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You have that right!!

Presumably you meant to type Seven-Up (!) It reminded me of a quote about the venerable Anglican organist and choir director, Dr. Healey Willan, who spoke thus of himself:

"I am English by birth; Canadian by adoption;
Irish by extraction; Scotch by absorption."

And apparently he did like to have a drink or two.

But as to this thread, surely the pizza is stone cold by now! That being said, has anyone been to Italy to taste how THEY make it?

Stuart

We make our own pizza at home. Way better than just about anything you can buy, takeout or restaurant. Homemade dough, quality sauce, fresh peppers, mushrooms and onion, lots of mozza, and meat is whatever we feel like on any day (salami, pepperoni, ground beef, sausage, chicken strips, etc.). Dust with a little cayenne and some fresh ground pepper.

Hard to complain about Pizza around Kalispell Montana. Most I have had have been really good!!

I find that most pizza on both sides of the border sucks, unless you are in one of the urban areas that has a history of good food. There are exceptions, and you might find a gem of a pizza place in nowheresville, but the odds are stacked against you.

I do find most north americans seem to be more interested in the quantity of stuff on their pizza rather than the quality of the ingredients and preparation. I'd much rather have a thin crust pizza with a small amount of high quality toppings, cooked in a stone oven, than some doughy crust in a pan piled high with cheap toppings and lousy cheese. Because of this, there are only a few places I will eat pizza other than at home. The chain pizza places don't rate well at all.

As for quality of ingredients across the various borders, it's all relative. Good quality is available most places, but people would rather pay $5 for a steak that has been grown in a feed lot eating indigestible corn and pumped full of medication, and sent through the factory processing plant, than pay $10 for a grass pasture fed natural beef steak. And it's the same with eggs, cheese, chicken. The "factory" food industry pumps out cheap, poor quality food because north Americans want it.

Canadian food handling standards are pretty high, so at least most of the food is "safe" although there are always incidents. I actually once had an Italian master cheese maker tell me that the Canadian milk was the best she had ever used, due to the consistent handling procedures required in Canada compared to elsewhere- she was located in Alberta and made Parmigiano style cheese. It was without a doubt better than any of the Italian made counterparts. It's flavor was rich and buttery but still retained the traditional sharpness of that style of cheese. It was a real masterpiece.

It's much easier to find good food at specialty food shops and farmers markets or directly from the source, than it is to find them in your local supermarket, which is mostly interested in serving the price conscious shopper.

I think this falls into one of my "rules of dining out in unfamiliar areas"

The main rule is to not order anything that the restaurant can't handle/do well. For instance, I won't order pulled pork at Dennys, and I won't go to Kansas City looking for sushi.

If you are in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, NYC, Boston, Chicago etc, there is a good chance you can find some good pizza. Other locations you might want to do some research before ordering a pizza. And just because the place has an Italian name like Sopranos Pizza, it's no guarantee that anyone working there is Italian or knows how to make a pizza.

I'm sure there is good pizza SOMEWHERE in Newfoundland, but we won't find it without a good Google search!

Funny thing about NH pizza joints, most of the really good ones are run by Greeks. Best steaks i ever had were in ND, Pastime Bar and grill in Marmarth and a couple ribeyes we bought at a local market and grilled over the campfire.

nine six seven, eleven, eleven...call pizza pizza, yeah, yeah, yeah...

Is this still going on?


I thought I cleared this question up a few pages back by saying the best pizza is in Ellerslie Sask.....

Looking oot the kitchen window at Canada across the river right now. Having spent most of my life this close to Canada, I have gone over there for many, many reasons on many, many occasions. Pizza is not one of them.

Been all over this damned Continent....there is no other pizza like Boston and NY.....

Point taken.

You go to Canada to get that famous French Canadian health food, poutine!

This is french fries, brown gravy and cheese curds -- a heart attack to go!



John

Now THAT is Canadian cuisine worth going after! Somehow, preparing it at home just isn't the same as what you get at a roadside chips stand.

There's always Mother's Pizza...

No such thing as bad pizza!!
Unless someone just ate the last of it.

There is a Greek place in Nashua NH, that makes a spinach, feta cheese and onion pizza. I'm tellin ya' it's some kinda good!

Where at? Name of restaurant please.

He already told you, Boston Pizza.

http://bostonpizza.com/en

If that is the best you can do in the USA then you are in big trouble.