Try Squarespace FREE for 2 weeks: https://www.squarespace.com/?channel=youtube&subchannel=cantomando&source=cantomando . This video is sponsored by Squarespace.
We asked our 86-year-old Italian Nonna to try American pizza for the first time, from New York Style to Chicago Deep-Dish. She held nothing back…
Which one do you think is a “total disgrace”? Let us know in the comments!
00:00 – Nonna’s First Reaction
02:53 – New York Style Pizza
05:57 – Detroit Style Pizza
10:05 – The FAMOUS Chicago Deep-Dish…
14:13 – St. Louis Style Pizza
17:46 – The Controversial Hawaiian Pizza
20:21 – The Final Verdicts
GIANLUCA
https://www.instagram.com/gianlucaruggierichef?igsh=MTFudG9uOGxiNmtlYg==
⭐Support our mission + exclusive perks: ►https://www.patreon.com/Cantomando
⭐Discord: https://discord.gg/3PQ8QbSK6C
📧 Reach out to us: contact@cantomandomedia.com
Have things to send us/ things you want us to give guests? Send to:
Edward Leung
PO Box 3104
Markham, PO Industrial Park, ON, L3R6G4, Canada
34 Comments
I love Chicago Deep Dish Pizza. It's basically made with the ingredients assembled upside down. I make my own pizza but usually roll up cheese into the outsides of the crust to keep the ingredients from spilling over. Plus i'm not really set up to make a full range of pizza styles. I have made pizza in my vertical smoker though.
Based nonna
My favorite is New York and Detroit. The lack of sauce along the top of the Detroit stlye was a shame. As far as pineapple goes I like it with a caveat. If it's a cheap pizza, especially a cheap sauce, pineapple helps it IMMENSELY. Even if you just pick it off afterwards. The better ingredients get on the pizza, the less effective pineapple becomes as a topping IMO.
Everyone knows that Pizza must be hard and can not be chewed in order to be real Italian Pizza 😂 Tomato should be injected directly in to the Pizza…. I love Italian people but don't ask them about Pizza , it is mather of pride, and objectivity is should not be part of discussion ✌
jokes on her cuz detroit style has won many awards in italy lol
3rd generation Italian, also known as an American.
I get sticking to your guns, but to be this gatekeepy and bigoted makes me feel like if this woman was dying of thirst I would feed her salt.
Love your shows. This is the 4th one I'm watching. I'm a Native New Yorker. A classic New York slice is just plain. Also, they always serve it with condiments such as oregano, chili red pepper flakes, and garlic powder. I use everything. Also, New York pizza varies greatly. Some are thicker, some are thinner and crispier, sauce is different too. I never saw little curled up pepperoni like that? And no New Yorker dips their crust in sauce. Where did that idea come from, Domino's or Pizza Hut? I agree with her on the Chicago deep-dish pizza. It's too much. It tries to be everything. More is not better. I love that she says it's good to try. Except, the Chicago pizza. I don't blame her. LoL
What is called pizza in the US is to my taste, very sweet as are most of the breads. I am waiting to return for the last time to Italy before eating pizza.
Pizzas 🍕 were just simply made with a little sprinkle of cheese over a homemade sauce in a few herbs 🌿 😋 👌
wheres the cheese?
That's a tomato pie not a pizza.
in fairness to the second pizza, these hybrid pizza-focaccia dishes are actually getting very common in italy, and ironically pizza in teglia alla romana itself is actually quite tall in comparison to other types of pizza in italy… but i'm guessing the dough was much denser than that, hence why thought it was closer to focaccia than to pizza.
i guess grandma ain't really used to that style o pizza in italy either while our good ol chef is, that owuld check out.
Huge respect for the italian grandma
First two "cheese bread" looks really bad! The first one is really just a dry bread. The second one is just… That cheep peperoni. And almost 2 kg. of it on a giant round dried peace of bread. The third one…. thats was the last one for me! Call it what you want. Just not call it a pizza! When you love food, you love pizza. This is not about love. This is just greasy poor food. This is and american misunderstanding, in best case..
