italian-style pizza, on the other hand, will have a very thin base which is supposed to be hand rolled from fresh dough and baked in a stone oven over a wood fire. It should not have much toppings, which would make the base go soggy. Many generic pizza are in between these two extremes.

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: Yes, fast food by ucblockhead (2.00 / 0) #11 Mon Jul 17, 2006 at 07:19:32 PM EST

But that's nothing like, say, a "Chicago Style" pizza, or the sort of thing you get at trendy California pizza restaurants, or pizza from any of the places that advertize "wood-fired" ovens.
I suspect the trouble is that you go to some shit fast-food restaurant like "Pizza Hut" and assume it represents the only pizza people eat in the US. Far from it. Many of the regional styles of pizza created in the US were created by first-generation Italian immigrants a century ago.
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