The City That Stays Asleep

[tony_goldmark]

Ever since I first arrived in Los Angeles, everyone had warned me not to eat the pizza. “Nobody in LA knows how to make pizza,” they said. Surely, I thought, this must be a broad stereotype. I knew that LA had never grown its own style of pizza, like New York or Chicago or St. Louis had, but surely they could replicate those styles to a

Comments

[unclelumpy]

Are you honestly telling me they don't have a Pizzeria Uno's in LA?

[tony_goldmark]

Chains don't count. The purpose of a chain is to provide customers nationwide with the same recipes and the same experience, and the money all goes to the same bank account. Fuck that. Pizza has become the food of the common man, and if I can't buy it from the common man I'd sooner live without it.

There's no "San Francisco Pizza", but I've been to plenty of local SF pizzerias that get it right.

[unclelumpy]

There is no pizza but Pizzeria Uno's.

[tony_goldmark]

If you love Pizzeria Uno's so much, why don't you take it to Mexico for an impromptu abortion?

[wormquartet]

This post is fucking hysterical.

Anyway, I hadn't really thought about it, but I didn't eat any pizza while I was in California except at a chain place I've forgotten the name of. I'm with you - I like trying out the local flavor 'o' pizza when I'm somewhere different. Michigan, for whatever reason, seems to have really good pizza, as does Chicago. Personally I'm sick to death of "New York style pizza," which 90% of the pizza places in Rocester bill themselves as, and my favorite pizza in the area is from a place downtown called Chester Cab, which used to be in Chicago before the owner moved up here. It's better than pretty much everything that doesn't end in ejaculation.

Anyway, I've been told the Chinese food out your way is awesome. Alas, I didn't get to experience any of that either, except for a nearly-adequate buffet.

Incidentally, you're the only person I've talked to who has moved to la la land (or the surrounding area) and hasn't raved about how great it is compared to wherever they moved from.

-=ShoEboX=-

[tony_goldmark]

Thanks!

The Chinese food in LA is good, no complaints - though in my undoubtedly biased opinion, the best Chinese food in the country is back in SF. Especially China Wok on Monterey, or just about any Dim Sum place in Chinatown.

Yeah, I don't like LA that much. I'm here to buy a ticket for the "Get Rich Writing Jokes For The God-Box" lottery, but that's about it. I think Mike Nelson said it best - "LA is like paying five bucks to wrestle an 800-pound gorilla, and then it just sits on your head until you submit."

My business cards read, "Tony Goldmark - Comedy Against Nature" with a picture of a dying tree in the middle of the desert. Because I figure a city would have to be pretty Goddamned anti-nature to look and feel THIS shitty so close to the stupid fucking ocean.