In Europe we love and respect just as much as americans love weapons. its not just food, its love. And you dont look like you got any love for food at all.
Well she lives longer rejecting this kind of food I suppose. I think every single one of these pizzas looked good. I was curious to see her pizza though. They forgot to include frozen pizza just to include the cringe. Also stuffed crust. Although I skipped through the video. That flat bread she liked wasn't pizza. It's flat bread with pizza toppings. I've had Brazilian pizza with hearts of palm. Was delicious. I never understood the pineapple hate though. I might not agree with a sushi pizza. That should be separate. Why didn't you guys show her finished pizza and everyone trying it?
What a sweetheart she is!
the chicago dish is more alike what trad italy made up north. she's probably one of the mutts from down south who got corrupted by the moors.
Pepperoni,pineapple,jalapeños is my favorite. But it depends who makes it.
what we dont even get to see nona make the pizza????
When I was young I remove pineapple on my pizza maybe out of instinct.
I’m Italian and I’ve worked as a pizza operator and builder, so here’s the difference. American pizza could be so much better if they respected the fundamentals. First, the dough — in Italy, we use long fermentation (24–72 hours) with high-hydration flour. That creates a crust that’s light, digestible, and flavorful. In the U.S., too many shops rush the dough, which makes it heavy and bland.
Second, the sauce — Italian pizza uses San Marzano tomatoes, crushed fresh with just olive oil, salt, and basil. In America, the sauce is often cooked down with sugar and preservatives, which kills the natural flavor.
Third, the cheese — authentic mozzarella di bufala or fior di latte melts differently and blends with the sauce. American pizza often uses processed cheese or low-moisture blends, which give you oil instead of balance.
Finally, the oven — a proper wood or stone oven running 800–900°F cooks a pizza in 90 seconds, giving it that signature char and air pockets. Most American pizza is baked too slow in conveyor ovens, which dries it out instead of crisping it.
If more American places invested in fermentation, better tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, and proper ovens, their pizza would be on another level. Until then, it just can’t compare to the Italian standard. 🇮🇹🍕
occasionally i put a small pice of pineaple on a big piece of Margaritha in addition to fresh chilli slices
I've lived in America my whole life, never once have I've seen a pizza in America that looks like that. It looks like a cake, is this the joke or something?
Does grandma make her own in this because im kinda curious what her idea of good pizza is
Does grandma make her own in this because im kinda curious what her idea of good pizza is
Why oh Why does everyone only associate that abomination with Chicago? Very few of us eat that on a regular basis if at all. The real Chicago pizza is tavern style. Thin crispy delisciousness.
So….since when is it impossible to find Tavern style pizza outside of BBQ country St Louis? You know New Jersey style Pizza, New Haven style Pizza, Chicago thin crust? We don't have those any longer? only St Louis has them?
Quality of Pizza varies greatly… if you aren't getting it in NYC, NJ or part of Connecticut , then 90% sucks. This was doomed to failure.
You fed them canadian pizza there is an enormous void like difference between NY STYLE pizza and actual NY pizza
🙁 I don't get to see Nonna's pizza and it being eaten??
video is great but it's diabolical how u gave her the hawaiian pizza AFTER the one she loved (margherita)
you got her all excited to try and then crushed her lol
I feel like you can't do meatball Chicago deep dish pizza. It's like taking the entire point of Chicago pizza (the indegrediants mix with the inter part of the cheese to give you a thick layered flavor of the cheese and toppings) and forcing it to be either those massive meatballs or the cheese.
You shoulda got something like spinach, mushroom, and pepperoni (or the crumbly Italian sausage) where you have 3 thin ingredients that can actually be enjoyed in a bite. Even the pizza couldn't stay structurally sound because the crust at the back was loaded with meatballs that are basicly as thick as the cheese layer.
lol the gestures at 10:20 😀