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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
Original Chicago Deep Dish Pizza. Love it! 
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Bloody hell! Looks like a Heart Attack Special! Do they use an ambulance as the delivery service, you know, to save time? "Here's your Pizza. Shout when you start to get stabbing pains in your chest".
Just curious, do other countries have a [insert country name] pizza? Here in Oz, when you look at a pizza menu (Four Seasons, Ham & Pineapple, Marinara, et cetera...or smoked kangaroo, Balmain Bug, Snowy River trout if they're being "gourmet") there's almost always the "Aussie Pizza". Now, it varies about, but is usually a mix of bacon, tomato, cheese, sometimes barbecue sauce, capsicum...but the defining ingredient (with a tilt of the hat to the bacon) is to have an egg or two cracked and spread over it and under the cheese ("essential" in the same way that a burger have a couple of slices of beetroot on it. Incidentally, an "Aussie burger" almost inevitably has a fried egg on it too). I'm not sure how the egg became such a defining characteristic. I do like it though (on my burger too).
I'm sure that the above isn't unique to Oz (okay, possibly the beetroot on the burgers
), and it may even be a long-standing culinary tradition for some variety if pizza. My point is only that this is generally what an "Aussie pizza" includes. Do other countries have their own pizzas? The Swedish Pizza with Surströmming on it? The English Pizza with fish and chips on it? The Indonesian Pizza with mee goreng on it? The Italian Pizza with...no, wait, skip that one.
Cheers,
Marc