B1 – Intermediate
There’s thin crust, there’s thick crust. Deep dish and all-meat. With so many choices out there, what makes pizza the best pizza?
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Chicago pizza is a unique and famous pizza from Chicago. But how is Chicago pizza different from the pizza served in New York, London, or Italy?
First, the crust is about 2.5 inches deep, or about 6.35 cm. It is cooked like a pie in a deep, round pan. The pan has a lot of olive oil, so the crust becomes crunchy on the bottom.
For toppings, the pizza usually has about 1/4 inch of sausage, 1/4 inch of cheese, and 1/4 inch of chunky tomato sauce. Other popular ingredients include pepperoni, green peppers, mushrooms, and olives.
No one know exactly who made this style of pizza first, because several restaurants claim to be the creators. However, everyone from Chicago has a favorite pizza restaurant, and they feel very strongly that it is the best pizza.
Source: headsupenglish.com
Discussion Questions:
1. Do you like pizza? What kind of pizza do you like?
2. Do you want to try Chicago pizza? Why/not?
3. Does your hometown or country have an unusual / unique dish?
4. Talk about some of the strange dishes that you have tried in the past.
18 replies on “Chicago Pizza”
1. Do you like pizza? What kind of pizza do you like?
Yes, I like pizza. My favourite pizza is four stations. It contains tomato, ham, black olive, mushrooms and mozzarella cheese.
2. Do you want to try Chicago pizza? Why/not?
Yes, I would like to try this kind of pizza because I found the thickness of the dough and its crunchy texture appetizing.
2. Does your hometown or country have an unusual / unique dish?
We have some typical dishes in Spain like as paella, tortilla de patatas, calçots, cargols a la llauna, etc.
4. Talk about some of the strange dishes that you have tried in the past
The strangest dish that I tasted was insect snacking. The taste was good but a little salty.
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1. Do you like pizza? What kind of pizza do you like?
Of course, I especially like the 4 cheese pizza. A pizza solves your dinner when you are in another country and you don’t know what to eat.
2. Do you want to try Chicago pizza? Why/not?
I think I tried Chicago pizza when I visited Chicago for an expo.
3. Does your hometown or country have an unusual / unique dish?
In Spain there are many unique dishes, each region has a typical and unique dish, for example: Paella, Potato omelette, …
4. Talk about some of the strange dishes that you have tried in the past.
I don’t remember, it could be a Chinese dish made with shark,
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I like pizza very much but unlike Chicago pizza I prefer Italian pizza with the thin crust and taste to basil and oregano. My favorite pizza is with ham and mushrooms, I use to get this one, but sometimes I change and order with peperoni or with arugula and parmesan.
However, If i have the oportunity I would to try the Chicago pizza, I think is important try typical food of the places. I would not eat Chicago pizza every day, but I should to try it. Instead, if I will go to Italy, I could eat pizza every day.
In my hometown is common eat bread with tomato. It used for make sandwitch with ham, cheese, fuet or omelette with potatoes. Is typically in Catalonia but and the rest of Spain eat the sandwitch without tomato only with oil.
Another eat its common in Catalonia is “all i oli”, garlic and oil. It preparate whit a mortar only with this two ingredients, it mixes until appears a dough for spread. Eat it with bread is great.
The strange dish that I have tried in the past are lamb brains. It is viscose and have a appearance low appetizing but in Spain its considered a great dish. I didn’t like it and I will never taste it again.
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Pizza is one of my favorite foods. I love pizza with goat’s cheese and caramelized onion, although I like every kind of pizza I taste.
I would like to try Chicago pizza, with thick crust, and I would add to the sausage the pepperoni, the green peppers, and the mushrooms, because I don’t like olives.
In fact, I use to cook a kind of pizza that is similar, which ingredients are Frankfurt, onion, pepper, cheese, and tomato sauce. Sometimes, I add bacon.
I don’t know if my country has an unusual or unique dish… Maybe, because every food of my country is common for me. However, I could mention the sea urchins, that is a typical delicacy in Catalonia which is eaten raw.
