actually, Wain, I've been to Chicago and have eaten at Pizzaria Uno (the original - altho i don't know if it's still there now) and found that deep dish pizza is certainly interesting.
even good.
I don't consider it "pizza", just a different category. deep dish style. It's a pie alright, with tomato sauce.
having been in LA and had THAT, i can tell you that is NOT pizza and it does suck badly. there is one place in LA that has quite good pizza, but that's an accident as there just aren't enough Italians in LA to really show people how it's done. and people are used to inferior stuff.
mostly in LA the sauce is all wrong. it's too sweet, not flavorful, weird. and they don't know how to make bread. yuk! it's too thin. i once called it "mexican pizza".
there's a real art to making pizza. people who think "fast-food" pizza is real pizza are just kidding themselves.
at least in Chicago a good place will know how to make the bread right.
what I first had in Chicago (since we are on the topic of food) is Thai. WOW! that was great!
I also went to te place that was made famous on Saturday Nite Live, the "CheeeechBerger-CheeeechBerger-CheeeechBerger-NoCokePepsy" place.
and the guy really DID say that!
Chicago is a nice little town, but it's way too cold for me except in August.
