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Official BBO Hijacked Thread Thread No, it's not about that

#781 User is offline   Aberlour10 

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Posted 2010-February-25, 12:42

Best ever? Pizza La Quattro Stagioni ( Four Seasons) in a small trattoria outside Bergamo.

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but...

,,,what about avocados?

Avocados belong to this thread in the same way as bacon! jawohl! and to pizza with scampis too! :D
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Posted 2010-February-25, 12:45

I suppose I should clarify for our non-American friends in case they aren't familiar with NY vs Chicago style pizza.

NY pizza looks something like this:
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Chicago pizza is thicker and the sauce goes on top, like this:
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Posted 2010-February-25, 12:50

thanks for explanation, this "chicago-style" seems not to be very popular in Europe,
I have never tried it here.
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Posted 2010-February-25, 12:53

Aberlour10, on Feb 25 2010, 01:42 PM, said:

....

but...

,,,what about avocados?

Avocados belong to this thread in the same way as bacon! jawohl! and to pizza with scampis too! :D

Don't worry, my friend. Behold the bacon and avacado pizza in all its splendid beauty
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Posted 2010-February-25, 13:09

My first ship in the Navy was homeported in Yokosuka, Japan. My first or second day there I walked out into town to see the sights. One thing that surprised me was a Shakey's Pizza Parlor. So I went in to see what they had. Somehow Octopus pizza didn't ring my chimes. :-)

There was an article in a recent Cook's Illustrated about deep dish pizza. One of the author's comments was about the "Chicago Grill/Pizzeria Uno" version. Apparently, "Chicago style" pizza was invented at Pizzeria Uno in Chicago many years ago, but Chicago Grill is a chain, and no relation to the original Pizzeria Uno, and their version is not nearly as good as the "real thing" (which apparently I've never had - I guess I'll have to try the Cook's Illustrated recipe one day).
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Posted 2010-February-25, 13:14

Some Malnati guy was the inventor of Chicago style pizza, if my food history and memory are accurate. Rudy, perhaps?
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Posted 2010-February-25, 18:49

Course, we all know that Sir Francis invented Bacon, but who invented the avacado? Peter Townsend? (World history of pork, fruit, and rock 'n roll for $1000, Alex)
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Posted 2010-February-25, 20:54

When is the next BBF meetup?
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Posted 2010-February-26, 00:17

whiskey+wine.

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Posted 2010-February-26, 06:58

Winstonm, on Feb 25 2010, 07:49 PM, said:

Course, we all know that Sir Francis invented Bacon, but who invented the avacado? Peter Townsend? (World history of pork, fruit, and rock 'n roll for $1000, Alex)

Avogadro, but to avoid confusion with his number, they went with a pseudonym... :lol:
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Posted 2010-February-26, 09:39

Winstonm, on Feb 25 2010, 07:49 PM, said:

who invented the avacado?  

hmm, its hard to say...we know, the first written account of the avocado has been done by Spaniards at the beginnig of the XVI century. Maybe by the same man who invented the pizza >>> Francisco Pizzarro???. Anyway, the first receipt of pizza with bacon and avocado has been published in Sir Francis Bacon work "De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum" A.D. 1623 :lol:
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Posted 2010-February-26, 13:53

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Posted 2010-February-26, 16:56

in brazil you can eat avocado icecream, and milk shake

also corn icecream

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Babalu just wanted a shoulder to cry on, is that too much to ask for?
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Posted 2010-February-26, 16:58

In the US you can eat carrot cake.
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Posted 2010-February-26, 17:40

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Posted 2010-February-26, 18:02

jdonn, on Feb 24 2010, 03:59 PM, said:

PhantomSac, on Feb 24 2010, 03:41 PM, said:

hotShot, on Feb 24 2010, 03:36 PM, said:

PhantomSac, on Feb 24 2010, 09:34 PM, said:

Norway third in medal count at the olympics so far? LOL, population of like 5 million, and they are the best at EVERYTHING. So freaking sick, what a country.

They live in the snow, what do you expect?

They also have the best chess player, 3 of the best 10 bridge players in the world, a junior bridge team that won a gold medal recently on top of the best winter athletes, and they have a basically tiny population. It is just unreal how good Norway is at everything for it's size.

Snow activities and indoor activities, two things that probably coorelate very strongly with how much snow they get. I bet they do a lot worse in the summer olympics!

Btw, country that does worst in olympic medals per capita? India :)

Well, Norway isn't only a small country compared to the US, it is also small when compared to Canada or Sweden or Germany or Austria.
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Posted 2010-February-26, 19:10

babalu1997, on Feb 26 2010, 05:56 PM, said:

in brazil you can eat avocado icecream, and milk shake

also corn icecream

In Brazil I'm also pretty sure you can still die from diarrhea. :)
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Posted 2010-February-27, 03:04

Clee has so much peotneiatla and intelligence its r diculous.
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Posted 2010-February-27, 04:43

5 more posts (excluding this one) to make this thread the longest in history
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Posted 2010-February-27, 05:41

There's a saying in my country to talk about people who have guts to do stuff: they're more corageous than the guy who ate the first avocado.

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