I have never tasted strange dishes because I’m a little bit special when it’s about food: I need to know what am I eating, and I don’t like to put in my body stuff that I don’t know.
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1. Do you like pizza? What kind of pizza do you like?
I like Pizza, it is a tasty, cheap and varied from of fast food. probably the most traditional fast food. I like any kind of pizza and like to try it with all kind of crusts and toppings.
2. Do you want to try Chicago pizza? Why/not?
I wouldn’t mind to try Chicago Pizza. the question here is: Can it be in Chicago?
3. Does your hometown or country have an unusual / unique dish?
In Spain there is a great variety of gastronomy depending on the regions and cities. probably the most internationally famous Spanish dish is paella. there are great varieties like cocido madrileño, empanada gallega or calçots (a kind of roasted onions tipical in the south of Catalonia)
4. Talk about some of the strange dishes that you have tried in the past.
I have not tasted especially strange dishes but I like to try all kind of food (except insects or worms…). For sure my most exotic meal vas a couscous with camel meat and vegetables cooked by myself in the Sahara Desert.
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1. Do you like pizza? What kind of pizza do you like?
Yes, I like pizza. My favorite food is Italian. I like thin base pizza.
I like to add all kinds of toppings to my pizza except onion.
2. Do you want to try Chicago pizza? Why/not?
Yes, I would like to try it Chicago Pizza. I think that in each country they are prepared differetly.
3. Does your hometown or country have an unusual / unique dish?
Spain has many well-knows dishes. Potatoes omelette and Paella are the best know-dishes in Spain.
In Galicia, octopus is a very popular dish.
4. Talk about some of the strange dishes that you have tried in the past
I don´t usually try strange dishes, I don´t like to eat anything I don´t Know.
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I like thin base pizza.
I like to add all kinds of toppings to my pizza except onion.
Yes, I would like to try it Chicago Pizza.
Spain has many well-knows dishes
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1. Do you like pizza? What kind of pizza do you like?
Yes, I like pizza. My favourite kind of pizza is the pizza barbacue, with chicken, meet, onion, bacon and barbacue sauce.
2. Do you want to try Chicago pizza? Why/not?
Yes. I will like to try Chicago pizza, because is a different kind of pizza that I have tried before.
3. Does your hometown or country have an unusual / unique dish?
Yes, the Gazpacho and the Paella for example. We eat the Gazpacho on summer, the ingredients that you need is tomato, cucumber, pepper, onion, garlic and olive oil, and you mix all this ingredients in a mixer, you put on the fridge and then you could eat it. The Paella is other typical dish, is rice and you can cook the rice with chicken or with fish and sellfish.
4. Talk about some of the strange dishes that you have tried in the past.
The most strange dish that I have tried was a cow tongue. The taste was good because had a sauce that it was good, but the texture of the tongue I did’t like it.
Isn’t pizza just the best?
Please look at this sentence and how you can improve it a bit:
I will like to try Chicago pizza
,because it is a different kind of pizza that I have tried before.I would like to try Chicago pizza because is a different kind of pizza that I have never tried before.
1. Yes, I like pizza so much. If I don’t like one pizza because it has a ingredient that I don’t like.
2. I tasted a Chicago pizza in Madrid. Not bad but I think this pizza is not similar to the authentic Chicago pizza.
3. Spain and Madrid has a big number of typical dishes. The spanish cuisine is known around the world.
4. I don’t remeber a strange dish. I like so much to eat. Maybe the people think that one of my family dishes is strange because they don’t know this dish because it name are very rare.
Cheers to our love for pizza and Spanish dishes!
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If I don’t like one pizza because it has a ingredient that I don’t like.
If I don’t like a particular pizza, it’s normally because it has an ingredient that I don’t like.
I never have been in Chicago and I never have test Chicago Pizza but I think It is really difficult win to italian Pizza. The best pizza that I had eat was in San Gimigiano, in the Toscana.
I’m loving thin base.
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