[chuckinca]

Get a heat and eat cheese pizza from Aldi and put your favorite toppings on it and it is as good as any other in the area.

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[PattyPan1]

As a born and bred NY'r, I found NYPD to be the best around. Order your pie well done and it's almost (and I stress almost) like being home. Belleview is my second choice.

The rest are just cardboard with sauce on it.

Originally Posted by jhrc4

I will make this really quick: Ordered a large pizza on Sept.13th 2013 a Friday $ 20.00 and change.

Now NYPD touts their pizza as a taste of New York..ya know what they should be Arrested !!The Pizza is really terrible, I had Pepperoni, Sausage, and Cheese. Simple right ? What I got was a very bland run of the mill pizza, that you can get anywhere.

Honestly Do Not Waste your time going to NYPD expecting a good pizza you will be sadly disappointed." A Taste Of New York " Give me a Break " !!

[kaydee]

We love NYPD... is it like what you'd get in NY? I have no clue. Our preference for our taste buds is NYPD.

[MikeV]

We prefer NYPD to all others. We order it well done so it is more crispy which is how we like it. Have tried many others in TV and we keep going back to NYPD.

[patfla06]

Originally Posted by kaydee

We love NYPD... is it like what you'd get in NY? I have no clue. Our preference for our taste buds is NYPD.

Unfortunately it's nothing like what you get in N.Y.C.

[pooh]

I've had NYPD Pizza, wasn't bad as far as I'm concerned. I'm from CA, pizza there is good, just as where everyone else came from. Had to get used to the change from the pizzas I grew up with in New England, but I tried different shops, types, till I found what I liked. If you don't like a particular pie, then don't get it again. This is a different part of the country, things are not exactly like where you came from. Not every pizza, every restaurant was THE BEST where you moved from....you tried various places till you found what you liked. You can do the same here, no one is stopping you from doing that.

[Mikeod]

Serious question. Is this a Northeast thing? I had several college friends from the Northeastern US who, for various reasons, found themselves in other parts of the country. When talking to them, I was baffled by their comments about food, housing, manners, and other regional differences. In their minds, if it was not done like they were used to growing up, it wasn't different, it was WRONG.

I've moved around a bit, and I've travelled throughout the country and it never occurred to me that regional differences were wrong, just different. I remember reading that Pizza Hut altered its sauce recipe in different parts of the country to account for regional preferences. I know that the Mexican food I enjoyed in San Diego is different from what I tasted in San Antonio. In all my years in SoCal, I don't remember people being so upset about regional differences.

[Patty55]

Originally Posted by mikeod

Serious question. Is this a Northeast thing? I had several college friends from the Northeastern US who, for various reasons, found themselves in other parts of the country. When talking to them, I was baffled by their comments about food, housing, manners, and other regional differences. In their minds, if it was not done like they were used to growing up, it wasn't different, it was WRONG.

I've moved around a bit, and I've travelled throughout the country and it never occurred to me that regional differences were wrong, just different. I remember reading that Pizza Hut altered its sauce recipe in different parts of the country to account for regional preferences. I know that the Mexican food I enjoyed in San Diego is different from what I tasted in San Antonio. In all my years in SoCal, I don't remember people being so upset about regional differences.

You are absolutely right. I'm from Long Island, ask a Long Islander where they're from and they'll say "THE Island", New York City is "THE City"-LOL. THE City and THE Island have some great restaurants, they also have some terrible ones.

In this case, what makes different WRONG is that the restaurants here talk the talk and don't walk the walk. Everyone wants to capture the NYMA market, few have a clue what NY Italian food even tastes like. I think that if this restaurant was called KCPD the expectations would be different. On the other hand, at least they didn't call it NYFD-everyone knows that the FD are the cooks-LOL.

I really do wish there were more regional restaurants here, I don't even know what regional food from here is. I would like some good southern cooking, the kind of food people eat at home.

I have found that with Italian food Giovanni's and Toscani's "Get It". If you're specific about what you want they do it. Never had pizza from Giovanni's but seafood/linguine was very good. Toscani's almost always have broccoli rabe.

NYPD? It is what it is. The same way I tell McDonalds "no mustard" you have to ask for what you want.

[beekman]

Thanks for your opinion ref NYPD. I find such opinions about eating establishments helpful especially when I see consistency in others similiar comments. Consistency is the KEY to making any decision. So keep throwing out the restaurant ratings.

[Halle]

Originally Posted by mikeod

Serious question. Is this a Northeast thing? I had several college friends from the Northeastern US who, for various reasons, found themselves in other parts of the country. When talking to them, I was baffled by their comments about food, housing, manners, and other regional differences. In their minds, if it was not done like they were used to growing up, it wasn't different, it was WRONG.

I've moved around a bit, and I've travelled throughout the country and it never occurred to me that regional differences were wrong, just different. I remember reading that Pizza Hut altered its sauce recipe in different parts of the country to account for regional preferences. I know that the Mexican food I enjoyed in San Diego is different from what I tasted in San Antonio. In all my years in SoCal, I don't remember people being so upset about regional differences.

I have lived in several states and countries and different was different not wrong. I understand if the restaurant claims to be NY style why the person would expect what they are used to from NY, what I don't understand is the the constant complaining and comparing everything to the way it was in NY.

[gerryann]

Originally Posted by Halle

I have lived in several states and countries and different was different not wrong. I understand if the restaurant claims to be NY style why the person would expect what they are used to from NY, what I don't understand is the the constant complaining and comparing everything to the way it was in NY.

I guess cause the resturant is called NYPD and claims to be "just like New York"

[DianeM]

Originally Posted by Patty55

You are absolutely right. I'm from Long Island, ask a Long Islander where they're from and they'll say "THE Island", New York City is "THE City"-LOL. THE City and THE Island have some great restaurants, they also have some terrible ones.

In this case, what makes different WRONG is that the restaurants here talk the talk and don't walk the walk. Everyone wants to capture the NYMA market, few have a clue what NY Italian food even tastes like. I think that if this restaurant was called KCPD the expectations would be different. On the other hand, at least they didn't call it NYFD-everyone knows that the FD are the cooks-LOL.

I really do wish there were more regional restaurants here, I don't even know what regional food from here is. I would like some good southern cooking, the kind of food people eat at home.

I have found that with Italian food Giovanni's and Toscani's "Get It". If you're specific about what you want they do it. Never had pizza from Giovanni's but seafood/linguine was very good. Toscani's almost always have broccoli rabe.

NYPD? It is what it is. The same way I tell McDonalds "no mustard" you have to ask for what you want.

AMEN and this 'Islander ' misses the food from 'The City '. It's the water that makes the dough nasty anywhere but NY.

[DianeM]

Originally Posted by Halle

I have lived in several states and countries and different was different not wrong. I understand if the restaurant claims to be NY style why the person would expect what they are used to from NY, what I don't understand is the the constant complaining and comparing everything to the way it was in NY.

No offense intended but you would need to be a New Yorker or at least a visitor to understand how awful pizza is in Florida (and Arizona as well) .

[Patty55]

Originally Posted by DianeM

AMEN and this 'Islander ' misses the food from 'The City '. It's the water that makes the dough nasty anywhere but NY.

Food from THE Island? I'm sure you must have had Old Street Pub. I hear they're in FL.

[Mikeod]

Originally Posted by Patty55

I really do wish there were more regional restaurants here, I don't even know what regional food from here is. I would like some good southern cooking, the kind of food people eat at home.

We may be out of luck with that. I've been told I have to go north to get to the South. I guess Speckled Butter Bean was supposed to be southern cooking, but not many liked it enough for it to succeed.