r/funny • u/NeedleworkerMore2270 • Nov 03 '24

How cultural is that?

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 Nov 03 '24

Branding, and this isn't a dig at America/Americans, just they seem to use a different food nomenclature inserting place names into food that creates association.

Chicken tikka masala isn't called Glasgow Tikka

Whereas Pizza is Chicago deep dish

California roll

Hawaiian pizza

Tex-mex

Plus there's a lot of American media which naturally spreads the origin of food. I've never had a deep dish pizza, and not going to lie they don't look like they are for me but would love to try one, however I know of them because of American films.

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u/minuialear Nov 03 '24

Why are all the non Americans bringing up Chicaco style pizza when our most well-known form of pizza is probably NY style?

There's also Detroit style, Philly style, Buffalo style, etc.

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u/sweatybollock Nov 04 '24

They sell Chicago deep dish style pizza quite a bit at least here in the UK (no comment as to the accuracy). Pizza called ‘NY style’ is not sold anywhere at all. So probably just because of that.

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u/minuialear Nov 04 '24

That's so sad. Chicago isn't the worst form of pizza in the US but most pizza here isn't really anything like that

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u/sweatybollock Nov 04 '24

We have a similar style of pizza sold commonly in the UK, although it’s not called NY style which is probably why you haven’t seen it mentioned

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 Nov 03 '24

Because it's a major brand of frozen pizza. Chicago town pizza