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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia struck down Chicago-style deep dish, ruling that the overflowing mess of sauce and cheese can’t be considered pizza.
The conservative stalwart, speaking at the Union League Club of Chicago’s 126th annual George Washington’s Birthday celebration, said he enjoys Second City pie.
But in his supreme opinion, it “shouldn’t be called pizza.”
The bizarre deep-dish offering calls for vats of tomato sauce to be poured over cheese, before it’s then baked into a boiling monstrosity.
It’s widely regarded as a phony alternative to authentic New York-style pizza with delightfully thin crust.
“It’s [Chicago-style pizza] very tasty, but it’s not pizza,” Scalia correctly ruled, in comments reported by the Chicago Sun-Times.
Scalia has heard all arguments on matter, having grown up in Elmhurst, Queens, before eventually serving on the Seventh Circuit of the US Court of Appeals, based in Chicago.
He’s the son of Sicilian immigrants.
Scalia’s opinion upheld common sense and a famously epic rant by Comedy Central funny man Jon Stewart.
“This [Chicago deep dish] is not pizza,” Stewart said on his “Daily Show” late last year.
“This is tomato soup in a bread bowl. This is an above ground marinara swimming pool for rats.”
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