He walked right into it Thomas. Every Chicagoan knows exactly what I'm talking about. Including you.
The thread I responded on [1] concerned New York pizza. You asked for recommendations [2], ignored and mischaracterised them, and then went on a tirade on a tangential thread. Your throw-out on $1 pizza was shot down by Kenji himself—I’m honestly confused if there is a point underneath this all that I’m missing.
The general reputation of New Yorkers in every corner of this country is highly negative. It's well deserved and you're exemplary.
While there are many international institutions in NYC, the citizens are by and large provincial navel-gazers.
You unironically think that NYC invented slicing pizza, and you referred to it as "innovation". We're having a good belly laugh about this one at the bar.