Weekly English Words with Alisha American Pizza
Hi there, and welcome back to Weekly Words.
My name is Alisha, and today we’re going to
talk about American pizza. Ooh, this is a
good topic. Let’s get started.
Alright, the first type of pizza is New York
style pizza.
Wow. In my image, anyway, even after reading
this, is that New York Pizza is just really,
really big. They’re huge slices and people
like to fold them in New York. There’s lots
of marinara sauce, they’re topped with a whole
lot of cheese and the crust is usually not
super thick. So in a sentence, you might say
to your friends, “Let’s get some New York
style pizza for dinner tonight.” I’m already
hungry.
California style pizza.
I wasn’t aware there’s a Californian style
pizza. Thai inspired? Really? California style
pizza, this is new to me actually, apparently
California style pizza is any pizza that doesn’t
use traditional pizza ingredients. Traditional
pizza ingredients would be marinara sauce,
pepperoni, cheese, maybe black olives, and
the stuff that you find in pizza shops, maybe
all over the world, I imagine. But California
pizza maybe uses, I don’t know, chicken, variety
of different vegetables, maybe fruits, different
cuisines like Thai inspired pizzas, and so
on. “Have you checked out that new California
style pizza restaurant? It sounds good.”
It does sound good.
And the next one I know.
Chicago style deep-dish pizza.
Deep-dish as the name might suggest, Chicago
style pizza is much thicker than regular pizza.
It could be a lot of sauce, it could be a
lot of cheese, a lot of whatever topping it
is you choose, but it’s just a really thick,
thick pizza. So in a sentence, “Chicago
style deep-dish pizza is excellent with beer.”
Uh huh.
Hawaiian pizza.
Hawaiian pizza is—this just refers to the
types of toppings—Hawaiian pizza is Canadian
bacon or just ham, and pineapple. This was
my brother’s favorite style pizza growing
up and I’ve always hated it. So in a sentence,
“My brother’s favorite pizza was Hawaiian
pizza.” Maybe it still is.
Quad City-style pizza what is that? A thin
crusted dough with a—ooh that sounds good.
Quad City-style pizza has a thin crusty dough,
then, in the sauce there are red chili flakes
and ground cayenne. So it’s probably a little
spicier than your average pizza, and then
the pizza’s cut into strips, not squares,
not triangles, but long strips. In a sentence,
“I really want to try Quad City-style pizza.
End. that’s the end. I am very hungry now
and maybe you are too, so go out and see if
you can find one of these pizza types and
give them a try. Thank you very much for joining
us for Weekly Words this week and I will see
you again next time. Bye.