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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

Me too! I had a Peruan/Bolivian one ( Humita? ), but I'm not sure if they are the same as the mexican tamale.

I'm still mad at my NYC buddy for saying "YoU GoTtA EaT A NeW YoRk sLiCe" when I visited new york, which, while on a diet , meant I either had tamales or a new york pizza slice when I was in queens.

It tasted like any other "regular" pizza I had anywhere else in the fucking world. If you want to be an absolute asshole and say "BuT ThAt pLaCe mUsT HaVe bEeN AsS, yOu gOtTa eAt iT At pAnUcCi's pIzZa", I LITERALLY had it at Sal's Pizzeria , and I swear to fuck, I do not think I could have chosen a more "local, 100% NYC Italian" pizza than that unless it was in fucking brooklyn or harlem.

I've said this story before actually, but seriously, New Yorkers, chill the fuck out with your pizza. You won and conquered the fucking world, relax.

Fucking opportunity cost.

[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

There's also a New York style square slice like the kind you get from Prince Street Pizza called The spicy spring and that was actually a delight. In general, though, New York Pizza is mostly unremarkable, but Chicago Pizza is every bit as good as you probably have heard and is easily my favorite. Not to mention Chicago is so into pizza, there's just really great pizza all over the place of every type in size

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

yeah, at least deep dish is something unique

[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Deep dish I feel is more Detroit style with the thick bread vs Chicago style where it's thick cheese and meat with chunky red marinara on top

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

your mistake was eating at diordanos

[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 1 points 28 minutes ago

I heard they are no longer the greatness they once were which is disappointing. They used to be godlike

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

The three biggest food letdowns of my life were NY pizza, Shake Shack, and In-N-Out.

They were all....fine. I enjoyed my meals. Nothing I couldn't get back home

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 26 minutes ago

I was in Vegas, next to in-n-out for a week.

Day one, burger and fries and a coke. WTF, that was disappointing as hell, I'd rather have eaten McDonalds.

Day two, look up all the hidden menu bullshit, animal style, with animal style fries. HOLY FUCK that's a different meal.

I tried everything else over the week, but my fav was still animal style.

Their regular burgers are fries are just bland and dry. They need to be loaded with the sauce and the friend onions. They should default to that.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I wasn't there for many days, and I had a limited number of meals and money, and you're right, nothing stuck out for me either.

I think the thing to do when you visit a country is to try the things they specialise in. The yanks specialise in "food products" and fast food, so I ate stuff from supermarkets and bodegas, with an exception to the pizza and a few other things with my friend.

Pretzels were interesting, I got a bunch of stuff from Family Dollar, 7-11 and Slurpees were by far the greatest fucking thing I had the entire time I was there, like FUCK MAN, during summer that shit goes down so good, and you can mix and match flavours. I had some japanese food near the NY Library with my friend, the aforementioned pizza and that was about it.

I wanted to try taco bell but somehow fucked it up and didn't find one at the right time. Not sure how I managed to do that, but I did. Also Tamales, as mentioned.

I wasn't expecting much, so I didn't particularly care , especially because of diets and financial constraints.

What ACTUALLY disappointed me was that the tech death power trio I specifically traveled across the Atlantic for had their guitarist sick during the show I went to, so it was a duo.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Man you really missed out, there's so much good food in the US and a ton of options in New York specifically. American cuisine is incredibly diverse (though not more than Europe as a whole) so it's a bummer you think we're all about fast food haha

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn't Sal's Pizzeria on an episode of Kitchen Nightmares?

It's like a disc of hot garbage. You should have went to Sal's Pizza Cafe.