Yeah turns out deep dish pizza is just a distinct phylogenetic clade of pizza and fills its’ own evolutionary niche in the pizzasphere. I hypothesize that it is a descendent of the cold-cheese lineage due to homology in the cheese structure, though it is possible this could be a separate branch that exerted evolutionary pressure on traditional thin crust causing adaptive acquisition of enhanced cheesiness. Either way, the fact that it is disparaged by pizza experts (see: people who have lived in downstate New York) is most likely due to tribalism and cheese envy, and not because of there being anything inherently wrong with what is essentially a loaf of bread turned into a mozzarella fondue bowl.
Yeah turns out deep dish pizza is just a distinct phylogenetic clade of pizza and fills its’ own evolutionary niche in the pizzasphere. I hypothesize that it is a descendent of the cold-cheese lineage due to homology in the cheese structure, though it is possible this could be a separate branch that exerted evolutionary pressure on traditional thin crust causing adaptive acquisition of enhanced cheesiness. Either way, the fact that it is disparaged by pizza experts (see: people who have lived in downstate New York) is most likely due to tribalism and cheese envy, and not because of there being anything inherently wrong with what is essentially a loaf of bread turned into a mozzarella fondue bowl.