What you said is not only false, but would be fighting words for many people I met in my 8+ years in Chicago. Arguments about which deep-dish pizza is best can reach a fervor usually reserved for religious or political arguments.
As a Chicago native, Lou Malnati's is a Chicago classic - and pretty much every one I know here has grown up on it.
Uh, so false. Malnatis is such a beautiful thing.
It is, but the delivery guys careening around the city aren't carrying deep dish pizzas. It's all thin crust, pub cut please.
Art of Pizza delivers. It's certainly a special-ish occasion to get deep dish, but it's definitely something people get decently often as a whole.
The reason is that it seems the deep dish doesn't travel too well -- we get it delivered at work periodically, and the crust ends up getting a bit soggy. Also, although the deep dish may be a signature item for many pizza places, their "special" is almost always a cheese, sausage, mushroom, onion, and green pepper thin crust.
Nope, nope nope
Born and raised and lifelong devourer of Chicago deep-dish with the waistline to prove it. You are the tourist.
I wonder if this is a matter of where one is from in Chicagoland. I've definitely heard this from other natives but have also heard people screaming that this is heresy (as we've seen in this thread).
I'm not from there, but I'm happy to have either :)
The neighborhood probably does make a difference just because that's where certain pizza joints are located (or where their original location started). Some people are extremely loyal to their favorite spot but most, like myself, are happy to have the huge variety of pizza that we have in Chicago.