nobody will say it out loud but Old Bay contains essential nutrients for marylanders. kind of like how cats have to eat meat.
I moved to Maryland. I had softshell crabs in Old Bay shortly thereafter. I haven't had it since. I'm just built different*.
*I'm built different in that I'm actually from New York and have been sustaining myself with NY style pizza ever since I moved.
The NY curse carries with you a long time after leaving it, even if you grew up hundreds of miles from the city like I did in western NY.
I did not have any strong opinions on bagels or pizza other than that I liked them until I moved to minnesota, and then I became a comically intense brooklyn stereotype within a day of getting to Minneapolis, "the midwest cannot make pizza worth a fuck and if it's not boiled it's not a bagel" and so on
Itâs the only place in the country where you can just schlep your way into any old pizza place and have it be (mostly) certain youâll get good (not just edible, good.) pizza.
You might say your podunk city, like, Chicago or LA or something, has good pizza, but no. You just have low standards.
Well, that is definitely true, but I grew up northeast of the city, and good pizza was still readily abound everywhere. If you look to the northwest, you will see the two cities I lived in, Rochester and Buffalo. Therefore, I would like to propose a revised map, to reflect how in a food chunk of new york state in general is good pizza:
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You will notice that this is vaguely scythe-shaped. This is no coincidence! It was put there by the gods themselves, and one day it will fall, erasing Altoona, Pennsylvania from the earth for its crimes against pizza everywhere:
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Boston checking in, the pizza belt does not go anywhere near New England. Feel free to pare that back a little
