Maybe this is an ironic joke that I’m just not hip enough to understand, but Redfern is, and has been since the 70s, an absolute shithole.
Like, the closest Australia gets to a ghetto, pretty much… Abo central. Literally saw a drug deal in the middle of the street, between a teenage Abo and some old blokes, earlier…
It’s becoming “hipster” and “gentrified”, now, but it’s still an absolute dive…
The fact that Sydney has actual ethnic (Muslim, Indian, Leb, Portuguese) ghettoes even worse than this is… Impressive.
But anyway, the fact that they’ve opened a “Detroit style” pizza chain here is just… Too much self-aware hipster irony for me, tbh…
Opposite a barcade and a sea shanty bar. Because of course…
While the streets are full of filth, and the buildings literally fall down around it.
Straya. Love it…
Ghetto irony notwithstanding...
Detroit style pizza is a real thing, and it's fantastic. I'm biased being a MI native, but at first glace Detroit style may look like Chicago deep dish, but it's pretty different. The crust is thicker and airy, but the edges basically fry against the metal pan making a crust unlike any other style pizza. Cheese goes on first, then sauce, then other toppings.
https://www.buddyspizza.com/ claims to be the creator. Their pizza is pretty great. This is something that was invented long before Detroit became a shithole.
Geez now I'm standing up for Detroit? As somebody from another part of the state, this is like standing up for a junkie older brother.
Dave Portnoy, somewhat ironically given his word-salad tendencies, described Detroit style pizza perfectly: "it's an offensive lineman - looks heavy, plays light."
Love some good Detroit style pizza.
It must be more of a trend outside Detroit, as I'd always known about Chicago pizza cake and NY style pizza but hadn't heard about Detroit pizza until the last few years. When I looked it up it reminded me of the Little Caesars we'd get when I was a kid. Fitting I guess to be from Detroit. Probably some sort of pizza sacrilege to compare to that, but we're talking 25+ years ago when they weren't known for $5 pizzas you could just pick up without calling ahead.
Little Caesars is based out of Detroit too. (As is Domino's and Jet's if you're a little loose with your definition of Detroit)
Well there ya go…
Just ironic then, that the place they decided to set up is pretty much one of the worst urban places in the entire country, lol…
Though admittedly Redfern is much, much nicer than the true ethnic ghettos of Sydney out West, lol…
If the food choices are an indication of where that area is going, build walls if a Haitian restaurant opens there...
I'm not sure what they would even mean by "Detroit style", beyond that the indie pizza shops in Windsor had a habit of slicing pepperoni into little strips, instead of presenting them like great big honking eyes all over the pie. You get more pepperoni distributed more evenly that way, and damn, I do miss it. No one else does it that way for some reason. Keeping in mind Windsor was known for having more Italian expats and descendants than New York City (and was gifted a nice fountain by Rome because of it.)
Detroit style is the original variety of what people call Chicago style pizza. Square deep dish.
Really? Never thought it was unique. It was just the shape the really big pizzas they'd make for catering puposes was. Big and square. The middle pieces are for the folks who don't like crust.
I mean it's not "unique" so to speak, pizza is an ancient idea. It was however the original variety while Chicago despite being more well known is the newer of the two.
It’s rectangular… That literally seems to be the selling point…
Which would have made sense to name it after the region in Italy that does that (can’t remember which), but I’m sure they’re blissfully ignorant of that fact…
The place is covered in edgy puns and attempts at “humour by sign”. It’s pretty damn cringe…
I hadn’t actually clicked the link yet, but yeah, this is exactly what it was!
Probably not as good as the original, though. This was… Not very cheesy, sadly.
Because it’s hipsters. They fuck everything up, ha.
Huh, interesting.
Well there you go…
Never would have guessed, lol!
Still ironic though!
Never thought the square shape was unique - it was the huge sizes that you'd see at school pizza parties, where one big square pizza would feed the same as two or three large round ones.
What games are at the barcode?
They’re calling it a “Beercade”, lol.
Here’s what I can see from the outside: Big Buck, Panic Park, pinball, Retro Racoon, “Classic Arcade”, darts, and more pinball…
Looks like an ok selection (compared to the other place I bitched about), if small. I don’t have time to go in, though, sadly…
Uni and work do that
Big group of ultra-butch lesbians just walked past the (homeless) Abo-filled mall, the literal piles of rubbish and the beercade, while ranting loudly about some local “Queerstories” event…
Fucking inner cities, lol… 🙄