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Poor New York Post. It sounds threatened by Detroit.
A few days after The Wall Street Journal wrote that Detroit-style pizza is making a mark in Brooklyn's Williamsburg section, the Post comes out with an editorial headlined: "Detroit-style pizza is the new hipster horror."
Detroit-style pizza from Emmy Squared in Brooklyn
Commenting on the same shop as The Journal, the tabloid says:
If you thought hipsters knew any limits, guess again: The crowd in hipster Williamsburg has granted a beachhead to a pizza invasion out of Detroit.
Emmy Squared, on Grand Street, serves the rectangular pies — with sauce atop the cheese, and no outer rim of crust.
What a diss to Ray’s Original, Famous Original Ray’s and the city’s other classic slice-venders. Even aficionados of those Chicago quiches — “deep-dish pizza” — must be appalled.
For the record: Real pizza is round and flat, with melted mozzarella atop the sauce.
“No, Detroit pizza isn’t topped with bullets,” blubber its fans to Big Apple traditionalists. Hmm: Let’s hope the dough’s not made with Flint River water.
Fine: Detroit-style pizza won the 2012 Las Vegas International Pizza Expo. Don’t they know that what happens in Vegas is supposed to stay in Vegas?
Try to imagine Tony Manero strutting down Bay Ridge’s 86th Street eating two bricks of Detroit pizza at once.
Could the invading Michigander pies displace the classic New York treat? That’s just plain meshuga (Yiddish for "crazy").
Well, maybe it's time for Layfayette or American Coney Island to open in New York and show 'em how a real Coney dog tastes.
Coverage elsewhere:
Detroit Pizza Is the Best Pie You’ve Never Had -- Munchies
