Amy Guskin wrote:   
   > Doug Freyburger wrote:   
   >   
   >> It's my theory that folks who only like their own local version of pizza   
   >> actually don't like pizza.   
   >   
   > No, I (I can't speak for "folks," just myself) don't like imprecision in my    
   > food descriptions.   
      
   Words are defined by their usage.  You use local I use national.  Pizza   
   is what is called pizza across the widest geographic range.    
   Semantics where here it tends to look like that joke cover of the New   
   Yorker magazine that's so famous.  Very appropriate for this thread.   
      
   I've seen ads for "stuffed pizza".  I recall that being called   
   stromboli. Should stuffed pizza take off in popularity and acheive   
   wide popularity in every day usage then that becomes part of what the   
   word means. At this point it has not become common usage in my   
   exeperience.   
      
   >> They like food they had as children which is not the same thing.   
   >   
   > Wow, that is *really* insulting.   
      
   In person I manage nice almost all of the time.  On line I never have   
   manged it with any consistency.  I point out that insulting does not   
   imply incorrect.  They are orthagonals.  Consider your example -   
      
   > If anything, if you're going to attribute maturity levels to    
   > styles of pizza, I'd have to class deep dish style as the more childish,    
   > since it has so much dough, and comfort foods are nearly always higher in    
   > starch than more sophisticated fare.   
      
   That's a most excellent example of a correct statement that's insulting,   
   if childish is to be taken as an insult.  Very skillfully worded.  I   
   loved it.   
      
   I could do a write-up that uses the founding date of pizzerias in   
   various cities starting with the Margarita style centuries ago and it   
   too would show Chicago style founded later than the well known styles   
   farther east.  Calling the newest of the styles less mature that way   
   would fit the same pattern.   
      
   On to Swedish meatballs.  I take it the premade ones from Ikea just   
   don't cut it compared to home made.   
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