@KamareDrache never had stromboli? That's something you should definitely fix at your earliest convenience!

It's kinda hard to describe... It's not as much like pizza as you'd think, the texture is different, but it's just amazing
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@Felthry Hm, I'll see if I can get some. I'm still living with my parents at the moment, so I'll suggest it to them.

@KamareDrache It's best to get it from a proper New York style pizzaria, if there's one near you that serves it.

At least, that's our taste! you might find supermarket frozen stromboli to be phenomenal, for all we know!
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@Felthry Ha, well, I don't think there are *any* New York style pizzarias in the UK, except maybe London.

@KamareDrache Ahh, that might make things harder then, yeah. It's probably the most popular "named" pizza style over here, possibly second to Neapolitan pizza, but I don't know what you get in the UK.

If you like pizza, new york style is worth a try if you ever get the chance! The crust is really different from anything else you ever see, a thin crust but not crispy, very stretchy dough

Traditional way of eating it is to get a wide slice, like a sixth of a pizza instead of an eighth like you usually cut it, and fold it over on itself (because it's too floppy otherwise)

aaaa i really want good new-york-style pizza now
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@KamareDrache making it yourself is also always an option! I don't know how much you or your family like cooking but the recipe isn't terribly complicated or anything
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@Felthry We cook most of our meals from scratch, so it's probably doable.

@nautilee Imagine a pizza, but you roll it up like one of those swiss roll cakes before you cook it (not like a burrito or wrap, there's a spiral of bread all through it)

it results in a very different sort of texture than pizza, it's just really good
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@Felthry

we used wrap because we couldn't figure out how else to describe it. Yup, that's the stuff we were thinking of.

wnat one now.

@nautilee yeah they're delicious

unfortunately central oregon is not exactly the best place for food variety, though we've not had much chance to explore options too much what with all the pandemic stuff
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@Austin_Dern weirdly enough, we got one reply to this from someone who's never had stromboli!! i feel like they are really missing out
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@Felthry They are, although I'm not sure there's a better way to experience stromboli than getting it from the lone, cheap pizza place in the mall's food court during your 30-minute lunch break while you're 17 years old, and not everybody can have that experience.

@Austin_Dern @Felthry I dunno, we (rarely) had stromboli that our mom made and it was /delicious/. :3

@Austin_Dern I dunno--getting it from a proper good new york style pizzeria is a pretty damn good way to have it

or homemade, if you want to put some effort into it!
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@Felthry Oh, yes, my experience was in central Jersey, so it was a New York style pizzeria. Second-tier mall, though back then that still meant it had a bookstore, a music store, and a carpet store.

@Austin_Dern we've never been to the northeast!
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@Austin_Dern also barely remember malls being anything other than sad and empty
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@Felthry They were great, for a while there.

... This particular mall was half-empty in 1989, it happens, although it was functional enough at the time.

Oh yeah, it had a shoe store and, around Christmas, a postal substation for people who got stuff at the card store and wanted to mail it out right away.

@Felthry @Austin_Dern We've been to a couple of sad and empty malls once or twice. Most of our memories are from one that wasn't empty at all though!

@IceWolf @Felthry Oh, there's some romantically sweet dead malls. But I suppose they're more interesting when you have some nostalgic connection to the place.