What is the best pizza you ever had?

Brooklyn Pizzeria

Which Brooklyn's. There one right by my house, I dig it.

Gyro pizza from the Ugly Pirate in Mississippi is pretty damn good

As much controversy as I generated, I have had many good pizzas over the years. I like Chicago style and deep dish. I like hand tossed pizzas, NY styles.

I recently learned that I do not like Neapolitan style.

I like thin and crispy.

When MY wife and I started dating, almost 50 years ago, I took her (maybe second date) to Shakey's in the Fondern neighborhood of Jackson. We likely left Shakey's for a movie at the Capri Theater a half block up the hill from Shakey's. The Fondern post office is now located in the old Shakey's building.

Shakey's had a sausage and shrimp pizza on a thin crispy crust, with big crispy thin bubbles in the crust. Loved the crispy, very thin crust and that pizza was to die for. Could have been the Pizza that I loved or the person seated across from me, but all of my Shakey's memories are good.

Sadly Shakey's, as a chain, is no more except for a very few isolated locations (May still be one in Auburn Dothan, AL) Maybe ten years ago, we ate at one in Northern California and they had changed their crust so I don't know if I would be willing to try the Dothan Shakey's if we passed through that town.

One thing (another thing) I do not like is Pizza makers who stop an inch or two from the edge of their crust. The dough is the cheapest part of the pizza. Take the sauce and toppings closer to the edge of the crust! What I get tired of is a big 3 inch hunk of bread (evidently burned bread) all the way around my pizza. If that is artisan Pizza, then I also hate artisan pizza.



I know this is complaining, but I love pizza and love most pizza, just don't like feeling that I have been conned into buying a 14 inch pizza with 8-10 inches of the crust topped and a 3 inch wide ring of desolation around the entire crust.




Might as well start a new fight. Newk's makes a pretty good pizza.

Coater has been to a fairly new place in Flora that he liked. We have not been there, but it is on our list of "where can we go tonight?" places.

Best traditional: "The Mack" from Oz Pizza in Atlanta

Best non-traditional: "Marie Laveau" from Deano's in Lafayette...now I want to drive to Lafayette for pizza.

This question is tougher than my graduate school comps.

St Clair pizza

Johnny's, no doubt

Roberta's in Brooklyn.

DeltaHog

It was a James Beard and GQ Award winning place.

But they burned the damn thing.