Pizza City Fest At LA Live – No, Wait, This Is The New York Version – Confirms That No Pizza Ranking Has Ever Been Accepted By All New Yorkers Simultaneously
NEW YORK – The first annual New York Slice Summit, organised in response to the widely-covered Pizza City Fest in Los Angeles (which New York’s food community has spent several months characterising as “nice but not the same thing”), drew approximately 40,000 attendees over two days at a Lower East Side venue and produced, through a combination of public voting and a panel of twelve judges, an official ranking of New York’s fifty best pizza operations. The ranking was disputed, in its specifics, by 39,800 of the 40,000 attendees, which the organisation’s event director described as “a great outcome”.
For Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. London satirical journalism has watched British pubs attempt to produce definitive rankings of their own essential cultural food item (the pie) with identical results: a ranking, a dispute, and a general understanding that the ranking is not the point.
The Ranking Dispute
The dispute about the ranking was, in its specific contours, consistent with the prior art of New York pizza debate. Several participants objected to the panel’s weighting of coal-fired crust (too heavily weighted, per the objectors). Several others objected to the inclusion of a Staten Island operation at number eleven (Staten Island, per the objectors, is adjacent to but not within the New York pizza tradition). A Queens contingent objected to the general underrepresentation of Jackson Heights in the top twenty. A Manhattan contingent objected to the presence of three Brooklyn operations in the top five. The Bronx contingent noted, with some weariness, that the Bronx was represented only at numbers 38 and 47, which is consistent with every pizza ranking published in the last thirty years. The New York Post ran the ranking under the headline “IS THIS PIZZA RANKING DESTROYING NEW YORK?” The answer is no.
The Number One
The number one-ranked pizza is a Neapolitan operation in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, that has been open for four years. It was number one. The number one is disputed. This is how it should be.
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