Jon Stewart and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel fight over pizza
In a Daily Show segment earlier this week about New York’s Freedom Tower being named the tallest building in the United States—thus ousting Chicago’s Sears/Willis Tower from the top spot—Jon Stewart took the opportunity to stick it to the Windy City on another front: pizza. “Deep-dish pizza is not only not better than New York pizza,” Stewart said, “it’s not pizza.”
The most overlooked point in this eternal pizza war is the fact that both cities have more than their fair share of lousy pizza places, but New York pizza does at least have the potential to be good. Conversely, the loveless pile of ingredients known as Chicago pizza is essentially a constipated grimace in edible form.