Message boards have no utility… anything people wanna discuss here is fine with me. It’s a way to pass time in a doctors office waiting room or on the shitter.
I generally think Italian food should go one of two ways..
The sauce can’t be replicated at culinary school. I promise you when you taste a place that has a balance of contrasting flavors, that’s almost always secret info that’s been handed down. This is where chef owned places fall short. Culinary schools teach baking very well. Sauce not at all.
if you’re gonna go inauthentic to Italian American (where often times, like Mexican food, the sauce is from family recipes going back to the old country), just go with something that hits the spot. When people think non Italian pizza is good, it’s usually cause they use meats with high fat content so what the person is saying is “that hit the spot”.. I’m fine with that. I love me a taco pizza or a bbq chicken pizza. I eat Hawaiian pizza and pickle pizza.. those people aren’t even trying to compete with Italians. I like it all.
Good pizza sauce is hard to make. Good sausage is everywhere you turn. I don’t know why that is. A lot of times when people say they had a great pizza at bob’s pizza heaven… it’s a sausage pizza. That’s fine. They’re saying it hit the spot.
The only thing I know about Mexican food is that I can’t get enough of it.
I watched a show once on the best ramen in Japan.. I can’t imagine the broth could ever be replicated here.